The Ordway new era., 1909-11-12
COLORADO NEWS

| funds for the Palmer memorial statue
After two years of ofeXperimenting' the
Colorado Vanadium Company has been
organized at Boulder and is now pro
ducing yanadium of high grade in com
mercial quantities. bringing ore from
San Miguel county.
A number OF Norwegians in north
ern Illinois have taken an option on
| tract of land in Beaver Park, Fremont
county. and propose to establish col
| ony for the purpose of engaging IN
gardening and fruit raising.
A fine flly has been shipped to
| William Jennings Bryan from the
! horse breeding station of the Agrlcul'
| tural college at Fort Collins. 1t Is
yearling sired by the famous Carmoh
and was selected by Mr.. Bryan at the
| time of his visit last summer. Inc
| dam was donated to the college by cN'
| Governor Adams and the colt was his
! property.
! Land seekers from Iowa startled
| band OF twenty-siX wild antelope. feed
| ing on the Purcell ranch in northern
| Weld county few days since, when
| their automobile suddenly bore down
| on the band. Eight years ago there
were few antelope on the plains, but
| the game laws have had the desired
! effect. Antelope now roam In the un'
settled districts in big bands and are
/ quite tam.
The county commissioners OF Weld
| county have fixed the general county
/ tax levy at % mills, out OF which the
| state gets Al mills and the general
/ school tax 3 mills. The Greeley town
| tax is q mills and with other taxes
the levy on Greeley property for the
coming year is &c mills. In Evans
taxpayers will pay 81 mills. at Ault
/ 7l.5 mills. in Eaton SO mills, and at
| Windsor 6S mills.
Twelve miles OF 36-inch concrete
/ pipe line has been completed by the
/ Central Colorado Power Company. eN'
| tending from the Nederland dam to
| the Kosler reservoir. from which the
water drops l.o6O feet to the power
! house on Middle Boulder creek. The
| power project will be practically com.
| pletcd by January LIST. except the dam.
which will not be finished before June
next year.
The Burlington railway has com.
| pleted negotiations with the city of
| Denver whereby that line agreed to
| build the subway under its double
track across the county road north.
| east OF Riverside cemetery. The city
] IN
/ either side OF the track. cxpcnding
/ 81 900. on condition that the road dig
/ the subway and put in n supcrstruc-
| ture for 5O.foot dirt roadway.
The New York Tribune will soon re-
| Ccivc n mcmcnto of Greclcy's early
/ days. in an adobe. sun-bakcd brick
taken from the old Greeley Tribune
| office. built In 1870. now being torn
down. In this building was published
| for thirty-thrcc years the newspaper
| OF which y. c. Mcukcr. former agri.
! cultural editor of the New York Trib.
unc, was editor. Horace Greeley also
contrs sutcd to the Greeley paper. The
| New York Tribune first proposed the
founding Of the colony.
Following the recent acquittal OF
Engineer o. II. LcssiG on charge Of
mnnslaughter. the assistant district
attorney at Colorado Springs has
nolled similar cases against the other
members Of thsc Rio Grande train
crew who were held responsible by n
| corOncr's jury for the recent collision
at Hustled. The defendants beneiiting
by this action are Engineer w. II.
Hollingsworth. the conductor. J. l..
Dalton: brakeman c. $. Mcllhcrne
and Fireman J. NJ. Wright. All live
in Denver. Twelve persons were
killed and CO were injured in the
wreck at Hustled August Il.
Believing that the Zip and leg" dis.
ease from which sheep In Wyoming
are said to be suffering Is not the
same ailment which is causing sore
mouths among the lambs in Colorado
Just at present, and that for this rca.
son the government agents are wrong
in GUARANTEEING Colorado lambs on in
terstate shipments. DR.. Charles G
Lamb. veterinary surgeon for the
State Stock Inspection Board. has
gone to Washington to consult with
DIR. A. d. Melvin. chief Of the govern
ment bureau of animal husbandry.
J. S. McClelland. who died at For
Collins on the 4th inst. at the age o.
n years, came to Colorado in 1872 ant
after working as printer, in Denve,
10Y some time started the Larime
County Express, the first newspape
IN larimer county, in April 1873. II
is'9 he quit newspaper work for farm
ing and fruit growing. For four year
MT. McClelland was member of tn,
state board OF agriculture two year
commissioner of Larimer count,
and two years postmaster at Fort Col
Inns. He was member of George n
Thomas post. G. A. r., was two year
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