The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1909-04-03

$4,000 church.
Samples of gray sandstone from the
Steamboat Springs quarries were taken
to Denver recently to be sent to Wash
ington, the purpose being to have the
stone tested by the supervising archi-
tect in order to see if the material is
suitable to go into the new federal
building.
The suit for water rights on Pixies
Peak between the city of Victor and
Colorado Springs will be tried at Pu-
eblo June LIST. This case has been in
the courts over five years and has at
tracted much attention in the district
securing its water supply from the
Fixes Peak she'd
AT recent meeting in Denver the
Rocky Mountain Baseball league was
organized for the coming season. The
league comprises the following clubs:
Denver Gas & Electric Co., Colorado &
Southern, Continental Oil Co., Colo
RADIO Telephone Co., First National
Bank, Sechrist Manufacturing Co.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed by the Plateau City Water Works
Company of Grand Junction capital
lied at $4,000. 1t is composed of
prominent Grand Junction property
owners who will Immediately install a
water system which may subsequently
be taken over by the municipality.
The Breckenridge Oil Company has
been organized at La Junta with
capital of $4,000. The direc-
tors are J. E. Gauger of Swink,
H. l. Maxwell of Rocky Ford, A.
B. Wallis and H. A. Daley of La
Junta and H. C. McVay. The company
has filings on forty-four quarter sec
tons about twelve miles north of Ord
way and will sink well at once
Under the authority of the bill re-
Gently passed by the Legislature fixing
the salary to be paid county judges
sitting outside their own county, the
Denver County Court will, beginning
March Both, have two divisions until
the present congested state of the
Court docket is relieved. Judge Geo
w. Dunn of Arapahoe county will as
sist Judge John r. Dixon.
Mayor William Tilton of Lyons was
in Boulder few days ago and stated
that the stone quarries near Lyons are
for the first time for years being
worked to their fullest capacity the
output being principally building stone,
Indicating an activity in building I'M
equaled for several years. Preparations
for an increased output are being
made.
Within few days work will prob
ably begin on the proposed improve
ments at Crystal park, above Manitou,
which will cost about 100000 and in
clude large casino, automobile road
to Manitou, numerous summer cot
tages and a hotel. The park was re-
Gently owned by John Hay, late secre-
tary of state, who wrote his Life of
Lincoln" while summering there. The
cabin in which he wrote the book will
be saved as a relic.
The stockholders of the Grand Val
ley Water Users Association have
voted to ratify the contract recently
signed by former Secretary Garfield
for the construction of the High Line
canal. A call will be issued at once
for the collection of the s125,O0O sub
scribed by members of the association
and it is expected that work on the
extensive project which is to bring I'M
der irrigation thousands of acres of
rich fruit land will begin at once.
S. p. Ferguson, whose peculiar avo-
cation is dealing with the air, is ex-
pected to do some research work in
the Pixies Peak region in the next few
weeks. He is rated an authority on at
mospheric currents, and will make a
special study of conditions in this al
titude. He is a member of the Blue
Hill Meteorological observatory, and
recently conducted some remarkable
experiments on Mount Washington, N.
H.
The Potter-Turkey Creek Reservoir
Company, in which r. X. Potter, the
Tellers and other large land owners
are interested, has let a contract for
the construction of reservoir on Tur-
key creek twenty miles northwest of
Pueblo, at cost of 100000 to Olson
Bros. of Denver. The reservoir will
provide water for irrigating 10000 to
10000 acres of land in Pueblo county,
chiefly the Teller tract. Surveyors are
cutting this tract into small farms.
When any person achieves notoriety,
good or bad, his or her name is i'm
mediately associated with Denver. A
Denver paper prints the following
Sharon, Pa, special: James H. Boyle,
kidnapper of Willie Whitla, was mar
ried about year ago to Hiss Helen
Faulkner of Denver. The pair came
to Sharon a year ago and were roy
ally received at the home of his
widowed mother Miss Ella Boyle, the
kidnapper's only sister, was pleased
with her new sister-in-law and took de-