The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-04-03
COLORADO ITEMS

annual convention of the American
Federation of Musicians in Mime
apolis May 10th to 10th. will endeavor
TO secure the projected national home
OF that organization for Colorado
Springs.
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 shed.
At a 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
rado 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
water system which may subsequently
be taken over by the municipality.
The poultry raisers of the Grand
valley met at Grand Junction few
days since and found a local organiza-
ton with c. A. Smith president w.
X. Dow vice president. and C. H. Bur-
CESS secretary. 1t is planned to con-
struct cold storage plant at Grand
Junction for poultry and eggs to avoid
shipping them across the range next
summer.
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 a 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 un-
equaled for several years. Preparations
for an increased output are being
made
The Pueblo state fair directors have
decided to change the dates of the fair
from September 1918 to September
20-25, by request of fruit growers of
the Western slope, who believe they
can make better showing at the later
dates. They ask that one day of the
fair be known as Peach day, and one
grower has agreed to donate three car
loads of peaches to be given away to
visitors that day.
Within a 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 $125,OOO sub
scribed by members of the association
and 1t Is expected that work on the
extensive project which Is to bring un-
der irrigation thousands of acres of.
rich fruit land will begin at once.
Farmers reservoir No. 1, the first
of several to be built by Theodore
Jones In southeastern Weld county,
east of Platteville. will provide irriga-
ton for several thousand acres now
cultivated. The capacity of the Farm
ers' reservoir No. will be 14,435. .421
cubic feet of water and the cost will be
$41,577. Ranch Draw reservoir is also
one of the irrigation enterprises to be
UulIt- IL Will U0 lUCdtcu hUOuI twenty
miles northeast of Fort Lupton, will
have a capacity of 900,O0O00O cubic
feet Of water, and cost $62, 900.
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