The Springfield herald., 1909-10-22
COLORADO ITEMS


$4,000 is being expended by ditct
companies placing cement headgates
In bitches in place of wooden ones.
The First Presbyterian church al
Colorado Springs has definitely de
cded to build Sunday school addi
ton to cost between $4,000 and
100000
John Condor, an oldtIme miner In
southwestern Colorado. was killed by
the EXPLOSION of missed shot in the
Camp Bird mine at Ouray on the 18th
inst. His helper. Joe Koenig, was
badly hurt.
The new Denver public library
which has cost. including the grounds
$435.00O, toward which Andrew Car
negie made a donation of 100000.
Is expected to be ready for occupancy
by Christmas.
At the state meeting of the Retail
Credit Mems Association at Boulder,
ii. A, Galbraith of Denver was elected
president and NJ. II. Lowe of Greeley
secretary. Denver was selected as
the next meeting place.
will be employed to take the federal
census in the northern district of Col
RADIO. the greater number will be wom-
en-, according to A. B. McGaffey, SUI
pervisor of the census for the district.
About 700 enumerators will be re-
quired in the state, and both men and
women are eligible.
Beet harvest has begun in the Ar
kansas valley hes begun and the
farmers expect the crop will be
worth s3,000.000. The factory of the
Holly Sugar Company and the Amer
lean Sugar Company's factories at
Swink. Holly. Rocky Ford. Las Ami
mas and Lamar have been thoroughly
overhauled ready for work.
The visiting party Of thirty members
of the Japanese commercial commits
sioners. including the leading finan-
cial magnates of the Japanese empire.
is scheduled to arrive in Denver No
vember 18th. The Denver Chamber
of Commerce will have charge of their
entertainment and is planning n spe-
cial train to Fort Collins and northern
Colorado.
Work has been begun by the Chris
tian Church Association on the new
childrens home in Denver The site
has been purchased and the building
is being erected with money donated
to the association by Mr.. and Mrs. ].
w. Warren of Loveland. The build
ing is a two and one-half-story brick
structure with full basement. 1t is
to cost about $4,000. and will ac-
commodate about 60 children.
Ovid Plum. first vice president Of
the Society of Union Colony Pioneers,
celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday
on the 18th inst. He is the only per-
son now living in Greeley who attend
ed the meeting which Horace Greeley
and N. c. Meeker called in New York
City at Cooper's Institute in 1868 for
the purpose of organizing Union Col
ony. which founded the city of Gree
ley.
The first report OF the Colorado ge-
illogical survey, created by the legis-
lature three years ago, will be issued
in a few days by State Geologist
George. 1t covers 2i2 pages. has many
illustrations. contains complete re-
ports on the surveys of the tungsten
areas of Boulder county, the Monte
yuma mining district. the foothills for.
the Hahn's Peak region.
The Railroad Red Book for Octo-
her. which has just been issued by
Publisher ]. Harry Carson at Denver,
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Com
pany. presents pictorial story of
President Taft's trip through Colorado
on the occasion of the recent opening
compahgre irrigation project of the
government.
Booker T. Washington, the famous
colored educator. will lecture Monday.
November l, at the Peoples Taber-
nacle in Denver. All receipts from the
lecture will be applied to the fund
which is being raised by the mem
bers of the Young Mems Christian
Brotherhood tc erect a new building in
Denver. The Y. NJ. c. b. is the Y. NJ.
C. A. of the colored people and its
leaders are anxious to build home
for the organization.
Columbus day was celebrated at
Trinidad on most elaborate scale
there being an immense crowd. among
them people from northern New Mex.
leo and the various surrounding towns
and camps. Every coal mine in the
county closed and business was prac.
tically suspended here. The feature
OF the celebration was parade in
which fully 500 people took part and
in which were floats representing the
period from the time Columbus sailed
for the unknown world. down to the
discovery of the North pole. This pa
rade was reviewed by Governor Sha
froth, who was the guest of the city
and the principal speaker.
Owing to the crying need for cx
perienced miners in Old Mexico. five
agents from that district have been in
Cripple Creek and Victor for the last
week in an attempt to get men. High