The La Jara chronicle., 1909-10-15
STATE NEWS ITEMS

the Cripple Creek district.
1t is planned to begin work in De-
cember on the new Burns theatre At
Colorado Springs. to be erected by
James F. Burns at cost OF $20O.ooo.
A reward has been offered for In
formation in regard to the where
abouts of James Holck. former res
ident of Central City, who left in
1902.
Phillip Griffith. an Independent op-
orator, recently completed the deepest
hole ever drilled in the Florence oil
field. drilling 4,015 feet, but no oil was
struck.
The Portland Mining Company has
declared another quarterly dividend
of cents per share, payable OCTOBER
18th. 1t totals 100000. and will bring
the amount paid in dividends to $S,-
347.OSO.
Larry Dyer, Cripple Creek painter,
has fallen heir to an estate of s15O,oOo
in Boston. 1t comes to him as the
only son of his father, who died few
days ago. Dyer left for Boston to
claim the estate.
1t is predicted by those in position
to be well posted that the output OF
Boulder county tungsten mines for
next year will not fall far short OF
81 900. 900. The production this year
will reach approximately half that
amount
After sixty years service in the
ministry, w. NJ. Simonds has resigned
the pastorate of the Baptist church at
Greeley in order to retire from active
work. He began to preach in Iowa
when only twenty. and since then has
seldom missed church service.
Officials of the Denver & Rio
Grande are said to be watching close
ly experiments being conducted by
other railroads in the use of gasoline
and electric cars for suburban serv-
ice, with view to installing one OF
the two varieties on the Denver-Lit-
Teton line.
At Lenando. a mining camp eight
miles from Aspen on the Sth inst, be-
fore the eyes of her husband, who
was only a few feet away, but was un-
able to help her, Mrs. William Long
was caught in the revolving belt OF
concentrating mill and almost in
stantly killed, her body being badly
mangled.
Approximately $4,000 acres of land
were sold by the State Land Board on
the 9th inst The sales were made
principally in small tracts, of which
about 1880 acres were in Costilla
county. The lowest price obtained
was SO an acre, while two quarter-sec-
tions in Routt county brought $40 an
acre. Other lands sold were in Pueblo,
Rio Grande, Otero and Logan coun-
| ties.
Denver was fifteenth among the ci-
ties of the country in the matter OF
the value of her building permits last
month, according to figures compiled
by Construction News. Denver was
one of the eleven cities of the
country to show a decrease from the
corresponding month of 1908, the
figures for this city being ST.
OO6,625 for September. 1908, and
sS69,49O for September, 1909.
For the first time since its founda-
ton the State School of Mines at Col
den is out of debt. The freedom from
Indebtedness is due to the receipt OF
the Thomas f. Walsh and John Hays
Hammond contributions and the in
crease in receipts from student regis
tration. The board of directors has Of
| fered a prize of $50 for the best criti-
cism by a graduate of the plans for
the ore testing plant to be erected.
The Grand Junction Gas & Electric
Company has contracted for 100000
worth of new machinery. which, when
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pacity of the plant. This is in antici-
patton of the building of the interur-
ban electric line, which will be sup
piled with power by this company
This will be the second time the ca
pacity of the plant has been doubled
within twelve months.
The Colorado Sportsmens associa'
ton held its annual meeting at Den.
yer Oct. IL, which was largely attend.
ed. Matters of interest to sportsmen
were discussed, after which the annu'
al election took place. resulting: ]. F.
Engle, president; Herman Rauchfuss
vice president; T. F. Dolan, secretary
The above officers, with the addition
of James Gratiot and j. C. Schuster
constitute the executive board.
The Colorado veterans held their
twenty-fifth annual reunion at the
Charles building in Denver few days
since. The attendance was the light.
est in the history of the organization
Each year finds fewer of the men who
in the early days of the state history
marched back across the plains to
fight for their country. Scarcely a
man is under seventy years of age and