The Holly chieftain., 1909-02-12
COLORADO ITEMS


rock is in evidence.
DR.. John Davis Hartley of Sacra.
mento, California. will establish a col
ony of Dunkards in the Greeley dis
trict.
DIR. George H. Stover has been
chosen dean of the faculty of the Med
icai college of the University of Den,
yer.
Herman Lueders of Manitou, former
secretary of the State Board of Capitol
commissioners, died at Pueblo on the
7th inst.
Snowslides interrupted telephone
communication between Durango and
Telluride from January 22d to Febru-
ary 4th.
Mrs. Russell Sage of New York has
given $4,000 toward building fund for
the Young Women's Christian Associa,
tion of Colorado Springs.
The Boulder oil field is still attract
ing great deal of attention and ar
rangements are being made to drill a
large number of new wells
A special short course of ten weeks
for forest rangers has been started by
the Colorado College school of forestry
at Colorado Springs under W. j. Nor
rill, deputy forest supervisor of the
Pixies Peak forest reserve.
The committee of Is which is push.
ing the charter form of government
for Pueblo has decided to withdraw its
annliPatinn tn no ntf oil
special election, and will probably re-
quest that the matter come up at the
regular spring election.
The State Commercial Association
has taken up the burden of procuring
suitable exhibits from Colorado for the
third Trans Missouri Dry Farming Con
gress at Cheyenne February 23rd oath
and 25th. The various commercial or
ganizations of the state are urged to
take part in the work.
More than 1,20O men are now EN-
ployed by the Eastern Colorado Power
Company on the great power project
on Middle Boulder creek Most of the
force is used on the trenches for the
gravity pipe line, which is twelve
miles long, extending from Nederland
reservoir to the Kosler forebay.
1t is generally conceded that the
John d. Rockefeller interests control
the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company and
there is rumor of coming reorganiza-
ton. 1t is said TO be part of the plan
to double the capacity of the Pueblo
plant SO as to supply the entire west
ern territory and the Oriental export
trade.
The previous record of 800 feet in 81
days in the driving of the double track
tunnel in Pixies Peak granite in the
Cripple Creek district was eclipsed in
January by Superintendent James A.
Mc1lwee and his picked force of ma
chine men and miners at the portal
heading of the Roosevelt deep drainage
tunnel and the new mark stands at 435
feet
turing Company has been organized at
Boulder, the incorporators being j. H
Wallace, W. e. Whitacre and R
Lindemann 1t will build the Linace
motor car, and in addition will do
general machine and repair business
| The company is capitalized at 100000
| and will at once commence the erection
of brick and steel building
Twenty-one members of the Denver
University football team we're enter
tained on the night of the 4th inst at
a banquet at the residence Of w. c.
Johnston in Colorado Springs. The
| young men were accompanied each by
lady friend and the party travelled
in a special ear. Mr.. Johnston, who
formerly lived near the University in
Denver, is a football enthusiast.
The Greeley canning factory wants
1900 acres of peas for the coming sea
son and one-half as many acres of cab
bage and tomatoes. The needed acre
age is being rapidly pledged by farm
ers and the early crop of peas will be
planted from the middle Of March to
the first of April. Many acres of to-
matoes have been pledged in the vi
cinity of Platteyille and Fort Lupton
and the cabbage acreage will be cas-
| lily secured.
ne IIetleg sugar idClOIs, tue MOOel
mills and the Greeley starch factory
have presented the Greeley CONNER
cial club with an exhibit of their pro-
ducts showing the processes through
which the raw materials pass to the
finished products. The sugar beets
show eighteen processes before it be.
comes sugar, the potatoes eight pro.
cesses in the making of starch and