The Colorado statesman., 1909-08-07
COLORADO NEWS

Steamboat Springs is making great
preparations for the Pioneers celebra-
ton September 1st.
1t is reported that this years crap
of apricots will be the largest ever
harvested in the Grand Valley.
Mrs. Maude Ballington Booth and
her sister, Mrs. Barclay, visited the
penitentiary at Canon City on the Sd
inst.
The Berthoud Brick and Tile Com
pany has completed the delivery OF
100000 brick to the army post at
Fort RUSSELL near Cheyenne.
w. E. Goddard, 73 years old, and a
prominent pioneer of Montrose county
died at Montrose on the 3rd inst, as
the result of injuries sustained in
runaway.
Edwin Gaylord, the well-known
horseman, who conducted the races
during the Interstate Fair at Over.
land last year so successfully, has
again agreed to be superintendent OF
speed events at the September meet
ing.
During May, June and July, the first
three months since the eleven saloons
in Grand Junction went out of bust
ness, there were thirty-one arrests for
drunkenness, as compared with 106
for the same period last year.
Bowen, a camp of the Victor Fuel
Company, has been re-opened as a sta
ton on the Colorado & Southern rail
road, having been closed since the
shut down of the mine last April.
The mine has just resumed with a
large force.
Gov. John F. Shafroth has appointed
the barber commission provided for
under the new law by the Seventeenth
General Assembly. Those who were
appointed are: Philip Strubel, Den
yer; A. F. Browns, Sterling, and John
7. Brooks, Pueblo.
At an election in Fruita on the 4th
inst. $4,000 bond issue was author
lied for the purpose of paying off the
contractors who recently installed the
cityS plumbing plant as well as to de
fray the expense of building extensive
watersheds to protect the mountain
pipe lines.
Two new divisions have been Great
ed in the agricultural department of
the Colorado Agricultural college, the
department of animal husbandry and
the department of farm mechanics
Prof. George e. Morgan was given
charge of the first and Prof. H. H.
Bainer the second.
The compression house at the Cal.
liope mine, three and one-half miles
from Ouray, burned on the night of
August Sd, and although a few thou
sand dollars will cover the actual
money loss, enforced suspension of.
work in the mine and in the drainage
tunnel will entail extensive losses.
The State Normal Summer school
at Greeley closed the last of July. There
was a marked increase inattandace
over previous years. A large number
registered for nonresident work.
Twenty received diplomas and it is
now arranged that there will be grad
uations every term of the school year.
The annual corn roast at Loveland
will be held August 10Th. In addition
to the regulation free dinner of roast
corn, sandwiches and coffee, there
will be added a large agricultural and
horticultural display and an industrial
parade. A great program of races mas
been arranged for August 18th and
10th.
Because they We're able to satisfy
the court that they were INDECENT and
unable to pay the fines assessed to
them, five of the bootleggers arrested
in a sensational raid in Grand juno
tion several weeks ago, convicted and
who have served out a part of their
fine in jail, have been ordered re-
leased by District Judge Shackleford.
So large will be the exhibiting de-
partment of the American Street and
lnterurban Railway association, meet
ing in Denver. Oct 4, that Fourteenth
street is to be rooted with a temporary
building in order to get room for them.
Tie building will extend the length
of the Auditorium. Temporary tracks
will be laid to transport cars and ma
chinery to the Auditorium.
The north heading of the Roosevelt
deep drainage tunnel in the Cripple
Creek district was advanced 319 feet
during July. When measurements
were taken by r. r. Countryman,
deputy United States mineral survey.
er, July 31st, the heading had been
carried 2,2SO feet north of the inter-
mediate shaft, a total distance from
the breast to the portal on Cripple
Creek of 1926 feet.
The first steps toward the construct
ion of 5O-ton reduction plant by the
! Colorado Metal & Chemical company.
at the foot of Arapahoe peak i'll Grand
county, capable of handling not only
ores of gold, silver, copper, but also