Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-02-12
STATE NEWS ITEMS

ASSees
A company is being organized to
drill for oil at Fort Morgan. where oil
rock is in evidence.
DR.. John Davis Hartley of Sacra-
mento, California. will establish a COL
ony Of Dunkards in the Greeley dis
trict.
Snowslides interrupted telephone
communication between Durango and
Telluride from January 22d to Febru-
ary 4th.
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.
Permits for 234 new buildings, to
cost $694,475, were issued in Denver
during the month of January. This
is an increase of $294,75O over the
same month last year.
That over 100000 worth OF fruit
trees will be planted In Pueblo county
this spring Is the estimate made by
Horticultural Inspector J. N. Bartels.
Most of these will be cherry. with
some apple, pear and peach.
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 withd. aw Its
application to the city council for a
n1 ole ,,.fn bob
| quest that the matter come up at the
regular spring election.
The Denver & Intermountain Rail
way began running its cars by electric
power between Denver and Golden Feb
ruary 1st. For the past fifteen years 1t
has used steam locomotives. II will
install new, well furnished passenger
coaches.
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. cath
and 25th. The various commercial or
| sanizations OF the state are urged to
take part in the work.
The previous record of $50 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.
McIlwee 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.
| The American Machine & Manufac.
turing Company has been organized ut
Boulder, the incorporators being J. IL.
Wallace. W. +. Whitacre and r.
Lindemann. 1t will build the Linace
motor car, and In addition will do n
general machine and repair business.
The company is capitalized at 500, 900
and will at once commence the erection
of brick and steel building.
Twenty-one members Of the Denver
University football team were enter
tanned on the night of the 4th inst at
| banquet ut the residence OF w. c.
Johnston In Colorado Springs. The
young men were accompanied each by
a lady friend and the party Travelled
in a special car. Mr.. Johnston, who
formerly lived near the University in
Denver, is a football enthusiast.
Petitions are being circulated in
each OF the six wards of Canon City
by the antisaloon people. to secure n
vote on the local option question at the
spring municipal election. For nearly
four years Canon City has been with
out saloons and the prohibition advo-
Gates think that the experiment has
been so successful that they will have
little difficulty in keeping 1t dry under
the local option law.
| NJ, B. Knowles of Fort LuptOn, one
of the founders of Greeley and one Of
the original Union colonists, celebrated
his eighty-sixth birthday at his home
on the Sd inst. surrounded by his fam
! ily. As a member of the society over
eighty years old he received a box Of
flower and birthday letters. He was
the first school teacher in Greeley, the
first justice of the peace and men,
Der of the city council in early days.
| Three new members OF the State
Board Of Health have been appointed
by Governor Shafroth. They are DR..
Paul S. Hunter of Denver, DIR. Crum
Epler OF Pueblo and DR.. ID. F. Wooding
of Denver. They are appointed for six
| years and succeed DIR. W. II. Davis Of
Denver, who was president of the
board; DIR. F. n. Carrier Of Canon City
| and DIR. J. Tracy Melvin OF Saguache
county.
The total production Of the Portland
mine. in the Cripple Creek district for
1905 was 94.311. .432 net tons, of a gross
value of 1884 .OSO.79. The average
gross value per ton was s19.45. The
total production from the first ship
ment, April /, 1894, is 949.ss1.7is net
tons. of a gross value of s2S, ,4G9. 1881.
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