The Elbert County tribune., 1909-12-23
COLORADO ITEMS


The Postal Telegraph Company has
shipped material to Fort Morgan and
is preparing to establish an uptown of
flee January 1st.
Repairs on the Rio Grande Southern
having been completed. Telluride is
once more in direct railroad connec-
tion with Denver via Montrose.
After the first of the year every
doctor in the state must report to the
trict each birth which comes under
his observation.
At a conference of the five executive
officers of the state. it was decided to
close all offices in the state capitol at
Denver at 1880 o'clock each Saturday
afternoon from now on.
Despite the cold weather, work on
the Standley lake ditch from Beebe
Draw to Hudson. 100 miles. is pro-
about 1000 men engaged.
William J. Palmer post of the Grand
Army of the Republic has been organ
lied at Colorado City, the officers be-
ing formally installed by Department
Commander J. w. Wingate.
The Colorado Springs Company is
taking steps to park forty acres of
land lying between Wood avenue and
Monument valley park The land is
valued at 100000 and is situated in
the north end residence district.
The citizens and farmers in and
around Hillrose in Morgan county have
organized company for building a
$4,000 alfalfa meal mill Construction
is now under way and they expect to
be grinding alfalfa within sixty days.
John w. Nesmith, president of the
Colorado Iron Works, one of the enter
prising pioneer business men and man-
ufacturers of Colorado. died at st.
Luke's hospital at Denver on the 18th
inst, of heart disease, after an illness
ef only thirty-six hours. He was sew
enty-six years of age.
The. Rev. Dr. Kerr B. Tupper. for
merly pastor of the First Baptist
church in Denver and a pulpit orator
of note. has been lecturing throughout
the West, but will resume active pas
toral duty again next year. At pres
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tention to continue his lectures this
winter and to enter pastorate some
where next fall.
The Santa Fe is receiving in Install
ments the several million dollars
worth of equipment recently built for
it in the East, and designed to facili-
tate operations on its western division
west of La Junta. New equipment in
cludes thirty-seven new engines, 100
passenger, baggage and mail cars, sew
eral hundred refrigerator cars and
about 1000 freight cars.
While at Denver a few days since,
F. l.. Harvey, secretary Of the Wash
ington National Monument Society,
said that of all the states in the I'm
ion, Colorado, South Dakota and Ok
lahoma are the only ones not repre-
sented by a tablet in the Washington
monument at the national capital.
Such tablet could be placed in the
monument at cost of about $500
The Grand Junction budget ordi-
nance as adopted by the city commits
sionexs appropriates over $4,000 for
municipal expenses for the ensuing
year. This is an increase of $4,000
over last years appropriation, which
was then the highest on record. The
question of street paving and noun
tain water system confront the COM
missioners and the budget includes an
item of six months interest on $780,
900 bond issue expected to soon be
made for the new water supply.
John Hopkins, the first man to drive
the famous pony express from st.
Louis to San Francisco. hero of ma
tional reputation in the terrible Chi
cago fire, and for thirty-two years one
of the best known prospectors and
hunters in Colorado, died few days
since at the Ell Paso county poor farm,
aged eighty-seven. Hopkins was born
in Illinois and came to Colorado in
1878, where he had since made his
home.
With a record-breaking output this
year of 100000 bags of sugar. the fac
tory at Grand Junction, built ten years
ago by Colorado Springs capital, and
controlled by ]. r. McKinnie, R. P.
Davies and E. C. Sharer, all of Colo
rado Springs, will produce sS00.000
worth of sugar, net value. In order
to increase the output next year, the
company expects to expend nearly
| 100000 in improvements and enlarge
| ment.
N. L. Drew. general agent for the
Colorado Midland at Colorado Springs
has made an estimate of the number
of tourists who visited Colorado
| Springs the past season. His figures
are 125,000. based on the fact that for
ty-four trains arrived daily during the
tourist season and that each train
brought fifteen tourists during the
month of June, thirty in July and Au
gust, and ten in September, with an
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