The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-12-24
COLORADO ITEMS

The contract has been let for a s3l.-
600 high school building At SAiica-
On December 18th hogs sold at
Ss41lz On the Denver market, break
ing all records for high prices up to
that date.
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 IL
once more in direct railroad connec-
ton with Denver via Montrose.
After the first OF the year every
doctor in the state must report to the
registrar OF vital statistics in his dis
rrlct each birth which comes under
his observation.
1t conference of the five executive
officers OF the state, it was decided to
close all offices in the state capitol at
Denver at 1870 o'clock each Saturday
afternoon from now on.
Despite the cold weather. work on
the STANDBY lake ditch from Beebe
Draw to Hudson. 100 miles. is pro-
crossing with big steam plows and
about 900 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. Ningate.
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 a 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
Of 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
ent he is in Philadelphia. 1t is his in
tention to continue his lectures this
winter and to enter a pastorate some
where next fall.
The Santa Fe is receiving in install
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. sev-
eral hundred refrigerator cars and
about 1000 freight cars.
While at Denver q few days since.
F. l. Harvey, secretary Of the Wash
ington National Monument Society.
said that of ell the states in the I'm
ion, Colorado. South Dakota and Ok
lahoma are the only ones not repre-
sented by q tablet in the Washington
monument at the national capital.
Such = tablet could be placed in the
monument at q csst of about $500.
The Grand Junction budget ordi-
nance as adopted by the city commits
sioners appropriates over 100000 for
municipal expenses for the ensuing
year. This is an increase of $35, 900
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. TIE 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 q 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 J. r. McKfnnfe, X. p.
Davies and E. c. Sharer. all Of Colo
RADIO Springs, will produce 100000
worth Of sugar, net value. In order
| to increase the output next year. the
company expects to expend nearly
500, 900 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
| =. 10s mn hasnd nm tho fart that For.