The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-11-13
COLORADO ITEMS

l
iians have been secured for the semi
centennial celebration at Boulder
November oath and 25th.
| The Riverside ranch. OF 400 acres
six miles north of Brush, owned by
George Swain, has been sold to Oh
yer Holton of Bradyville, Iowa. The
ranch is valued at $4,000.
| Governor Sha:roth has appointed
Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker of Denver
delegate to the National Civic con-
gress which is to be held in Carnegie
hall, New York City. December 10Th.
After two years of Experimenting, the
| Colorado Vanadium Company has been
organized at Boulder and is now pro-
ducing vanadium of high grade in COM
nercial quantities, bringing ore from
San Miguel county.
Rev. A. E. Holt, pastor of the First
Congregational church at Pueblo, has
rendered his resignation. to take ef-
feet December 1st, having accepted
call from the Manhattan, kans..
church.
A number of Norwegians in north
ern Illinois have taken an option on a
tract of land in Beaver Park, Fremont
county, and propose to establish col
ony for the purpose of engaging IN
gardening and fruit raising.
Robert L. Cochran, state dairy COM
missioner, left Denver few days
since on a trip of ten days over the
state, to inspect the dairies and see
what the sanitary conditions are OF
the states milk supply as a whole.
Anticipating a greater output OF
garden crop for canning purposes the
coming year, the Platteville Canning
Company will enlarge its factory.
large warehouse with basement will
be erected to make storage room for
canned goods. The company also will
build a large boarding house. This, 1t
is thought, will Solve the problem OF
help.
The county commissioners Of Weld
county have fixed the general county
tax levy at % mills, out OF which the
state gets Al mills and the general
school tax mills. The Greeley town
tax is 81 mills and with other taxes
the levy on Greeley property for the
coming year is 66 mills. In Evans
taxpayers will pay 81 mills, at Ault
Ills mills, in Eaton 60 mills, and at
Windsor 6s mills.
Mrs. Izetta George, for twenty-one
years secretary of the Denver Charity
Organizations Society, who recently
oF hoa ~
received an extremely flattering let
ter from the officers of the society,
which says: I'VE cannot say all the
kind things we would say lest you
should blush and those who do not
know you should say that we exag-
gerate."
Mrs. Ella Palmer, mother Of the
wife of former Judge Charles D. Hayt,
the only woman, with one exception,
who went to the front with the Con-
federate army. died on the 7th inst. at
the Boulder sanitarium at Boulder.
where she had been a patient for five
months. With another woman, be.
lieyed to have died several years ago.
Mrs. Palmer organized the hospital
corps of the Army of the Tennessee.
The reconstruction Of the Cliff
House in Manitou sees the passing |
of the old original house, which was
erected in 1874, and came into posses
sion of the late E. E. Nichols two
years later, being under the manage
ment of his son, E. E. Nichols, for the
last thirty-three years. The Cliff will
be, when completed, the largest resort |
hotel in the state, having in all 200 |
rooms and sc private baths. 1t |
will have frontage OF 410 feet and |
will be four stories high.
Believing that the Zip and leg" dis.
ease from which sheep in Wyoming
are said to be suffering is not the |
same ailment which is causing sore
mouths among the lambs in Colorado
Just at present, and that for this rea-
son the government agents are wrong
in quarantining Colorado lambs on in.
terstate shipments, DR.. Charles G.
Lamb. veterinary surgeon for the
State Stock Inspection Board, has
gone to Washington to consult with
DR.. A. D. Melvin, chief OF the govern.
ment bureau of animal husbandry.
J. S. McClelland, who died at Fort
Collins on the 4th inst, at the age Of
" years, came to Colorado in 1872 and
after working as printer, in Denver
for some time started the Larimer
County Express, the first newspaper
in Larimer county. in April 1873. In
1879 he quit newspaper work for farm.
ing and fruit growing. For four years
Mr.. McClelland was a member of the
state board of agriculture two years
commissioner Of Larimer county
and two years postmaster at Fort Col.