The Elk Mountain pilot., 1909-05-27
STATE NEWS ITEMS


four wells at Florence. and two OF
them are below the 2,5OO-foot mark.
A bronze memorial tablet will be
placed In Palmer hall, Colorado Col
lege, by the generals old regiment
the Fifteenth Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cass Goddard OF
Colorado Springs was elected presi
dent of the Colorado Society OF Colon
ial Danes at the convention held al
Colorado Springs this week.
Colorado postmasters appointed
Minturn, Eagle county. Dora Baker
vice ID. ]. Maynard, resigned; west
minister, Adams county. Loren ID. Mul
ford, vice r. II. Mellett, resigned.
The National Orchard Heater Com
pany has been incorporated at Grand
Junction, capital 100000, and VIII
erect a factory and manufacture hre
pots on an extensive scale.
The following Colorado citizens have
been appointed timber cruisers In the
general land office service: Wilson $
Blaser, Durango; Harry II. Schwartz
Jr., Harry II. Ward, Jesse X. Cnelten'
ten, Denver.
The Department OF Commerce and
Labor has given favorable Endorsement
to Senator Guggenheim's bill estab-
fishing an additional fish hatchery In
Colorado The bill provides for Its 10
cation at Estes Park.
G. S. Billheimer. state secretary OF
the Y. NJ. C. A.. was elected secretary
,f vacfnTIny IN
fill the vacancy caused by the resiSna-
tion OF F. l.. Starrett, who went tc
Oakland. Cal. two weeks ago.
Governor Shafroth will preside al
the labor mass meeting to be held In
the Denver auditorium on next Sun
day afternoon. under the combined
auspices OF the Presbyterian general
assembly and the Denver Trades and
Labor assembly.
Denver's school population continues
to jump. an increase OF I.52 per cent
being shown by the census of the chill
dren between the ages of six and TWEEN
" years. inclusive. The enumerators
returns show 53.790 children of school
age. an increase OF 2.375 during the
past year.
The continued cold weather has af
fected fruit prospects around Boulder
and the cherries. plums and prunei
will fall short OF full crop. Apple
trees are unusually full OF bloom
and indications are good for one OF
the largest crops ever grown in thai
section.
Information has reached DR.. Leach
chief OF the federal laboratory In Den
yer. that the Association of Officia
Agricultural Chemists will meet In
Denver at the same time that the
Pure Food and Dairy Commissioners
Association holds Its meeting here
This will be from August 24th to 27th
The body OF DR.. stephen Douthitt
killed In the snowslide at the CAM
Bird mine on January 22nd. was re
covered Tuesday. II was buried un
der fifty feet of snow. $50 feet below
the trail. The body OF George Witt
wer, killed at the same time, is still
In the snow. and a hose line is beini
used to wash away the snow.
The federal census bureau esti
mates that the population of Colorado
June 80. 1910. will be s73.+l6. an in
crease of 81 per cent over the popula
ton shown by the report OF the bu
reau in 1900. The estimate for Den
yer is 249.s51, and the officials OF thu
bureau say that this estimate prob
ably will have to be raised to abov'
250,000.
The invitations for the thirty-fiftl
annual commencement OF the Colorado
School Of Mines have been issued b,
the Board of Trustees and the facult.
Of the school. The commencement
will take place Friday afternoon. Ma.
2sth. at Simon Guggenheim hall. II
Golden. The annual address VIII b.
delivered by MIR. John Hays Ham
mond.
When the shift came at both head
ings Of the Gunnison tunnel on tn
morning of May 17th the distance be
tween the two was Just 900 feet. A
the present rate of progress they vii
come together by July goth, when tn
2O.64O feet OF the big bore will b
completed. The opening day VIII b
between the 18th and goth of August
when President Taft has announce
his intention to be present.
]. II. Day OF the form of Cobel !
Day. produce merchants of New for
city. was in Montrose the middle OF tn
week, making an inspection Of the frui
situation. He stated that fruit in tn
Hood river country in Oregon woul
be short this season and that Idah
would have only small croI
He stated that Colorado had the bes
fruit crop prospect of any state OF tn
West.
The government census Of the Der
yer district for 1910 will be in charg
of A. B. McGaffey, who will relinquis
the position of secretary Of the Stat
Board of Equalization on June Is
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