The Colorado statesman., 1909-12-18
COLORADO ITEMS

A carload OF furniture for the new
100000 postoffice at Colorado Springs
arrived a few days since. The build
ing will be ready for occupancy about
March 1st.
The new 100000 theater which
James T. Burns is about to erect at
Colorado Springs will produce the
Shubert bookings under contract for
the next five years.
1t now seems almost centain that
Denver will secure the International
Aviation Congress next fall. This will
bring with 1t spectacular flying ma
chine contests and attract many thou
sands of visitors.
Following his recent confession of
guilt in the District Court at Canon
City. l.. E. Dawson, late deputy coun-
ty treasurer of Fremont county and
former city clerk, was sentenced to
one to two years in the penitentiary
for embezzlement and altering public
records.
The Philippine Lumber Com
pany, which is controlled almost en-
tirely by Denver men, has recently Sc
cured an important hardwood conces-
sion in the Philippines and expect to
build a logging railroad and mill
which will have a capacity Of 100000
feet day.
Colorado Springs supporters of the
Colorado College Tigers are boosting
for new gymnasium at the college.
The present old building is entirety
inadequate, and the plans are to erect
first class structure, fully equipped
with an up-to-date apparatus, swim
ming pool, etc.
At the annual meeting of the Colo
RADIO Springs Chamber of Commerce
resolutions were unanimously passed
that a committee of five be appointed
within two weeks to confer with the
Merchants association, Real Estate
exchange and Good Roads association
to consider consolidation of the four
civic bodies.
After three years of work, in which
several miners have taken their lives
in their hands, a shot fired at o'clock
D. m. on the Sth inst, in the breast OF
the Burleigh tunnel, made an opening
which is draining the famous Seven
Thirty shaft on the Dives-Pelican and
Seven-Thirty mining property in up
per Clear Creek, and virgin property
on the Seven-Thirty 300 feet deep and
more than mile long above the tun-
mel can now be worked.
With a record d-breaking output this
year of 100000 bags of sugar. the fac
tory at Grand Junction, built ten years
aSo by Colorado Springs capital, and
controlled by ]. r. McKinnie. r. p.
Davies and E. C. Sharer, all of Colo
RADIO Springs, will produce $SO0,OOC
worth of sugar. net value, In order
| to increase the output next year, the
company expects to expend nearly
s1OO, 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
are 125,OOO, 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
additional 10000 tourists for the
month of October.
The recent appraisement OF the
properties of the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company has developed the fact that
the company's assets amount to $1OO,
556,476, a sum vastly in excess of the
most sanguine estimate of the man
agement before the appraisement was
made. The last total appraisemeDt
made in 1880, showed valuation oil
properties 19,30S.327.40 less than the
figure at which the assets are now
put. The company's iron ore, coal,
limestone and other lands are now
valued at $5S,335,250. being the largest
item in the assets. Equipment at the
steel plant, coal mines and coke ovens
is worth $34,620,31S.15, being the sec
ond most valuable item. The rail
roads owned by the company suffered
something of loss by the revalua-
ton, and are now appraised at $5,791,'
5S2.S4.
Josiah Work, one of the most
prominent and wealthy men OF Nor
gan county, died at his home in Fort
Morgan on the 18th inst. at the age
of seventy-four years. He is survived
by widow and eleven children. who
are: C. T. Work. head of the indus
trial school for girls at Denton, Tex;
Iosenhine Work teacher at Berkeley,
CAL; Mrs. Hogg, who was mission
airy to Egypt, but now resides at Man
chester, England; Ruth Work. mis-
sionary at Assault. Egypt; Robert
Work, an attorney of Fort Morgan;
Mrs DR.. Shawkey. Charlestown. w.
Va; John James and Thomas Work,
farmers near Fort Morgan; McClain
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