Gilpin observer., 1909-08-26

AHred lie OrO, Cuban farmer, ar
rived in Greeley recently. with the an
nounced intention of purchasing
farming tract in Weld county on
which to experiment with several
new types of potatoes.
Work on the Union Pacific cutoff
which is to give Boulder additional
passenger service into Denver is
making good progress and it is ex-
over the Union Pacific in about sixty
days.
Great preparations are being made
for the Weld County Fair, to be held
at Greeley, September list to 4th. The
fair will take the place of the old har-
vest festival and is to be an annual
event. Fifty sacks of the best pota-
fine lunch will be served free. On the
last day there will be a baby show.
Mrs. Rose d. Rittman, Head Chief
Ranger of the Women's Catholic Or
der of Foresters, an insurance organ
ization for women and conducted en-
tirely by women, is in Denver to or
ganiZe the Italian women of the city
into courts. The order has $1,000
members. Mrs. Rittman has been at
the head of it for twelve years. Its
membership is limited to women of
the Catholic faith.
The 1,60O pounds of pitchblende
purchased from the Kirkwood prop
critics at Central City in Gilpin by
the Colorado School of Mines by use
of the Thomas F. Walsh fund for the
research work in making radium will
be one of the exhibits at the mining
department at the second annual
Colorado Interstate Fair and Exposi-
tion which will be held at Denver
commencing September 18th.
At cost of 100000, Denver and
Eastern men will construct an i'm
mense reservoir along Bear creek
above Morrison, to develop electric
power and irrigate dry lands. They
are planning to organize a company
to be called the Home Power and Irri-
cation Company, which will take over
the plants of the Mount Evans COM
pany and all other water rights on the
creek and consolidate them.
James Kelley of Telluride is wand
ering demented in the hills south of
Ridway, If he is not dead of expo
sure. Kelley left for Denver Saturday,
but left the train at Placerville. Sun
day night he went to the ranch OF
Charles Gallagher on the Pallas di.
vide. He appeared insane. Gallagher
tried to detain him, but Kelley broke
away and disappeared in the dark.
Since then no trace has been found OF
him.
The farmers living under the Hol-
brook ditch near La Junta have organ
lied the Holbrook irrigation district
and have purchased the canal and all
the water rights therein from the own
ers and are now surveying for an in
take ditch from the river to Dye
lake. This ditch will be 20 miles long,
40 feet wide and seven feet deep. The
Dye reservoir will probably hold 50,-
900 acre feet of water. This will help
the farmers out and give them sup.
ply in times of water shortage.
One of the largest, IL not the larg-
est single land transaction ever made
on the Western Slope was consum-
mated a few days since when l. n.
Pepper sold the Eckerly ranch of 1,600
acres and Peppers Gardens. an 500
acre tract of orchard land, near Mont
rose, for $250,000 cash. The Eckerly
ranch was purchased by r. N. Whit
ford of Galesburg, ILL.,, who is acting
for a syndicate, for $4,000. Reed
Mcdonald of Denver was the pur-
chaser of the orchard tract, the price
being sS0,O0O.
The following new postmasters have
been appointed for Colorado: Haxtum,
Phillips county, Frances NJ. Johnson,
vice l.. B. Hendrix, removed; Ivanhoe,
Pitkin county, Arthur T. Bunny, vice
r. T. Barr, resigned: Keokuk, Weld
county. Ernest E. Behring. vice F. S.
Miller, resigned; Naturita. Montrose
county, Samuel M. McNutt. vice NJ.
|. Cooper, resigned; Peetz, Logan
county Munson A. Tappen, vice G.
w. Strohmeyer, resigned; Shoshone,
Garfield county, John w. Calvin, vice
r. II. Rogers, resigned.
Mrs. George NJ. Wilson of 2204
the manager of the Western Cement
and Lumber Company, Denver, will
receive nearly a million dollars as her
share of the estate of General Sewer,
a Revolutionary War hero, which is
expected to be closed by the United
States government this fall. Mrs. vii.
son is the granddaughter of Samuel
Sewer of Guymon, Okla, one of the
original eighty heirs Of the old sol
der. The estate grew out of the deed.
ing to General Sewer, by the govern.
ment, of 177,000 acres of land in Ten
nessee, North Carolina and Alabama,
and the repurchase by the govern.
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