The Glenwood post., 1909-03-27
COLORADO NEWS

erected at Montrose with a capacity
of forty-tive thousand bricks day.
A movement has been started at
Pueblo to secure a large fund for the
erection of a Young Mems Christian
Association building.
The plant of the Colorado Briquette
Company at Grand Junction was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th inst. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Canon City has increased the salary
of its mayor from SIS month to $50
per month. Aldermen will hereafter
receive SOS month instead of so.
FL. II. Tammen OF the Denver Post
is building 100000 residence on Cap
itol Hill in Denver. Envious conten-
poraries insist that 1t should be
painted yellow
The Denver, Laramie & Northwest
ern Railroad Company will purchase
forty acres of school land east of Den
yer for town site, the cost it is said,
to be 5000 per acre.
Plans are being drawn for par
ochial school to be erected for ST Jo-
seph's Catholic parish at Fort Collins
at cost of 100000. The great influx
of population especially OF beet work
ers, has created a demand for Cath
olic school.
Active work was begun on the 18th
inst. on the Greeley Poudre Irrigation
system when engineers started final
surveys for the building Of the Nc
Grew & Camfield reservoir and the ex-
ten sim of tho piproa LAT ditch eaSt-
ward.
The Pueblo Manufacturers Associa-
ton has made arrangements to pre-
pare an exhibit of Pueblo made goods
in centrally located storeroom, to be
kept up several weeks in campaign to
have the people support home indus
tries.
The city of Kersey has issued bonds
in the sum of $1,000 at per cent. in
order to take over from the stockhold
ers of the kersey Lateral Ditch Com
pany its water stocks, to be used in
providing water for the lawns, trees,
ETC.. of kersey.
The state convention of the Farm
ers' Educational and Cooperative
Union at Pueblo passed resolutions
condemning the delay of the Legisla-
ture in acting on needed legislation
and telegram to that effect was sent
to the proper officials in Denver.
United States District Attorney
Ward has started suit for the gov
ernment to recover $58. $3.50 from the
estate of Samuel A. Gutshail as an in
demnity for 1896 440 feet of timber al
legged to have been cut from govern
ment reserves in the MOntrose land OF
flee district between the year 1902 and
1908.
At an executive session of the Pue-
eblo Transportation Association. and
Pueblo shippers to discuss alleged dis
elimination in freight rates against Pn-
eblo by the Denver & Rio Grande rail-
road in certain district In southern
Colorado. committee was, named to
compile the facts in the case and pre-
sent them to high officers of the Gold
lines.
The Colorado & Northwestern Rail-
road Company has been notified by the
Eastern Colorado Power Company to
prepare for shipment of 100000 tons
of cement for the Nederland dam,
which will be handled at the rate of
about seven cars day. Shipments
will commence at once and a cement
train will make daily trips on the
mountain road.
The mine owners of Colorado whose
properties produce ores bearing zinc
and lead, intend making a strenuous
fight against the proposal to reduce
the tariff on lead and zinc, bullion, pig
and scrap. They claim that tariff re-
duction means an equal reduction in
the market price of those metals and
would spell ruin to many mine owners
of the West.
1t is stated that Frank Shercliffe,
alias Morris, now in the penitentiary
at Canon City, has employed n lawyer
to appeal his case to the Supreme
Court. Shercliffe was convicted on a
charge of numbering Leadville sa-
loonkeeper, fifteen years ago. On his
way to state prison he escaped from
Sheriff Bonner of Leadville, and was a
few weeks ago brought back from
Minnesota. where he was acquitted of
a charge Of train ,robbing.
The largest mortgage ever given in
| odn hlSuel county HAS Detu llleu dI
Telluride. 1t is for 100000, given by
the Japan-Flora Mines and Tunnel
Company and runs ten years.
1t covers the entire property
and is understood to have been
placed with the intention OF commenc-
ing important development work. The
mine Is owned by Philadelphia parties.
1t is close to the Tom Boy and Snug
glerUnion.
E. j. Tuttle has been appointed gen.
eral freight and passenger agent Of
the Argentine Central Railway Com
pany, with headquarters at BALE Colo
rado building in Denver, vice c. A.
Johnson. resigned, effective April 1st.
The Argentine Central will open its