The Colorado statesman., 1909-02-13
STATE NEWS ITEMS

Sr. Mary's hospital, at Grand juno
ton, the oldest one in the Western
slope, is to have a $4,000 addition
DR.. George H. Stover has been
chosen dean of the faculty of the Med
ical college of the University of Den
yer.
Herman Lueders of Manitou. former
secretary of the State Board of Capitol
Commissioners, died at Pueblo on the
7th inst.
Snowsides interrupted telephone
communication between Durango and
Telluride from January 22d to Febru-
ary 4th
Mrs. Russell Sage of New York has
given $4,000 toward a building fund for
the Young Women's Christian Associa-
tion of Colorado Springs.
The Boulder oil field is still attract
ing great deal of attention and ar
rangements are being made to drill a
large number of new wells.
At the close of business February
5th, the six national banks of Denver
had on deposit $5S,149,1S3.11. This is
a gain of $313,S15.S0 over the amount
on deposit at the close of business
November 81, 1905
A special short course of ten weeks
for forest rangers has been started by
the Colorado College school of forestry
at Colorado Springs under w. ]. Nor
rill, deputy forest supervisor of the
Pixies Peak forest reserve.
A total of 1895 .9S6.19 is on de-
posit in the six banks of Colorado
Springs, according to the responses to
the call of the comptroller of the cur
rency. This makes better showing
than for many years, for a correspond
ing period.
The State Commercial Association
has taken up the burden of procuring
suitable exhibits from Colorado for the
third Trans Missouri Dry Farming Con
gress at Cheyenne February 23rd, oath
and 25th. The various commercial or
CARNATIONS of the state are urged 10
take part in the work.
Twenty-one members of the Denver
University football team were enter
tanned on the night of the 4th inst. at
a banquet at the residence of w. c.
Johnston in Colorado Springs. The
young men were accompanied each by
lady friend and the party travelled
in a special car. Mr.. Johnston, who
formerly lived near the University in
Denver is a football enthusiast.
The Greeley canning factory wants
1900 acres of peas for the coming sea
son and one-half as many acres of cab
bage and tomatoes. The needed acre
age is being rapidly pledged by farm
ers and the early crop of peas will be
planted from the middle of March to
the first of April. Many acres of to-
matoes have been pledged in the vi
cinity of Platteville and Fort Lupton
and the cabbage acreage will be cas-
| lily secured.
The Greeley sugar factory, the Model
mills and the Greeley starch factory
have presented the Greeley CONNER
cial club with an exhibit of their pro-
ducts showing the processes through
which the raw materials pass to the
| finished products. The sugar beets
show eighteen processes before it be-
comes sugar, the potatoes eight pro-
cesses in the making of starch and
wheat requires twenty-three stages be-
fore being made into flour.
A national park for Pueblo and
Custer counties in the Greenhorn
mountain range is projected by resi-
dents of both counties, who will ask
Congress for an appropriation to main
tain it. The location is thirty-five
miles southwest of Pueblo on the
! county line. Those who are back of
the scheme wish to have Congress set
aside the park twelve by fifteen miles.
| The country has some of the most
beautiful mountain scenery in the state.
According to plans outlined by the
committee on public health and sani-
tation of the Colorado Springs Char
ter convention, at a public meeting,
not only will every physician be re-
quired to include tuberculosis among
the list of contagious diseases in his
report to be filed with the Health de-
partment, but every householder must
register all cases of tuberculosis in his
household, together with the other pre-
scribed diseases.
Pueblo, Colo.-The Missouri Pacific
will begin extensive improvements
Monday in preparation for the compile
ton of the Western Pacific. j. r.
Lightly, engineer of maintenance and
way, with Superintendent H. G. Clark
OF Pueblo, returned from an inspection
trip Tuesday and it was announced
that the work would be taken up at
once 1t is said that large yards are
to be constructed in Pueblo by June
list. Ballasting and building of side
tracks between Pueblo and Kansas