The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1909-05-15
COLORADO ITEMS

A four-color booklet, said to be the
first used in railroad advertising west
OF the Mississippi, has been issued by
the Colorado Midland Railway Com
pany, descriptive of Colorado and the
territory tributary to the Midland.
A movement is on foot to consoli-
date all of the commercial organiza-
lions in Pueblo. The plan is to have
one great organization, with about
LOCO members, and to erect a mag
nificent building with club rooms.
The Sterling Municipal Civic League
observed cleaning up day May 10th,
and the town was thoroughly reno
waited. The work was under the di-
rection of President Mrs. C. B. Tim
berlake and Vice President Mrs. H. B.
Davis.
The State University at Boulder will
graduate from all departments ap-
proximately 165 students June 9th.
Only 147 were given diplomas last
year. One degree of Doctor of Philos-
ophy, nine degrees of MA. and three
of C.E, while two persons will take a
Masters degree.
H. T. West, J. Max Clark, Robert
Steele, Ovid Plumb and B. D. Sanborn
have taken action to continue the cor
porate life of Union colony at Greeley
for twenty years, made possible by a
law passed by the last Legislature. 1t
is kept up to correct errors in deeds
and for the purpose of keeping sa-
looms out of Greeley.
The F. E. Edbrooke Architect Com
pany has submitted to the Board of
Capitol Managers at Denver plans for
100000 museum, which will prob
ably be erected in the civic center,
about Fourteenth and Acoma, oppo-
site the new public library. The new
building is extremely artistic and will
be fitting companion piece to the IL
brary
Word was recently received at Fort
Collins by DR.. George H. Glover, head
of the veterinary department of Colo
RADIO Agricultural College, that the de-
partment would be given class A rat
ing by the committee appointed to in
spect all schools. This will put the
college on a par with the best veter-
| inaian institutions of the United
States.
The Greeley Commercial Club will
ask $40 from each of the big ditch
| and reservoir companies of Weld coun-
ty to help create a fund to push bill
in the next Legislature to enlarge the
forest reserves at the head of the
streams in Colorado, for the benefit
of irrigation. The action was taken
following an address by Directors
Davis and Weld of the Longmont Com
mercial Club.
Edwin A. Brown, wealthy Denver
man, who is interested in the estab
lishment of municipal lodging houses,
visited Pueblo, represented himself as
poor man out of work and was ,cour-
teously received at the "bull-pen" and
| given a nights lodging in what he af-
terward described to Mayor Fugard as
the most damnable place he had ever
seen outside of Mexican prisons. He
believes that the Mayor will be sue
cessful in securing a municipal lodging
house.
The largest individual bond, as well
as ons of the most unusual ever filed
in the County Court at Colorado
Springs, has been recorded by George
Foster Peabody, Chase Mellen and
George A. Krause, all of New York.
executors of the Palmer estate. The
total bond is for $6,400,00O, or double
the value of the estate as estimated
by the executors, although the estate
will probably show values of more
than 100000 when the inventory. is
filed.
Denver parties have leased the Jack
son Lake reservoir, east of Greeley, for
$500 a year for the fishing privilege.
| A seine 5000 feet long is drawn out
| by four horses and the catch often be-
ing over three tons of fish. The les
sees get the carp and suckers weigh
| ing more than two pounds. Trout,
bass, ETC., must be returned to the res
ervoir. The captured fish are shipped
alive in big tanks to Denver where
they are placed in artificial ponds and
sold.
A Laramie, Wyo., dispatch of the
18th inst says: Field work on the
Walden extension of the Laramie.
Hahn's Peak & Pacific Railway was
resumed today, when A. ]. Weston
and a party of surveyors went to AL
bany, the present terminus, to COM
plete the survey for the line to Wal
| den, Colo, about no miles from Lara
ME The road is operated to Albany,
and is projected to Hebron, Colo, to
tap immense coal beds owned by the
Northern Colorado Coal Company.
Mrs. Sarah Morley who settled in
Greeley in 1872, celebrated her eighty
sixth birthday at Greeley on the 18th
inst. She was the daughter of Judge