The Holly chieftain., 1909-11-19
COLORADO ITEMS

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The force will be increased
Former State Senator Platt Wicks
died at his home in Pueblo on the 18th
inst. after q long illness, having suf-
fered for the past ten years from
paralysis.
A large silk flag has been presented
to the Montrose High school by the
Grand Army and Woman's Relief
Corps. The flag will be floated con-
stantly over the school.
The Rev. William Couden, son OF
the chaplain of the United States Sen
ate. has accepted a call to the pasto-
rate Of the First Uniyersalist church
at Colorado Springs.
More than 500 milk venders' licenses
have been issued by the Denver fire
and police board since the passage of
the new milk ordinance. On the aver
age 80 applications day have been
made to the board.
| For the first time in the history of
the Colorado State Normal School
class is working for college degrees.
This class numbers sixty people. Many
are graduates. and others are gradu-
ates of state universities. The en-
rollment of the school is over 1,50G.
Another increase has been made in
the price of milk at Cripple Creek
and now the consumers get only eight
quarts for dollar in the place of ten.
Hereafter no cream will be sold in
the city by dairymen, as recent ordi-
nance forbids the sale of SKINNED
milk and dairymen say they will not
skim milk for cream and throw the
milk away.
F. A. Maxwell, mining engineer, has
been notified by the state engineer
that he was the successful bidder for
construction of the road around
Green lake, six miles above George
town, and work has begun. When
completed the road will be six miles
long and Naylor lake, one of the beau.
ty spots of Colorado. and full of fish,
can be reached by wagon.
Careful estimates compiled from re.
ports on sales of trees made by var!.
Gus nursery companies are said to in.
dicate that at least $500 acres of new
orchard will be planted In Montrose
county next spring. A large part of
the acreage will be in the west end
of the county, where the completion of
a number of small irrigation projects
will bring several thousand acres of
fruit land under cultivation.
| Revival services, conducted by all
the churches of the city, were opened
churches of the city, were opened
Sunday afternoon at the First Pres
byterian Church in Pueblo, by the
Rev. Ira Z. Hicks, the noted evange
list. At the first meeting there We're
more than 1000 persons present, and
Il chorus of seventy-five voices rem
dered the music. A temporary taber-
nacle has been erected which seats
1000 persons.
The Portland Cement Company has
a force Of twenty-five men and ten
teams at work four miles west of Coal
dale in the western part of Fremont
county, grading a narrow gauge rail
road from Valley station to the com
pany's gypsum mine, distance nf
2h miles. The work is in charge n!
City Engineer A. B. McFall of Flor.
ence. The cost of the road will be
$4,000, tie heavy cost being due to
a railroa1 blidge that must be con-
structed.
Wednesday, the 11th inst, was pay
day in the Cripple Creek district and
it is estimated that over s350,000 was
paid to men employed in the mines,
mills and sampling plants. The books
of the Cripple Creek Mine Owners &
Operators Association show between
1900 and $500 members at work, and
with the average daily wage scale, in
Guiding that paid machine drill men
and shift bosses, $40 per day, the es.
innate of the amount distributed, Is
conservative.
1t is stated that coal lands aggregat-
ing in value 100000 are being sold
by the Palmer estate. Colorado
| Spring men, backed by eastern capi-
talists, are said to have secured six
months option ON about 5000 acres
north and east of the city along the
Rock Island right of way and compris
ing the ranch owned by the late Will
liam j. Palmer near Austin Bluff and
lands belonging to the Colorado
Springs Company of which Palmer
was the principal stockholder.
More than 10000 people attended
The two free concerts given under city