The Lamar register., 1909-08-11
COLORADO ITEMS


1t is reported thay this years crop
of apricots will be the largest ever
harvested in the Grand Valley.
Mrs. Maude Ballington Booth and
her sister, Mrs. Barclay. visited the
penitentiary at Canon City on the Sd
inst.
w. E. Goddard, 10 years old. and a
prominent pioneer of Montrose county
died at Montrose on the 3rd inst. as
the result OF injuries sustained in
runaway.
The comptroller OF the currency has
approved the conversion OF the Farm
ers' State Bank OF Center, Colo, into
the First National Bank Of Center.
with 100000 capital
The Arkansas Valley Fair will open
at II. cky Ford August 31st and con-
tinue through the first three days OF
September. Watermelon day will be
celeb ated September I'd.
During May. June and July. the first
three months since the eleven saloons
in Grand Junction went out OF bust
ness. there were thirty-one arrests for
drunkenness. as compared with 106
for the same period last year.
Bowen, camp of the Victor Fuel
Company, has been re-opened as a sta
ton on the Colorado & Southern rail
road, having been closed since the
| shut down OF the mine last April.
| The mine has just resumed with a
large force.
Two new divisions have been Great
ed in the agricultural department of
the Colorado Agricultural college. the
department OF animal husbandry and
the department of farm mechanics.
Prof George E. Morgan was given
charge of the first and Prof. II. ii.
Banner the second.
Carl F. Brown, treasurer of the Con-
tinental Oil Company, a branch of the
Standard Oil corporation. died Tues
day night in Mercy hospital at Denver
of appendicitis. Brown was self
made man and rose from a messenger
boy to an official high in the councils
of the corporation.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
announces that it will not construct
any more frame buildings in its min
ing camps but will use cement instead.
II has Just completed a boarding house
of twenty-four rooms at Berwind and
is constructing twenty cement houses
for miners.
The compression house at the Cal
Hope mine. three and one-half m2es
from Ouray. burned on the night OF
August Sd, and although a few thou
sand dollars will cover the actual
money loss, enforced suspension Of
work in the mine and in the drainage
tunnel will entail extensive losses.
T. s. McMurray. right-of-way man
for the Burlington railroad. is quoted
as stating that on a recent visit by
| prominent officers to Greeley 1t was
decided to make Greeley the main divi-
sion point of the road, which will build
roundhouses and repair shops. This
will give employment to more than
400 men.
The annual corn roast at Loveland
will be held August 18th. In addition
to the regulation free dinner OF roast
corn, sandwiches and coffee, there
will be added large agricultural and
horticultural display and an industrial
parade. A great program of races has
been arranged for August 18th and
10th.
Because they were able to satisfy
the court that they were INDECENT and
unable to pay the fines assessed to
them. five of the bootleggers arrested
in n sensational raid in Grand juno
ton several weeks ago. convicted and
who have served out a part of their
fine in Jail, have been ordered re-
leased by District Judge Shackleford.
A Washington dispatch of the 9th
| inst. says: Senator Guggenheim left
here today for New York and Tuesday
next will sail for Europe to take about
six weeks rest. He will return to
| Colorado late in September or early in
October. Senator Hughes and family
/ left for New York last evening and
will go from there to Colorado imme-
iiately.
So large will be the exhibiting de-
partment of the American Street and
lnterurban Railway association. meet
ing in Denver, Oct 4, that Fourteenth
street is to be rooted with a temporary
building in order to- get room for them
The building will extend the length
| of the Auditorium. Temporary tracks
will be laid TO transport cars and ma
chinery to the Auditorium.
The north heading of the Roosevelt
deep drainage tunnel in the Cripple
Creek district was advanced S19 feet
during July. When measurements
were taken by T. r. Countryman.
deputy United States mineral survey
err. July 3lst. the heading had been
carried 2,2S0 feet north of the inter
mediate shaft, total distance from
the breast to the portal on Cripple
Creek Of 1925 feet.
The first national convention of the
insurance commissioners of the
United States ever held in the West
will meet in Colorado Springs, August
24th to 27th. More than 500 commits
sioners and deputies are expected to
attend. This will be the fortieth an
nual convention of the commissioners.
Prof. E. R. Bennett, potato ipvesti-
/ gator for the Agricultural college er-