The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-03-27
COLORADO NEWS

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A movement has been started at
/ Pueblo TO secure large fund for the
erection OF Young Mems Christian
Association building.
The plant of the Colorado Briquette
Company al Grand junction was de
stroged by fire on The 18th inst The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Canon City has increased the salary
of its mayor from sl5 month to so
per month. Aldermen viii hereafter
receive So a month instead of $40
II. II Tamm"n OF the Denver Post
is building 10000 residence ON Cap
/ Ito! Hi!l in Denver. Envious contem-
poraries insist that 1t should be
painted yellow
The Drnses Laramie & Northwest
ern Railroad Company Will purchase
forty acres of school land east Of Den
yer for ID town site. the cost. it is said,
10 be $500 per acre.
Plans are being drawn for a par
ochial school to be erected for st Jo-
seph 5 Catholic parish at Fort Collins
AT cost OF $40. 900. The great Influx
OF population. especially OF beet WORK
ers. has created demand for a Cath
olic 81 hoo
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
Gre" L. Garfield reservoir and the .x-
tension of the Pierce lateral ditch east
ward.
The Pueblo Manufacturers Associa-
tien has made arrangements to pre-
pare an exhibit OF Pueblo made goods
in a centrally located storeroom. to be
kept mp several weeks in a campaign to
nave the people support home indus
tries
The CITY of kerSey mas issued bonds
IN the sum of $1,000 at 6 per cent. in
order 10 take over from the stockholi-
eFs OF the kersey Lateral Ditch Com
panE It's 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 al Pueblo passed resolutions
condemning the delay OF the Legisa
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 suil for the gov.
ernment to recover S5S .s9s 80 from the
estate of Samuel A. Gutshail AS an in
demnity for 3.926.440 feet of timber al
legged to have been cut from govern
in hn 10 nd n
flee district between the year 1902 and
1908
At an executive session OF the p,,e-
eblo Transportation Association and
Pueblo shippers to discuss alleged dis
elimination in freight rates against p,i-
eblo by the Denver d Rio Grandes ran-s
road in a certain district in southern
Colorado. committee was named TO
compile the facts in the case AMI 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 400. 900 IONS
of cement for the Nederland dam.
which will be handled at the rate of
about seven cars a day. Shipments
will commence at once and 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 strenuous
fight against the proposal TO reduce
the tariff on lead and zinc, bullion. pig
and scrap. They claim that a tariff re-
dcction 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 a lawyer
TO appeal his case to the Supreme
Court Shercliffe was convicted on
charge of numbering Leadville sa-
loonkeeper. fifteen years ago. On his
way to state prison he escaped from
Sheriff Bonner of Leadville. and was
few weeks ago brought back from
Minnesota. where he was acquitted of
charge OF train robbing.
The largest mortgage ever given in
San Miguel county has been filed at
Telluride. 1t is for $500 900. given by
the Japan-Flora Mines and Tunnel
Company and runs ten years
II 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
gler-Union.
f. J. Tuttle has been appointed gen
eral freight and passenger agent of
the Argentine Central Railway Com
pany, with headquarters at 314-15 Colo
RADIO building in Denver vice C. A.
Johnson, resigned, effective April 1st
The Argentine Central will open its
line from Silver Plume to the Waldorf