The daily sentinel., 1909-05-31


fought The attendance was esti-
mated at 5000. The receipts were
5 5000 of which Nelson received
S6,500 and Hyland. s1.500.
Six moving pictures and band con-
cert every night except Sunday
Mesagraph Park.
We are doing the largest business
and the best work of any laundry in
the city. Ask your neighbor or try
our work. Excelsior Laundry Co.
This evening on No the special
car, chartered by DR.. Bull and 9TH
ers. as announced Saturday. will
leave for the east There will be
about 30 passengers on board.
In spite of the cool weather sew
eral hundred people visited the fair
grounds Saturday night and enjoyed
the fine moving picture show. the
band concert and attending pleas
ures. Very likely big crowd will
be out tonight.
Arthur Wake came up from Grand
Junction yesterday and announces
that he will take charge of the Nov
city theater as its manager. Mr..
Wake is the most popular singer who
was here a year ago with this thea
ter. and he proposes, to make things
hum over Montrose Press.
A total of only Ga votes were cast
in the special school bond election
Saturday afternoon and 81 were for
the issue and against it. The
school board in a meeting Saturday
night ratified the result and the
steps to formally issue the s42.500 in
bonds for the erection of the new
high school building will be taken
at once.
The work of opening the Tennes-
see Pass tunnel of the Denver g. Rio
Grande. miles west of Leadville.
which has been closed since May 8
on account of serious cave-in, has
progressed so rapidly that the rail-
way officials are confident that traf-
fic will be moving through the long
tunnel in less than a week. The
mass of debris which completely
choked the bore has been penetrated
by a small opening and the ground
is being rapidly caught up.
Secretary Mahoney is today N re-
ceipt of letter from Senator Simon
Guggenheim acknowledging receipt
of the telegram sent out by the
Chamber of Commerce last week fur
ther declaring that the people of this
struction of the High Line canal.
Senator Guggenheim told of his visits
to Secretary Ballinger and also of a
visit to the attorney general who has
in hand the question of the legality
of the contract made between Secre-
tary Garfield and the Grand Valley
Water Users association.
This has been a busy week in real
estate circles. Energetic buying in
the Orchard Mesa lands has been a
prominent feature, and considerable
land at increasing prices has changed
hands. Several good deals have also
been made in Palisade lands and
prices keep strengthening all along
the line Perhaps the best buy of
the week was the securing of the
Wister ranch east of town by Frank
Hickman and John ID. Reeder for
S2S.O00. The total sales amount to
0S,425"the banner week of the
Palisade Tribune.
The town of Collbran will cele-
brate independence day. Such was
the decision reached at meeting of
the business men at the town hall
Tuesday night An effort will be
made (this being our first glorious
Fourth since incorporating) to make
it by far the most enjoyable celebra-
tion ever held in the valley. The In
dian band will probably be with us
again to furnish music: there Will be
patriotic program. sports, ball
games and fun for everybody. July
5 will probably be the date chosen,
though this matter has not yet been
settled. A more complete announce
ment will appear next week.-coll-
bran Voice.
E. A. Sherman. formerly manager
of the Daily News publishing plant,
was in Vega the past week, assisting
with survey of the dam site. and
on Wednesday made this office a fra
ternal visit. He says that more
complete working out of the Meadows
power proposition only emphasizes
the feasibility of the project. Solid
formation for the dam is within easy
reach, as is the material for the
earthwork The dam Will impound
about 40. 900 feet-acres of water and
will afford not alone sufficient water
for a minimum of 5000 horsepower.
but a constant reserve which VIII
form a good-sized lake at low water.
This will be stocked with nsh 1or
the benefit of pleasure resorters. The
specifications call for a dam COM
posed of a huge cement core or rib,
with an earthwork embankment
above and below, built to about twice
the thickness expert engineers would
say safety demands The dam VIII
he about SO feet wide on top, and
built 10 feet higher than the cement
spillway Mr.. Sherman is confident
that this power enterprise would
nay. and believes that 1t will be H.
nanced and buiit--Collbran Voice.