The new era., 1909-04-15
COLORADO NEWS;

erected at Montrose with a capacity
OF forty-five thousand bricks a day
movement has been started at
| erection of Young Mems Christian
Association building.
The plant of the Colorado Briquette
Company at Grand Junction was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th inst. The
loss is estimated at $4,000. e
Canon City has increased the salary
of it's mayor from SIS a month to $50
per month. Aldermen will hereafter
receive $25 month instead of $40
IL. II. Tammen OF the Denver Post
is building a $4,000 residence on Cap
itol Hill in Denver. Envious contem-
poraries insist that 1t should be
painted yellow.
The Denver. Laramie & Northwest
eln Railroad Company will purchase
forty acres of school land east of Den
yer for town site. the cost. 1t is said,
TO be 5000 per acre.
Plans are being drawn for a par
ochial school to be erected for st. Jo-
seph's Catholic parish at Fort Collins
at cost of $4,000. The great influx
of population. especially OF beet work
ers has created demand for a Cath
Ollie school,
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
Grew e. Garfield reservoir and the ex-
tlp x>ft tl,, L. kct
ward.
The Pueblo Manufacturers Associa-
tion has made arrangements to pre-
pare an exhibit of Pueblo made goods
in centrally located storeroom. to be
kept up several weeks in campaign to
have the people support home indus
tries.
The city of kersey has issued bonds
in the sum of $4,000 at per cent, in
order TO take over from the stockhold-
ers of the kersey Lateral Ditch Com
pany its 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 at Pueblo passed resolutions
condemning the delay of the Legisla.
ture in acting on needed legislation
and d telegram to that effect was sent
to the proper officials In Denver.
United States District Attorney
Ward has started suit for the gov.
ernment to recover $58 8.s9S.6o from the
estate of Samuel A. Gutshail as nn In.
demnity for 1885, ,440 feet OF timber al.
legged to have been cut from govern
ment reserves in the MOMtrose land Of
flee district between the year 1902 and
1908.
At an executive session of the Pue-
eblo Transportation Association and
Pueblo shippers to discuss alleged dis
elimination in freight rates againstsrs-
eblo by the Denver G Rio Grande rail
road in a certain district in southern
Colorado, committee was named to
compile the facts In the case and 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 a shipment of 100000 tons
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 a 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
H.. riTf ,i,1 ~;<r
and scrap. They claim that tariff re-
duction 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 q lawyer
to appeal his case to the Supreme
Court. Shercliffe was convicted on a
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. Ii is for 100000, given by
the Japan-Flora Mines and Tunnel
Company and runs ten years.
1t 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.
E. ]. .Tuttle has been appointed gen.
eral freight and passenger agent OF
the Argentine Central Railway Com
pany, with headquarters at 314-15 Colo
rad1, .h,iildirsr II, Do,avox.