The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-11-12
STATE NEWS ITEMS

Inc hNeTSl0e f4nCAe OF AOO acres,
six miles north of Brush. ovned By
George Swain. has been sold to OIL
vsr Holton Of Bradyville. Iowa Tbs
Faoch is valued At S55, 900.
After two years of experimenting, the
Colorado Vanadium Company has beea
organized at Boulder and il now pro
ducins 'anadium of high grade In con
meFcial quantities. bringing ore from
San Miguel county.
4 number Of Norvegians IN north
efn Illinois have taken an option on
tract of land in Beaver Park, Fremont
eoSnty. and propose to establish . col
oay for the purpose Of engaging IN
gardening and fruit raising.
Anticipating Q greater output Of
garden crop for canning purposes the
coming year. the Plattevills Canning
Company will enlarge its factory. A
large warehouse with basement viii
bs erected to make storage room f0r
canned goods. The company also will
bald large boarding house. This. II
10 thought. will solve the problem OF
help.
The county commissioners OF Weld
county have fixed the general county
tax levy at % mills. out Of which the
state gets 4.1 mills and the general
school tax mills. The Greeley town
tax 10 81 mills and with other taxes
the levy on Greeley property for the
coming year is 66 mills. In Evans
taxpayers will pay 81 mills. at Ault
us mills. in Eaton 60 mills. and at
Windsor 6S mills.
Land seekers from Iowa startled .
band of twenty-six wild antelope. feed.
ing ON the Purcell ranch In northern
Weld county few days since. when
their automobile suddenly bore dowa
on the band. Eight years ago there
were few antelope ON the plains. but
the game laws have had the desired
effect. Antelope now roam In the un-
settled districts in big bands and are
quite tam.
The Burlington railway has com.
pleted negotiations with the city Of
Denver whereby that line agrees to
build the subway under its double
track across the county road north
east Of Riverside cemetery. The city
and Adams county will grade up to
either side Of the track, expending
$1,000. on condition that the road dig
the subway and put in q superstruc-
ture for 5O-foot dirt roadway.
Mrs. Ella Palmer. mother Of the
wife Of former Judge Charles d. Hayt.
the only woman. with one exception,
who went to the front with the Con.
federate army, died on tho 7th inst. at
the Boulder sanitarium at Boulder,
where she had been a patient for five
months. With another woman, be-
lieved to have died several years ago.
Mrs. Palmer organized the hospital
corps of the Army Of the Tennessee.
The reconstruction of the Cliff
House in Manitou sees the passing
of the old original house, which was
erected in 1874. and came into posses
sion Of the late e. e. Nichols two
years later. being under the manage
ment Of his son, E. E. Nichols, for the
last thirty-three years. The Cliff will
| be, when completed, the largest resort
hotel in the state. having 10 all 200
rooms and sc private baths. 1t
will have . frontage of 40 feet and
will be four stories high.
Potato farmers in the Greeley dis.
trict say that the matter Of growing
and handling potatoes with profit has
become q storage proposition. Mem.
bers Of the Farmers club who have
been studying the potato question
say that unless conditions change
Greeley growers must hold their crop
through the fall. Storing the crop
would require extra expense. but the
added price received In the spring
will offset this. Practically three
fourths of this seasons potato crop
is now stored awaiting shipment
later.
Believing that the Zip and leg" dis
ease from which sheep in Wyoming
are said to be suffering is not the
same ailment which Is causing sore
mouths among the lambs in Colorado
son the government agents are wrong
in quarantining Colorado lambs on in
terstate shipments, DR.. Charles G..
Lamb. veterinary surgeon for tho
State Stock Inspection Board, has
gone to Washington to consult with
DR.. A. D. Melvin, chief of the govern.
ment bureau of animal husbandry.
J. s. McClelland. who died at Fort
Collins on the 4th inst, at the age Of
n years, came to Colorado in 1872 and
after working as printer, in Denver
for some time started the Larimer
County Express, the first newspaper
10 Larimer county, in April 1873. In
1879 he quit newspaper work for farm
ing and fruit growing. For four years
Mr.. McClelland was a member Of the
state board of agriculture two years
a commissioner of Larimer county
and two years postmaster at Fort Col
Inns. He was a member of George II.
Thomas post G. A. r. was two years