The Colorado statesman., 1910-10-15
LITTLE coLonApo ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over tho
State Worth Telling.

Montrose will have a poultry show
in February.
An electric light plant for Montezu-
ma is being planned
Tomatoes netted close to 500 an
acre at Fort LuDton.
Canon City expects to ship 1000 or
1900 carloads of apples this season.
H. Brown of Denver has been elect
ed president of the Colorado Hotel
Clerks Association.
Hotchkiss was selected as the place
for holding the 1911 reunion of the
old soldiers of the Western slope.
El Paso county proposes to issue
s125,000 in bonds in December for the
improvement and building of roads.
An independent beet sugar factory
in the Eaton district is now on the
tapis and looks like an immediate GER
tainty.
The output of the Cripple Creek dis
trict for September was 6S,57O tons,
with gross bullion value of $4,S14,-
$3.50.
The community kitchen" and din
ing room to accommodate about fifty
families planned by the women of
Greeley is progressing.
With the rampant enthusiasm over
the capture of the Dry Farming Con-
gress Colorado Springs thinks she just
must have an Auditorium.
Thirty Texas capitalists are inspect
ing agricultural land in Colorado and
have made purchases in the Platte
vile and Fort Lupton district.
Steamboat Springs exhibits Yam
kee pumpkin 35 inches in circumfer-
ence and grown without irrigation
the largest ever grown in the county.
And now Colorado Springs is after
two more conventions for 1911, those
of the American Association of Pas
senger Agents and the Railway Signal
Association.
A Denver man has leased the ex-
elusive privilege of hunting frogs on
several large reservoirs in Weld coun-
ty. believing there is fortune in it
from the jump.
The Pueblo Canning Company has
made one shipment of IL carloads of.
Pueblo county picked cucumbers to
Tacoma, Wash, the largest cucumber
shipment on record from this county.
Larkspur, aconite, loco weed and
other poisonous growths, common to
some sections of Colorado are being
experimental with by government ex-
perts with the primal object of saving
stock.
Local postoffice receipts for the
quarter ending Sept. 80. at Colorado
Springs, shows an increase of $1,1Oo
over the corresponding quarter of 1909,
being S37,5S5 this year and $36,474
last year.
The Mutual Light and Power Com
pany will ask for franchise in PAIL
sade, and announces that the wires
will be extended to include Clifton.
In this event, many ranchers no doubt
will be able to secure the same serv-
ice.
The work on the new state highway,
which is being built mostly by convict
labor between Colorado Springs and
Canon City, is progressing rapidly and
it is expected that the road will be
opened to travel by the middle of
next month.
While driving his automobile across
the railroad tracks into Fort Collins
Dow Law, a wealthy farmer of this
district, was struck by freight train
and his little daughter badly hurt Mr.
Law escaped with minor injuries. The
child will recover.
AS the result of report received
from Pathologist B. F. Kaupp OF the
Agricultural college at Fort Collins,
ON the condition of a dog sent there
from Greeley four persons will depart
for Pasteur institute. Chicago, within
forty-eight hours.
Three :. mill sites were located by
members of the Boulder Metal Mining
Association near the junction OF Four
Mile creek with Boulder creek, which
is to be the site of a 50-ton unit cy-
anide reduction mill. Work on the mill
is to be begun Immediately.
The Salvation Army Fall Congress
will meet in Denver Friday, October
1A-1S This congress is in the inter-
ests of the work in Colorado, Utah,
Idaho. Wyoming, Montana, Arizona
and New Mexico. Commissioner Thorn
as Estiol of Chicago will preside. He
is territorial commander for the west
ern department.
Fred Crane of Windsor holds the
record, so far as known, for the high
est test of sugar per cent in his beet
crop ever known here, it averaging
1876 per cent. He has twenty acres
in beets, which will harvest twenty
tons to the acre, and as Mr.. Crane
will receive s6.25 ton for his crop
Ii will bring him S2,5OO.