The state herald., 1910-07-29
LITTLE
COLORADO
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| Thomas "A. NILS, aged 81, died at
Fruita.
Las Animas is to have its third
bank.
Five miles of the big canal at Cedar
nave been completed.
A central chmarity organization is
being formed at Salida.
T. w. Robson OF Hartman got 473
bushels of wheat from six acres.
September 23rd is the date set for
the annual harvest carnival at Ault.
The annual reunion of the pioneers
at Cope will be held August 18th and
18th.
September 14th will be Northern
Colorado Day" at the Denver Interstate
Fair.
Montrose Masons have incorporated
with capital of $4,000 to build a
temple.
The water in the Cache la Poudre is
reported to be the lowest 1t has been
in ten years.
Jose veletes. Mexican of Salda,
| wa" s''Vh SiAty uays ioi otoooihS
Harry Rose.
The Ouray Pioneer Association will
hold its annual gathering at Hollis
grove near Ridgway September 5th.
Timothy O'Connor. resident of the
Grand valley for twenty-five years.
died at Grand Junction at the age of 10.
Edwin w. Baxter, resident OF
southern Colorado for forty years.
died at Pueblo at the age of sixty-two.
The contract for the section of the
new Santa Fe trail between Rocky
Ford and Fowler has been let at
$s.SS5.
The Colorado Telephone Company
is spending $4,000 for improvements
in the Arkansas valley. $4,000 of 1t
in La Junta.
Ouray county officials will ask the
state to appropriate $4,000 to build
concrete approaches to the state bridge
at Ridgway.
The work of grading for the Den.
yer. Laramie & Northwestern be.
tween Greeley and Severance will
start In few days.
Delirious from typhoid fever. Otis
kretzer. an employe of the Pueblo
county poor farm, cut his throat with
a razor, death resulting.
The state convention of the Fedora.
ton OF Labor will be held at Grand
Junction beginning August sth. About
200 delegates will attend.
Farmers around Ridgway expect to
gather about 100000 bushels OF wheat
from their $500 acres this year. There
Is mill at Ridgway. too.
The electric light franchise recently
granted to A. V. Walther by the town
OF Ridgway has been extended and tax.
en- over by n new company.
The Pueblo Commercial Club has
started movement for the decora.
tive lighting OF Union avenue from
the union depot to the court house.
The Montezuma County Pioneers
Association will meet ut Mancos Sep
temper Ind. Those who went TO the
san Juan country prior to 1855 are eli
gible to membership.
The new hotel to be built at Fowler
will be three stories in height ana
equipped with elevator. electric lights,
baths. and other modern convent
ences.
Mrs. Rhoda Lutes. the oldest lady OF
the western slope. died at Grand June
ton AS the result OF fall which she
sustained several days ago. She was
little over 95 pears old.
The federal Bureau of Mines. re.
Gently Instituted. has decided upon
Trinidad ms one of the first points
nj which mine rescue station will
be established.
Harold Stevens OF Grand Junction
win receive an automobile MS the re
suit OF his hustllng qualities In n sub
scrip,ion contest conducted by an
eastern fruit paper
L. l.. Estep OF East Holbrook MAJ
kcted l.53S bushels Of wheat At ~
junta. which he ihrcshed from forty.
five ncrcs. nm average yield Of thirty
four bushels to the acre.
A new town viii be established ON
the Denver a. Rio Grande between New
Castle and Silt. to be called Chapman
A town company has been organized
and petition made for postoftlcc
The heavy rains last week In Clear
Creek county destroyed the homes OF
II. II. Baker, Il. II. Graham and Rob
ert Zollcr at Idaho Springs and No
damaged the Spring Greek and Chi
cago Gulch roads that the hauling Of
ore will be sediously affected for
some time,
The Delta county commissioners
have asked the state highway commits
sion for AN appropriation OF $500 TO aid
In building n first.clnsS highway be
tween Delta and Grand Junction. Their,
N by far more good.ronda work pro
posed In Colorado NJ this time than n