The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-11-25
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

| otat6 WORM t'stlnQ.
Stephen Helps of Bracewell harvest
ed 1000 sacks OF potatoes from 80
acres.
Fort Lupton has granted franchise
to the Northern Colorado Power Com
pany.
Efforts are making to form basket
ball league of Western slope teams OF
Colorado.
Justice B. F. Irvine of Colorado
City is seriously i'll with congestion OF
the brain.
All of the Colorado football elevens
are In practice for the final games Of
the season.
Over $1L5OO of the $4,000 neces-
sary for an alfalfa mill in Gilcrest has
been raised.
company has been organized in
La Junta to rebuild the opera house,
burned July %.
Hiram Vreeland Wandell. prominent
business and mining man Of Colorado
Springs is dead.
Fire burned the Bracewell school
house. five miles west of Greeley and
its contents. LOSS is $4,000.
Two railroad men were killed in the
yards of the Rio Grande Junction rail-
road at Colorado Springs.
Two Loveland men each bagged wild
cats in the foothills, while on an expe-
dition intended only for rabbits.
contract has been let by Greeley
for new filter basin. the third in the
water system, at a cost OF about
$4,000.
The Great Western Sugar Company
distributed at Berthoud $4,000 In pay.
ment of sugar beets delivered during
October.
The unusual price Of $271 per acre
was realized from the sale at auction
of 81 acres III miles northwest Of
Greeley.
It is understood that when the tax
levy of Larimer county is made 1t VIII
show a reduction Of about one mill or
OF half mill.
Victor Peterson, farmer in the
Fort Collins district grew beets test
ing as high as % per cent sugar and
bringing $500.
November 15 was payday at the
Golden Cycle mills and the Colorado
Midland shops in Colorado City. about
$4,000 being paid out
The Peyton Oil Companys well. be-
ing drilled near Peyton, has encoun-
tered considerable gas and strike OF
oil is expected any day.
General Albert H. Jones, one Of the
best known of the older citizens OF
Denver, and a former United States
marshal of Colorado is dead.
Great preparations are being made
for the annual poultry show OF the
Northern Colorado Poultry Associa-
tlon in Fort Collins next month.
1t Is reported that the Denver Res
eryoir G. Irrigation Company Is offer
ing contracts for completion OF the
big Milton reservoir, east of La Sale.
At the Fruit congress in Council
Bluffs, Ia, Colorado was awarded sec
ond prize which means a victory over
all other Western and Northern states.
J The official count Of the election re-
I turns shows little change from the
early returns. the few changes 30 far
having been in favor Of the Repub-
| leans.
| Wallace brothers of Gill made the
record for hauling the heaviest load of
beets in the dump. The load weighed
1880 pounds and was hauled IL
miles with n double team.
James Dalrymple. chief deputy mine
Inspector under John d. Jones, has
been appointed temporarily to the po-
siticn of state mine inspector by Gov
elnor Shafroth to succeed Jones.
A Boulder man has discovered a
treatment for gold ores which If sue
cessful will do away with smelling
He has leased property near James
town, where he intends to give his
idea a practical test.
With the recovery of the body of
Master Mechanic James Young from
beneath q pile of debris in the main
slope of Delagua mine No. the list of
known dead has. grown to seventy
five.
Colorado railroad and land men are
flocking to Chicago, which will be the
Mecca of the agricultural interests of
the country during the United States
Land and Irrigation Exposition, Nov.
10 to Dec. 3.
have a new industry, according to art
icles of incorporation filed in the Or
ice of the secretary of state. The
,, Rifle Alfalfa Meal & Manufacturing
Company. with capitalization of $780,
i, 900, proposes to open up the alfalfa
, meal industry in that country.
| Trapped in the wire trusses and
! frame work of his Wright biplane,
, Ralph tombstone. 30 years old, Amer
ica's most daring aviator, and the
: birdman who held the worlds alti-
, tude record of 9,714 feet, made recent
ly at Belmont park. New York, fell
, like meteor to his death at Over
, land park. Denver, before the horror
, struck gaze of thousands Of specta-
tors.
Avalo precinct, ninety miles east of
of Greeley is blocking completion Of