The Glenwood post., 1910-07-30
LITTLE
COLORADO
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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.
Ernest Uskivich was killed by a rock
fall in the mine at Ludlow.
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.
A new irrigation project proposes to
water 10000 acres north of Grover.
September 14th will be Northern
Colorado Day" at the Denver Interstate
Fair
Eaton has over 100000 worth of new
| rsidences built and building this
year.
Jose Veletes, Mexican of Salida,
was given sixty days for stabbing
| 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
| 1886.
Ouray county officials will ask the
state to appropriate $2.5OO 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
tion of Labor will be held at Grand
junction beginning August sth. About
200 delegates will attend.
The electric light franchise recently
granted to A. V. Walther by the town
of Ridgway has been extended and TAX
en- over by new company.
Farmers around Ridgway expect to
gather about 100000 bushels of wheat
from their $500 acres this year. There
Is mill at Ridgway, too.
At the meeting of the directors of
the Great Western Sugar Company in
Denver dividends to the amount OF
The new hotel to be built at Fowler
will be three stories in height and
equipped with elevator. electric lights.
baths, and other modern convent.
ences.
Robert Harris, the first settler at
Windsor. who went there to trap
thirty years ago. will go to Wisconsin
80 years old.
Carl Stark of Grand Junction has
filed an affidavit at Grand Junction
that nine-tenths of an acre Of iona.
tina naples last year netted him a
profit of $f;3s2.O6.
Mrs. Rhoda Lutes, the oldest lady OF
the western slope, died at Grand juno
ton as the result Of fall which she
sustained several days ago. She was
q little over 90 pears old.
The federal Bureau of Mines, re-
Gently instituted. has decided upon
Trinidad as one of the first points
at which a mine rescue station will
be established.
E. L. Estep of East Holbrook mar.
keted 1888 bushels of wheat at La
Junta, which he threshed from forty
five acres, an average yield Of thirty
four bushels to the acre.
w. c. Longenbaush of Arrlola had g
team of horses disappear about a
month ago, and their fate was only re
vealed few days since when they
were found in an old unused cellar on
a neighboring place where they had
evidently taken refuge from flies and
the door had closed, preventing theil
escape.
M. F. Reagan of Rocky Ford has ap
piled for a patent on valveless pump
which is designed to raise water fol
irrigation purposes. 1t Is described as
Just two twisted pipes revolving cen
trifugally in a cistern." The demon
stration model is delivering an acre
foot per minute. lifting the water 1871
feet. A small gasoline engine Is the
motive power.
The new 100000 factory of the stiv
ers' Automatic Cover Company at Sa
Ida has been completed. Mr.. Stivers
is the patentee of a cover for billiard
tables which is removed with a coin
the same operation connecting the
electric lights over the table and
starting an electric fan. Unless an
other coin is deposited at given
time the cover rolls back over the ia
BILE.
The Pueblo Commercial Club has