The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-03-05
STATE NEWS ITEMS

AZ ." al 10 oS PoStHiastSi.
Work on the Union Pacific line be
tween Dent and Fort Collins has been
commenced. Two camps have been es-
tablished ard sum-contracts let.
Gov. John F. Shafroth has received
word that his son. Morrison Shafroth.
has been elected class orator for the
senior class OF the University OF Mich
igan.
The Mutual Aid Association OF the
Denver City Tramway Companys en-
ployes paid out last year s13.Sls.S5 for
disability benefits and s2G,l 50 for
death benefits.
The First National Bank OF Mancos.
Colo. has been authorized to begin
business with $4,000 capital Oscar
$. Crenshaw is president and Gilbert
II. Cline. cashier.
The second annual report of the Col
orado Springs park commission out
lines plans for establishing play
grounds for children and an increase
in number of good roads.
With market prices OF mutton at the
highest notch since the Civil war.
farmers OF northern Colorado who are
feeding sheep will reap good profits
on mutton to go to market soon.
James F. Burns expects to advertise
for bids for his 100000 theater at
Colorado Springs within the next thir.
~ days. Contracts for the building
will be let about April 1st, according
to present plans.
A large force is at work at Trinidad
clearing the 1.5Oo acres that will be
used by the Du Pont Powder Company
as the site OF large powder plant,
which will give employment TO zoo
men. II will be rushed.
The Senate bin carrying an appro-
priation Of sl35000 for a public build
Ing at Fort Collins brings the total out
lay on the proposed building and site
up to $4,000. citizens raising $1,000
to apply on purchase OF site
The Denver board OF park commits
sioners has raised the wages of its EN-
ployes. All day laborers who have pre-
viously received 81, will now get s2.25.
Those receiving salaries of $50
month will receive $40. and those re
ceiving sG5 will get SIS. No employe
l'ttINiHb pNtl eop q lloiIh ltlFi'ti
an increase in salary.
The old directors of the Pueblo Y NJ
&. A. have resigned and new board
proposed by the committee of thirty
which raised the building fund of sl10.
600 has been elected Public notice
Will be gwen for the tender OF sites
before March 10. after which the or
ganization will be ready for the board
of arbitration to select the site for the
new building.
The Central Colorado Power Compa-
ny has commenced to extend its trans
mission line from the Nederland dam
through the Rogers patent, where var
ious mining properties will be operated
TO the Wolf Tongue properties, thence
to the big Primos mill and from there
to the Boulder county mill at Cardinal.
1t is said that further extension to
Caribou will be made this summer.
The budget proposed by Vice Presi-
dent A. d. Parker of the Colorado &
Southern to II directors Of that road
At the annua4Iseeting at New York.
calling for the expenditure OF $4,000, 900
for new equipment and about $1,000
600 for improvements to track and
equipment now in use. was approved
by the board. and the money Will be
utilized in the perfection of the sys-
tenn in Colorado.
The matter OF unifying the entire
system OF bitches in the Uncompahgre
valley has been solved. temporarily, at
least, at a meeting of the Uncompah-
Nall Cato Of
Olathe. when the proposition made by
Engineer Walters for the government
was accepted. Every ditch company
will make a proposition for the sale
OF its ditch to the government, and If,
after careful investigation, govern
ment engineers find that the bitches
cannot be paralleled for the same
amount of money. the ditch will be
bought. If it is thought that construc-
ton of a ditch would not be so expen-
sive, one will be built. 1t is thought
this solution will work out to the sat
isfaction of all concerned. and it is by
far the best proposition the govern
ment has made during the controversy.
The 700-ton daily capacity copper
matte smelter of the North American
Smelter q Mines Company at Golden
is being thoroughly overhauled prepar-
atory to blowing in. which it is hoped
to do April l. The plant is being
equipped with belt conveyors and belt
elevators to do away with as much
manual labor as possible. Many applf-
cations by mining operators for con-
tracts are being received by the
North American company, and large
custom business is likely to be done as
its plant in large measure will take the
place of the recently closed Argo
smelter.