The Elbert County tribune., 1910-03-04
COLORADO ITEMS


Denver City Tramway Company's EN-.
pioyes paid out last year s13.s1s.s5 for
disability benefits and s2C,1s7.50 for
death benefits.
The First National Bank of Mancos.
Colo. has been authorized to begin
business with $4,000 capital Oscar
S. Crenshaw is president and Gilbert
T. 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
fer bids for his 100000 theater at
Colorado Springs within the next thir-
ty days. Contracts for the building
will be let about April LIST. according
to present plans.
The Senate bill carrying an appro-
priation OF slS5.O00 for public build
ing at Fort Collins brings the total out
lay on the proposed building and site
up to $146.000. citizens raising s11 900
to apply on purchase of a site.
The bodies of F. H. Fields and
Speaker Moasly, negroes, were re
covered from the Primero mines few
days ago. The bodies OF sixty-eight
of the seventy-six miners killed jan
uary 31st have been recovered.
The Denver board OF park commits
sioners has raised the wages of its en-
ployes. All day laborers who have pre-
yiously received 81, will now get $2.25.
Those receiving salaries of $50 a
month will receive $40. and those re-
ceiving SOS viii get SIS. No employe
receiving over $50 month received
an increase in salary.
Maps have been filed at Aspen for
the reservoir site of the Colorado
Power Company, on the Roaring Fork.
by Harry House of Pueblo. 1t will be
$50 feet wide, 100 feet long. will back
up the water for three-quarters of a
mile, and contain 34.O00.00O cubic feet
of water. which will be used for power
and irrigating. The total cost will be
$25O.OOO.
The old directors of the Pueblo Y. NJ.
c. A. have resigned and new board
proposed by the committee of thirty
which raised the building fund of $780,
900 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 Holly Sugar Company has Sc
cured 1000 acres of choice sugar beet
land. four miles from Holly, and
houses are being erected. Steam plows
are at work and large gasoline en-.
gine has been ordered. E. L. Crooks,
formerly an expert with the Great
Western Sugar Company, will be SUI
perintendent and will plant the tract
to sugar beets.
dent A. d. Parker of the Colorado &
Southern to the directors of that road
at the annual meeting at New York.
calling for the expenditure of $2,000,000
for new equipment and about $3.000,.
900 for improvements to track and
equipment now in use, was approved
by the board, and the money will be
utilized in the perfection of the sys-
tenn in Colorado.
One of the Oldest and most promi-
nent Boulder pioneers, Sylvanus Budd,
died at his home in Boulder, February
23d, aged seventy-five. He came to
Colorado in the early SOS, locating a
quarter section Of government land on
Left Hand creek, in the mountains
In the fall of 1862 he enlisted in com.
pany B, Third Colorado volunteers
and served throughout the war. He
served term in the legislature from
Boulder county.
According to a condensed abstract
of the reports of 103 state banks
thirty-seven private banks, fifteen
trust companies and nine savings
banks in Colorado, compiled by State
Bank Commissioner Emil w. Pfeiffer
there was an increase of$S,541 ,951 in
resources at the close of business Jan
81, 1910, over what was beld by 14(
banks in the state Feb. 5. 1909. There
were twenty-four new banks estab
lished between those two dates. ant
the general resources increased twen
ty-five per cent.
The 700-ton daily capacity copper
matte smelter of the North American
Smelter & Mines Company at Colder
is being thoroughly overhauled prepar
atory to blowing in, which it is hoped
to do April Il The plant is beini
equipped with belt conveyors and bel
elevators to do away with as mucl
manual labor as possible. Many appli
cations by mining operators for con