The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-02-17
COLORADO NEWS

News is received that President D.
H. M0ffat has ordered twenty new To-
comotives for the Moffat road.
The Farmers and Merchants State
Bank of Fort Lupton has been incor-
porated with q capital Of $4,000.
Contracts amounting to 100000 have
been made for free band concerts in
the City Park At Denver next sum-
mer
Canon City automobilists have taken
up the movement for the Arkansas
valley automobile boulevard. and viii
Join Pueblo IN extending the road from
Pueblo to Canon City.
About 1000 carloads of potatoes left
the Greeley district during January.
prices. as many should go out this
month but for tho shortage OF cars.
Andrew Carnegie has written Rev.
c. B. Stewart. pastor of the First NJ.
f. church at Colorado Springs. that he
will give $1,000 toward the fund being
raised to buy a new pipe organ, which
will cost $500.
In the case at Denver OF the Cen
trail Business college vs.. A. w. Ruth
erford. the State Supreme Court de-
cided that the mere fact that the
guests At dancing party are negroes
does not make the affair disreputable.
In order that the new towns OF
Briggsdals and Fosston on the eastern
edge Of the Grow Creek district. may
have telephones. the top wire of
barbwire fence extending for miles In
that locality will be utilized by the
Northern Colorado Telephone Com
pany.
More railroad employees were killed
in Colorado during the first six weeks
OF the present year than In the last
six months Of 1909. Such Is the effect
OF a statement made by e. F. Kellogg.
manager of the inter-mountain divis-
ion of the Continental Casualty Com
pany at Denver.
Representative Rucker Of Colorado
has introduced . bill providing for the
extension to include the Philippine
islands trade OF the coast-wise laws
which restrict to United States vessels
the transportation OF passengers and
merchandise between ports Of the
United States.
The reclamation service reports that
the work Of enlarEing the undercut
section Of the Gunnison tunnel Uncom.
pahgre irrigation project. was ad-
vanced during January. 1.G40 feet. hav-
ing only forty-eight feet to be complet-
ed. Forty-six feet OF timbered tunnel
have been lined with concrete during
the month. and sixty feet Of shaft No.
/? has been retimbered.
Approximately 10000 cubic yards OF
material. thirty per cent Of which was
sandstone. were excavated In January
In enlarging the Montrosc and Delta
canal. Up to date nine miles of this
work has been finished. 80 that only
four miles remain to be completed. II
il expected that this work will be done
by the first Of April. The bitches are
being cleaned and repaired for spring
use.
Hundreds Of delegates from tho GEN.
trail and western parts of Kansas gath
cred at Dighton. Kas.. on the Sth inst.
at q good roads convention. which
had for its purpose the launching Of
. movement for the building of an
automobile speedway from Great Bend.
Kas., to Pueblo. Colo. Clement L.
Wilson, OF Tribune. Kas.. was elected
president, and F. H. Lobdell Of Digh-
ton. kas.. secretary.
Three carloads Of pure alfalfa seed.
enough for planting $1,000 acres. re-
Gently arrived At Greeley direct from
Hamburg. Germany. It II marked
''ninety.nine per cent pure" but the
dealers have decided to test 1t. Fifty
seeds were taken from each variety
and planted In boxes. The time Of ger
mination and other results will be
noted and reported to farmers. Alfalfa
hay IL worth $40 = ton In stack. II
formerly sold for IS.
Tho 100000 necessary to be raised
at Lamar for the Denver 4 Gulf rail-
way has been deposited in . Lamar
bank. It will be turned over to the
directors of the railroad upon its COM
pletion. which is to be not later than
July /. 1911. The railroad also gets
twenty acres Of land for roundhouses
and yards. and residents furnished the
right Of way for fifty-one miles south.
The line will run to Tsxhoma. Texas
The Colorado Springs City Fedora
ton of Colored Women's Clubs has
addressed a petition to Manager Nye
Of the Colorado Springs opera house,
asking him to cancel the engagement
Of THE Clansman." booked to give
two performances February 26th. The
petition cites recent riots and blood
shed in Southern towns as a direct
result. 1t says. Of the production Of
THE Clansman," and says the play
"engenders race prejudice and hatred"