The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1910-12-01
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

The tax levy for Pueblo for next
year will be twenty mills.
Greeley is to have the first osteo.
pathic sanitarium in Colorado.
The total deposits in the four
Greeley banks is close to 100000.
An Olathe firm shipped five car
loads of potatoes to Boulder recently.
The Elks of Canon City have de-
cided to erect $4,000 club building.
A number of horses have been miss
ing from farms near Pueblo Of late.
The Boston Americans probably will
play a game in Grand Junction in
March.
City tax levy for next year in Pu-
eblo is &c mills Tor every dollar of as.
sessed value.
Ed Smith of Masonville had the
misfortune TO be badly injured by a
vicious hog recently.
George H. Lille, expert equestrian
and Denver's first ridingmaster, died
in that city recently.
Plans are being formulated by which
Greeley may have monthly market
day for the benefit Of farmers.
Eastern Weld county promises to
be the scene Of extensive irrigation
activity the coming spring.
The dates for the annual exhibition
of the Pueblo Poultry Association
have been set for December 10 to "a.
In Teller county the initiative and
referendum carried by 1900 and the
refunding amendment lost by nine
votes.
Home architects have been awarded
the contract for plans for the 100000
Masonic temple to be erected at
Montrose
An automobile driven by l.. l.. Gray
Of Pueblo was wrecked near Palmer
Lake and three of the four occupants
were injured.
Sixty days in Jail was the punish
ment Of Martin NJ. Brown and wife,
Of Manzanola, for abandoning their
baby in Pueblo, recently.
As a result of inhaling steam and
being scalded by the explosion of an
engine, Edward Smith, stationary
engineer of Greeley is dead.
The continued refusal of the census
bureau at Washington to give out
population returns on the Western
Slope is causing much anxiety. 2
The third annual conference of TIE
Boys department Of the Y. NJ. C. A.,
for the state of Colorado, opened in
Colorado Springs this week.
An investigation of the coal mines
of southern Colorado has been de-
termined upon by the commission ap.
pointed by Governor Shafroth.
The city of Longmont will soon
have natural gas, from an almost in
exhaustible supply opened by the
Boulder & Greeley OIL Company.
All of northern Colorado and prac-
tically the entire Arkansas valley is
joining in the movement toward eX-
terminating the grasshopper pest.
Testimony before the coroners jury
in Trinidad. investigating the Stark
vile mine disaster was that gas en-
listed in the mine in small pockets.
The Mesa county irrigation district
has ordered an immense new centri-
fugal pump. to be used In supplying
water to the 5000 acres In that dis.
trict.
One of the most remarkable de-
posits of fossils. among the many in
that county, has been uncovered on
the Coffin farm in western Weld
county. 'r-
Returns from all but nine counties
in the state show that the constitution.
al amendment for the initiative and
referendum carried by a vote of more
than three to one.
The board Of county commissioners
fixed the tax levy for the year 1910
on Fremont county property Of i4E
mills. The assessed valuation Is In
excess Of $G.sO0.OOO.
The right Of wa practically has
been secured for the interurban from
Grand Junction to Clifton. The right
Of way has been donated by the ranch.
ers along the proposed route.
This has been great pumpkin
year in Colorado and number Of
factories are now chopping up and
canning the best crop Of the golden
fruit ever taken off in this state.
John Milne OF Grand Junction,
closed a deal, which has been under
negotiation for some time, by which
he sod his Orchard Mesa ranch Of
twenty acres TO II. o. ,Hoskins of Ne.
braska for 100000 cash.
Work on Greeley's municipal skat-
.jng pond is'.iinder way and the cen.
ter Of the racetrack at Island Grove
Park, city. property, is the. site fc- the
big rink. The expense is being met
by. public, spirited citizens.
Colorado will this year receive $50,
a0G.t9 asFits proportion Of the fees