The Holly chieftain., 1910-01-21
COLORADO NEWS

ihS bouiutI I. NJ I. A. Is raising
$1,000, which will be used in purchas-
ing two bowling alleys for the associa-
ton.
The tax roll of Routt county for
1903 shows an assessed valuation of
si.O26,iSO, an increase over the pre-
ceding year of half a million
The Colorado & Wyoming Lumber
Dealers Association will hold its an
nual meeting in Denver January 25, &c
and 27 at the Albany hotel.
The Union Pacific has begun in
junction proceedings in the United
States Court at Denver to enforce its
claim to a 400-foot right of way
through the city of Greeley.
Governor Shafroth has declined to
include good road legislation in his
call for the special session of the Leg
islature. In reply to committee
which called on him he said that he
favors the legislation, but he hopes to
have the special session disposed of
as quickly as possible and he wants to
minimize the number of bills Is be con
sidered
Owing to strike of the pressmen,
Denver was without its big daily news
papers for day and half Friday
and Saturday, the 14th and 18th The
two evening papers, the Post and
Times, missed both days and neither
the News nor Republican were print
ed Saturday morning. The strike was
adjusted in time to get out the usual
Sunday papers.
One of three large timber wolves.
which came within fifteen feet of Ros-
coe cottage, near the Victor mine on
Bull hill, in the Cripple Creek district,
was killed few days since by Frank
Roscoe, president of the Roscoe Leas-
ing Company. The animal measured
five and three-quarters feet from tip
to tip. and weighed seventy-two and
half pounds.
The people of Delta already have be-
gun to perfect an organization to take
charge of exhibits for the apple show
at Denver next year. The new organ
ization which is being formed will be
entirely independent of all existing as
getting exhibits and stimulating the
erowers to save their best fruit for
this purpose.
The Grand Junction & Grand Valley
Railway Company, which is building
| the interurban line from Grand juno
ton to Fruita, and which owns the
/ Grand Junction electric light Plant
| ;,l,,
| Frulta. Farmers are endeavoring to
| induce the company to furnish current
/ for domestic use, as the district be
tween the two towns is thickly set
| tied.
Professor w. J. Morrill,, Of the for
| estry department of Colorado College,
has made public a letter from Clifford
| Pinchot, warmly commenting the
work done by it. Mr.. Pnchot says:
81 firmly believe the work about to be
started is going to be tremendously
| beneficial to the cause of forestry to
the forest service and particularly to
those members of the forest service
who will attend the course
THAT the Denver postoffice does
million dollar business year is the
cause for the recent raise in box rent"
| is the statement of Postmaster SOurs
at the state capital. Many of the ap-
| plico.nts for boxes have been surprised
to find that the box rent increased
January 1st. Denver has now one of
the leading postoffices in the country
| The gross receipts for 1909 were over
a million dollars.
In estimating the attendance at the
| Denver Cattle and Horse show, Col
| w. e. Skinner stated that the suspen-
sion of the publication of the newspa-
| pers Friday afternoon and Saturday
morning caused a loss of over 81 600
to the management. His figures for
the week, by days, are: Sunday, 5000;
Monday, $1,000; Tuesday, cl,OOO; We'd
nesday, 10000; Thursday, $4,000; Fri
day, $4,000; Saturday, 11,0OG Total,
10000. Last year the attendance was
about 10000.
| A box of prize apples has been
shipped from Denver to President Taft
at Washington by L. A. Swenson, of
the Antlers' Orchard Development
Company The apples took the first
rize at the apple show. They were
| sold at auction to Mr.. Swenson, who
| bid $3.50, which is believed to be the
highest price on record paid for a box
| of apples. The fruit was raised on
the farm of Z. A. Fleming at Silt,
Colo. and is of the Winter Banana