Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-01-21
STATE NEWS ITEMS

mercial Association have decided to
start an advertising campaign.
The Colorado & Wyoming Lumber
Dealers Association will hold its an.
nual meeting in Denver January 25, 26
and 81 at the Albany hotel.
The seventh annual Denver Food
and Industrial Exposition will be held
in the Auditorium from March 80 to
April 12. There will be 100 food ex-
hibits and fifty Industrial exhibits.
The Union Pacific is taking active
steps to clear the right of way through
Fort Collins, preparatory to building
through the city to Tie Siding, Wyo.
Plans have been prepared for a hand
some station.
Governor Shafroth has declined to
include good road legislation in his
call for the special session of the Leg
islature. In reply to a 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 to be con-
sidered.
Parson Uzzell, OF the Denver Taber-
nacle, who has done such a remark
able work for the poor in Denver,
started on the 18th inst. upon a tour
around the world. The parson will
travel for six months. The trip is the
gift Of his congregation as a reward
for his twenty-three years services.
In addition he was presented with q
purse containing 500.
The Grand Junction & Grand Valley
Railway Company. which is building
the interurban line from Grand juno
tion to Fruita, and which owns the
Grand Junction electric light plant.
has been granted a franchise to light
Fruita. 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.
Attorney General John T. Barnett
has handed down an opinion In which
he holds that all corporations that
have made increases in their capital
stock over the original incorporation
papers filed with the secretary Of
state must take out amendments to
their articles and raise the amount Of
their interpretations. thus increasing
the Incorporation fee and the flat tax
What is termed by the instructors
Of the Colorado Agricultural college rs
the most successful short course ever
.lcld by any school In the United States
was brought to close at Fort Collins
on the Sth inst, when a public demon
stration Of Tuberculosis" was given.
A COW. affected with the disease, was
dissected. showing the effect Of the
malady upon every organ.
Professor W. J. Morrill,. of the for.
estry department OF Colorado College,
has made public q letter from Clifford
Pinchot. warmly commencing the
work done by 1t. Mr. Pinchot says:
Il firmly believe the work about to be
started IL 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 q
million dollar business a 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-
plicants 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.
At the meeting Of the Cripple Creek
Mine Owners Association It was fig
ured that S25o.Ooo worth of ore has
been stolen during the past year by
"high-graders." 1t was claimed that
not less than thirty hish-grade
fences" existed in the district. A
sharp campaign is to be waged
against them. Four convictions were
secured during the year and the men
are serving terms in the penitentiary.
A box Of prize apples has been
shipped from Denver to President Taft
at Washington BY E. A. Swenson, of
the Antlers' Orchard Development
Company. The apples took the first
prize 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 E. A. Fleming at Silt.
Colo, and Is Of the Winter Banana
brand.
The Farmers Unions Of Colorado
and five other Western states are fig
uring strongly on building q factory to
make woolen goods from Western
wool and to retail It from the chain
Of cooperative stores already estab-
lished. There are upwards OF 200 .000.-