Semi-weekly herald., 1910-09-22
COLORADO NEWS.


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Colorado Springs is after the next
dry farming congress.
Salida Elks laid the corner stone of
their new 100000 building last week.
Former Governor c. s. Thomas says
that third party ticket will be nomi-
mated in Denver county.
Rocky Ford captured more ribbons
at the Interstate fair in Denver than
any other town in Colorado.
Mr.. Lew Ross of Montrose has al
ready sold SOC boxes OF choice toma-
toes from one-fourth OF an acre and
says he viii sell more.
In hurry to reach his place of EN-
ployment on time, John j Masterson
OF Denver was crushed by trailer on
an inbound Leyden car Friday morn.
ing and died before medical attention
reached him.
Richard A. Ballinger. secretary OF
the interior, will arrive in Denver from
Spokane tomorrow evening and viii
| b1 llI quest VI tHt vi tODi-
merce at luncheon at the Albany ho.
tel Wednesday,
On ounce and a quarter mimic bah
which had been embedded in the left
leg of Major Waugh of Boulder Cres.
| cent, for just As years and months,
since the battle of New Market. Va,
on May Is, 1864, was removed last
| week.
| Farmers of northern Colorado ave
planning to hold a grasahopper con
vention in Greeley this fall to suggest
remedy for the wholesale destruc-
| tion of these insects which have de
stroyed so much of the young alfalfa
there is going to be almost a famine
OF that crop in that section.
A special from Grand junction 20
| the Denver Times says that j. II.
| Empson, the eastern slope canning
factory magnate, has been quietly in.
yestigating the possibilities of the in
dustry on the western slope and viii
probably decide to establish a series
of factories in the Grand valley, such
as he now has In northern Colorado
The board of army engineers who
were authorized by the last session OF
, congress 10 inspect all the irrigation
projects which are under way and
which will come under the scope OF the
| S2O. 600. 900 bill passed by congress viii
arr i've in Grand junction Sept 20 and
| VIII be accompanied by r. B. New
ell director of the reclamation service.
If the half hundred teachers whJ
have taken up homesteads in eastern
Weld county should find pioneer life
lonesome for the want OF mere man,
they may have their pick of numerous
offers, judging from letters which are
pouring in from all over the United
superintendent and the real estate men
asking for wives.
The Denver News says: THAT the
Idaho mine in the La Plata mountains
ten miles west Of Durango, near Hes
perus. has for ninety days past been
shipping six and seven cars of ore
week, which averaged $1,000 per car,
including two cars which were settled
for by the smelter for $4,000 and $685.
| 500, respectively, is the information
which has reached Denver through prl
late sources"
Denver parties have secured nine
| ty-nine-year lease. with option to pur-
chase the hot springs there, and con
template organization OF the Idaho
Springs Resort & Sanltarlum company,
with capitalization of 81 900 900. one
half to be Z per cent preferred stock,
which will be sold for construction OF
a 200-room hotel. sanitariurh. new
| plunge bath, cottages, amusement
parks and ground decoration.
What is believed TO be the grave OF
the famous scout and Indian hunter,
Lupton, after whom the government
fort and the town of Fort Lupton were
named. has been discovered on the
ranch of John Wallace on the Platte
river near the townsite OF Fort Lnp
ton. The grave may be opened In
hope of securing proof that II is the
burial place of the famous Lupton.
and If so the town will erect a monu
inent over it,
J. w. Dean. general superintendent
OF the Denver & Rio Grande railroad,
with headquarters at Pueblo, has re-
signed. no cause for his quitting the
service of the road, which with he
had been associated for nearly one
year. being assigned. Before that
time he was with the Missouri PsciHt