The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-05-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

morning.
A state bank has been organized At
Crawford.
Ranch hands are reported scarce
around Parker.
Work has begun on Buena vista's
new opera house.
It ia reported that La lara will have
another newspaper.
The First National Bank OF Eaton
will double its capital.
A Greeley man Las asked for gas
franchise at Fort Morgan.
Four hundred men are employed at
the marble quarries at Marble.
Winter wheat around Wiley is said
to be looking extremely fine.
The proposed railroad from Dillon
to Argentine Is being surveyed.
Work on Fort Lupton's new water
works was commenced Tuesday.
The Garfield county grand jury re-
turned nearly hundred indictments
A welcome arch will be built across
Eighth avenue, Greeley. by private
parties.
Fifteen thousand trees and shrubs
we're received at Fountain one day
last week.
The government oil survey OF the
western slope is to be started within
few weeks.
The Monte Vista city fathers have
ordered 10000 linear feet of sidewalks
laid this year.
The capacity Of the cement plant at
Concrete will be enlarged to 1900 bar
rels ber day.
Actual work was started on the new
Denver and Gulf railroad at Lamar
last Saturday.
All machinists in the Missouri Pa
cific shops at Pueblo obeyed the order
to strike Monday.
John NJ. Wood of Colorado Springs
was killed by q runaway near Fowler.
Monday afternoon.
Canon City papers report that that
section will have the biggest fruit
crop In Its history.
Grseley's automobile census shows
metropolis to be 2s2.
A party OF surveyors working south
from Brush refuse to divulge the OBJ
ject OF their labors.
Material has arrived for the connec-
ton OF Pagosa Springs by telephone
with the outside world.
c. w. Balm and seven children have
come down with the smallpox on
Quartz creek. near Pitkin.
The contract has been let for the
new State Normal school at GunniSon
and work will begin at once.
The vote In Garfield county Monday
for a county high school was largely
in favor OF the proposition.
A "Dandelion Killers Club" has
been organized At Fort Collins with a
large charter membership.
B. s. Lee. 4 student at Colorado col
lege, Colorado Springs. killed fifty
pound porcupine near Manitou.
Greeley will have a public play
ground for the kids. and ground for
that purpose has been leased for five
years.
Chicago is the name OF new town
started out on the plains. Most OF the
settlers there are from the Illinois me-
tropoliE.
The four-year-old son OF Mrs. Bud
Lee OF Chrome was severely burned by
tumbIing backward into tub Of boil
ing water.
Storage reservoirs will be built in
the Sangre de Cristos. near Crestone.
this summer. to irrigate several thou
sand acres Of land.
Thirty-three business houses In
Louisville have signed an agreement
to close Wednesday afternoons during
May, June. July and August.
Rufus De Barneure. q resident of
Summit county for thirty years and Of
Colorado for fifty. was adjudged in
sane at Breckenridge last Wednesday.
John Turner. one of a charivari
party at Kama. lost his left hand by
the discharge of q shotgun with which
he was helping to whoop 'em up.
The body Of the man found dead on
the railroad track near Fort Lupton
Wednesday still remains unidentified.
He carried q handkerchief marked
Allie"
Prof. f. J. Iddings. professor of
seeds at C. A. c.. Fort Collins. has
resigned to become head of the school
of agriculture at the Idaho State Uni
versity.
Lippincott & Harrison will seed
/ 900 acres to alfalfa on the Baca
grant, and will establish a hog ranch.
They have provided large traction
blowing outfit to break the ground.
The Colorado Springs Park Commits
sion has issued letter to the public.
urging the citizens to vote for the Is
suing of bonds for the purchase OF
South Cheyenne canon for park pur-