The Colorado statesman., 1910-10-01
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

ed president of the FIT. Collins Cham
Der of Commerce.
Greeley has dug up" spuds enough
to serve 10000 visitors on Thursday
destined to fame as Potato Day No. 1.
Grading of the Denver. Laramie &
Northwestern, in the northern part OF
Larimer county, will start in few
days.
Five hundred and fifty hunting IL
censes have been issued at Steamboat
Springs and the deer are becoming
alarmed.
new Ignite mine. on Lou creek,
north of Ridgway insures Montrose
against shortage of coal. The vein Is
thirty-five feet thick.
Gingrich of Denver has stocked his
4000-acre ranch in the Chalk Bluffs
country with 100 fine cows and is COM
verting it into a high-class stock farm.
It is now estimated that the early
August frost, which was thought to
have cut down the Greeley potato crop
35 per cent, really damaged it over so
per cent.
Many municipal organizations of
Colorado were represented by their
secretaries in a meeting at Pueblo
Wednesday to form one organization
for the entire state.
Operators of the coal mines in the
northern Colorado coal fields have de-
clined to enter into negotiations with
the United Mine Workers of America
regarding the wage scale.
The right of the government land
office to sell land for a higher price
than the minimum charge fixed by
act of Congress is attacked in a suit
filed in the Federal Court at Denver.
Weld county's big fair at Greeley is
open and will continue until Saturday.
Indications are that it will surpass all
other fairs ever held there, and that
it will become an annual event for the
county.
The Commercial Association of Boul-
der has endorsed the Cove amendment
passed by the extra session OF the Leg
islature, which, if enacted, will estab-
lish the last two years Of the state med
ical course in Denver.
In the interest of sport and to in
crease the attractions of Colorado no
deer should be shot in the state for
five years, is the opinion of Thomas j.
Holland, state fish and game commits
sioner.
Contrary to expectations there prom
ises tobe many land buyers from the
East and middle West this fall and
early winter to invest in northern Col
orado lands. Already the advance
guards have arrived.
Another electric -'ailway to connect
the fruit and farming districts of Mon
trose and Delta county is projected by
the Fairview & Intermountain Rail
way company, which is Incorporated
with capital of $250,0oo.
A herd of magnificent Jersey prize
winners has been added to the FIT. Col
Inns Agricultural College dairy depart
ment. The herd is only loaned. but
i'll be of untold benefit in demon
strating to students the value OF h'gh
grade dairy stock.
Sixty members of the Denver Cham
Der of Commerce will attend the Ma
tional Irrigation congress at Pueblo, to
plead the cause of the San Luis val
lev. which is in conflict with IA New
Mexico project that proposes to di'
vert certain waters from Colorado to
the territory.
BY next week all growers in the
Greeley district will be in the field
digging the first of the potato crop,
which in the most favored localities
will go 100 sacks to the acre. There
is plenty of labor to handle the crop
and although beet digging will come
on at about the same time, neither
crop will be delayed because of lack
of help.
I,ongmont is soon to have natural
gas. 1t will be piped here from the
wells in the Boulder oil field and one
being nearer Longmont than Boulder,
will make it a comparatively easy mat
ter. The City Council ordered an in
formal election to give the people
chance to express their wishes and
there were only five dissenting votes,
which made it practically unanimous.
Mayor Speer of Denver Tuesday re-
ceived from the Japanese consul in
San Francisco a beautiful silk banner,
inscribed on which in the quaint char
acters of the language of Nippon Is
resolution of appreciation of and
thanks for hospitality and kindness ex-
tended by city and people to the Jap
anese commercial commissioners dur
ing their visit to Denver last winter.
Preliminary surveys for tie line OF
nc Uncompahgre & Gunnison Valley
Electric Railroad. which is to run
from Montrose to Delta through one
of the richest sections of this valley