The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-08-11
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Cortez papers say there is good
opening for dentist there.
The Ouray creamery churned 5000
POUNDS of butter in July.
The Union Pacific IL building a
roundhouse at BriEgdale.
The first directory OF Alamosa and
Conejos county il being compiled.
The Montexuma county fair will be
held at Cortez October 5th to 7th.
Canon City is also in the race for
the location Of the Odd Fellows home.
The Clear Creek Miner is q new pa
rer started at Idaho Springs by r. ID.
Blair.
The Denver & Rio Grande will build
q depot and establish a station at Con-
crete.
Fruit shipments from Palisade up to
August 1st amounted to sixty-three
carloads.
George Gross. near Fort Collins. re-
ports wheat yield of fifty-seven bush
els per acre.
E. F. Monroe will SOW 200 acres OF
winter wheat on his dry farm at
Keenesburg.
The thirteenth annual road race be-
tween Basalt and Glenwood Will be
held August 14th.
A postoffice has been established at
Mesita and the railroad is expected to
reach there in a few days.
l.. v. Carter OF Greeley found beet
In his field having a root forty-seven
inches long. This beets the record.
An electric road proposition to con-
meet Montrose. Delta. Olathe and other
towns is incubating at Montrose.
Former Illinois residents of northern
Colorado viii hold their sixteenth an
nual picnic At Berthoud on the 18th.
A factory has been established at
Windsor for the manufacture OF beet
toppers and dry land farming imple-
ments.
Frank Madden OF Greeley the other
day received SIS which he had loaned
to a friend thirty-six years ago in St
Louis.
Mesa county bankers are preparing
to entertain the State Bankers conven-
ton at Grand Junction. September 27th
to 2sth.
The 100 acres Of beans around Gree
ley which were planted for canning
purposes are yielding three to five
tons per acre.
The town u Moffat. In the San Luis
valley. has two newspapers-the Times
and the News-while u few weeks ago
1t had none.
George NJ. Cassidy OF the University
OF Vermont. will be athletic director
OF the Colorado Agricultural College
for the coming year.
J. o. V. Wise. a farmer near Long.
mont. caught 1875 bushels OF grasshop-
pars In three days. mot one at
time. however.)
l.ns branch OF the Union Pacific. To-
known as Koenig.
II weather conditions continue favor
able the Wyatt ranch OF $500 acres,
three miles east of Ault. will harvest
a crop. valued at 100000.
G. o. Reshaw of California mesa,
near Olathe. harvested three cars OF
spuds from six acres OF ground. for
which he received $794 net.
In District Court at Greeley the
Union Pacific filed a condemnation
suit to secure land for extension OF its
lines from Dacono to Fort Collins. thir-
ty miles.
An item showing the prosperity of
Crested Butte is the fact that over
three blocks of cement walks have
been laid lately. with incident cross
ings.
While playing with an old gun which
was out Of repair. Calimills Roundo,
aged eight, was shot and killed by his
playmate. Angelo Gagliardi. aged seven,
at Engleville.
With hook and line and an angle
worm for bait. r. c. Snider of Plstte.
Vile caught German brook trout in
the st. Vrain river that measured 26h
inches in length.
Alamosa Is having great deal of
city improvement done, including the
grading and filling of streets and the
laying of many blocks of cement
walks.
A movement is ON foot at Gunnison
to buy land and equip a fair ground
and several thousand dollars in sub
scriptions rewarded the first efforts
OF the boosters.
John Steele, carpenter fifty-eight
years of age. dropped dead at Lafay-
ette Wednesday while walking to din
ner from work. He had just arrived
there from Denver the day before.
Miss Mabel Skinner OF Fruita. last
years Colorado apple queen. is to be
presented with a jeweled crown from
Paris by Werner Y. Reed of Colorado