The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-11-24
LIrrLt COLORADO lrEMs.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

State Worth Telling.
Stephen Helps of Bracewell harvest
ed 1000 sacks Of potatoes from 80
acres.
Fort Lupton has granted franchise
to the Northern Colorado Power Com
pany.
Efforts are making to form basket
ball league of Western slope teams OF
Colorado.
All OF the Colorado football elevens
are in practice for the final games Of
the season.
The will of the late Sarah Boot has
been filed for probate In Boulder. She
left $4,000.
Over $11.5OO of the $4,000 neces-
sary for an alfalfa mill in Gilcrest has
been raised.
A company has been organized In
La Junta to rebuild the opera house.
burned July 2s.
The new motor cars between Den.
yer and Greeley will be put in opera
tion about December 1st.
Two Loveland men each bagged wild
CdtS III Tue IOOtullis, Wnilt ou all eAPC-
dition intended only for rabbits.
Gilcrest is about to establish an al
falfa mill. the site having been do
mated and a guarantee fund raised.
Four women will sit In the
eighteenth general assembly Of Colo
RADIO as result OF recent elections.
An addition to the Union Printers
home heating plant at Colorado
Springs, to cost $4,000. will be started
soon.
A contract has been let by Greeley
for a new filter basin. the third in the
water system. at q cost OF about
$4,000.
The Great Western Sugar Company
distributed at Berthoud $4,000 in pay
ment OF sugar beets delivered during
October.
1t is understood that when the tax
levy Of Larimer county is made 1t will
show a reduction of about one mill or
of half mill.
Victor Peterson. . farmer In the
Fort Collins district grew beets test
ing as high as % per cent sugar and
bringing $500.
Census returns issued from Wash
ington show the population OF Pue-
bio. Colo. to be 1895. AZ compared
with 2s.l57 In 1900.
November l5 was payday at the
Golden Cycle mills and the Colorado
Midland shops in Colorado City, about
$4,000 being paid out.
NH hs.-
ing drilled near Peyton. has encoun-
tered considerable gas and strike OF
oil is expected any day.
General Albert II. Jones. one Of the
best known Of the older citizens OF
Denver. and a former United States
marshal OF Colorado is dead.
1t is reported that the Denver Res
ervoir & Irrigation Company is offer
ing contracts for completion OF the
big Milton reservoir. east of la Sale.
7 At the Fruit congress in Council
Bluffs, Ia. Colorado was awarded sec
ond prize which means a victory over
all other Western and Northern states.
The official count OF the election re-
turns shows little change from the
early returns, the few changes so far
having been in favor OF the Repub-
licans.
The Fort Collins sugar factory has
made It's first payment for beets In
that district of S3o5.00O. All beets
have been harvested. and the last have
been delivered.
Beet growers OF Eaton, Windsor and
Greeley were paid S5S0.000 by the
Great Western Sugar Company. for
beets delivered up to Nov. 1 to the
three factories.
A. NJ. Patten. commissioner for dis
trict three OF Adams county. has for
warded his resignation to Governor
Shafroth. with the request that 1t take
effect Immediately.
A deed was filed in Pueblo transfer
ring water rights in the Orlando ditch.
valued at 100000. from the Ambursen
Water Company to the Pueblo-Rockv
Ford Irrigation Company.
A hen belonging to John H. Gibson
of Kersey has laid an egg measuring
seven inches around and seven and
one-half inches long. Her eggs aver
age four by five inches.
James Dalrymple. chief deputy mine
inspector under John ID. Jones. has
been appointed temporarily to the po-
sition OF state mine inspector by Gov
ernor Shafroth to succeed Jones.
Colorado won the Guerner silver tro
ply at the National Horticultural Con-
gress at Council Bluffs. Ia. for the
best box OF commercial apples. with
box Of Rome Beauties exhibited.
At a meeting of the city council
OF Pueblo, held recently, the contract