Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-03-04


address at Leland Stanford. Jr.. uniyer-
sity.
The First National Bank of Mancos.
Colo, has been authorized to begin
business with $4,000 capital. Oscar
$. CrcnShaw is president and Gilbert
+. Cline. cashier.
The double track between Pueblo
and Walsenburg. which the Rio
Grande and Santa Fe lines will unite
in building. will neccssitate the eN-
penditure Of s5.OO0.000.
With market prices of mutton at the
highest notch since the Civil war.
farmers of northern Colorado who are
feeding sheep will reap good profits
on mutton to go to market soon.
James F.. Burns expects to advertise
for bids for his 100000 theater at
Colorado Springs within the next thir-
ty days. Contracts for the building
will be let about April LIST. according
to present plans.
Vice President A. d. Parker. OF the
Colorado Il Southern railroad has de-
MED rumor that the company would
Morrison. which 1t began to broad
gauge last fall.
For using profane language in the
presence of his little son, Colorado
Springs man was sentenced to six
months in the county Jail. However.
the sentence was suspended during
good behavior.
m s-t,
Speaker Moasly, negroes, were re-
covered from the PrirlerO mines few
days ago. The bodies OF sixty-eight
of the scventy-siX miners killed jan
uary 3lst have been recovered.
At a meeting of the Rifle Chamber
OF Commerce. Fred Munro. Joe LuXcn
and W. II. Haley. cashier of the First
mittre to prepare for the building OF
a large auditorium on the site recently
purchased by the city for park.
The Denver board of park commits
sioners has raised the wages of its en-
ployes. All day laborers who have pre-
viously received 81. will now get $2.2o.
Those receiving salaries Of $50 a
month will receive $40. and those re-
ceiving $G5 will get S75. No employe
receiving over $50 month received
an increase in salary.
Maps have been filed at Aspen for
the reservoir site OF the Colorado
Power Company, on the Roaring Fork.
by Harry House of Pueblo. II will be
$50 feet wide. 100 feet long. will back
up the water for threc.quarters of n
mile. and contain 3i.OOO.000 cubic feet
OF water. which will be used for power
and irrigating. The total cost will be
$50 900.
The Holly Sugar Company has Sc
cured 1900 acres of choice sugar beet
land. four miles from Holly. and
houses are being erected. Steam plows
are at work and a large gasolin" en-
ginc has been ordered. l.. I. Crooks.
formerly an expert with the Great
Western Sugar Company. will be su-
perintcndent and will plant the tract
to sugar beets.
The budget proposed by Vice Prcsi-
dent A. d. Parker OF the Colorado a
Southern to the directors Of that road
at the annual meeting at New York.
calling for the expenditure OF $1,000. 900
for new equipment and about $4,000
900 for improvements to track and
equipment now in use. was approved
by the board. and the money will be
utilized in the perfection OF tho sys-
TEN in Colorado.
One of the oldest and most promi-
ncnt Boulder pioneers, Sylvanus Budd.
died at his home in Boulder. February
I'D. aged seventy-five. He came TO
Colorado in the early SOS. locating a
quarter section OF government land on
Left Hand creek. in the mountains.
In the fall of 1862 he enlisted in com
pany b. Third Colorado volunteers.
and served throughout the war. He
served a term in the legislature from
boulder county.
The larger part OF the estate of the
late George ". Clayton has been
turned over to the city OF Denver by
former Judge Moses Hallett, executor.
The estate Is valued at over a million
dollars and the city officials received
sGss.0OO in bonds. $4,000 in notes s'.-
cured by first mortgage. together
with deeds to much valuable real cs-
tate. The estate Is 10 be held in trust
bv the city for the uses of the Clayton
college for orphan white children.
according to condensed abstract
or the reports OF 103 state banks.
thirty-scven private banks, fifteen
trust companies and nine savings
banks in Colorado. compiled by State
Bank Commissioner Emil W. Pfeiffer,
there was an increase ofsS.5il .95l in
resources at the close OF business Jan.
81. 1910. over what was held by 40
banks in the state Feb. 5. 1909. There
were twenty-four new banks estab'
lishcd between those two dates. and
tn" general resources increased TWEEN