The Springfield herald., 1910-02-18
COLORADO ITEMS


The Farmers and Merchants State
Bank of Fort Lupton has been incor-
porated with capital of $4,000.
Contracts amounting to $4,000 have
been made for free band concerts IN
the City Park at Denver next sum-
mer.
The production Of the new oil well
of the Fidelity Company in the Boui-
der district may exceed 100 barrels
day, according to present indications.
A carload of hogs was sold on the
Denver market on the 18th inst. for
1915 per hundred. which is the record
price up to that date.
DR.. Hubert Work of Pueblo has been
elected chairman of the Colorado Re
publican State Central committee.
Mrs. Thalia Rhoads will be continued
as vice chairman.
Company A, Second Infantry. Ma
tional Guard of Colorado. has been
mustered in at Colorado Springs with
membership of seventy-eight. Dr.
Paul M. Lennox was elected captain.
About 1000 carloads of potatoes left
the Greeley district during January.
and with a steady market and fair
prices. as many should go out this
month but for the shortage of cars.
The Automobile show Of the Den
yer Motor Club will be held in tha
Denver Auditorium February 23d t.
26th. Special rates to the show have
been granted by the Colorado rail.
roads.
Aged and infirm, unable to get out,
sixty residents of the Denver Old
Ladies' Home enjoyed immensely the
concert given by Bellstedt's band and
other musical artists at the Audito-
rum Sunday. Though three miles
away, the aged women sat In easy
chairs. heard and enjoyed the num-
bers as though the musicians had
been in an adjoining room.
The receipts of the Denver postof-
flee last month were $1O0,3sS, as
against $s0.145 for January. 1903. an
increase of twenty-five per cent. This
percentage of increase was exceeded
at but three offices in the country.
and at but one In the West. Portland.
Ore. The increase at Kansas City was
thirteen per cent, Omaha eleven per
cent, and Salt Lake ten per cent.
Senator Guggenheim has re-intro-
duced his bill providing for an appro-
priation for establishing courses In
forestry in state agricultural colleges.
changing 1t from the original bill 30
as to include In the benefits of the
proposed law such institutions as may
have maintained course in forestry
lor year prior to its passage. The
bill proposes an appropriation of $500
to each institution.
The 100000 necessary to be raised
at Lamar for the Denver G. Gulf rail-
way has been deposited in Lamar
bank. 1t will be turned over to the
directors of the railroad upon its COM
pletion, which is to be not later than
July 1, 1911. The railroad also gets
twenty acres of land for roundhouses
and yards. and residents furnished the
right of way for fifty-one miles south.
The line will run to Texhoma. Texas.
The second state indoor rifle match
of the national guard of Colorado has
Just been finished. The first prize
was won by troop A of Walsenburg,
the second by troop D Of Boulder and
the third by company M of Golden.
The contesting teams did the shooting
in their own quarters and the results
were sent to the executive committee
in Denver, who made the decisions and
will award the prizes.
DR.. C. A. Hanson. representative OF
the Colorado sanitarium at Boulder
and the Advent churches and organiza-
tions of Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska.
Kansas and Missouri, assured the
Boulder Commercial Association that
it is the purpose of the church organi-
zation of the five states to greatly en-
large the Boulder sanitarium and to
make 1t equal to the Battle Creek insti-
tuition. 1t is already crowded to its
capacity and the output of the health
food factory has reached Its limit.
The Colorado Springs City Fedora
tion of Colored Women's Clubs has
addressed a petition to Manager Nye
OF the Colorado Springs opera house,
asking him to cancel the engagement
of THE Clansman." booked to give
two performances February 26th. The
petition cites recent riots and blood
shed in Southern towns as a direct
result. it says. of the production Of
1.-THE Clansman," and says the play
"engenders race prejudice and hatred"
Superintendent Taylor of the Central
Colorado Power Company is installing
the big generators at the power house
in Middle Boulder canon. The initial
installation will be 10000 kilowats,
the water coming to the wheels with a
head of 1850 feet from coming through
concrete pipes over twelve miles from
the Nederland reservoir to the Kosler
forebay, from which it is conducted in
q steel pipe to the power house where,
at the lower end. the pipe withstands
pressure of over 800 pounds tc the
square inch.
The Colorado & Southern Railroad
has announced that bridge builders EN-.
ployed by the road will receive an in
crease of ten per cent in wages, eff.
fective at once, the agreement having
been reached by committees represent
ing both sides. About 200 men are af-