The Elbert County tribune., 1910-01-13
COLORADO ITEMS

cost ABOUT $4u,OOO, viii be erected
The next examination for non-grad-
uate veterinary surgeons will be held
at Denver January gath. Application
for blanks can be made to the secre-
tary. room 1S. Capitol building.
The seventh annual Denver Food
and Industrial Exposition will be held
in the Auditorium from March 30 to
April ~. There will be 100 food ex-
hibits and fifty industrial exhibits.
Governor Shafroth named Mrs. Ed
ward Taylor, wife of CONGRESSMAN
Taylor, as delegate from Colorado
to the National Civic Convention il
Washington. January 1913.
The fact that few or none of the
fashionable apartment houses in Dem
yer will admit children has led to
aiovement to erect such a building ex-
clusiyeiy for families with children.
1t has been decided to build the new
Normal school building at Gunnison
with Gunnison granite, on a founda-
ton OF brick. From the water table
up 1t will be trimmed with Gunnison
white sandstone.
During the last three years there
have been 3,700 cases filed in the Dis
trict Court in Weld county, of which
1900 were civil and 1,40O criminal.
Up to two years ago 100 cases filed
year was the average, but since July
last the court docket shows record
of log new cases.
The complete abstract of assess
ment of RoifIdar county cboue taxohia
property totaling $12.995,311, a gain of
practically half million dollars over
the preceding year. The increase
comes principally from the sugar fac
tory and the new power plants. Ac-
cording to the tax rolls, S27O,07s.79 is
to be collected.
A new system of feeding lambs will
be inaugurated on the zeigler ranch in
Larimer county. Watson Zeigler, in
an address to the short course stu
dents at the Agricultural college
stated that the present method OF
separate feeding of hay and grain
would soon give way to the new meth
cd Of grinding the alfalfa and grain
together and feeding the mixture.
What is termed by the Instructors
of the Colorado Agricultural college as
the most successful short course ever
aeld by any school in the United States
was brought to close at Fort Collins
on the 8th inst, when public demon
stration of Tuberculosis. was given.
A COW, affected with the disease. was
dissected, showing the effect of the
malady upon every organ.
The Reclamation Service has ESQ
men and teams enlarging the west
canal, which will irrigate about 81, 1000
acres, and extends from seven miles
above Montrose to Delta. 1t will be
enlarged to carry $50 feet of water
per second. 1t is expected to be fin
ished in time to serve an land own.
ers on the. west side of the Uncom-
pahgre river this year. The work
will cost $65.oOo.
The Longmont Sugar Factory fin
ished it's work for the season on the
sth inst 1t is expected that large
force will be kept busy overhauling
old machinery and installing new for
the next campaign. The average daily
run this year has been about the esti-
mated capacity, being between 1900
and 1900 tons of beets every twenty
four hours for the campaign Of 102
days.
At Denver on the 5th inst the Colo
RADIO State Grange. Patrons Of Hus-
bandry, elected the following officers:
John Morris of Golden. reelected.
master; Rudolph Johnson of Niwot.
overseer; c. Sway of Edgewater.
eIector; X. s. Rhea of Littleton, stew
ard; C. F. Schooner. assistant stew
ard: Levi Booth, chaplain; G. H. Pc
terson, treasurer: A. Riddle. secretary,
reelected. Steady growth and pros
perity were shown by the reports.
The highest price ever paid for a
quarter section OF land in the Greeley
district is said to be that paid few
days since for the Sol Hopkins farm,
one and one half miles of Lucerne.
when w. H. Henderson purchased it
for $4,000. The land has been culti-
waited for twenty years and gives net
annual income of $4,000. Two years
ago Henderson paid $4,000 for the
Pier ranch. the highest price ever paid
for eighty acres in the Greeley dis
trict.
In order that he may convert his
thousands of acres of sheep range in
northern Weld county, Colorado, and
southern Wyoming, into farm land, an
ticipating that the time is near when
there will be no government land by
which he may supplement his sheep
range, Senator Warren of Wyoming
will build ten reservoirs the coming
year and use the water to raise al
falfa for forage for his flocks. Many
small creeks run through the Warren
land and their water has heretofnre