The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-01-26
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
state Worth Telling.

A Montrose ranchman cut seven
ions of alfalfa per acre In four cut
tings.
water works by boring 500-foot arte-
sian well.
After a fight of nearly two years
rural free delivery has been secured
for Arvada.
A movement is on foot to establish
commission form OF government In
Fort Collins.
Eighteen Saiida representatives at
tended the recent Good Roads conven-
ton in Denver.
Ten new cases Of small pox have
come to the attention OF the Boulder
city health officer.
The annual convention of the Colo
RADIO Retail Merchants Association
was held in Greeley.
John Bostrom was fined $50 and
costs by Judge Hatch, at Greeley for
stabbing his brother.
over 200 dairymen of the state
gathered at the Windsor hotel in Den
yer in annual meeting.
At a meeting OF the Farmers Union
it was voted to proceed with plans to
put in store at Windsor.
The first annual exhibition of the
Western Slope Poultry Association
which was held in Delta was success.
for the past twenty-eight years a
teacher in the Denver schools. is dead.
Senator Guggenheim has been ncti-
fled that new postal service has been
established between Longmont and
Estes Park.
The Great Western Sugar Company
reports that 1000 acres of beets have
been contracted for the Greeley fac
tory.
Joe Anstead. a miner abopt so years
old. was found dead In a cabin In
Longfellow's gulch. four miles east Of
Salida.
The Colorado & Southern has sold
s1.40O.0O0 worth OF It's refunding and
extension bonds to Proctor a. Borden
OF New York.
The bunk house and other buildings
OF the big Yellow Medicine mine in
Hinsdale county. were badly damaged
by fire recently.
James A. Hill. the Denver banker.
who has been serving five-year term
in the penitentiary for fraud, has been
released on parole.
There were number of snow
lv
the Sneffles and the Red Mountain
roads. near Ouray.
All the water companies In north
ern Colorado have petitioned Governor
Shafroth to appoint Emmett c. Nc
Anelly of Fort Collins. state engineer.
A movement is on foot to organize a
Western Slope Teachers Association,
composed OF tie educators from the
seven counties OF the twelfth normal
district.
Many wholesale and retail lumbe;
dealers attended the eighth annual
convention OF the Colorado-W Wyoming
Lumber Dealers Association in Den.
yer.
The famous Dennis Sullivan ranch
in southern Weld county. comprising
1000 acres with valuable water rights,
has been purchased by the Denver,
Laramie Realty Company.
The seed OF the interior has with.
drawn from settlement for classified.
ton as to underlying coal deposits APP
rroximately 900 acres In township 2,
! orth range 1914. west. in Colorado.
without a dissenting vote. land
holders to the number OF forty-two
decided to form the Poudre valley.
Weld county irrigation district. EN-
bracins $4,000 acres to be irrigated by
flood waters.
The Director OF the Mint estimates
a gold production OF 320.40S,641 for
Colorado in 1910 against $21 1.s46.60O in
1909. and a silver output of s.747.777
fine ounces in 1910 against S.S46.30C
fine ounces in 1909.
Governor Shafroth has written to
four district judges asking each to
name some man In his district shor
oughly qualified to serve as one of the
members OF the examining board to ex
smine applicants for the position OF
| coal mine inspector.
Plans for the formation of an irriga
ton district to be known as the Fort
Collins-L Loveland district were an
nounced when the organization com
mittee served notice 1t was petition
ing the soard of county commission
ers to call special election to vote or
bond Issue.
The Colorado Sportsmens' Assoc!a
ton is not satisfied with the payment
of fines in punishment for violation
Of the state game and fish laws. Tha
body has prepared proposed legisla
ton substituting Imprisonment as 6
punishment for those offenses in