The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-02-23


Thomas Hall. a prominent ranch
man and pioneer of Castle Rock. is
dead.
With Mrs. ]. S. Harrison as post
mistress the postoffice at Cill has been
opened.
Central City and a Colorado pioneer.
is dead.
Fresh ranch eggs have dropped in
| price from As cents dozen to 25
cents.
Mrs. L. II. Newman. aged "A. a
Is dead.
The Southern Colorado Hardware 4
Implements Association will meet In
Pueblo
Wholesalers and jobbers In Grand
Junction do an annual business OF
s750.O0O.
The Ohio Society of Colorado will
hold its annual meeting in Denver
March 4th.
The annual snowfall OF the ranges
IN northern Colorado Is above the
FORMAL amount.
The county of jackson is offering
$50 each for grown wolves and $40
each for cubs.
Thirteen families from Kansas have
rented sugar beet land in the vicinity
OF Grand Junction.
OIL has been struck in n well near
Lamar. as a result OF years OF labor
and much expense.
Much interest is taken in the farm
ers' institute to be held at Fort Col.
Inns February 1925.
The Rio Grande railway has taken
over the Pitkin- Baldwin branch Of the
Colorado 4 Southern. I'D.
r. II. wisden. aged SO. of Montrose.
died from the effects OF injuries re-
oeived in a runaway.
Mrs. Rafael Espcr. a Mexican wom-
an los years old. was burned to death
recently in Florence.
Fire supposed to have been Of in
cendiary origin destroyed the home Of
Charles Georgii at Pierce.
The fourth annual convention OF the
Knights OF Pythias of the Western
Slope was held In Montrose.
Mrs. Richard Pearce. wife of Gen
Richard Pearce. for years British vice
censul OF Denver. is dead in London.
"Dont drink" is the personal mes
sage from President Taft to the Sun
day school children of Grand June
ton.
The Grand Valley Poultry Club has
been organized and each member Is
required to raise 500 chickens each
year
Within q week work will begin on
the construction of $4,000 brick
vaudeville and moving picture theater
ID Boulder.
Charles ID. Simonson. Eastern gener
al agent of the Santa Fe and Colorado
Midland since the early SOS, is dead in
New York.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
shows an increase in net earnings of
$164.140 for December. 1910. over De-
cember. 1909.
The Secretary OF the Interior has
Trinidad 100 acres of public land for
water storage purposes.
Contracts have been signed which
assure the immediate commencement
of work on the Stanley Lake irrigation
project north of Denver.
The fears OF the Grand valley
CT chardists that the warm weather
rxI a frtt{t
oispelled by snowstorm.
Careful investigation shows that
fully 1900 acres in the vicinity Of
Eunn, which settlers supposed would
be included within the boundaries OF
the Greeley -Poudre irrigation district
ls outside OF it.
Through the finding OF the body OF
Wilson l.. Davis, a prominent ranch
man of Paonia, the mystery surround
ing his disappearance, March 6, 1907,
is solved His decomposed body was
found where he had hanged himself.
"All together" will be the slogan
with which the residents OF the Grand
valley will battle with spring frosts to
save the 100000 fruit crop.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany is working on plan for the pen
sioning of employees who have been
with the company for a certain num-
ber of years.
At meeting Of the Colorado State
Automobile Association in Denver,
Ralph W. Smith was elected president.
Elmer E. Sommers, secretary and
manager, and John w. Springer. treas
ursr.