Gilpin observer., 1911-02-23

oeoi tSu Sooa III SOlOFduO Springs.
Judge James L. Mccain, a Colo
rado pioneer, is dead at Greeley.
Burglars entered Pueblo pawn
shop and took $3.50 worth of jewels.
An effort will be made this year to
give Sterling good base ball team.
A bridge across the Grand river at
Grand Junction is to be built soon..
DR.. Frederick A. Cook will lecture
in Grand Junction on February 9th.
During the year 1910 Colorado shoe
factories turned out $350,OOO worth Of
shoes.
The Western Slope Teachers Con-
yention will be held in Grand Junction
April 1st.
Peter Presler, pioneer of Colorado
aged fifty-three, died at Cripple Creek
recently.
VIM. H. Madden, a railroad man of
Salida, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself.
Mrs. George Buckley of Montrose IS
the only woman brick manufacturer in
the United States.
The Ladies' Civic Club of Durango
have inaugurated movement to
teautify the city.
The Boulder County Commissioners
have appropriated $1,000 to aid in ad
vertising that community.
At recent election school dis
trict was voted for Vollmar and a
school house will be built.
Irrigationists are rejoicing over the
recent snowfall at the head of the
Poudre river and on the Grand.
Farmers in the vicinity of Plate
vile and Fort Lupton are being urged
to plant more early cabbage than ever
before.
Logan county's first Annual Poultry
Show which has just closed, was one
CT the most successful ever held in
the state.
Three big steam shovels are at
work on the grade for the Colorado &
Southern extension from Wellington
10 Cheyenne.
Encouraging developments continue
at the oil well near Lamar and there
is every evidence of an extensive
flow of oil.
Work on excavation has begun on
the new armory for the Windsor
militia company. The building will
cost about $4,000.
Many Montrose farmers and ranch
men are either using the road drag
or arranging to accomplish similar
results this spring.
Any attempt to divide Weld county
or to cut off eight townships from th3
south end of it will be fought by the
County Commercial Club.
| First Congregational church Of Grand
junction has ordered regular paid ad-
vertisements in the newspapers.
Three members of gang, which
the police say was organized to raid
freight cars in the Burlington yards
in Denver and steal lead and copper
bullion, have been arrested
A bullsnake measuring six feet in
length and as large about the body as
4 mans wrist, was run over and cut
to pieces by the wheels of street
car in Grand Junction.
At mass meeting at Fort Lupton.
1t was voted by 80 per cent of the tax
payers to take steps toward secur-
ing a municipal water system by a
special election for bond issue.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
operates and maintains first-class din
ing stations at Pueblo. Salida, Min
turn, Grand Junction, Helper, Thistle
end Wildly.
The Montrose Fruit Orchards Com
pany has leased 1000 acres to an
eastern slope man. The tract is in
the vicinity of Shenandoah, and is
partly set to young fruit tree.
Work of surveying for the ditch of
the new West Sterling irrigation dis
trict has begun, and, according to l..
l.. Stimson, construction engineer,
the ditch, to be about sixty miles long,
will cost 100000.
The snowstorm which began In Dem
yer Friday has developed into
great one. covering most of Colo
RADIO. 1t is heaviest from line a
little east of Denver, north to Wyo-
ming. south to Trinidad, west to the
continental divide and southwest to
the San Juan region.
In one of the fastest and most ex-
citing bouts witnessed In Pueblo. Ed
die johnson of Salt Lake knocked out
Kid Taylor Of Pueblo In the ninth
round Of a scheduled 10.round battle.
The contest was the wind-up Of q
German-American club smoker.
All farming animals, excepting sheep
showed an increase in average value
per head on January 1, 1911, compared
with their value on that date In 1910,
according to the Department OF Agrl-
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