Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-01-27
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

S. T. Turmon recently shot large
eagle near Brighton.
James H. Cannon, a pioneer OF
Nevadaville, died recently. -
A Montrose ranchman cut seven
tons of alfalfa per acre in four cut
tings.
Rumor says the Kuenzel Process of
smelling ores is to be established at
Salida.
Milliken is preparing to establish
water works by boring 5O0-foot arte-
sian well.
Eighteen Salida representatives at
tended the recent Good Roads conven-
ton in Denver.
Ten new cases of small pox have
come tC the attention of the Boulder
city health officer.
John Bostrom was fined $50 and
costs by Judge Hatch. at Greeley for
stabbing his brother.
The will of James H. Hilliard was
filed in the County Court in Denver
snd amounted to $4,000.
At a meeting of the Farmers Union
it was voted to proceed with plans to
put in a store at Windsor.
The first annual exhibition OF the
Western Slope Poultry Association
which was held in Delta was a success.
Miss Alice Morrison. who has been
for the past twenty-eight years a
teacher in the Denver schools. is dead.
Senator Guggenheim has been noti-
fled that new postal service has been
a 1SSh thaf
Estes Park.
The Great Western Sugar Company
reports that 1000 acres of beets have
been contracted for the Greeley fac
tory.
Merchants at Fort Collins have
formed an association for their mutual
protection against irresponsible peo-
pie.
The Colorado & Southern has sold
$1.400.000 worth of Its refunding and
extension bonds to Proctor & 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.
Kit Carson county claims the dis
tinction OF having built more roads
without state aid than any other coun-
ty In Colorado.
Greeley will celebrate the hun
dredth anniversary OF the birth of Hor-
ace Greeley in due form on the night
of February 3rd.
James A. Hill. the Denver banker,
Who has been serving a nve-year term
in the penitentiary for fraud. has been
released on parole.
A basketball league has been formed
composed OF teams representing the
Arvada. wheatridge. Littleton and
Brighton high schools.
The annual convention Of the Colo
RADIO State Bee Keepers Association.
which was held in Denver. was full
Of surprises TO the uninitiated.
Alois volter. the beet sugar ex-
pert who has ben negotiating for the
erection OF a factory in Brighton.
says the enterprise is assured.
The city council of Idaho Springs,
awarded a five-year contract. begin
ming May LIST, to the United Hydro
Electric Company. for street lighting.
Weakened by the burrowing of the
Iats and by the frost, several hundred
feet OF the bank of the Empire ditch.
Just below Master. went out recently.
All the water companies in north
ern Colorado have petitioned Governor
shafroth to appoint Emmett C. Nc
Anelly Of Fort Collins. state engineer.
Many wholesale and retail lumber
dealers attended the eighth annual
convention of the Colorado Wyoming
Lumber Dealers Association In Den
yer.
Dewey Miller, aged II. was arrested
at Walsenburg by federal officers,
charged with the robbery OF the post
office at Gardner. He is said to have
confessed to the burglary.
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.
With nearly 400 members and ad-
terents present. the annual supper
and business meeting OF the Greeley
baptist church was one of the best in
the history of the congregation.
The seed of the interior has with
crawn from settlement for classified
ton as TO underlying coal deposits ap-
rroximately 800 acres in township 2,
l 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-
hracing $4,000 acres to be irrigated by
flood waters.