The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-08-03
LITTLE COLORADO irgMs.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


The D. & R. G. is to build new $780,
900 depot at Montrose.
The citizens Of Hereford have organ.
lied q commercial club.
Longmont has shipped its first car
of apples for this season.
The postoffice at Briggsdale has
ben made = money order office.
The date of Plattevilles Pickle Day
has been set for September 2.
Rocky Ford and La Junta have been
recently visited by heavy rains.
Considerable damage has been done
Del Norte and vicinity by cloudbursts.
1t is announced the Rio Grande will
broad guage between Alamosa and Du-
range.
VIM. II. Smith harvested from four
acres near Boulder. eighty bushels OF
oats to the acre.
1t is claimed twenty-five cars OF
strawberries will be shipped from
Steamboat Springs.
Colorado agriculturists and fruit
growers are assured OF enough cars to
handle their crop.
The capital stock OF the Denver Ma
tional Bank is to be increased from
$3.50. 1000 to $1.0O0.00O.
The st. Peters Catholic church at
Montrose was recently damaged to the
amount Of $4,000 by fire.
Two Wright biplanes have arrived
in Colorado Springs and with them ex-
hibition flights will be made.
The Fort Collins Bank and Trust
Company has consolidated with the
First National bank OF that city.
The Wisconsin Coal Company Is
preparing 10 open up extensive coal
deposits at Lay. Noffat county.
C. F. Rigden OF Denver. Western
manager OF the CaRjtai Life Insurance
Company. was found dead in a hotel
in Telluride.
For the ground on which the new
Greeley postoffice will be located the
government has given William Maher
n check for $4,000.
Incorporation papers have been filed
at Telluride for the San Miguel Irri-
CATION and Land Co.. with a capitaliza-
tion of 100000.
The prosperous farmers of NJ wot
have organized a company with cap
italization OF 325. 900 for the purpose OF
starting a creamery.
The negro X. OF p. of Colorado held
three-day state convention in Pu-
eblo with about fifty out OF town dele
gates In attendance.
Calhan recently had a good roads"
day when every able-bodied man In
the community worked to make good
roads out Of bad ones.
The State Military Board has or.
dered that the First Regiment band
be mustered out OF service. This Is
the only military band in the state.
The North Side schol bonds Of Pu.
eblo bearing four and one-hah per
cent interest, have been sold to Post
master Walpole Of that city for 1885,
900.
The Colorado State Highway Com.
mission is planning to construct u sys-
tenn Of highways in the state this year
and next which will be the foundation
Of an elaborate system.
Representatives Of the Standard OIL
Company are sinking a well near the
oil springs near Steamboat Springs.
1t 10 the plan Of the company to sink
several wells in the vicinity.
That mining in Colorado has been
given a decided impetus by the pros.
pectors' Erubstake campaign is evi.
denced by the increased activity in
the mining machinery business.
Denver is soon to be visited by Sec
retary Of the Interior Fisher. On Aug.
2. the secretary will start from Chica-
go on his first official Western tour
since he succeeded Richard Ballinger.
The City Council of Rocky Ford has
decided to equip the new well at once
for service and the water commission.
or has instructions to submit plans
and specifications for the necessary
apparatus.
The school census for Colorado pre-
pared by the state superintendent OF
public instruction shows that there are
222,630 children Of school age in Colo
rado.. This is slight increase over
the figures Of last year. which were
221 1898. -'--- /
Rudolph Wickstorm. seventeen years
old, who had confessed to holding up
Attorney T. A. Nixon. January rs, tax.
ing his watch and money at Greeley.
was sentenced by Judge Graham to
from three to five years in the peni
tentiary.
Judge Lewis in the United States
CIRCUIT Court has dismissed the suit
hrOupht NV tho poyernment against the
Home Coal & Coke Company. Of Trim
idad, to cancel the company's patent
to eighty acres of coal land in Las