Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-10-27

Jan. 2O-27-Annual w estern STOCK
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ. C. A. Annual Conven-
ton at Colorado Springs.
A bean cleaning plant has been in
stalled at Fort Morgan.
Former President Roosevelt will
speak in Denver Oct. "a
Fort Collins reports scarcity OF
houses for rental purposes.
Two record loads of wheat at Fort
Morgan brought total Of S309.S1.
Stock shipments from Steamboat
Springs totaled 244 cars in eight days.
Work on the constructions of the
new depot at Craig will be started at
Cnce.
]. Hamilton Lewis, U. S. Senator
Denver.
A. J. Eaton sold a section of land
three miles northeast of Ault at S1OO
an acre.
The postmasters of the state held
their annual convention at Idaho
Springs.
The first days slicing at the Love
land sugar beet factory amounted to
1885 tons.
Horses in Weld county. at recent
auction sales, brought from $175 to
$3.50 per head.
Grazing sheep on the Flat Tops of
Routt county has proven very success
full this season.
The contract for erecting the new
high school building at Burlington has
been awarded at $23,7i2.
The sarvis Timber Company at
Steamboat Springs will cut 100000
feet of logs during the winter.
The estimate of the seasons fruit
receipts in the Palisade district are
around three-quarters of a million dol
lars.
An effort will be made to obtain
daily mail service throughout the
year between Loveland and Estes
Park.
At Leadville the Ibex is again loom
ing up with a greater tonnage of ore
being extracted than at any time in
it's history.
Thomas p. Gore, the blind senator
from Oklahoma, will speak at Lead
vile Oct. 23 and at Grand Junction
Oct. "a.
The city of Longmont has pur-
chased $50 acres of school land sur
rounding the reservoir of the Long
mont water works.
The Fort Morgan sugar factory is
nj will
amount to $50 900 a month during the
four months campaign.
On an irrigated tract of 17.3 acres
near Longmont. Benjamin Reese
raised wheat which yielded him
Sl,6S1.1O, or s97.17 per acre.
w. J. Bryan, former secretary of
state delivered two addresses in Den
yer. He spoke Thursday in Pueblo
and Friday at Colorado Springs.
Two acres of tomatoes at Brighton
brought Henry Duckworth $40. A
total of A tons and $40 pounds was
raised on two and a quarter acres.
The armory building at Ault. the
states lease of which has expired,
may be purchased for public use as
an entertainment hall and gymna-
stun.
Walter Nikkel and Ray Smith have
purchased the ranch of w. H. Gerdtz
near Wray, consisting of 1000 acres
of improved land. with dwelling
houses and barns. The consideration
was $33. 500.
A five-mile tramway will be built to
L..
at the head of Bear creek, five miles
west of Silverton, with the railroad in
Animas cahon, from which point
Coughlin ores will be shipped to Sill
verton for treatment.
Attorneys for Edward L. Seiwald,
serving a sentence in Canon City on a
conviction for the murder of Patrol
man William Mcpherson of Denver,
have asked the Supreme Court to set
aside conviction for the murder of
Andrew ] Lloyd. saloonkeeper.
In LeadvilIe the manager of the
Garbutt mine, John Cortellini, il now
completing plans for the construction
OF a 250-ton mill for concentrating the
gold-bearing ore that Is being extract
ed from the Garbutt and Ibex No. 3
shaft
According to Boulder report. the
Lucky Seven" leases on the Yellow
Pine, recently developed high-grade
silver ore. The Vancleuse vein was
opened up in streak three feet wide
of silver ore which will run about 500
per ton.
The Victor Consolidated Gold Min
ing Company will pay its quarterly
dividend Oct. %. The amount Of $780,
900 will go to stockholders.
An Independent sugar company is