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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1905
Page
3
A writer visits Ault on a sunny day to observe Main Street activity and rising back streets. He notes shifting work, new houses, and a flood of lumber and emigrants heading to land north of town. Water for irrigation remains the key future wealth source amidst dry farming plans.
The Greeley Tribune will raise 25 cents to pay the band for a series of twelve week evening concerts in Lincoln Park. An excursion organized with Union Pacific and Moffat lines is planned for May 25 to fund it, with round trip fares from Greeley at 33 dollars and slightly higher from Ault and Eaton. The band is rehearsing with new material and aims for improved performances this summer.
The Portland Cement trust faces non trust plants in a price war likely to prompt the county commissioners to stockpile cement. Prices have fallen from eight dollars to about one fifty per barrel, prompting bets on large purchases for annual cement needs. The Colorado Portland Cement Co at Portland Fremont county, rival in Green River dam cement contracts, could profit. L. L. Wyatt announces candidacy for school trustee this spring.
The State Normal school expands its two year old garden as a hands on nature study space supervised by John YV Crone. Third grade pupils plant beds and transplant saplings while seniors guide younger children. A miniature nursery will feed an artificial forest in the southeast corner as students nurture trees from kindergarten through ninth grade.
In county court Thursday Justice Atkinson awarded the Clays damages for a lost trunk valued at 108 dollars. Judge Southard reversed, ruling no contract existed as no payment was made, so the livery men were not liable for the baggage.
The old city council adjourned as the new took office with no ceremony. Mayor Green arrived with cigars and the body proceeded through routine business, approving minutes, filing petitions for Fourth Avenue and a depot lunch counter, and arranging bonds. Committees were named for Finance, Fire, Streets, Sewers, Judiciary, Ditches, Building and Lights, and Water Works, plus library and parks appointments, with several specific superintendents named.
Reports from the mountains say snow depths of seven feet in timber areas along the Grand and Cache La Poudre headwaters while Chambers lake sees three feet. The Grand River Ditch, seven miles into the Cache La Poudre watershed, will deliver about 200 cubic feet of water per second this season, with capacity doubling once banks firm. Built at 10 000 feet, the mammoth project taps three Grand river tributaries and may extend five more miles to reach two additional tributaries. The $200 000 scheme will cost another $50 000 this season as William Dunham leads the camp and preparations begin next Saturday. About 40 more workers join around May first.
The Fort Collins Agricultural Experiment Station issued a bulletin on beet worms, beet army worms, and cut worms. Prof Clarence P Gillette covers beet worms and beet army worms, while S Arthur Johnson handles cut worms. The bulletin explains simple remedies and stresses farmers growing beets should request a copy to protect crops after last year’s damage.
Greeley district 6 faces crowding with no funds to expand. Bonding allowed at 3.5 percent of assessed valuation leaves district nearly at limit. Board estimates 35,000 needed now for proper room and a proposed five percent bonding bill failed in judiciary committee. Only North Ward expansion funded from surplus. South and East wards also need space.
Five hunters J S Burson J F Fezer Dr W H Delbridge Hall Jones and Charles F Fougerousse traveled to flats south of Lathham reservoir for the last duck shoot of the season. After a cold wait a single duck, blind and wind battered, was blown toward them and died from fright.
Levy Knutson, son of John Knutson, received fifteen days in county jail from Judge Willard after he threw a rotten egg at a Chinese laundry man. The incident occurred when Knutson and another youth confronted the man at the doorway, striking him as his head appeared.
S P McLaughlin and A Waldo passed through Greeley for Sterling on Monday to assist in constructing the sugar factory. Both are veterans in the business, having helped build the Greeley plant.
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