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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1901
Page
1
Local organizers in the Arkansas Valley urge renters buyers and farmers to move into the valley. They plan gatherings with residents to visit old homes and trade with familiar contacts to attract farming families and increase land use.
Colorado notes report Charles Ti Simpson winning 160 acres in Lawton land lottery and Pueblo Y M C A expanding with new secretary C W Jones. Denver posts and county updates include a fatal shooting, the death penalty law, bridge contracts at Idaho Springs, and weather summaries for August.
The US Geological Survey reports about 30 000 acre feet stored in Great Plains Water Company reservoirs in the year. It notes the Twin Lakes dam is complete enabling late irrigation benefits and that Pueblo station is key for division wide water distribution.
Analysis of Commissioner Jones plan to end reservations and convert Indians to self supporting through allotment of land. The approach would suspend annuities, require Indians to farm land, and place white neighbors nearby to foster assimilation. Education would be prioritized as agencies close and schools take over administration.
Denver reportage discusses whether Colorado should call an extra session to pass the revenue law. It notes split views among supporters and opponents, cites Judge Dixon, and outlines tax, assessment, and Board of Equalization concerns. The piece analyzes possible outcomes if proceeding under old or high assessments and naming expected assessors.
Judge N Wal ter Dixon of Pueblo District Court declared the revenue act from the Thirteenth General Assembly unconstitutional. He ordered a writ of mandamus forcing the old state board of equalization to perform its duties, citing improper passage and printing of amendments, and stressing strict compliance with constitutional enactment.
Eldora Colorado August 6 Denver Republican Specials reports a contract for grading the Denver to Eldora railroad from Superior to Eldora about twenty five miles. Trains will run Denver to Superior nineteen miles then ascend South Boulder canon for nineteen miles to Eldora. A line is planned from Eldora to Carrbou seven miles north and Eldora will remain the terminus until spring when the line is to be extended to Steamboat Springs.
Superior firms will provide coal at half the local price for the new line. DeReemer, a veteran road builder, expects grading to start soon from Pueblo to Denver. The project, costing about 20 000 per mile, aims for a 1.50 per ton ore rate from Eldora to Denver, far below the current 5.50, and reuses an old Burlington grade for most of the route.
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