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Show w . . COLORADO NOTES. All tramps w ho visit La Junta are at once pill to work on the si reels. The little 5-year old boy or Mr. K. 1. llerwig, a farmer on Klk rner. near Null, canunt be found, i lo was tracked to the river nii't it is supposed has fallen iu and drowned. It in proposed to represent Leadville nt the World's fair by a large cyclo-rama, cyclo-rama, giving a view of the city and mines. The scheme was proposed by A. A. lilow, a prominent mining mail. The first cutting of alfalfa will soou liegiu in the lower Arkansas vtdley about Hncky 1'onl ami Las Animas, aud in (he l'ucompaligre valley about Ielta. The yield promise to be very large. The retirement of President Charles B. Ingersiili from the agricultural college col-lege loses to the htato uu ellicient and successful educator, lie gues to his new liuld of labor at the iiniversily of Nebraska. All the butchers in Leadville, lireck-enridge lireck-enridge and liiliou are alter liecf cattle, nnd cattle, cattle, seems to be the crv all along the line, ami such an activity in the beef market ha.i uot been experienced expe-rienced Lore beforo lor a number of years. Helta county is enjoying a healthy growth the present spring, and its population, pop-ulation, according to the Laborer, is being increased by a large number of lionin buyers, ' The amount set to fruit last fall aud this spring will nut bo less than 1(H)0 acres. Work, on the new depot at Moscawill soon be commuuceil. The plans anil specifications are now completed, and the carpenters are waiting for an order from headquarters to commence work. It will be the tame size aud style of llio one at Moute Vista. Miss Alice Kmtwood of thu Ilenver high school is now making (irand .Jiiuciion. her headquarters for botanizing botan-izing trip on thu western slopes, a col-leeiion col-leeiion of whose llorashe is engaged in making. Miss Eastwood is a most accomplished ac-complished bidanist. The Star calls attention to the steady growth w hich Craud .unction is enjoying enjoy-ing and to the number of handsome residences and cottages now in process of erection. It is not a boom growth, but a substantial one, which means a pertain and prosperous future. Hon. C. U. liowruan lias begun the publication at WalHcnburtr of a new paper called tho People's Messenger. It will represent the farmers' alliance In politics, nnd the first issue takes string sides on that side us well as being be-ing a neat, newsy and line appearing journal. La Junta is building a new flouring mill and tbe contract for the foundations found-ations has already been let. It will be three stories with a basement, but whether the superstructure is to be lirick or stone has not yet been determined. deter-mined. The number of new mills which have been constructed in the Arkansas valley within two years indicates indi-cates the growth of the wheat product. A wealthy company lias been organized organ-ized to develop the marble bods at Y'ule creek, near Aspen. The marble ledge, is o00 feet iu thickness, surmounted surmount-ed by a white statuary marble bed 2."i0 foet thick. They slope for a mile down at the level part of the canyon and tin-oily tin-oily disappear from sight. Kuormiuis blocks of white aud variegated marble, broken olf from tbe main mass, lie upon the slope immediately below the perpendicular marble el.lTs. The first 1 5 or Hit) feet of the did is composed of exquisite green serpentine marble, a bright grass green in color, veined with white or delicato rosette and soinotiinps llesh colored. Above was discovered another elill of 450 feet, formed of ariegaled mai'LUr It is of an immense variety of shades and patterns, pat-terns, rangiug from a soft dote color to delicato chocolate, with veins of white. There w as a very important decision made iu the Colorado Springs court a few days ago that every farmer should know. The decision rendered was that all ditches whose priority dated back of the st.ito constitution can uot be meddled med-dled with, aud their rights are prior aud come before water lor domestic I purposes, ami their rights caunot be legislated against. We believe the decision de-cision to be right, and it will save a good many dollars from lawsuits that would have been stalled had not tho decision been made. |