Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19
WASHINGTON.

The estimated wealth of the United
States is s125.OOO, 100000.
Secretary of War Stimson will soon
begin distributing to the national
guard of the country the new auto
matte pistol recently adopted.
Secret service officers have begun a
hunt for registered package contain
ing s25,O00, which is said to have been
lost, or stolen, somewhere betv cen
Chicago. ILL.,. and Pasadena, Calf.
The Senate irrigation committee las
reported favorably Senator Boran's
bill to grant patents to entrymen on
government reclamation projects uron
compliance with the requirements,
the deferred payments due for water
to be lien upon the property until
liquidated.
Joseph Sellwood, an ore mine expert
of Duluth, told the House steel inves-
tigating committee that the Lake SUI
perior ore region contains 100000 900
tons of available ore, of which about
550,000,O00 tons, excluding the Hill
lease ores, are controlled by the Unit
ed States steel corporation.
That the Borah three-year home
stead bill, if enacted into law as it
passed the House.. would be interpre,
ted by the General Land Office as
applicable to all pending homestead
entries, including those under the 800
acre act, was made clear at meeting
of the conferees on the Borah meas
ure.
Government supervision of cotton
and grain exchanges as the result of
violent fluctuations in prices of com
modities and as a safeguard against
speculation and gambling was pro
posed by W. b. Thompson, former
president of the New Orleans Stock
Exchange. before the House commit
tee.
The senators of Virginia and West
Virginia have begun a movement TO
require the government to account to
the thirteen original states for the
money received from the sale of
Northwest Territory, although cen
tury has passed since the territory
was given by Virginia to the federal
government.
The Indignation of State Depart
ment officials over the execution of
Thomas Fountain. the American gun
ner who was captured by the rebels
at Parral, Mexico, is believed to be Ger
tain to prejudice any attempt on the
part of the rebels to secure any rec
ognition of belligerent rights. so nee
sary TO a successful conduct of their
campaign,
The crop reporting board of the
bureau of statistics, United States De
partment of Agriculture, estimates,
from the reports of correspondents and
agents of the bureau. that the average
condition of winter wheat on April l
was SOC per cent o. normal, against
1913 ON April /, 1911: SOS on April l,
1910. and S6.1. the average condition
for the past ten years on April /. fhe
average condition of rye on April l
was S7.9 per cent OF normal, against
S9.S on April /. 1911; 92.3 on Aprl Il.
1910, and S9.S, the average condition
for the past ten years on April l.
Radical reductions in freight rates
on wool, both in sacks and in bales,
transported from western points oil
origin to eastern destinations, have
been prescribed by the Interstate
Commerce Commission. The opinion
was handed down by Chairman
Prouty. 1t holds that the present
rate OF s1.15 hundred pounds on
wool in sacks from Colorado common
points to St Louis should not exceed
50 cents, and that from points west
Of Cheyenne. Wyoming. on the Union
pacific, and Trinidad. Colorado. on the
| Santa Fe. the rate to St. Louis might
be > cents higher for each additional
twenty-five miles.