The Holly chieftain., 1916-09-22
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Sept. z7:se-stats Convention q. T.
Sept as-Prohibition State Convention
Sept. ss-so.Third Annual Pine River
Valley and Southern Ute Indian Fair
at Ignacio.
Sept; 3o-Harvest Festival at Briggs
Oct. l2-Annual Poudre Canon Picnic
at Fort Collins.
Jan. 10-27-Annual western Stock
Show at Denver.
An addition to the city hall at Du-
range will be erected.
Senator John F. Shaffroth has re-
turned from Washington.
Bids are sought at Idaho Springs ON
q new location for the Idaho Springs
postoffice.
Over $50 carloads of cantaloupes
have been shipped from Rocky Ford
and Ordway.
About 1000 Masons from all parts
of the state are in Denver attending
various annual meetings of the order.
In August, the Breckenridge dis
trict. in Summit county, shipped $780,
900 worth of gold ore to the smelters.
Excavation has been started by the
Rare Metals Ore Company at Rollins
vile for 50x35-foot addition to its
mill.
Construction work will begin soon
on the Boulder county end of the road
between Pine Cliff and Rollinsville to
cost $4,000.
Work on the foundation of the
$175.000 addition to the Union Print
ers' Home at Colorado Springs has
been started.
Members of the federal farm loan
board were guests and speakers at
luncheon given by the Civic associa-
tion Of Denver.
Travelling on special train, con-
tingent Of business men will leave
Denver Sept. "a for trade-making
trip through the San Luis valley.
Governor Carlson was one of the
speakers at the fifteenth annual en-
campment of the Beecher Island Bat
tie Memorial association at Wray.
The Rev. Edwin Seldom, pastor
emeritus of the Broadway Baptist
church and widely known in Denver
religious circles, died of tuberculosis
at the oakes home,
The production of mineral in Clear
Creek county for the year 1915 to-
tailed $1,124,225, according to the re-
port of the. Geological Survey. The
number of producing mines in the
county is los.
Prospectors on Junction creek near
Durango have uncovered blanket
vein of ore short distance below
grass roots that runs twenty-five
ounces in gold and 1,133 ounces in
silver to the ton.
Corporal George Sparks, % years
old, member of Company of the
Colorado National Guard, now en-
camped at the Golden rifle range, was
perhaps fatally stabbed in a street
fight in Denver.
A ten-inch vein of boronite copper
ore was encountered in the Princess
Annie copper mine near West Cliff.
The strike gives indication OF main
body Of high grade copper ore in the
heart of the mountain.
August production of the properties
Of the Granite Gold Mining Company
at Cripple Creek was 5000 tons of ore,
with an average value of $23 ton.
The gross bullion value of the output
will approximate 100000.
Don P. Blackwood, the young at.
torney charged with lunacy, who, it
is alleged, twice attempted to take
the life of Denver attorney, was
adjudged insane by commission ap-
pointed by the Denver County Court.
In none of the Colorado districts
has the influence of higher prices for
silver, lead, spelter and copper been
more perceptible than at Robinson and
Kokomo, two pioneer camps in Sum-
init county, just over the county line
from the Leadville district.
The long contest over the disposi.
tion of the fortune of the late Col.
George s. Newman, Colorado capital
ist, ended Unexpectedly with the filing
of an agreement in the Arapahoe
County Court at Littleton, when the
widows proposition to divide the es-
tate was accepted by blood relatives.
The paternity of the Mable Owens
twins, one black and the other white,
hnn a. S-t