Cheyenne record., 1916-11-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.


DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 1-s-Poultry Show at Denver.
Jan; 11-1s-Poultry Show at Canon
Jan. 2o-Athletic Club boxing contests
at Denver.
Jan; 2o-s7-Annual western Stock
Show at Denver.
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ C. A. Annual Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
Work is being rapidly pushed on the
concrete foundations for Ault's new
pumping plant.
Work has been started in Denver
on 100000 machinery manufactur-
ing plant for compressor company.
President Wilson received 100 out
of the first 200 votes cast under the
absent voters law, which were
counted by the Denver election COM
mission.
A national embargo on foodstuffs,
to be enforced by President Wilson,
is the aim of resolution passed by
the Denver Trades and Labor Assem-
bly,.
Duncan, Denver mining man, was
found not guilty Of the theft Of an
automobile by jury in the District
Court at Boulder.
An announcement from Washington
confirms the plan of making Denver a
district headquarters for the admins
tration of federal grain standards,
which is to go in operation Dec. 1.
DR.. David Starr Jordan, president
OF Leland Stanford University of Cali
fornia, will be the guest of the Ad-
vertising Club bureau of the Denver
Civic & Commercial Association Fri
day evening, Dec. 1.
The control of the Modoc mine, To-
Gated in the Cripple Creek district
and from which has been produced
more than s2,O0O,OOO worth of ore,
has passed from Pueblo men to a
group of Denver men.
According to the report of the Den
yer clerk and recorder, marriage Ii
censes fell off for October, compared
with the same month a year ago. The
fees for last month were $497.5O,
against s552.50 year ago.
Colorado commandery, No. l.,
Knights Templar Of Denver, will cele-
brate it's fiftieth anniversary Monday
evening, Nov. 81, at Ell Jebel temple,
with an entertainment in the Egyp-
tian room, followed by ball in the
Alhambra hall.
More than 1900 advocates of pro-
hibition who attended q post-election
jubilee at Trinity Methodist church in
Denver, cheered Governor-elect julius
C. Gunter when he pledged himself to
the support and the Strengthening Of
the prohibition law In Colorado.
In the Telluride district the new
Carruthers mill, owned and operated
by Inama, Perino, Franck and Ress, is
in running order and the tramway be-
tween the mouth of the Sheridan
crosscut and the mill is in readiness
to bring down the ore taken from the
Carruthers vein.
In a spectacular chase through the
main corridors of the Denver post
office building in which twenty fed
eral agents joined. Mrs. Marie VIII
DcliStSu " De lhO NJ oiho oA
the dope ring" which has. been Civ
ing police no. end of trouble for
weeks, was captured by federal Off
GERS.
The third death from the effects
of the collapse of the Colorado
Springs stadium at the Welsh-White
fight, Labor Day. occurred when J. F.
Finnegan, 40 years old, died at the
County hospital in Denver. Finnegan
returned to Denver after the fight
and was taken to the hospital on
Oct. 2.
While exploration work in the Lead
Vile district Is under way on a scale
more extensive than at any previous
time since the close of the century In
1900, shipments of ore are maintained
on a liberal basis, or at close to 10000
tons monthly. Combined with high
prices for copper, spelter and lead
and with fair prices for silver. the sit
uation places Leadville at the head OF
the Colorado list as value producer
the figure now averaging 1,5Oo, 900 pei
month compared with $1,250,000 at
Cripple Creek.
The rare minerals now produced In
Colorado are seven in number, and are
listed as bismuth, cadmium, carnotite,
molly bdenum. tungsten. uranium and
vanadium. Bismuth and codmium are
byproducts of Leadville ores. Carno-
tite is the leading item of the mining
industry in portions Of southwestern
Colorado and over the line into Utah.
Molybdenum is taken from the molyb-
denite ores of Clear Creek. Summit,
Lake, Chaffee and Dolores counties.
Uranium-the high-grade radium pro-
ducer-is found in Gilpin county and
IN certain portions Of Montrose and
San Miguel counties. vanadium is
practically confined to southwestern