Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-09-22
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Sept. 2o.2s-Gheyenne County Fair at
Sept. ,21-22-Agricultural and Live
Sept. S5,ssGs.ats Contention B.P.o. E.
Sept. 2s-3o-Thlrd Annual Pine River
Valley and Southern Ute Indian Fair
Sept. sO-Harvest Festival at Briggs
dale.
Oct. Ia-Annual Poudre Canon Picnic
Jan. 2o-27-Annual western Stock
Show at Denver.
Creamery propositions are being en-
tertained at Eckert and Cedaredge.
Craig is appealing to Moffat road
officials for the erection of depot.
There was a large attendance at the
Routt county fair on Pioneers Day.
The harvest of Elberta peaches in
the Paonia district is on in earnest.
The estimated output of Honey Dew
melons in the Crowley county fields
is $4,000 crates.
The town of Dixon has issued a call
for bids for the digging Of trenches
for water mains.
The town board at Ault is receiving
proposals for the installation Of an
electric light system.
Pioneers of Las Animas county held
their annual reunion and picnic at
Central Park in Trinidad.
Disappointment in love affair is
said to be the cause for the suicide OF
Freda Abbott, Of Rocky Ford.
Evidences Of q revival of prosperity
in the production Of tungsten are seen
by mining men in the tungsten fields.
The Royal Arch chapters of Colo
RADIO Masons held barbecue at STRAIT
ton park, Colorado Springs. Saturday.
Many fat cattle are being shipped
from the ranges in Routt county, a
fifty-car shipment being made in one
day.
Raymond Downs. boy engaged in
tending a herd of cattle southwest OF
Pueblo, had narrow escape from
death by lightning.
Many members of the Pueblo Greek
colony are preparing to return to
Greece, as they expect to be called for
service in the army.
An inspector of the Postoffice De-
partment will visit Las Animas soon
to look into the matter of free mail
delivery for that city.
Ten thousand persons passed
through the gates on the first day of
the second annual Frontier Days
Roundup at Fort Morgan.
A very active development season
is now in evidence in the San Juan
district. where number of mines
long idle are again shipping ore.
Lessees of the Lake mine in Gilpin
county shipped $5,S25 worth of smelt-
ing ore during the first two weeks in
August and 400 tons of concentrated
ore.
Overwhelmed with the greatest
rush of tourists in the history OF
Estes Park. hotels and transportation
interests there are planning large ex-
tensions before next season.
In Chicago, penniless and without a
job, Arthur E. Hanson, Denver man,
slipped a revolver from the holster of
Chicago traffic policeman and sent
a bullet through his own brain.
After lying for fifty-four hours IN an
unconscious state, following a motor
cycle accident at Fort Morgan. Rob-
ert G. Davis, Jr., rallied and has been
able to converse with his friends. The
doctors say he will now recover fully.
His memory gone, Charles Moore.
the youthful member of United
States surveying party who disap-
peared from camp In Grand county
early in July. was found at work with
in few blocks Of his home in ANA
rillo. Tex.
At Leadville several buildings are
being removed to give the Penrose
shaft of the Down Town mines more
dumping ground. Water in the levels
Is being pumped at the rate OF $500
gallons per minute. 1t is officially re-
ported that ore has been exposed in
several places and that shipping will
be started very soon.
A rejuvenation of old mining dis
tricts of Colorado which will give the
mining industry in the state tre-
mendous impetus is predicted by Fred
Carroll, state mining commissioner, as
the result of successful experiments
which have been conducted In the
Leadvillc mines in unwatering prop
critics with electricity instead of
steam.
Septic poisoning resulting from an
illegal operation caused the death of
Mrs. Eta E. Gardener, 22-year-old
bride of Burr Gardener, according to a
verdict returned by jury at an in
quest held by Coroner Horan in Den
yer. The woman was taken to st.
Luke's hospital in Denver several days