The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-10-19

stalled at Fort Morgan.
Former President Roosevelt VIII
speak in Denver Oct. "a.
Fort Collins reports n scarcity oil
houses for rental purposes.
Two record loads of wheat at Fort
Morgan brought total of S3O9.Sl.
Work on the construction of the
new depot at Craig will be started at
Cnce.
A j. Eaton sold section of land
three miles northeast of Ault at slOO
an acre.
The 'postmasters of the state held
their annual convention at Idaho
Springs.
The first days slicing at the Love
land sugar beet factory amounted to
1875 tons.
Horses In Weld county, at recent
auction sales. brought from sl75 TO
$3.50 per head.
Grazing sheep on the Flat Tops of
Routt county has proven very success
full this season.
Tag day for the Swedish National
Sanatorium for tuberculosis in Den
yer netted $1,000.
At Fort Collins the hauling OF beet
pulp over any of the citys paved
streets has been forbidden.
The contract for erecting the new
high school building at Burlington has
been awarded at S23.742.
Colorado Springs citizens have pro
tested against the proposed abridge
ment of the street railway service.
The new branch office of markets
and rural credits opened in room 2l5
in the new federal building in Denver
The first contingent of Colorado
troops to reach the Mexican border
was Company of the Signal Corps.
An effort will be made to obtain
daily mail service throughout the
year between Loveland and Estes
Park.
At Leadville the hex is again loom
ing up with IA greater tonnage of ore
being extracted than at any time in
its history.
Thomas p Gore, the blind senator
from Oklahoma, will speak at Lead
vile Oct 90 and at Grand Junction
Oct. "a.
Next month Loveland expects to
pay 100000 on the electric bonds.
which will leave $4,000 still out
standing.
The city OF Longmont has pur-
chased $50 acres of school land sur
rounding the reservoir of the Long
mont water works.
The annual meeting of the Denver
branch OF the Needlework Guild of
America will be held Nov. in the
chapter house of st. Johns Cathedral.
w. ]. Bryan. former secretary of
state. delivered two addresses in Den.
yer. He spoke Thursday in Pueblo
and Friday at Colorado Springs.
Mrs Aurilla Baxter. SO, wife of j..
II. Baxter. died at her home near
Sligo. Mrs. Baxter had been a resi-.
dent of Weld county for forty-three
years.
The Public Utilities Commission
suspended the schedules of the street
car service in Colorado Springs until
Oct. 20, and called n hearing at Colo
RADIO Springs.
Divorced. required to pay s25 a
month alimony. and enjoined from Wis
iting his wife and children, are the
terms imposed against John f. Ever
man of Denver.
fine body of gold, silver and cop
per ore was opened up In the Ray
mond tunnel at depth of about 1000
feet This property lies directly south
west of the Capital mine at George
town.
The Hitchings ranch and stock
farm. one OF the largest nonirrigated
farms in the state, sixty miles from
Denver. and containing 5000 acres,
has been sold to Frank NJ. Smith of
Chicago for $4,000.
This year has been the most pros
porous in Denver since 1910 as shown
by the collection of taxes. C. j.
Pitcher. manager of revenue, said that
Gal per cent of the taxes payable
this year have so far been collected.
According to Boulder report, the
Lucky Seven" leases on the Yellow
Pine. recently developed high-grade
silver ore. The Vancleuse vein was
opened up in streak three feet wide
of silver ore which will run about 500
per ton.
Merchants and manufacturers of
Denver and the Denver Manufacture
ers' Association will spend approx
mately $4,000 in preparing for the
monster industrial parade which will
pass through the streets Oct. 2S, pa
rade day of "Buy-at-Home" Week
The forty-fourth annual session of
the grand encamnment Colorado iur-