Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-09-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Stock Show at Holyoke.
Sept. 27:2s-State Convention BIO. e
Sept. 2s-so~Third Annual Pine River
Valley and Southern Ute Indian Fair
Sept 8O-Harvest Festival at Briggs
Oct. l2-Annual Poudre Canon Picnic
Jan. 2O-27-Annual western Stock
Show at Denver.
John N Meeker has been appointed
postmaster at Yampa.
An addition to the city hall at Du-
range will be erected.
Senator John F. Shaffroth has re-
turned from Washington.
A potato show will be held at
Monte Vista early in October.
Peach shipments from Palisace run
as high as ninety-seven cars day.
Bids are sought at Idaho Springs on
a new location for the Idaho Springs
postoffice.
Over $50 carloads of cantaloupes
have been shipped from Rocky Ford
and ordway.
James Baker, Holbrook resident,
committed suicide by shooting HIM
self with shotgun.
In August, the Breckenridge dis
trict, in Summit county, shipped $780,
900 worth OF gold ore to the smelters.
John J. Jennings, Ga. widely known
Western mining man and Colorado
pioneer died in Miami, Ariz.
The Yukon mill at Durango has
been kept busy on the treatment OF
tungsten ore from the Galty group.
The humble bean, the money-makinS
crop of the western plains. was hon
ored with a bean celebration at Pey-
ton.
Excavation has been started by the
Rare Metals Ore Company at Rollins
Vile for 5Ox35-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
s175,OOO addition to the Union Print
ers' Home at Colorado Springs has
been started.
Robert G. Smith has been appoint
ed TO succeed Preston II. Barker as
deputy district attorney for Clear
Creek county.
New proceedings in the District
Court were begun by Mrs. Sara Eaves
Savage against her husband, John A.
Savage, of Denver.
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II. Adams of Telluride. died in Den
yer. She was S5 years old and had
been an invalid for years.
The net profit of the DIR. Jackpot
Mining Company at Cripple Creek for
the second quarter of 1916 totaled
s12,314, net gain for the first half
of the year of s15,190.
August was the record month for
ore shipments from Silverton, more
cars being shipped than ever before
in its history. Three hundred and
thirty-three cars of ore were shipped.
Thirty-five sets of lessees on the Is
abella Mines Company's properties on
Bull hill at Cripple Greek shipped six
ty-two carloads of ore during August.
having a gross bullion value of about
s32,5O0.
The production of mineral in Clear
Creek county for the year 1915 to-
tailed s1,124,225. according 10 the re-
port of the Geological Survey. The
number of producing mines in the
county is los.
Because OF an epidemic of glanders
among the horses at the Golden rifle
range mobilization camp, all mounted
drills have been stopped and every eff
fort is being made to stamp out the
disease.
Prospectors on junction creek near
Durango have uncovered a 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.
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 $500 tons of ore.
with an average value of S23 a ton.
The gross bullion value of the output
will approximate 100000.
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.
A pistol shot which brought death
| to Miss E,lfreda I.aunrinr Donuar