Gilpin observer., 1916-12-14
COLORADO.
STATE NEWS
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| DATES FOT COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 1.s-Pouitry Show At Denver.
'an; il-1s-Pouitry Show at Cahor
Jan; 2o-Athietic Club boxing contest.
'. sio so- q 5 w..t.rn stock
FEB; s-s-Y NJ. e. 4. Annual Conven-
A new M. E. church is to be erected
In Stonington.
Santos Valdez, section hand or
The D. & R. G., was killed under. the
wheels Of train at Pueblo. =
George A. Johnson and Mrs. Gladys
v. Osborne were remarked at Pueblo
after separation by divorce April 81.
1914.
During the past month the indus
trial commission has been successful
as mediator in six disputes in the coal
fields.
The Denver & Salt Lake railroad
will be permitted to establish a tri.
weekly or alternate-day service from
Denver to Craig and will remain in
force until April 1.
The first dredge-b0at for gold built
in the West was on the Feather river,
near OrOville, in the summer of 1878
1t was not paying investment nor a
mechanical success.
George Mitchell. five-time ex-con.
vict, is in the Denver city jail,
charged with disappearing himself
TO the landlady of an apartment house
at 1456 Washington street and obtain
ing SIS.
Max and Sam Levy, brokers with
offices in Denver, were arrested by
United States authorities on indict
ments from Phoenix. Ariz., charging
them with using the mails to de-
fraud.
The sound of an auger boring
through the head of his bed aroused
Roy Staley, assistant cashier of the
First National bank of Arvada, and
prevented a bank robbery. This was
the second attempt to rob this bank
within two weeks. Two weeks ago
robbers were frightened away.
The decision of the United States
Supreme Court in upholding the right
Of the Minerals Separation Company,
a British corporation, to the use of the
flotation process, will not have an in.
furious effect on mining in Colorado,
according to Fred Carroll, state min.
ing commissioner.
Coincident with the slump in the
cost of foodstuffs in Washington and
other eastern points, and the smash.
ing of the Chicago egg corner" with
it's resultant collapse of prices, the
quotations of several food commod.
tiles dropped in Denver and a further
decrease is expected.
Democrats are planning jubilee
for Jackson day, Jan. 8, in Denver.
More than 900 plates will be laid al
I'll Jebel temple. and 1t will be real
banquet with real price-$5 a plate.
The affair is to be given by the Dem.
ocratic club, and every county in
Colorado will be represented.
new strike of from seven to eight
inches of lead ore at bedrock is re.
ported from the Baker property mt
Cripple Greek. The first-class ore,
about ton, was taken out of the
seven-foot deep discovery hole and IL
said to assay II per cent in lead, %
ounces in silver and one-tenth of an
ounce in gold.
The fact that silver is 30 per cent
higher in 1916 than it was in 1915, TO.
gether with the added facts that 4t
pQ n haS hnan ia,
% to GO per cent gain in copper and
gain of 6 per cent in spelter. ex.
plains the unusual prosperity which
prevails in Gunnison, Chaffee, Lake,
Eagle, Summit and Park counties
One unit of the Independence sam.
pier of the Portland Gold Mining
Company at Cripple Creek is practi
cally completed, according to an
nouncement made by company Off
Gals. The sampler is being built In
two units of $50 tons daily capacit,
each, and the entire plant will be able
to run through 1900 tons of ore every
twenty-four hours
Plans for presenting the Use Of
manufacturers. jobbers, merchant,
ana the ultimate consumer for com
plete reimbursement of the freixh.
rates to and from Colorado befor. ths
Interstate Commerce Commission in
the Federal Court in Denver IN Ian.
10, were discussed at meeting OF
the Colorado Fair Rates Association
at Denver.
Denvers taxes in 1917 will be S6O2,.
$3.50 less than they were this year.
The big reduction, which amounts II
10 per cent decrease, Is provided
for in the annual levy ordinance in.
troduced in the city council and ar.
proved and ordered published on the
recommendation Of Mayor Speer. The
total amount to be raised will b. ST..
2o3.133.59. as compared 20 s5.S05.
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