Gilpin observer., 1916-07-06
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. serv,c.

Aug: 1-Celebration Colorado's Forti-
eth Anniversary Of Statehood. at
Aug. 2-National Convention of Rep
resentatives of Negro Race at Den
Aug. s-Democratic State Assembly at
Aug. 1s-ls-Pickle Day and Fair at
Lodge K Of p. at Greeley.
Sept. 5-S-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan;
The cornerstone for Frederick's
new school building will be laid
July Is.
Colorado Odd Fellows held a big
Springs.
Hon. John T. Joyce of Silverton has
been appointed register of the Du-
range land office.
Twenty men worked all Friday
night to prevent the forest fires from
destroying Eldorado Springs.
A SNOWFALL picnic on the summit of
Pixies Peak was a Fourth of July fea-
ture at Colorado Springs.
The annual meeting of the Colorado
State Federation of Labor will be held
at Colorado Springs, Aug. IA.
Two forest fires threatened mining
camps in southwestern Colorado, ac-
cording to reports at Durango.
Donald Young. son of F. A. Young
of Denver is the youngest soldier at
the Golden rifle range. He is barely II.
Miss Emma Dye and w. B. Mills
were drowned at Lakeside. Their
bodies were found by two Denver
boys.
Denver building permits for the
first six months of 1916 show an in
crease of $69O,OOO over the same pc
riod last year.
A $1,000 bond issue carried by a
vote of nearly three to one for the
purpose of erecting a new high
school building at Bristol.
The permanent establishment of
Midwest Refining Company stock on
an s per cent basis was announced by
the board of directors in Denver.
The output of the Cripple Creek gold
mining district for June amounted to
S2.946 tons with an average value of
$1426 ton and a gross bullion value
of $1,183,371.
The body of Joseph Gould, Univer-
sity of Colorado student who lost his
life in the Eureka mine cave-in, was
taken back to the family burial ground
in Vermont
An entire troop of cavalry turned
out to witness the marriage of Troop.
er Bert A. Kyle, Troop A, and Miss
Ida M. Coleman of Denver, Camp
Golden's newest war bride
Catholic societies of Denver stand
ready to volunteer nursing aid and set
apart wards in all the local hospitals
for the use of the Red Cross Society
whenever the need may arise.
Four companies of infantry may be
organized in northern Colorado fol.
lowing the visit of recruiting officers
and the veteran fife and drum corps
to brighton, Fort Lupton, Platteville
and Greeley.
Company E OF the National Guard
left Rocky Ford for Golden after
having been in camp In that city for
ten days. They were given hearty
good-by by crowd that numbered
several thousand.
The mining season in the San Juan
region is unusually late this year,
holding back some of the new mills
and much of the development pro-
jected. Shortage of labor is also an
impediment. But the high prices for
metals yet prevail and summer work
will be prosecuted with energy.
c. S. Morey. president of the Great
Western Sugar Company, announced
that the company had definitely de.
cided to build sugar factory at
Brighton. The contracts for the ce
ment and the machinery have already
been placed. he said. and the work is
to commence at once. The investment
will be approximately $l,00O,O0O.
There was rejoicing at Camp
Golden among the members of such
units as have completed their enroll.
ment and have been mustered into
the federal service, when 1t became
known that the militia pay roll was
being made up and that they would
shortly receive the salary due them
from the state as members OF the
National Guard.
Dead trout, washed into the fields
OF Colorado and Wyoming by the high
water in. irrigation bitches, are con.
ceded to be excellent as fertilizers,
but are SO expensive to the United
States Department of Agriculture
when used for this purpose that Off.
cials of the Forestry Service branch
will make tests this summer of vari.
Gus devices and inventions to prevent
fish from getting into these bitches.