Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-10-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Longmonts paving PROJECT Is nan
completed
Ten new residences are under erec-
ton at Wray.
Springfield has turned on its new
electric lights.
A state highway is proposed be-
tween Paonia and Redstone.
The tenth annual Del Norte Fair
will be held Oct. >, and Z.
Secretary of Labor William b. vii
son will speak in Denver Oct. 27.
Adams county reports an increased
valuation in property of $4,000.
The assessed valuation of Boulder
county has been raised s2,3S2,4So over
that Of 1915.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed by the Excelsior Irrigating Com
pany of Pueblo.
The Iron Mask mine at Beiden is
building new ore house and install.
Iag new machinery.
Edward A. Griggs, 20, and Irene
William, IS, secured a marriage Ii
SCHot dl anu tioptus
The Herald mine in Boulder county
will be developed extensively with the
aid of New York capitalists.
Ross Pattison, near Fowler, har-
vested four tons of honey during the
summer from 125 swarms of bees.
A special election will be held on
Oct. II, to decide whether the town OF
Flagler shall become a corporation.
Otero county shows an increased
valuation of S52,235. The county has
$50 automobiles, valued at s254,525.
The funeral of Adolph j. Zang was
held at his late residence in Denver,
and interment was in Fairmount cem'
etery.
Chas. w. Fairbanks, Republican
candidate for Vice President, address.
ed a large audience at the Denver Au,
ditorium.
The Pueblo Rifle Club of the Ma
tional Rifle Association has received
its consignment of rifles from the War
Department
The Golden Globe will be offered for
sale shortly by Jay J. Bryan. admins
traitor of the estate of J. w. Arasmith
the late publisher.
Go TO Sunday School and Stay te
Church Sunday" was generally OBJ
served Oct /, as urged in Governor
Carlson's proclamation.
The school authorities at La Jars
have received two large automobiles
for use in transporting pupils to and
from the community school.
a five years lease on the Last Dol
lar mine, on Bull Hill, has been SO
cured by Charles Walden of Victor
former manager of the property.
Practically the entire line of the
Denver & Rio Grande railway from
Tennessee Pass west to Grand juno
ton is being relaid with new steel.
David f. McFeeters, 81, a fruit
grower of Palisade, was found drown
ed in three feet of water in the Price
ditch, two miles northwest OF Pals
ade.
Master bakers of Denver decided tC
increase the price of all bakery goods
approximately 80 per cent. These will
include bread, pies, rolls and every
other staple.
Two hundred and forty-nine officers
and men of the Colorado National
Guard. the full complement of Bat
teries and c. We're ordered to the
Mexican border for service.
Fremont county was awarded the
first prize of S75 for the best fruit ex.
hfbit made at the Pueblo State Fair
Delta county was awarded second
and Pueblo county third prize.
Lessees engaged in working over
the dump at the main shaft of the Elk.
ton Consolidated Mining and Milling
Company, Cripple Creek, are making
production of from fifteen TO eighteen
cars a month"; The ore, with close
sorting and screenings, is returning
values of from So to IS ton
Official orders dispatching Batteries
B and C of artillery, Colorado Nation
al Guard, to the Mexican border we're
received by Major Patrick Hamrock
commanding the state mobilization
camp at the rifle range near Golden
and the guards entrained for the Dor
der.
DR.. Edward Augustus Floyd, per
sonal friend of Abraham Lincoln, iii
nois legislator during the Civil War
and pioneer physician of the West
died at his home in Aurora from a par
alytic stroke. He had been in failing
health for four years. DR.. Floyd was
IS years old.
In the La Plata section the Column
bus Mines Company has adopted planE
for the construction of aerial tram
ways. necessary new buildings ant
general equipment for progressive ant
systematic development OF their large