The Ordway new era., 1916-11-17
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
es'ern Newspaper Union News Service.

DATES ron COMING EVENTS.
ian. 1-6-Poultry Show at Denver
ian IN, ,il-ls-Poultry Show at Canon
Jan; 2o-Athletic Club boxing contests
Jan; :o-27--Annual western stock
Feb: 2-t-Y. M. C. A. Annual Convcn-
ton at Colorado Springs.
Shipments of cattle from Hugo in
the last fortnight have ranged in value
around $15O.0OO.
The Ouray Smelling & Refining
Company Of Ouray is erecting a new
custom mill.
Harold f. Herr of Salida has pur-
chased site in Salida for a new no.
tel. for $4,000.
Plans have been completed for a
$4,000 chapel for the Eben Ezer Sani-
torium at Brush.
B. II. Moon has sold a section of
non-irrigated land to L. H. Gerstenber-
ger OF Byers for $12.8OO.
Mrs. Anna Nagel Schirmer. wife OF
Godfrey Schlrmer. died of heart dis
ease in her home in Denver.
The United Oil Company has con-
tracted for $125,OOO In Improvements
at the works in Florence.
A. W. Morrison disposed of eighty
acres of land near Ault to Roy Gill
more: consideration, $11,500.
Boulder county commissioners have
denied the petition for a vote on a
proposed good road bond issue OF
$4,000.
gate on Elkhead Creek near Steam
boat Springs has been awarded ]. w.
Rauschlaub.
Silver took trip skyward and
reached the high price of 71ss, the
highest it has been since May r..
when it reached TIN.
The state tax commission has made
a cut Of $2S.42O on the original ap-
praisement Of the property Of corpora.
tions In Boulder county.
The art exhibit recently held by the
Loveland public schools brought net
profits close to $50. The money will
be used for school purposes.
Petitions are being circulated where.
by the Postmaster General will be re-
quested to establish a mail line be.
tween Craig and Vernal, Utah.
The Grand Lodge Of the Odd Eel
lows is planning to build large add.
ton to the home for INDECENT mem
bers and orphans at Canon City.
Reports have been received at
Creede that the Commodore Mining
Company will build power plant to
be used in operating its property on
West Willow creek.
The postoffice at Merino, Logan
county, was broken into and SIS
lifted" from the cash drawer, accord
ing to reports received by Denver
postoffice inspectors.
Harvey l.. Waite, 45. an instructor
in the Centennial High school. suf-
fered injuries that may prove fatal
when he was struck by an automobile
on Main street in Pueblo.
In Gilpin county. the R. L. Moore
lease on the Lake mine are stopping
on a three-foot streak OF ore eighty
feet above the Big Five tunnel level,
that returns over two ounces gold per
| ton.
The Cripple Creek General Mining
| and Exploration Company has com.
pleted the timbe-ing Of the new
double compartment shaft of the Lit
tie May claim, on Newton hill, to a
depth of thirty-five feet.
OF the present potato crop of the
| San Luis Valley only about 1900 cars
have been shipped. Another 1,200 cars
have been dug and about 800 cars yet
remain in the ground. Shortage OF
cars is answerable for the blockade.
Postmaster B. F. Stapleton of Den.
yer has received from Washington
complete plans for the new mail
carrying device which will be installed
in the postoffice to eliminate all haul.
ing by trucks on the main floor Of the
building. The contract calls for COM
pletion in seventy days.
Active operations toward sinking a
number of test wells in the supposed
oil.bearing areas northwest Of Pueblo
may take place as the result OF nego
tiations of the directors of the Pueblo
Commerce Club and other business
men of Pueblo, with two large oil
p, ospecting concerns.
1t is now up to the church to find
something that will take the place of
the saloon, according to William Jen-
nings Bryan, who, although delighted
that his home state of Nebraska has
gene dry, contends that man is so
ciable ANIMAL" and, with the saloon
gone, he must find intercourse else
where. Mr.. Bryan lectured in Denver
in the Central Presbyterian church,