The Ordway new era., 1916-09-22
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES roU COMING EVENTS.

dale. r,,,i,
oct, I2-Annual roudre Canon Picnic
Jan. 2O-27-Annual w est 9'oN
Show at Denver
John n. Meekcr has been appointed
postmaster at Nampa.
An addition 10 the city hall at pn-
range will be erected.
Senator John +. Shnffroth has re
turned from Washington.
A potato show will be held a'
Monte Vista early in October.
Peach shipments from PalsaGc run
as high as ninety seven cars day
Bids are sought at Idaho Springs on
new location for the Idaho springs
postoffice.
Over $50 carloads of canialoupeS
have been shipped from Rocky Ford
and Ordway.
James Baker, Iiolbrook resident
committed suicide by shooting hinl-
self with a shotgun,
In August the Breckenridge dis
trict, in Summit county. shipped sSV'-
600 worth OF gold ore to the smelters.
John ]. 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 making
crop of the western plains, was hon
ofed with bean celebration at Pey-
ton.
Excavation has been started by the
Rare Metals Ore Company at Rollins
VILE for 50x&J-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
$175, 900 addition to the Union Print
crs' 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.
Mrs. Jane Adams, mother of John
IL Adams of Telluride. died in Den
yer. She was 50 years old and had
been an invalid for years
The net profit of the DR.. Jackpot
Mining Company at Cripple Creek for
the second quarter OF 1916 totaled
S12,314, a net gain for the first half
of the year OF 5,190.
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 Creek shipped six
ty-two carloads of ore during August,
having a gross bullion value of about
500.
The production of mineral in Clear
Creek county for the year 1915 to-
tailed $1,124,225, according 10 the re
port of the Geological Survey. The
number of producing mines in the
county is 105.
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 neal
Durango have uncovered blanket
vein of ore short distance below
grass roots that runs twenty-five
ounces in gold and 1,133 ounces il
silver to the ton.
A ten-inch vein of boronite copper
ore was encountered in the Princes:
Annie copper mine near West Cliff
The strike gives indication of a maiI
body of high grade copper ore in thu
heart of the mountain.
August production Of the properties
of the Granite Gold Mining Compan.
at Cripple Creek was $500 tons of ore
with an average value of $23 ton
The gross bullion value of the outpu
will approximate 100000.
The long contest over the dispos
ton of the fortune of the late Col
George S. Newman, Colorado capital
list, ended unexpectedly with the film
of an agreement in the Arapaho
County Court at Littleton, when tn
widows proposition to divide the es
tate was accepted by blood relatives.
A pistol shot which brought deaf
to Miss Ellfreda Levering, Denve
trained nurse, was the climax to
meeting between the young woma
and her sweetheart, Miles Collin,
when each agreed that all thought c
marriage should be banished fror