Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-07-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News service.

Aug. 1-Celebration Colorado's Forti-
eth Anniversary of Statehood. at
Aug. 2-National Convention of Rep
resentatives of Negro Race at Dem
Aug. 8-Democratic State Assembly at
Aug. 14-Colorado Federation of Labor
meeting at Colorado Springs.
aug. 1S-l9-Pickle Day and Fair al
Aug. .22- -25-Annual Convention. Grand
Lodge *. OF p. at Greeley.
Aug. 31-sept. Apple Pie Days at
Sept 5-s-Frontier Days celebration
Sept. 27,asEstafe Convention B. P.o. E
at Trinidad.
The Fort Collins college is to spend
S341 900 for improvements this year
The Montana militia passed through
Denver on the way to the Arizona
border
A two.day apple pie celebration
will be held at Rifle, Aug. 81 and
Sept l.
The county clerk at Gunnison has
issued 3S more auto licenses this year
than last.
The Delta National Guard were
given an ovation when they passed
through Gunnison.
Nels Arthur Benson, son OF farm.
er living southeast of Berthoud, was
drowned in the Franz.
Farmers in northern Colorado are
harvesting the biggest and best crop
of alfalfa known in years.
The employees of the Loveland
hp,- atx
per cent increase in wages.
A party from Steamboat Springs
made the trip to Denver over the new
automobile route in one day.
The increase in the price of beets
this season is expected to bring $685.
The Industrial Commission has de-
clared dividend to policyholders in
the state compensation insurance
fund.
The Enginemen and Firemen, after
months meeting in Denver, ad
next year.
Many men heard the call to the
colors and enlisted at the recruiting
office in the Civic Association build
ing in Denver July 4.
The Fort Collins sugar factory re-
ceived five car loads of beet seed
grown in Russia. The seed will be
stored for distribution to growers
next year.
More than 200 prominent attorneys
from all parts of the state attended
the nineteenth annual state conven-
tion of the Colorado Bar Association
at Colorado Springs.
The plans for the annual straw
berry day at Steamboat are nearing
completion, Friday and Saturday,
July 2S and 30 being the days named
for the big event.
Private II. A. Stokes in the ranks
of the signal corps at the Golden Rifle
Range was introduced week ago to
Miss Gladys Dempsey Of Denver, and
four days later, he married her.
One promotion in the ranks of Com
pany E, Rocky Ford. las been Off
cially announced. Private Henry A.
Sullivan now is battalion sergeant
major. with a salary of si5 per month.
The Ouray Smelling and Refining
Company has made final payment to
the Wanakah Mining Company for the
Ouray smeiter and the title now rests
in the former.
Mining for gold. silver, lead and
copper is making marked progress in
the pioneer Colorado camps, located
in Boulder, Gilpin and Clear Creek
counties.
An 1S-inch vein of graphite worth
from $500 to $500 per ton, has been
found on the eastern slope of Siegel
mountain, about eight miles from Pit
kin, in the Quartz Creek mining dis
trict.
The Seoul Mining Company. located
in Corea, has issued its report for
1915. During the year, with Colorado
School of Mines graduates in charge
of operations, 1OS,07S tons of ore were
milled at total cost of 1894 per ton,
compared with $3.50 in 1914.
Charged with raising a check from
S145 to $605, w. J. Hardy. organizer
of state bank at Stevens camp,
former head of 100000 tungsten
mining company, and builder of
thirty-six room hotel on the road from
Boulder to Nederland was placed in
Jail in Boulder.
Alex Hickman & Co., lessees operat-
ing the Shoe Fly mine of the Stratton
estates Womack hill group of claims,
are drifting west from the bottom of
the Hickman shaft at an annroyi,pota
depth of 110 feet, and recently en-
countered another flat vein cutting
through the vertical.
The disappearance of surface water
and the rntlrn of good nainarc fzax,,