The Ordway new era., 1916-07-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspnper Union News Service.


boat Springs.
Aug. i-Celeb:.ation CoIorado.s Fort.
eth Anniversary Of statehood. at
Aug. 2-Naiional Convention of Rep
resentatires OF Negro Race at Den
Aug. s-Democratic State Assembly ii
Denver
Aug. l4-Colorado Federation OF Labor
meeting at Colorado Springs.
Aug. lSl9--l'ickle Day anu Fair a.
Plutteville.
Aug. 81 25-Annual Convention. Grand
Lodge X. OF T.. Mt Greeley.
Aug 3l-Sept Apple Pie Days at
Rifle.
Sept. 5-s-Fron,ier Days celebration
Sept, 81 2sEState Convention b. +. o. E,
at Trinidad.
The Fort Collins college is to spend
SAL 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. /.
The county clerk at Gunnison has
issued IS 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 a farm
er living southeast OF Berthoud, was
drowned in the Franz.
Farmers in northern Colorado arr
harvesting the biggest and best Gro?
OF alfalfa known in years.
The employees of the Loveland
gypsum plant have been given 10
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 S125.-
900 more TO Morgan county growers.
The Industrial Commission has de
clared a dividend TO policyholders in
the state compensation insurance
fund
The Enginemen and F'iremen, after
months meeting in Denver, ad-
journed to meet in Louisville, Ky.
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 Steamboa, are nearing
completion. Friday and Saturday, !
July IS and 90 being the days named |
for the big event
Private H. a Stokes in the ranks
OF the signal corps at the Golden Rifle |
Range was introduced a week ago to |
Miss Gladys Dempsey OF Denver. and /
four days later, he married her.
One promotion in the ranks OF Com |
pany Z, Rocky Ford las been Off I
cially announced. Private Henry A 1
Sullivan now is battalion sergeant
major, with salary Of s45 per month /
The Ouray Smelling and Refining (
Company has made final payment 20 /
the Wanakah Mining Company for the 4
Ouray smelter and the title now rests 4
in the former
Mining for gold, silver. led and 4
i, L. IN
the pioneer Colorado camps, located A
in Boulder, Gilpin and Clear Greek 4
counties.
An lS-inch vein OF graphite worth I
from $500 to $500 per ton, has been 1
found on the eastern slope OF Siegel 4
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
1910 During the year, with Colorado
School of Mines graduates in charge
of operations, 1OS,O7s tons of ore were
mlled at total cost of 1894 per ton,
compared with $3.50 in 1914.
Charged with raising check from
$145 to s605, w. ]. Hardy, organizer
of a 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 approximate
depth of 110 feet, and recently en-.
countered another flat vein cutting
through the vertical.
, The disappearance of surface water
and the return Of good miners from
the tungsten fields have assisted de
velopments at Cripple Creek, where
considerable work is under way. Re
cent discOverfea in manv. dtfforor+ a.