Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-12-08
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 1-6-Pouitry Show at Denver.
jan 11-13-Poultry Show at Canon
Jan; 2o-Athletic Club boxing contests
Jan; 2o-27-Annual Western Stock
Feb. 2-4-Y. M. c. a. Annual conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
A new alfalfa mill is to be opened
at Wilson.
Milk has been raised from TIC to
Sac per quart in Denver.
One of the most modern cement
manufacturing plants will be built at
L cost of $75O,000 near Morrison.
c. E. Waldron of Monument has
been elected president of the Colorado
Milk Producers Association. He sue
ceeds J. C. DeWall of Mount Morri-
son.
A gold brick was received at the U.
5. mint in Denver valued at $4,000,
and representing the eleventh clean
up of the year of the U. S. Gold Cor
poration mine and mill at Sugar Loaf.
One of the richest mines in the Sill
verton district, the Buffalo Boy group,
is lying practically idle, through being
tied up by litigation, although small
force of miners is carrying on develop.
ment work.
Fire in the two-story brick and
stone passenger station of the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad at Grand June
ton did serious damage to the office
room occupied by the telegraph de-
partment.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany declared a second dividend of 80
per cent within three months on the
81, 900, 900 of the preferred stock of the
company at a meeting of the directors
in Denver.
Two. little girls were drowned and
their small brother brought perilous-
ly near to death Thanksgiving, when
the ice on the Erie reservoir, near
Lafayette, broke and dragged them to
the bottom.
Gordon Smith, whose dual life was
revealed when It was discovered that
he was $500 short in his accounts
as cashier OF the Woods-Rueby Nation.
al bank of Golden. was sentenced to
five-year term in Leavenworth pris
on by Judge Robert E. Lewis of the
United States District Court in Den
yer.
Eighty per cent OF the copper to be
produced in the United States during
the first half of 1917 is said to be sold
in advance. This would indicate that
900, 900. 900 pounds of copper has been
placed for delivery during the first
six months of the coming year. the
refinery yield being estimated at 1885,
000,0 900 pounds per month.
Fifteen Colorado soldiers, members
of Troop C of the National guard, now
stationed at Brownsville, were severe
ly injured in a practice charge recent
ly, according to word brought to Den.
yer by Donald Knowlton. who arrived
from the border Knowlton has just
obtained his discharge as a corporal
in the hospital corps of the cavalry.
According to the budget estimate OF
the election commission. Denver will
need s54, 4,470.7l for elections in 1917.
The estimate is based upon the ex.
penditures for the 1915 election, which
were s37 ,623.43, the increase being due
TO greater cost of election material
and to the creation of sixty new pre-
cincts over the eighty-five existing in
1915.
Another of the sulphatcs of the
Colorado mountains has heard the call
of the East and added itself to the
mining products of The state-because
of the European war. Barytes. alias
barium sulphate, commonly known as
heavy spar, found everywhere in Col
orado, is being demanded of the state
after years of neglect due to the cheap
ness of the imported sulphate.
Cresson mine directors. at their
monthly dividend meeting in Colorado
Springs, surprised and gratified stock
holders by declaring a ] ) per cent ex-
ira dividend. in addition to the regu-
lar monthly one OF 10 per cent. The
extra dividend amounts to s1S3,OOO
and the regular to Sl22 900, making a
total of s305, 900, or 25 per cent on the
outstanding l.220,OOO shares. Both
payments are 10 be made Dec. 10 to
stock of record Nov. 80.
If there are any families dependent
upon men of the Colorado. National
guard now in need in any part of the
state. the condition can be remedied
by writing to the man at
the 'front.' and asking him to present
his application for help to the secre-
tary of war. Congress has voted 81
100000 for this specific purpose and
the money due to each dependent
family is forwarded, with all arrears,
by the War Department Just as soon
as the application of the national
guardsman previously responsible for