Gilpin observer., 1916-09-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES Foa COMING EVENTS.

Sept II zsWState Convention q. p. o. K.
at Trinidad. -
Valley and Southern Ute indian Fair
Sept, so~Harvest Festival at Briggs
Oct. 12-Annual Poudre Canon Picnic
at Fort Collins. s,o.x
Jan. 20-27-Annual WesteF"
| Show at Denver.
In Denver, 7s,sOO persons have reg
istered.
Briggsdale will hold harvest fes-
tival Sept. 30.
The Num- harvest festival was
largely attended.
A Cripple Creek report says the
Ajax lease is proving rich. .
A streak Of ore has been opened up
in the Brazil mine at Freeland.
Boulder reports the tungsten situa-
ton brighter than for some time.
Craig is appealing to Moffat road
officials for the erection of a depot
Many mining properties in the San
Juan district are reopening because
Of better ore prices.
Cne hundred and thirty-six candi-
dates were on the ballots in Denver at
Tuesdays primaries.
Colorado potato farmers will have
a market offering of five million
bushels this year.
The land Office receipts at Pueblo
for August were $S,400. There were
1922 filings during the month.
The Eureka mine in Gilpin county
is to be taken over and worked by
Ohio and Kentucky capitalists.
Workers in eight of the coal mines
in Huerfano county have joined the
United Mine Workers of America.
Evidences of a revival of prosperity
in the production of tungsten are seen
by mining men in the tungsten fields.
The Royal Arch chapters of Colo
rado Masons held barbecue at STRAIT
ton park, Colorado Springs, Saturday.
The Rocky Mountain Baptist Asso-
citation will meet in annual session at
Loveland, Sept. IT, in three days
session.
Denver bank clearings for the week
ending Sept. were $12, 101, goo, a
gain of 55.5 per cent over the same
week in 1915.
Nearly $4,000 pounds of zincgold
ore was shipped from the Eureka
mine in Gilpin county last week to
Black Hawk.
Members of the Pixies Peak Cattle
and Horse Growers Association met
at Florissant and condemned the pro-
posed herd law.
Robert Larson, 55 years old, car
repairer for the Denver L. Rio Grande
railroad, was crushed to death while
working on a car at Denver.
Both first and second prizes in the
open show for Boston terriers at the
dog show held in Kansas City were
won by Denver-owned dogs.
The buffalo herd at City park in
Denver attained its majority" with
the birth of fine girl baby that
raised the number to twenty-one.
Edwin Patton, who is fathering a
municipal swimming pool project fol-
Boulder, estimates that a pool 75x5C
feet will cost approximately $2.50O.
No bids were forthcoming last week
when the Denver, Laramie & North
western railroad was placed on the
auction block for about the sixth
time.
George T. Shannon, So years old
past commander Of Washington Post
G. A. R., and for sixteen years a resi-
dent of Denver, died at the home OF
his son.
Lessees OF the Lake mine in Gilpin
county shipped $5,S25 worth of smelt
ing ore during the first two weeks In
August and 400 tons of concentrated
ore.
II. s. Graves, chief of the United
States Forest Service, has received
applications for the construction of
fortytwo roads in Colorado, under
provisions Of the federal aid act.
The Denver Trades and Labor coun.
Gil went on record as opposed to the
assembly feature of the state primary
election law and registered its disap.
proval OF the industrial relations law.
The enrolment at the Colorado
School for the Deaf and Blind at Colo.
rado Springs broke all records when
t reached 1870. This is larger than
at any previous time in the institu.
tion's history.
One girl was seriously injured and
seven other boy and girl members of
picnic party were more or less
dangerously hurt when an automobile
winch they were speeding into
Denver was struck by touring car
on the Federal boulevard road. five
miles outside the Denver citv limits
Jack 7, Mason is confined to his
nome suffering from severe burns
and Dwight Ryland is in st Luke,s
Hospital in Denver In n ,orta..