Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-12-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News service.

DATES For COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 1-6-Pouitry Show at Denver.
Jan; i1-1a-Poultry Show at Canon
Jan. 2o-Athletic Club boxing contests
Jan; so-:!.Annual western Stock
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ. c. A. Annual Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
A new NJ. E. church is to be erected
in Stonington.
Several concre.e bridges are being
built near Sugar City.
The town of Glen Eden, Routt coun-
ty, will erect a large hall.
Several new residences will be
erected in Mead. Boulder county.
The Adobe Creek reservoir at Las
Animas is being stocked with catfish.
A total coal tonnage of ,O3S,263 was
mined in Colorado for the month of
October, 1916.
The Colorado Midland Railway Com.
pany has discontinued four mail
carrying trains for the winter.
The Telluride Commercial league
10 perfecting plans for the attraction
of tourists to Telluride in 1917.
California melon raisers have buyers
in the Arkansas valley looking for
their 1917 supply of cantaloupe seed
A $4,000 contract covering the fur
nishings of the auditorium OF the new
Loveland High school building has
been awarded.
Prices and market facilities of sta
pie, perishable and other foodstuffs
are to be made the subject of state
wide probe by the incoming legisla-
turs.
Dan Cunningham, residing on the
Ravens ranch near Prospect Hill.
Cheyenne county, raised ten tons of
broom corn this year which he sold at
$40 per ton.
1t is estimated that more than
100000 will be be distributed this
year in Christmas bonuses to employees
in large firms and companies in
Denver.
With the establishment of a federal
office of grain standards another
United States headquarters has been
added TO the long list of Denver fed
eral offices.
The first dredge-boat for gold built
in the West was on the Feather river,
near Oroville, in the summer of 1873.
II was not a paying investment nor
mechanical success.
Governor-elect julius Gunter and
Mrs. Gunter, who were Ill for several
days with severe colds in Washing.
ton, are improving perceptibly, accord
ing to word received in Denver.
At the stockholders meeting of the
st. Elmo Queen Mining Company, at
st. Elmo, Chaffee county, the entire
board of directors were reelected and
the same officers are in control.
Active operations have been re-
sumed on the property OF. the Black
Belle Gold Mining Company on the
southwestern slope of Beacon hill,
and production has commenced.
The contract for the erection of a
$4,000 dry and cold storage ware
house and distributing plant in Pu-
eblo will be let in few days, accord
ing to information given out at Pu-
eblo.
Greeley will have a municipal cele.
bration of Christmas again this year,
the Womens Civic Federation taking
the initiative and all the churches. the
city council and commercial bodies
joining.
J. J. Custick reports that the Elk
Mining and Milling Company. which
is the owner of 325 acres of heavy
mineralized ground on Red mountain.
have been developing their property
by tunnel for the last fifteen months.
The Mountain Top Mining Company,
in Ouray county, originators of the
underground mill idea. have purchased
burro pack train of seventeen ami.
mails to be used in the transportation
of concentrates and supplies between
the mine and the tram. In this way
they propose TO keep the tram in op-
Grafton all winter.
One unit of the Independence sam
pier of the Portland Cole Mining
Company at Cripple Creek is practi-
cally completed, according to an
nouncement made by company Off.
cials. The sampler is being built in
two units of $50 tons daily capacity
each, and the entire plant will be able
to run through l,5OO tons of ore every
twenty-four hours.
Gaining depth at a rate of seventy
feet month, the double-compartment
shaft of the War Eagle Consolidated
Gold Mines Company. on the Happy
Year lode mining claim, on the west.
ern slope of Bull hill. Cripple Creek,
has attained depth of 29O feet and
the work will continue until the point
for the third level station 375 feet
from Surfncn is eanhal