The Ordway new era., 1916-11-24

Jan, ll-l3-Pouitry Show at Saho"
Jan. 2O-Athletic Club boxing contests
Jan. so-:7-Aunual western Stock
Feb 2-4-Y. NJ. c 4. Annual conven-
tiOn at Colorado Springs
Work has commenced on a new
chapel at Brush.
Las Animas county shipped 4,S25
head of stock during october
The defeat of the herd law was
celebrated by about $500 stockmen at
Canon City.
Work is being rapidly pushed on the
concrete foundations for AultS new
pumping plant.
The convict camp operating on road
work in Boulder canon will be trans
f,rred 10 Clarasdorf.
Mexican beans are bringing So.25 in
the dirt at Fowler. The buyer STANDS
The expense Of cleaning.
Greeley is to have fIve-foot cement
walks in the district along Fourth
street and Eighth avenue.
The Fremont County Poultry Asso-
ciation will hold its annual poultry
show at Canon City. Jan. II TO IS,
The Pueblo stockyards report an in
crease OF 400 carloads of stock handled
ia October over the same months in
1915.
The Colorado Midland Railway Com
pany has announced its intention o.
running directly into the town OF Car
bondale.
The Denver & Rio Grande railway
surveyors who have been making
survey of a new route over Cumbres
Pass have reached Antonito.
Tungsten miners are preparing 10
attend the January meeting OF the
Colorado Metal Mining Association TO
urge influence with Congress to pro.
tect their industry against the impor-
tation OF cheap ores from South Amer
ica.
A coToner's jury at Sterling re
turned a verdict declaring that Mrs,
Catherine Smith of Denver took her
cwn life Mrs. Smith was found dead
in bed. a revolver clutched in her
right hand. There was a bullet wound
in her temple.
In the Telluride district the new
Carruthers mill, owned and operated
by mama, Perino. Franck and Ress. is
in running order and the tramway be
tween the mouth OF the Sheridan
crosscut and the mill is in readiness
TO bring down the ore taken from the
Carruthers vein.
Miners employed in the coal camps
in Boulder county have been given an
advance in pay. Men employed by the
day will receive, under the new scale,
an advance OF per cent. while miners
who are paid BY the ton will receive
an increase OF cents ton. About
2,00G men are affected
Through the death of Justice Mills
OF the United States Circuit Court,
and the possible appointment of a sue
cessor from the Supreme bench of
Colorado. Samuel VI. Wheeler, de-
fea,ed for the Supreme bench in a
close contest Nth George W. Allen,
nay b. assigned 10 the state vacancy
and become Aliens associate.
Instead OF Chicago. it now appears
tEat Denver and the Rocky Mountain
T. g.ous may stage the scene where
the cOGstitutionaIity Of the Adamson
( eight-hOur lay may be fought to the
fist finish, for. from all appearances,
the railroads are gathering their com
bined strength in concerted attack
upon the validity Of the eIght-hour
I Law in the Federal District Court of
Colorado
F. 3. Radow, engineer in charge OF
/ the development OF the properties of
the TurTet Copper Mining and Devel-
! opment Company at Turret, Chaffee
| county, has sent to Denver some sam
! Plies Of ore taken from the fissure vein
which he has traced for upwards OF
1000 feet along this property. This
ore assays 1882 to the ton. Manager
| Radow crosscut this vein twelve feet
Of the main shaft at the 2OO-foot level
after opening up several veins on the
upper levels, the ore from which came
high values.
The rare minerals now produced in
Colorado are seven in number. and are
listed as bismuth, cadmium, carnotite.
molybdenum, tungsten, uranium and
vanadium. Bismuth and cod dmium are
byproducts Of Leadville ores. Carno-
tite is the leading item Of the mining
industry in portions of southwestern
Colorado and over the line into Utah
Molybdenum is taken from the molyb.
denite ores of Clear Creek, Summit,
Lake, Chaffee and Dolores counties.
| t1ranium-thp hiph.prada r,dinr,, 49,,
ducer-is found in Gflpin county and
N certain portions of Montrose and
San Miguel counties. Vanadium is
practically confined to southwestern
Colorado.
Examinations will be conducted in
large cities of The cnrntrx innlu1Ii. .-