The Ordway new era., 1917-03-16


There ElIi be six acres of floor space
in the new sheep shed to be erected
at the Denver stock yards.
Pueblo police were asked to assist
in the search for an escaped convict
registered at the institution under the
name of Bridges.
The Anderson bill extending the
provisions of the child labor law 10
Colorado beet fields was killed by the
house by vote of 3S to %.
Several Greeley men have organized
company to prospect and drill FOR oil
in the vicinity of Greeley, under the
name. the Platte River Oil and Gas
Company,
Edwin Gaylord, formerly of Denver,
has secured a five-year lease on the
Forest Queen group, adjoining the Jer'
ry johnson at Cripple Greek, and has
commenced work.
At Creede four-foot vein of lead
ore has been encountered on the 500
foot level OF the Park Regent, which
is under lease to the Creede Mines
and Milling Company.
Announcement was made in Denver
that approximately $50 men in the
employ OF the Great Western Sugar
company have been given bonuses OF
20 per cent on their annual pay check.
Operations in the Portland mine dur
ing the last year have opened up an
ore shoot over 1000 feet in length at
l i 81 har 1Dt Dt-CgN
ore bodies have been encountered in
| the property.
With the exception OF the First and
Second battalions OF infantry at Doug
| las. Ariz., all Colorado troops on the
| border. will leave for home March 10
| and will be mustered out at Fort ID. a.
| Russell, Wyo.
At a meeting of the board of trus
| tees of the State School of Mines at
Golden ii was voted to accept the gen
eral invitation to join the federation
| of colleges in behalf of the war pre-
paredness movement
The members of Battery B of the
Colorado National Guard are to be
| given a warm welcome at a reception
and dance which the mothers of the
members of the battery will give at
| FL Jebel in Denver on March 15.
At Denver hotel 200 Sons of Colo.
rado gathered for the first of series
of historical banquets. A message OF
loyalty was dispatched to President
Wilson Former Governor Alva Ad
ans made the principal address.
Battery B of the Colorado National
guard having reached Denver from
Fort D. A. Russell and demobiziled at
its armory, the Denver Civic and Com
mercial Association continued its eff.
forts TO place the men in jobs.
One hundred and twenty-five men,
from all walks in life, have been sum-
moned for jury service in the trial OF
Mrs. Stella Moore Smith in Denver,
charged with the murder of her hus.
band, John Lawrence Smith, in Jan
uary
Due to a realization of the hardships
imposed by the increasing high cost
OF living, the Continental Oil Company
las announced from its Denver offices
| that it will grant a bonus to all its
employees receiving less than $4,000 a
| year.
Joseph Rankin, half-breed Indian
husband OF Mrs. AIDA Hauk Rankin,
who was arrested in Pueblo on the
charge of grand larceny, preferred by
the Denver police, was taken to Den
yer and placed in the city Jail to
await trial
The relics, curios and records which
tell the tale of the hardships encoun-
tered by the pioneers of the state are
at last near being protected and Kept
for the benefit of posterity and the
historical societies and organizations
of the state
Half lifetime spent in prospecting
in Colorado hills has brought it's re-
ward, not in gold or silver, but in oil,
and today Matt Callahan, 6O-year-old
Debeque miner, finds himself owner of
a 3,500-acre tract of Oil shale land, the
value of which is estimated at mil
| lions.
That the French government Is plan
ming to buy $4,000 tons of Colorado
wal d iioheh ioi dH lHuellHlle peTlOu
was disclosed in Denver by five
agents of the French government who
are In Chicago to buy Illinois coal,
which will be shipped with that from
Colorado.
Hogs, LIP carloads of them, and
valued at not less than $1,650,OOO,
were shipped out of the San Luis val.
ley during the past year, according to
report made to the State Immigra.
tion Commission by Charles Erdman.
secretary Of the San Luis Valley Hog
Growers Association.
AT Silverton the Silver Lake custom
mill has been working large force