The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-08-02


The home of p. F. Stonehouse at
Cripple Greek was struck by lightning.
Police believe gang of automobile
thieves has been broken up at Pueblo.
Several Lead, !lle mines will close
pending settlement of the wage strike.
The George Richardson residence
near Brookside was destroyed by fire.
City council of Trinidad will spend
about $4,000 for sewerage disposal
plants
Over $1,000 in prizes will be Of
fered at Fort Morgan's Frontier Show.
Sept. Al.
During the first twelve days of July
Sc cars OF ore were shipped from
Silverton.
Operators add fifth group of mines
closed in Leadville district on account
of the strike.
Celeste Numari, a timberman in the
Sopris mine, was instantly killed by
fall of rock
Capt. and Mrs. ]. A. buchanan ar
rived in Pueblo to take charge of Sal
walton Army activities.
Fed yearling steers were sold on
the Denver market by Longmont
rancher at S12.4O per cwt
About $50 men in the little smelter
at Silverton quit work. demanding an
advance in wages OF 80 cents day.
The mines at Rico are now supply
Ing ore to six smelters or ore-treating
plants in Colorado. Utah and Kansas.
The forest supervisor at Saguache
reports the road over Cochetopa pass
on his forest, in excellent condition.
Order received at the new creamery
and cheese factory at La Junta re-
quires that all employees wear white
clothing.
Enoch Blimore. a miner In the Wild
Horse mine on lronclad hill at Victor.
was imprisoned behind a rock fall in
the 500-foo, level
Edward Troy. aged i3. injured five
months ago in a runaway accident.
died at his ranch home twenty miles
northwest Of Pueblo.
The bank clearings in Denver for
the week ending July 27 aggregated
$l2,1s1 .563.s6. as against $10.547. .5SS.57
for the same week last year.
Colorado will be the next field for
I. w. WIS and their work" asserted
Charles II. Meyer. president of the
Western Federation OF Miners.
Members OF the First Colorado reg
tment are to be presented with bronze
watch fobs by Occidental Camp No. g..
Woodmen OF the World. ofSDenver.
The tourist movement to Colorado
has taken on a tremendous increase in
the last ten days, according to state
ments made by railroad officials and
reports received at the Denver Tourist
Bureau
With the discovery of a new body of
ore that is shipping around $50 a
ton at the Queen Bess mine, it is pre-.
dicted that the mine will soon climb
into the million dollar class of pro-
ducers.
The quantity of petroleum marketed
in 1916 from the oil fields of Colorado
was 1877 .235 barrels OF forty-two gal
Ions each, decrease OF 1920 bar
rels. or per cen. from the output
in 1915.
1t is reported that during the last
month the Tomboy company of Tellu-
ride, which is an English-owned cor
poration. paid $75.330. or "a per cent.
in spite of the English tax of 30 per
cent for war purposes.
Governor Gunter has received infor-
nation of the confirmation of the ap-
pointment of DIR. Beverly Tucker of
Colorado Springs as member of the
draft exemption board of the first
district. vice DR.. w. F. Hoagland
Operations began in the big white
mill at the mouth of Boulder canon
recently. owned by the Boulder Tung.
stem Production Company. which
means that tungsten in Boulder
county is one more big step nearer a
permanent industry
The banks of Colorado have agreed
to advance $325.000 to pay off all
members of the Colorado National
Guard and other expenses of the guard
up to Aug. 5. without discount and
accept certificates of Indebtedness in
stead of waiting for a bond issue
At Monte Vista there was so little
opposition to bond issue of 500. 900
to build new high school building
that few persons took the trouble to
go TO the polls.
David Pfieffer, IT. and Clyde kuth-
line. II. of Wheatridge. and Solomon
Kern, "a. of Denver were drowned in
Lake Pettigrew, near Wheatridge,
h when their boat overturned.
J. NJ Taylor has been elected cap
tain of the Denver Grand Army Vete-
ran Military Company. r. II. McGill
has been named as first lieutenant and
II. NJ. McElrose second lieutenant.