The Ordway new era., 1917-02-02

mems club known as the Community
Club.
Several elk. belonging TO the large
band that range in the lower part
Mineral county. have been seen in the
foothills near the D. & R. G. tracks.
At their regular meeting the Mont
rose City Council voted to accept from
the government the gift OF war relics
in the shape of two cannons used in
the Civil war.
The ice business in Colorado during
1916 showed marked increase over
that OF any previous year. and manu-
facturers attribute it in part TO the
adoption OF prohibition.
One OF the largest mountain lions
ever seen in Fort Collins was brought
in by George and Earl Ismert of Log
Cabin. The brute was killed about
eight miles above Livermore.
The electric line. which has been
under construction by the Colorado
Power Company for the past seven
weeks, from Poncha Springs to the
Raleigh mine, is fully completed.
Butch Johnson of Mancos followed
the wolves that this week killed two
steers in the feed lots OF Sam Johnson
and after days chase and tracking
| about thirty miles he came upon them,
| roped, tied to tree and killed the
| biggest one.
Following the example of their
neighbors in Routt county. a number
of Moffat county farmers have formed
\ a federal farm loan association for the
| purpose OF taking advantage OF the
| provisions OF the new federal farm
loan law.
Martin Walter, Jr, was elected
president OF the Colorado State Fair
Association at Pueblo and opened the
| offices of the association in that city.
The offices will be open every day
| from now until the fair is held next
| September.
Lady Perfection Korndyke l4i4572,
owned and developed by DR.. Hubert
Work OF Pueblo, Colo, has achieved
the honor Of being the first dairy COW
of any breed in the state of Colorado
TO produce over forty pounds OF but
ter in seven days.
A herd OF fifty elk from the Yellow
stone region in Wyoming will be
brought to Colorado for distribution
in the hills above Boulder and Neder-
land. The forestry service will super
wise their transportation. Two years
ago twenty-five elk were distributed
in the same district, and the herd is
said to be increasing rapidly.
Agreement of both mine operators
and officials of the United Mine Work
ers to recommendations of the State
Industrial Commission prevented a
threatened strike of 200 coal miners at
the mines in Huerfano county. Under
the accepted plan the miners will re-
ceive increases of cents day on all
coal mined and 10 cents a day for all
work done in or about the mines.
The Loyeland sugar factory COM
pieted its beet slicing campaign late
this afternoon after run of 112 days.
Approximately 219,0OO tons of beets
we're sliced, compared with 221 ,49i
tons last year and 1s0.155 tons two
years ago. The factory paid for about
$4,000 tons of beets purchased from
growers in this district, the remain
der being sent from other factories.
The recent sensational strike at the
Vernon mine is the talk OF the Ironton
section. Inquiry develops the infor-
nation that the shaft has been sunk
to depth Of more than fifty feet in
solid gray copper ore. running about
$50 per ton average and that the ore
Is even better at the bottom of the
shaft than at any other point.
From Grand Junction comes a report
that Mesa county's mining prospects
:or 1917 are about as bright as those
of any county in the state, with the
discovery of a four-foot veing of high
grade carnotite ore carrying values
that will mill from $40, 200 to $4,000 a
ton. The ore comes from a part of the
George Pickett (Maverick caiion) hold
fngs In the Calamity creek region, di-
rectly south of Grand Junction, about
twenty-siI miles.
]. R. Lowell of Colorado Springs
was elected president of the Mountain
States Hardware and Implement As
sociation to succeed Adolph Unfug of
Walsenburg at the annual election of
officers. The other officers chosen are
L. J. Pereau of Sterling, vice presi-
dent; Charles H. Wohrer. Des Moines,
N. NJ. vice president; ]. F. Jones, Den
yer, director: ]. F. Schmidt, Grand
] Junction, director; L. H. Bancroft,
Canon City, director: A. L. Anderson.
Montrose, director, and w. H. Ender-
ly, Thermopolis, wyo.
| Thirty-two persons met violent
deaths in Weld county last year, either
in automobile accidents, in drowning.
| by lightning. By some method of SELL
destruction. at the hands Of another
person, or by some accidental means
not included in previous classes, ac-