The Raymer enterprise., 1917-09-06
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
ys..ern New.paper unIon Sew. servics.

- AT tolorado springs
Sept. ls-2o-Eastern Star Meeting at
sept lT-2i-Masonic meeting at Den.
YER
Nov. i2-is-Automobile show at Den
yer.
County Fairs.
sept ll-1i-Logan County at Sterling.
sept ls-2l-cheyenne County at Chey-
enne Wells.
Sept is-2i-western slope at Mont
rose
Sept 2o-22-Indian Fair at Ignacto.
sept 2O-z2-Philiips County al HOE
Sept 25-2s-Colorado New Mexico at
Durango.
Sept 2s 2s--Las Animas County at
Sept. 272s-Lincoln County at Hugo.
ling.
Oct s.5-Kit Carson County At Bur-
lngton.
Milk producers receive higher prices
for milk.
Hearings on labor situations in
southern coal fields resumed.
l. N. Barnard and Harry Hilvitz In.
stantly killed in auto accident on Rye
road.
Crowley county will ship 400 car.
loads OF pink meat and honey dew
melons this year.
Beanless chilli con carne this winter
Is in prospect unless the price of Mex.
lean beans Is reduced.
The Colorado unit OF the Red Cross
has received two more trucks for use
on the fields OF France.
The Colfax-Lafimer yiaduct In Den.
yer cost total Of S939.272, according
to an audit Of construction
The machinery for tho new Domin.
ion mine at Ophir has been unloaded
at Boulder and Is now en- route to the
mine.
Floyd Overstake has confessed, Of
ficers at Colorado Springs state. to
half q dozen crimes besides that OF
bigamy.
In gun fight with officers at Vic.
tor. Irving Poague. "a years old. re-
ceived wound that It is believed will
be fatal.
Durango reports copper ore running
t72 ton and silver 335 a ton, In the
assay statements received from the
Mary Murphy mine near Durango.
From Rico station, In June. fifty
cars Of ore were shipped. the desti.
nations being Leadville, Garfield, Mid
vale. Durango. Coifeyyille and Cana
dium.
The completion of new mills In the
Gilpin and Clear Greek county dis
tricts is delayed by the difficulty Of
obtaining machinery and other equip
ment on time.
Mrs. A. @. MINER. owner OF the Lit
tie Giant group OF mines at Lawson.
north OF Georgetown, is finishing .
large mill which will be equipped with
flotation units.
The Santa Cruz. located near the
ophir loop, and operated by Wickman
& Fantone. is making one of the sea
sons new shippers. A carload OF $50
ore was loaded out.
A number OF Colorado men who re-
Gently received commissions at Fort
Riley were ordered to report immedL
ately for duty at Camp Cody, near
Deming, n. NJ.
With indications pointing to q
bumper crop OF potatoes In all parts
OF the United States. consumers may
expect relatively low prices during
the coming winter.
Telluride station in July shipped 1877
cars OF concentrate. AT twenty-five
tons to the car, and eighteen tons of
crude ore to one Of concentrate, this
means 55.i20 tons lifted from the
mines.
Colorado Jews are forming an or.
ganization TO raise Colorados share OF
a sl0,O00,000 fund to be used In the
relief OF thousands OF Jews made
homeless by the latest German ad-
vances in Russia.
There are 135,000 acres OF alfalfa In
the Arkansas valley. and II each acre
produces only one ton Of hay on the
second cutting. and is sold for SIS per
ton, this crop will bring in the neigh.
borhood Of s2.5oo.o00.
Mrs. NJ. E. Hawkins, president OF
the Women's auxiliary. Base Hospital
No. 20, Red Cross, has issued an ap-
peal for sweaters. socks, wristlets, hel.
NETS and other knitted articles for the
members Of the hospital company.
Denver's assessment for the year
1917 shows a gain OF s2O.49s,5 over
1916. according to the abstract OF as.
sessment certified to the Colorado
Tax Commission by Manager of Rev.
enue Pitcher. the ex-offidg assessor.
Leading the farmers uf the state in
officialls indorsing the fight for an
army recuperation camp in Colorado.
the Glendale chapter Of the Colorado
Grange has passed a resolution COM
mending the efforts being made, and
calling upon all farmers to stand back
Of the plan.
Notwithstanding Colorado coal oper.
ators have retreated from their posi-.
tion to close down their mines rather
than continue business and sell their