The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-12-27

l4-l9-Annual
at Fort Collins
Jan. 14-1s-Central Colorado Poultry
and Pet Stock Show at Salida.
JAN 19-26-Live stock show at Denver.
Canon City Is considering the estab-
lishment of a municipal coal depart
ment
The old Peerless mine six miles
west of Hillside is working quite a
force of men and will soon have a car
of ore ready to ship to the smelter.
Nine hundred pounds of infants
clothing has been sent to France by
the committee of the Colorado Medi-
cal Woman's War Service League of
Denver.
The amount of money fixed by the
assessor to be collected in Fremont
county during the coming twelve
months, which will be the 1917 taxes.
will be $422.s23.
Two sailors instead of one were
saved by the Germans from the Amer
lean destroyer Jacob Jones, according
to an. official German announcement
at Amsterdam.
The United States government has
supplied four headstones for the
graves of veterans of the Civil and
Spanish-American wars who are
buried at Berthoud
Fifteen hundred boxes of candy, one
for every Sammy at Fort Logan, was
the Christmas remembrance given by
pupils Of the third and eighth grades
of Denver's public schools.
Twenty per cent. is a conservative
estimate of the increase of holiday
business in Denver over last year.
This is the consensus of opinion by
managers of the leading stores.
The monthly report of the Isabella
mine shows that good progress is be-
ing made in development work and
that the two recent strikes are hold
ing up, one of them assaying $61.50 a
ton.
A total of over $4,000 will have
been realized from the sale of the old
Arapahoe county poor farm when
deals now under way are legalized by
final passage of ordinances authoriz-
ing the sales.
District Attorney William E. Foley
of Denver declined to file murder
charges against Roy DUSTY Fergu-
son. arrested two weeks ago in con-
nection with the killing of Henry ].
Morgensen. druggist.
A plan to establish the cash and
carry" system is advocated in market
ing bread by the United States food
administration. and the Colorado di-
vision is extending the idea for ~
grocery and food products.
Colorado farmers will get better
prices for their potatoes. il they grade
the potatoes and separate the frost
bitten ones from the good ones. the
committee on markets of the State
Council of Defense advises.
Ore shipments. mine developments
plants have been greatly assisted by
open weather in the San Juan dis
tricts, which has prevailed this year
much later than usual.
First death to occur in the ranks of
the National Army from Prowers
county has been reported from Camp
Funston. Burt ANan Morton Prior,
died from pneumonia. His home was
on homestead near Duer.
One of the most striking develop
ments in metallurgical processes in
the last few years has been the sue
ceessful results obtained with oil-flota
tion methods of recovering metals
from their ores, linked with the in
stallation process.
, Tremendous interest has been
aroused in oil exploration throughout
Colorado. according to the report read
at the luncheon of the Denver Real
Estate exchange by Charles H. Howe.
chairman of the State Advisory Oil
Survey Commission.
Ed Johnson and associates, who are
leasing on the Aspen mine, situated
on Hazelton mountain. only couple
of miles from Silverton. are doing
considerable work with a small force
of men and have been steady shippers
for over year past.
The Cresson Consolidated Gold
Mining and Milling Company, the
Golden Cycle Mining Reduction Com
pany, and the Portland Gold Mining
Company presented all their eni-
ployes. both at the mills and mines IN
the district and at Colorado Springs,
with thrift or war savings stamps for
Christmas gifts.
A divorce suit is Mrs. Teresa E.
Lees definite answer to the action re-
Gently instituted by her husband, DR..
George f. Lee. against her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick ]. Schmidt of
Denver from whom he demands $685.
600 damages for the alleged loss of
his wifes affections through "a ma
licious pro-German conspiracy"