The Colorado statesman., 1918-01-26

Jan. 22-24-Annual meeting ColoIhuo
Metal Mining Association at state
Capitol building in Denver.
Springfield is planning for broom
factory.
Maybell people are agitating the
building of community hall
A large company of home guards
has been organized at Flagler.
The new Masonic Temple at Las
Animas has been formally dedicated.
Rural mail carriers have petitioned
r. c. Harris has received the ap-
pointment as postmaster at Great
Divide.
Snow fences have been erected on
the Lincoln highway, four miles north
of Loveland.
A rich vein of silver ore has been
uncovered in the Conger Chief mine
at Caribou.
Ike Stevenson of Egnar, San Miguel
county, is drilling for oil on his prop
erty in that district.
A rich tungsten deposit has been
opened on the eastern slope of Mt.
Hayden, near Ouray.
Extensive shipments of carnotite ore
are being made from the Gateway
country, Paradox valley.
January 80 has been set aside as
Tag Day" by the federal
Fuel Administration.
The first oil drilling in thirty years
is being done in Weld county ten
miles east of Greeley.
Within the last year more than $50
companies have been incorporated in
Colorado to prospect for oil.
The county commissioners of Weld
county have arranged for an agricul-
tural agent for the coming year.
1t is alleged that the road houses
on the Sand creek trail between Den
yer and Brighton are now closed.
The payroll of the steel works at
Pueblo for the month of December
nearly touched the 100000 mark.
The farmers in the vicinity of Trull,
near Steamboat Springs, will build
and place in operation a flour mill.
w. o. Peterson, formerly a home
steader near Two Buttes, was killed
at Camp Funston by railroad train.
To date the Federal Farm Loan
Bank of the Wichita district, includ-
ing Colorado has issued SS,000,000 to
farmers. r,4
The Colorado Editorial Association
held two-day session in Denver, and
members attended a banquet and the
stock show
e. L. Staats is financing the con-
struction of a road to the property of
the George X. Mining Company in
Paradise gulch, Gunnison county.
1t is reported that strike of fine
made in the workings of the Congress
mine at Red Mountain, near Silverton.
Dewey C. Bailey, manager of excise
and safety for the city of Denver, was
appointed explosive licensor, accord
ing to announcement made at Wash
ington.
Pay as you CO." will be the slogan
at all Weld county garages on and
after Feb. /, according to the present
sentiments of automobile dealers and
repair men.
The Blake Mining Company organ
lied with a capitalization of $4,000,
filed it's articles of incorporation at
Leadville, intending to operate in
Lake county.
The Brighton Sugar Factory ground
24,522 tons of beets during its less
than one month of operation. The
sugar output for the campaign was
61,575 sacks.
In the matter of dividends the Well
ington Mines Company of Brecken-
idge, an important producer of lead
and zinc concentrates, paid 100000
during 1917 on a capital of s1,000000.
More than fifty of the largest metal
mine producers of Colorado gathered
at the capitol In annual session and
discussed some of the most important
questions brought about by the war.
One of the big issues is silver, and
another is excess profit war tax.
]. A. Barclay of Grand Junction, was
elected president of the Colorado Edi-
torial Association at the meeting in
Denver, Monday. G.. F. Wadsworth
was named vice-president, and Alva A.
Swain reelected secretary-treasurer.
The editors were the guests of the
State Council of Defense at banquet
Monday night, at which Governor Gun.
ter praised the work done by the men,
bers of the press; and Tuesday the
editors and their wives visited the
stock show and the National Film
Company's place at Englewood.
After entertaining the Colorado Ed.
itorial Association at breakfast, the
Colorado Stockgrowers' Association
hapan its forty-fourth annual cnnven.