The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-27
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

Aug. 222i-Colorndo state Flremeh
Convention at Georgetown.
Sept. Fifty sixth annual confer
ence OF Colorado NJ. h. Chureh "'
Delta.
Sept. I9-Beaver Park fair at Penrose
Sept. 2S-.S-Colorado state Fair at
Pueblo.
Sept. 26-2s-Lincoln County Fair at
Hugo.
An oil strike is reported on White
river near Meeker.
A local telephone company at Eads
has applied for a franchise.
VIM. Gage of Denver is listed among
the missing on the cruiser San Diego.
Base Hospital No. %, Denvers' own
hospital unit, has arrived safely over
seas.
Ray S. Brooks of Red Cliff is re-
ported seriously wounded in action IN
France.
The new coal mine being opened
near Oak Creek is being developed
rapidly.
Work has been started on the oil
well of the Ranger Company, south OF
Rocky Ford.
Florence post office is now in the
second-class. Its employees are all IN
the civil service.
A large deposit Of potash has re-
Gently been discovered in Chaftee
county, near Salida.
Work on the Fall River road is pro-
ceeding slowly but surely under ad-
verse labor conditions.
Nineteen nitro-glycerine bombs were
discovered in the basement of an un-
occupied house in Greeley.
The Northwestern Petroleum Com
pany, prospecting at Loveland, is now
in the hands of a receiver.
Cherries retail at cents pound
at Grand Junction, this being the same
price as a pound of new potatoes.
Pete Soto, the Fort Collins Mexican.
who was convicted of the murder OF
his son-in-law, has been granted new
trial.
Oak Creek is enjoying a paint up
month, and all of the principal bust
ness places in the town are being
renovated,
The South st. Vraih canon road to
Estes Park from Lyons is one of the
famous resort.
Work on the Allied-Rush Creek. In
Kiowa county, oil well has been sus-
pended whiting for the arrival OF ad-
ditional lO-inch casing.
Sinking and development work is be-
ing done at the Rooney coal mine near
Morrison and a large output is e1-
pected in the near future.
Complaint is being made that unless
a stop is put to it soon there will be
woeful lack of wild flowers and
ferns in Colorado's summer resorts.
A modern bean elevator and sack
ing plant is being erected at Rocky
Ford to handle the large acreage of
beans being grown about that town.
Mrs. Mary Cutler, aged so, who was
injured in runaway accident at
Cieora near Salida, died of her wounds.
One shoulder and several ribs were
crushed
Emil Lind is the first OF the Boul
der boys in the war to give up his life
for Liberty. Word came to his mother
Mrs. Anna Lind of Boulder that he
died in France July from wounds re-
ceived in battle.
The next meeting of the Otero Coun-
ty Milk Prc-iucers' Association will be
held at the court house in La Junta
Saturday, Aug. 8, when matters of i'm
portance to every owner of dairy
herd will be acted upon.
Farmers of the North Sterling Irri
CATION district paid $530,000 cash for
$500. 900 of the bonds of the district
under an agre ement with the holders.
The Buckeye, one of the heaviest
producing mines in the Silverton dis
trict in former years, has been leased
by Messrs. Snider and Hitti. Daily
shipments of crude ore from the Lark
property in the Gladstone district are
being made.
The Gold King mine at Silverton has
been sold. Some years ago, when the
sale of the Gold King was rumored
the selling price was placed at $4,000
600 John II. Slattery of Silverton for
some years past has operated the Gold
King group under lease, including the
3O0ton mill, which has a successful
flotation unit.
Denver and Eastern stockholders of
the Apex Refining and Drilling Com
pany were present at the first run of
the companys 500-barrel refinery at
LOOMS, Colo. The test was made on
Boulder oil and was successful, result
ing yield of % per cent gasoline,
10 per cent naphtha, % per cent kero-
Hene and 40 per cent fuel oil