The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-11-28

Mines lOOtDdil Stdl, Is hoN Captain "
engineers at Fort Sill. Utah.
New rulings issued by the Food Ad-
ninistration permit the manufacture
and use of powdered sugar.
A kick from horse instantly killed
John Carter, 10 years old. pioneer
farmer at Hygiene. five miles west of
Longmont.
w. w. Degge, postmaster of Norfolk,
Va, during the administration of Pres
ldent Grover Cleveland, died at Boul
der of apoplexy.
Colorado's total in the United War
Work campaign, with reports from
several counties missing, was 81 .4GO,
034 on Nov. 10.
In the United States District Court
In Denver, James A. Parks of Pueblo
was appointed referee in bankruptcy
for that city.
News has been received in Denver
OF the death near White River. six
miles from Meeker, of Mrs. j. A
Pierce, daughter of former Congress
man II. NJ Towner.
Hard hit by the influenza, but still
plugging ahead. the mining camps OF
the San Juan district are showing re-
markable staying power in mainte'
nance of ore production.
Lou d. Sweet. widely known Colo
RADIO agriculturist, was elected chair
man of the executive committee of the
Potato Association of America, in an
nual convention in Milwaukee.
Eva Lewis. member of the Jones
Lewis bandit band which terrorized
Denver in September, was found
guilty of robbery with a gun, by
. Jury in the Denver West Side Court.
Situated about three miles south OF
Ouray and easily accessible to the
Red Mountain wagon road. no great
amount of capital will be needed to
put the Mount Hayden tungsten de
posit on the market.
NJ. de Golyer. late manager OF the
Vernon Mining Company, Ironton, has
secured an option on the McLennan'
Dunmore tungsten property on Mount
Hayden. The property is considered
by those competent to judge to be the
mos, promising tungsten proposition
In the San Juan region.
Patriotic support OF the govern.
ment's program for vocational train
ing, labor distribution to advance ef'
ficiency and lessen waste and unrest
and arbitration or reconciliation ser
vice to insure Industrial peace were
urged before the Denver Manufacture.
ers. Association by Charles Zueblin.
frr ho mi m tac
partment OF Labor.
Conditions in the counties outside
OF Denver showed a tendency toward
abatement Saturday in the influenza
epidemic. with one or two exceptions.
New cases developing in JulesburR
and Cheyenne Wells resulted in the
voluntary closing of schools and
places of amusement and churches
and this met with the approval of the
State Board of Health.
Three more Coloradoans dead oi
disease are reported in the casualty
lists made public by the War Depart
ment Nov. 10. They are Fred l.. II,
Barnum, Limon: Walter E. Caven
Cucharas. and Cecilie McClaren. Nj
wot Among the wounded. degree un-
determined. is Lieut.. John Edward
Carney. Ouray. Two are reported
slightly wounded. They are Alva E
Emrick. Joycoy. and Dan Gonzales
Jensen.
Figures compiled at Washington
and sent to the Food Administration
here show that only three cities in
the United States excel Denver fol
the low cost of living The census
OF the cities was taken from coast t.
coast. and every city of the approx
innate population of Denver was taker
into consideration. Ninety cents
worth of food in Denver will cost be
tween "a and 81 cents anywhere else
with the exception OF Chicago. Mime
apolis and Detroit. the cities where
the cost of living is lower than il
Denver.
Return OF $1,35O.000 in dividends to
stockholders within n period of three
years is the record of the Wellington
mine at breckenridge. owned and op
Grated by the Wellington Mines Com
pany. An index of the productiv,
Z capacity of the property is had in TIL,
fact that during the past fiscal yea
alone the company paid federal take:
amounting to no less than $145,000
At present the property is working 1
reduced force, owing to the labo
shortage resulting from draft Undue
tions. demands Of "essentIar' indus
tries. inroads made by the lnIiuenz;
epide emic and other general nandicaps
DIR. Erlo F. Kennedy. secretary o
the Colorado State Board of Health
has been appointed by Surgeon Gen
eral Blue of the United States Public
Health Service to represent the fed
cral body in Colorado and cooperate