Gilpin observer., 1918-06-13
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

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aues. Denver. by s-year-old Leroy Fer
yuson. . negro boy living at $500 Del
gany street. Calling cards found in
the womaA's pocket gave her name as
Miss Pearle Tomlinson. A handbag
found in one Of her pockets contained
S45 and three checks, one for $50 and
two for $25, on the Exchange National
Bank at Hastings. Neb. She was about
60 years old.
Four thousand citizens of Boulder
and surrounding towns heard DR.. Liv-
lngston Farrand, president of the Uni
versity of Colorado. at the university
auditorium tell Of his visit to France
in the interest Of the Rockefeller foun-
dation crusade against tuberculosis. DR..
Farrand declared that the methods
now employed in France in fighting
the white plague would soon be adopt
ed generally and that France in this
work would soon lead the world unless
the United States aroused itself.
Union bricklayers and the contrac-
tors for the army recuperation camp
entered the second week with their.
controversy over wages at q deadlock.
Meantime, while the bricks are on the
ground and everything is in readiness
to rush to completion the construction
of the hospital and camp for the
wounded and sick soldiers now COM
ing from the battlefronts of France,
the building work is at standstill.
Indications are that the production
of all cereal crops in Colorado for 1918
will exceed the record for 1917. In a
crop report for Tune issued by the
bureau of crop estimates, 1t is forecast
winter wheat will be 100000 bushels
greater than last year. and barley, rye
and oats will show considerable in
creases.
In San Luis valley the farm and live
stock bureau has endorsed the follow
ing rates of wages in Saguache coun-
ty: Single man $45 per month and
board. Married man $65 per month,
house, COW and garden. Man and team
Sc per day, no board nor horse feed.
Man and team - per day, with board
and horse feed.
Democrats representing the state or
ganization launched the party cam
paign for the coming election at ban
Quet in Denver, given by Chairman
Raymond Miller to members of the
Democratic state central committee
and members Of the Colorado Demo
cratic Editorial Association. About
$50 men and women were present
Plans are now under way for an old
clothes treasure trove" to be held at
the Isle Of Safety, probably Saturday,
June %, although the date has not
been definitely decided. The treasure
trove" will be conducted by the Colo
RADIO Patriotic League in conjunction
with the Board of Associated Charities
Of Denver.
The Victory Gold Mining Company
has been shipping from two Of its
leased mining properties, the Howard
shaft of the Mary Mckinney Mining
Company on the southeastern slope Of
Gold hill and the Beacon mine of the
Prince Albert group on the southeast
ern slope of Beacon hill at Cripple
Greek.
The molybdenite deposits in the Ten
Mile district will be very actively dc
veloped this year and a number Of
promising prospects" will probably
be developed into producing mines
The heavy snow-three to four feet
deep in the timber-will delay new
prospecting until the middle of July.
John Holmquist who has been leas.
ing on the lower levels of the old
Wedge mine, Bachelor district, ship.
ped twenty-seven-ton car recently OF
silyer-lead ore that brought him re.
turns Of more than s11 600. The sill.
yer content Of the shipment ran 44O
ounces silver to the ton.
The Elks' auction held in Denver
brought 100000 for the Red Cross.
Rocky Ford was chosen for next
years meeting of the g. A. R.
The Climax Molybdenum Company
is keeping its big concentration plant
at the Climax spur, on the South Parb
line OF the Colorado & Southern raj!
way. running full time on ore from
the immense body Of to 11s per cent
molybdenite ore which the company
owns.
When James Bright, an old-time San
Juan prospector relocated the Jumbo
No. claim. which endlines on the
maiA street OF the town of Ironton he
did not realize that the ten-inch streak
of quartz that showed on the hanging
wall carried nearly per cent oxide Of
molybdenum.
Close to Silver Cliff the Bassich
mine has been taken over by the Bas
sick Mining and Reduction Company
under long term lease. a company
organized for the purpose by Harry s
Thayer of Boulder. A 100-ton flotation