The Elbert County tribune., 1918-04-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


The records of the secretary Of state
Gontain an item of International signif-
fNnce. March 13 the Tungsten Pro-
ducts Mining Company OF Boulder filed
articles of incorporation with a cani-
talization of s2,500.000. The signifi-
catDe of this item lies In the fact thet
this company began Immediately to
mine tungsten ores and manufacture
tungsten products upon a large scale.
The government is vitality concerned
about the production and conservation
of tungsten and its proper officials are
in counsel over the advisability of fix
ing the price Of tungsten ores.
Enlarge activities of all industries
making war materials resulted in in
creased coal production in Colorado
for 1917 of 1893, ,120 tons over 1916. ac-
cording to the annual report of James
Dalrymple, state inspector of coal
mines. The 1917 output was 12,515,305
tons, against 10.522.1S5 tons during
1916. The report says that 100000
more tons were lost to the industry
last year on account OF car shortage.
Lieut.. Col. K B. Linderfelt, former
commander of the First Colorado cav
airy and present commander of the
10th infantry. U. s. A, passed through
Denver returning from Washington to
California. Colorado men who are at
Linda Vista are wonderful athletes"
he said. Every one is trained to the
minute and are nearly month ahead
of any other organization in the coun-
try in training"
State Auditor Charles H. Leckenby
Issued statement to the effect that
the state has recovered during 1917
amounts from several counties total
Ing S13,562.75, following examipation
of books by Willard D. Peck of the
public examiners department. The
amounts were due from county Off
cials, and were disclosed through dis
crepspcies as the result of an audit by
the department
OuAy is on the eve of period of
mineral production that will prove the
greatest in its history. Approximately
one month from date the Camp Bird
vein will be intersected by the trans
portaticn tunnel, now advancing
point reached the most important ex-
ploration and drainage enterprise in
the San Juan region will be accom-
plished.
William Seals, 80, formerly of Grip
pie Creek, was reported severely
wounded in France April 4. He en-
listed In the Rainbow division at Cres-
ton, Iowa. Mrs Jennie Pete, his moth
er, and Mrs. M. N. Caldwell sister,
both reside at Cripple Creek.
The Robert E. Lee chapter OF the
Daughters of the Confederacy at Den
yer have just completed raising a fund
of 5000 with which to endow bed in
the American hospital No. 1, the first
militarized hospital in France.
James Drury for thirty-five years
employed as doorman at the Union
station, died at his home in Denver Of
bronchitis. Mr.. Drury was born in
ireland in 1912 and has lived in Den
yer SINE 1874.
The Denver office of the United
States forest service has sent to the
Tenth and Twentieth forest regiments
in France ninety-one sweaters and
twenty nine pairs Of wristlets.
Oral Andres Beye, an enlisted sea
man on the collier Cyclops. which. ac-
cording to news dispatches may be
lost at sea, is the son of c. E. Beye. a
Grand Junction car repairer.
The recent rains in the mountainous
sections have lightened the worries of
cattle and sheep men who Craze their
herds on the national forest ranges in
the summer and fall months.
DR.. e. e. Cole. principal of the
school at Appleton, near Grand juno
ton, who was given a coat of grease
and feathers and ordered to leave the
country within thirty-six hours, was
exonerated at a mass meeting of citi-
zeAs. held at the Appleton school
house.
The farm labor problem is one of
distribution of men, not of supply of
men. Secretaries Houston and Wilson
both assured DIR. Charles A. Lory of
this fact in Washington.
A large centrifugal pump of better
than 1000 gallons per minute capacity
was received at Brandon to be used on
one of the irrigation plants on the seed
farm near town.
William Giles. aged 20, of Fort Nor
gan, waa badly injured when motor
cycle on which he was riding skidded.
He was going at a high rate of speed.
Mrs. Ellen L. Dyer, aged 65, died at
Colorado Springs from injuries re-
ceived when she was struck by an au-
tomobile driven by C. R. Arnold.
The annual farmers picnic for Lo-
gan county will be held this year on