The Elbert County tribune., 1918-03-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News se=,ice.

lamp uuslun TO attend a review Oh
troops. Many of the Colorado boys
] who formerly belonged to the Nation
al Guard are stationed temporarily at
the camp. Miss Margaret Wilson, who
is raising money for the Red Cross.
Vas member OF the party. She sang
-'Sor the soldiers and the governor ad-
dressed the men in the Y. M. (. A.
Governor Gunter continued East to
Washington, where he will attend
conference April 3 of governors ana
federal officials called by the secre-
tary of the interior, Franklin Z. Lane.
for the purpose of speeding up neces-
sary war issues at home.
One of the most encouraging devet
opments in federal post aid construc-
ton in Colorado came to the High
way Commission from Washington.
and told of the acceptance by the De
partment of Agriculture of the COM
monwealth's plan to surface and
broaden the seventy-seven-mile stretch
between the southern boundary line of
Pueblo county and the Coloratio-New
Mexico line. The cost of the work
is estimated at S260,191, to be shared
equally between the state and the Bu-
reau of Public Roads at Washington.
Colorado farmers may be given as
sistance by the government in the in
itial costs of wheat. oats and barley
seed, in order to stimulate crop pro-
duction this year James r. holland,
secretary of state, received word from
Washington that legislation pending
cod
production over the entire country.
Officials of the Department of Agri-
culture are endeavoring to obtain sta
tistics regarding the acreage requiring
government aid.
The Great Western Sugar Company
announced that it would pay $40
flat rate for sugar beets for the crop
tf 1918, following the approval of
Herbert c. Hoover of the recommends
>Eons of the special commission he ap-
POINTED to investigate Colorado beet
conditions. This commission recon-
mended either a 80 a ton minimum
and sliding SCALE or a $40 flat rate.
W. N. W. Blayney, Colorado direct
or of the United States public service
reserve, at Denver, will mobilize farm
labor in addition to enrolling, ship
builders 1t is with the cooperation
of the Department of Agriculture in
Washington that the public service re-
serve is expanding its employment
service.
The funeral for Ray Minter, second
class machinist's mate of the United
States navy, 81 years old. was held at
Lamar. Minter died at the Brooklyn
shipyard of pneumonia, and is the first
man to die of those who enlisted in
army or navy from Prowers county
The heavy hand of the state food
administrator fell on two Denver men
and a third man may feel it in few
days. The right to sell flour was
taken from two of them and the deci-
sion on the other will await the out
9ome of an investigation.
There will be combined floral and
vegetable show in the Denver Audi
tceium the last week in August, the
Denver Society of Ornamental Horti-
culture having charge of the floral di-
vision and the Mothers Congress of
the vegetable division.
II.
parks and Improvements. has com
menced the reforestration of the
mountain parks. He has obtained 25,-
900 Seeding spruce from the United
States forest reserve for this work.
Work has been commenced in i'm
proving the Lightner road, out Of Du-
range.
ua FOR q la I'M nrt nf
new high school building at Fowler
unearthed a piece of Handicapped
earthenware. on which the finger
prints were plainly discernable 1t was
buried in the sand and gravel some
IL feet below the surface.
Boulder has experienced its first
war casualty, a telegram to Mr.. and
Mrs. James Gould announcing the
death of their son, Walter. in France
from pneumonia. Gould was a sailor
in the navy and was serving his sec
ond enlistment.
The United States government will
establish flat price of $40 Per ton
for Colorado grown beets, according
to information received from Food
Administration officials at Washing
ton.
A mineral new to metallurgy and
one that may revolutionize the making
of iron castings has been discovered
in the Ute mountains. eighteen miles
from Cortez, in the southwest corner
of Colorado.
Colorado mining interests have di-
rect news from New York inuicating
quite furry In silver. with actual
dealings several cents higher than the
quotations published.