The Ordway new era., 1918-01-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union Now. Service.

cials at Denver.
Jan. le-26-Live stock show at Denver.
Jan. 29-Kansas Club banquet In Den
yer.
Feb. 22-2a-Annual Winter Sports Car
nival at Steamboat Springs.
A. ]. Stark of La Junta celebrated
his ninetieth birthday.
Loveland enrolled S36 members OF
the American Red Cross.
City authorities of Hugo have con-
structed municipal skating pond.
The alfalfa meal mill at Melina.
Bent county. is nearing completion.
A flock of Angora goats, 1,400 in
number is being quartered at Palisade
for the winter.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
announced number of changes in
train schedules, effective Jan. 13.
The seed laboratory of the Colorado
Agricultural College at Fort Collins
will have an exhibit at the Stock show.
Thirty-two county councils of de-
fense in Colorado have been complete
ly reorganized under a new plan of
work.
A check on the returns made by the
workers in the Red Cross membership
campaign gives Denver 61,S79 men,
bers.
John Pantle of Ordway states that
during the past season he thre3hed
total of 22,500 bushels of beans for
the farmers of that district.
Lieut.. John NJ. Stratton of Fort Nor
gan. who was commissioned in the of
ficers' reserve corps at Fort Riley, has
sailed for the European war zone.
The state of Colorado took out a
building permit for another building
in South Washington street in Denver
for the home for dependent children.
Nine hundred pounds of infants
clothing has been sent to France by
the committee of the Colorado Medi-
cal Woman's War Service League of
Denver.
A campaign to enroll 10000 men in
Sunday school within three months
was launched by the Protestant
churches of Denver at a banquet at
Ell Jebel temple.
An oil shale boom is noted at Gun
nison. On Razor creek 5000 acres of
oil shale land have been filed on by
Gunnison people and $50 acres by a
Denver company.
Lincoln county crop production
showed a marked increase last sea
son, there being .0,469 acres Of grain,
1882 acres of beans, 171,977 acres
of forage crop, or total of 256,268
acres.
For the last half of 1917 Leadville's
shipments of manganese ore have av-
eraged $50 tons daily. AT $40 per ton
on the cars this means $1,350.000 for
1876, 900 tons of ore. In 1918 shipments
will increase largely If price is main
tanned
The sugar factory at Las Animas
has closed its grind after run of 73
days. Over 10000 tons of beets were
converted into sugar. The payroll of
the factory was in excess of $4,000,
employment being given to more than
$50 men.
In the Cripple Creek district, Supt.
Carl Evans of the United Gold Mines
| Company has opened up new body
of milling grade ore at the 500-foot
level of the Wild Horse mine near
Midway, on Bull hill. and has COM
menced hoisting.
The 250-ton capacity concentration
mill being erected by the American
Metals Company, Ltd, of New York
at the new molybdenite mining camp.
| Climax, on the South Park line of the
Colorado & Southern railway near
Fremonts Pass. is nearing completion.
For the quarter ending Aug. 81, 1917,
the Tonopah Placers Company, oper-
ating dredges in the Swan river, near
Breckenridge, report an increase of
| $46,G35, which is favorable showing
when contrasted with the earnings re-
ported for the preceding quarter.
which were given as sl3,615.
John Knowles, 67 years old, who,
five days before Christmas, died at
the Denver County Hospital apparent
ly pauper and who was worth more
than $250000. so objected to the in
come tax that he would not collect
money due him on ground lease, pre-.
ferring to let the money accumulate,
rather than pay the tax.
Pitkin, Gunnison county, reports
that the Morning Glory group of
thirteen claims, located on the north
fork of Quartz creek in the Gold Hill
district, will be worked this winter.
Three men are now at work in the
S00.foot tunnel. which exposes three.
foot vein of molybdenum. cut at
depth of $50 feet.
Mrs. Margaret Packard Taussig, of
Denver, has been selected by the
board of trustees of the University of
Denver as temporary successor to
Mrs. Martha Loescher Crook, former
professor of German, who was dis