The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-01-10
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Farm owners Congress at Agricui-
Jan sssSenfspenes GsaIleSe Eqe1 S0iap' III food off,
Jan. Is-ae-Livs stock show at Denver.
Jan. 1s-Kansas Club banquet In Dem
Feb. 223a-Annual Winter Sports Car
nival at Steamboat Springs.
A. J. Stark Of La Junta celebrated
his ninetieth birthday.
Edna M. Fulton is now clerk for
the Industrial Commission.
German insurance companies will
quit business in Colorado Feb. 1.
A flock Of Angora goats, 1,400 in
number. is being Quartered at Palisade
for the winter.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
announced a number Of changes In
train schedules. effective Jan. 13.
check on the returns made by the
workers in the Red Cross membership
campaign gives Denver 61,S7s mem
bers.
The Pythian lodge room in the Cen
troll block at Las Animas, will be re-
modelled into 4 dance hall and club
rooms.
Alamosa Mining and Leasing Com
pany has been organised by residents
of Alamosa to develop rich gold mines
at Idaho Springs.
De Witt Harrison of Goldfield, .
former Canon City boy. has been COM
missioned a captain in the United
States national army.
The Mesa flour mill at Grand juno
tion is now grinding kiln dried mill
ing corn. in order to relieve the local
shortage of corn meal.
John Pantle of Ordway states that
during the past season he threohed
total Of 22.5O0 bushels of beans for
the farmers Of that district.
Lieut.. John M. Stratton Of Fort Nor
gan. who was commissioned In the Of
ficers' reserve corps At Fort Riley, has
sailed for the European war zone.
1t is reported at Loveland that a
we'll for the possible discovery Of Pc
troleum will be drilled on the H. r.
Chalfant property just outside the city
limits.
A campaign to enroll 10000 men in
Sunday school within three months
was launched by the Protestant
churches OF Denver at . banquet at
Ell Jebel temple.
Ed Autry, living ten miles south
west Of Springfield. has harvested 300
bushels of corn. 1000 of maize. 8 tons
Of broom corn and $4,000 pounds Of
Mexican beans.
An oil shale boom 10 noted at Gun
nison. On Razor creek 5000 acres of
oil shale land have been filed ON by
Gunnlson people and $50 acres by
Denver company.
The oil shale boom 10 approaching
Gunnison. On Razor creek 5000 acres
Of oil shale land have been filed on by
Gunnison people and $50 acres by
Denver company.
Announcement that . land law sup.
posed to have been passed by the last
Legislature and under which the State
Land Board has been operating, in
fact was not passed. was made In Den
yer.
In the Aspen district work on the
boarding houses. blacksmith shop and
compressor building at the portal Of
the Park tunnel is being pushed with
all possible speed in order to complete
them before bad weather sets in.
Judge Dunn OF the Arapahoe County
Court, presiding in the Denver Juve
nile Court. sentenced Henry Mund.
henk to the county jail for . term OF
ten months and twenty days for his
failure to support his 3-year-old child
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.
C. H. Weaver of Toledo. Ohio, who
for some time was associated with the
late w. B. Anderson in operating the
Anderson adit near Birdseye. has or
ganized a company Of Eastern capital.
lists for the purpose Of developing sew
eral properties in the Leadville dis.
+r1ct.
For the quarter ending Aug. 81. 1917.
the Tonopah Placers Company. oper
ating dredges in the Swan river, near
Breckenridge. report an increase OF
xryh1n te