The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-01-10
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

~~SH' AS0a anu LiuC SOlVI80O
TOR the first eleven months of 1918
and the estimated output for Deem
bsr. according to data compiled by
Charles w. Henderson of the United
States Geological Survey, Depart
ment of the Interior. amounted to
$12.S50.00O in gold. 100000
ounces OF silver. 64.300.0 900 pounds
Of lead. 6.450,000 pounds of copper
and s5.2OO.000 pounds of zinc, hav-
ing a total value of $33.260,0O0.
compared with S15.S4s.302 in gold.
7.304.350 ounces of silver. $780,
900 pounds of lead, S,122,0OO
pounds of copper and 11S.2O0.000
pounds of zinc. having a total value
of $41.93S.S35 in 1917. This esti-
mate shows a decrease of $2,90O.O0O
In gold. $4,000 ounces in silver.
S.690.000 pounds in lead. 1.660,O0O
pounds in copper and 3s,500.00O
pounds in zinc. At the increased
price for silver the value of the sill
yer yield was $ssO.OOO greater than
In 1917. but the value of copper de-
creased $624.0OO. lead $1.O25.OOO
and zinc ss.52O.0Oo.
A vivid dream OF the death OF Col
onel Roosevelt caused Mrs. Sarah
Lewis, mother Of George Lewis OF the
mountain division of the Red Cross.
extreme anxiety Sunday morning. For
many years Mrs Lewis has been .
sincere admirer of the colonel, and
his recent illness worried her con-
stantly. when she awoke she said
hot ha had hot ho rn1nn q
had died while asleep. She insisted
on seeing a newspaper at once. and
only after reading it did Mrs. Lewis
feel more confident that it was but a
dream and not premonition. But
twenty-four hours after that Fremont
ton. however. Mrs. Lewis read in
Mondays extras that, Colonel Roose-
welt had died that morning just as
she had dreamed.
The twenty-second annual conven-
tion of the American National Live
stock Association will be held at the
Broadway theater Jan. 21, % and 23.
The program of speakers includes
many prominent government officials
and livestock men. The convention
will be devoted to a discussion of
topics of vital Importance to the graz
ing industry. Among the subjects for
consideration which are OF local inter-
est is the proposed advance in grazing
fees on national forests. The ad-
vances were ordered by the secretary
of agriculture early in December OF
1918, and became effective Jan. /.
The biennial report of State Labor
Commissioner has been submitted to
the members of the General Assembly.
The commissioner was the first Atate
official to provide a completed report
to the Legislature 1t covers the work
of the various branches of the State
Labor Department for the biennial Pc
riod and contains a number of recon-
mendations fer changes in the labor
laws of Colorado. The report shows
that 52,1S2 men and women were
placed in jobs free of charge to them
by the State Labor Bureau. This is an
increase of more than 10000 over the
preceding biennial period.
Major w. J. Cameron, in charge OF
the construction of the Recuperation
Hospital received word from Wash
ington to build a nurses infirmary,
costing $4,000. Plans for the new
structure are now being made and the
work will begin Immediately. Nurses
who have become i'll through their
work at hospitals over seas will be
taken care OF and given an opportunity
to get well at the army's big recuper-
alton camp near Aurora
Fighting Bob Melbourne c. Evans,
former coach at the university at
Boulder and at present personnel Of
ficer In the S. A. T. c., has been elect
ed to coach athletics in Leland Stan
ford university. He is waiting re-
lease from the service in order that
he may begin his new duties
The kettle has begun to call the
pot black in the hearings in prog
ress before the Adams county grand
jury.
The receipts of the State Board of
Land Commissioners from transac-
tions in Colorado lands during the BIZ
ennial period just closed were the
greatest ever recorded in the history
of the state, aggregating $2,5O9. .23S.52.
or $720, ,807.98 in excess of receipts for
the preceding biennium. The 1918
tctal is s., 100000 greater than the re-
ceipts for any equal period between
1909 and 1915.
Hog cholera, which has been raging
in Uncompahgre valley for the last
few weeks. has been brought entirely
under control and no new outbreaks
have been reported. H. A. Lindgren,
government livestock expert, says the
disease will end without much further
loss to the growers. More than 5000
hogs have been vaccinated with anti
cholera serum and 1856 herds i'm
munized
Governor Shoup's address was one
of the shortest ever delivered for a