The Meeker herald., 1919-01-18
oENYENNlAL STATE ITEll8,

ber. according to data compiled BY
Charles W. Henderson OF the United
States Geological Survey. Depart
meat Of the Interior. amounted to
313.s5o.o00 In gold. 100000
ounces of silver. sA.s0o,o0o pounds
Of lead. s.l60.0oo pounds Of copper
and S5.700.0oe pounds of zinc. hav-
Ing . total value Of 333.ss0.oo0.
compared With S1S.sAs,3o2 in gold.
7.304.350 ounces OF silver. $780,
900 pounds Of lead. $4,000
pounds Of copper aad 11s.3oo.o0o
pounds Of sine. having . total value
Of S41.sas.s36 In 1917. This esti-
mate shows Q decrease Of e3.S00.000
In gold. $4,000 ounces in silver.
3.ssO.0oo pounds In lead. 1.ss0.ooo
pounds in copper and 3s.boo.oo0
pouads in 1inc. At the increased
price for silver the value Of the sill
yer yield was Sss0.000 greater than
in 1917. but the value of copper de-
creased 3634.0o0. lead $1.025.000
and zinc SS.520.0oo.
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
bis recent illness worried her con-
stantly. When she awoke she said
that she had dreamed that the colonel
had died while asleep. She insisted
on seeing q newspaper at once, and
only after reading 1t did Mrs. LOWS
feel more confident that It was but a
dream and not premonition. But
twenty-four hours after that Fremont
tion. however. Mrs. Lewis read in
Mondays extras that Colonel Roose-
welt had died that morning just as
she had dreamed.
The receipts Of the State Board Of
Land Commissioners from transac-
tions In Colorado lands during the bi.
enniai period Just closed were the
greatest ever recorded in the history
Of the state. aggregating $2.509.23S.62.
or 3720.807.9S In excess Of receipts for
the preceding biennium. The 1918
total IL 81. 900. 900 greater than the re-
ceipts for any equal period between
1908 and 1915.
A . headquarters city for federal
bureaus, Denver ranks next to Wash
ington, even New York, Chicago and
other cities being below Denver.
These bureaus In Denvsr have charge
Of vast areas in the Western states.
notably the forestry. reclamation aad
srasing bvrsaus, Denver has besa
made the center Of % many govern
ment aetivitiss because Of it, central
location.
Hog cholsra. which has been raging
IN UncompaAgrs valley for The last
few weeks. has bean brought entirely
unAsf coatfol and ~ now outbreaks
have bssn reported. H. A. Ltndsrsn.
eovsrnDsat uvesaoek expert. says the
disease viii end without much further
loss 70 the growers. Moro than 5000
hoss have been vaccisated With sn1i.
eholers serum and 1sS herds IN
| msnised.
Lutte n. Wilcox was reelected Drssi.
deaf Of the workers for the blind at
. meeting In Denvsr. Miss Kathsrins
L. Craig Was elected vice president
and Edwin J. CLARK secretary and
treasurer. The other members Of the
board Of directors are Elias u. Am.
mons. l.. C. Jackson. Harley 9.
Fritchie and A. J. Ciosson.
More than go. 1000. 900 was paid out
to American farmers in the year 1913
for sugar beets. one-fifth OF what they
would receive II domestic production
eQualed consumption. The home pro-
duction Of ono ton Of beet sugar re-
turns as much to American labor -
the refining Of eleven tons Of foreign
raw sugar.
The basketball season will open ON
Jan. "a. The opening Denver date
will be the Miners vs. d. U. at Univsr-
sity Park.
The twenty.second annual conven.
tion Of the American National Live
stock Association will be held at the
Broadway thcater Jan. 81. 2? and %.
The program OF speakers includes
many prominent government officials
and livestock men. The convention
will be devoted to 4 discussion OF
topics Of vital importance to the grax.
ing industry. Among the subjects for
consideration which are Of local inter.
est 10 the proposed advance in grasing
fees on national forests. The ad.
vances were ordered by the secretary
OF agriculture early In December OF
1918, and became effective Jan. I.
William @. McAdoo. director gen
eral OF railroads; w. +. Thiehoff, act
ing general manager OF the Denver 4
Salt Lake railroad: Hale Holden. re-
gional director. and Charles Boettcher
and w. d. Freeman. receivers OF the
railroad, are named as defendants In
suit for 100000 damages brought by
Mrs. Bertha A. Bonham for the death
of her huxhand Charlca Pearl Ion.