The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-01-16
onNrEnN1AL srATE ITEMS.

OOTs according 10 01t2 COHVncU W
Charles w. Henderson of the United
States Geological Survey. Depart
ment of the Interior. amounted to
$12.950.OOO in gold. 100000
ounces of silver, 64.3OO.000 pounds
of lead, 6.450.O0O pounds of copper
and IS. 100000 pounds of zinc. hav-
Ing total value of $33,26O.O00.
compared with 5.S49.302 in gold.
7,3O4,35O ounces of silver, $780,
900 pounds Of lead. 8.122.O00
pounds of copper and 1s,20O.00O
pounds of zinc, having total value
Of $41.93S.9s5 in 1917. This esti-
in gold. $4,000 ounces in silver.
S.69O,000 pounds in lead. 1,66O.OOO
pounds in copper and 38.5OO.00O.
pounds in zinc. At the increased
price for silver the value of the sill
yer yield was $88O.000 greater than
in 1917, but the value of copper de-
creased $624.OOO. lead $1.O25,000
and zinc $9.520.000.
A vivid dream of the death of Col
onel Roosevelt caused Mrs. Sarah
Lewis, mother OF George Lewis OF the
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
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. Lewis
feel more confident that 1t 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 receipts of the State Board OF
Land Commissioners from transac-
tions in Colorado lands during the bi-
ennial period just closed were the
greatest ever recorded in the history
Of the state, aggregating $2.509, ,23S.52,
or $720. 0.SO7.98 in excess of receipts for
the preceding biennium. The 1918
total is 100000 greater than the re-
ceipts for any equal period between
1909 and 1918.
AS 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 Denver have charge
of vast areas in the Western states.
notably the forestry. reclamation and
grazing bureaus. Denver has been
made the center Of 80 many govern
ment activities because Of its central
location.
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.
Lutte M. Wilcox was reelected presi
dent of the workers for the blind at
\ meeting in Denver Miss Katherine
L. Craig was elected vice president
and Edwin j. Clark secretary and
treasurer. The other members of the
board of directors are Elias NJ. Am
mons, l.. C. Jackson, Harley s.
Fritchie and A. ]. Closson.
More than 35O.000.OOO was paid out
| to American farmers in the year 1918
for sugar beets, one-fifth of what they
f! would receive II domestic production
equaled consumption. The home pro-
duction of one ton OF beet sugar re-
turns as much to American labor as
the refining OF eleven tons of foreign
raw sugar.
Jan. "a. The opening Denver date
will be the Miners vs.. d. U. at Univer-
sity Park.
| The twenty-second annual conven'
tion OF the American National Live
stock Association will be held at the
| Broadway theater Jan. 21, 90 and %.
The program of speakers includes
many prominent government officials
and livestock men. The convention
will be devoted to 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. 1.
William G. McAdoo, director gen
eral of railroads; w. F. Thiehoff. act
ing general manager of the Denver &
Salt Lake railroad: Hale Holden, re
gional director, and Charles Boettcher
and w. b. Freeman. receivers of the
| railroad, are named as defendants In
| a suit for $4,000 damages brought by
| Mrs. Bertha A. Bonham for the death
of her husband. Chasles Pearl Bon.