The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-27
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

ing the FOREMOST producer IN the WOrlu
of molybdenum ore, according to the
fifteenth biennial report of the State
Bureau Of Mines, recently compiled.
This report covers the years 1917 and
1913, and was submitted by Fred Car
roll, state commissioner of mines dur
ing the above period. The total min
eral production of the state since 1858
was 81, ,4O5, ,4S4, ,255. Gold production in
1918 alone is estimated at $12, ,944, 800,
as compared with the 1917 output of
S15, ,729, ,224. The decrease in gold pro-
duction was due to the closing of
mines caused by the constantly in
| creaSing costs, the report states. The
report further states that Colorado is
producing most of the vanadium of the
United States, and in the world mar
kets is vieing with the Peruvian mines.
A greater part of the worlds supply
of uranium and radium is being mined
from Colorado deposits.
new record in one days mining of
precious metals has been established
by Fred Dopp of jamestown, SO far
as the Central district is concerned,
by the opening up of vein of high
grade silver and gold ore. The find
was made on the new Rival claim of
the Black Rose group about two and
one-half miles south of the camp. His
shipment, which was of more than two
tons, was brought to the Boulder
Sampling works and yielded him
pay check of $1,7OS4O.
A bullet fired by an unknown Mexi-
can at Grand Junction, passed through
the leg of Guy McCammon, a white
man, and struck Mary Johnson, a ne
gress, in the right leg. McCammon
is in local hospital and the negress
is unhurt in that the bullet merely
struck her clothing and lodged in IA
pocket of her skirt She was sitting
on the porch of her own home fifty
feet away from where McCammon was
struck.
The Rocky Mountain National park
will receive from Congress this year
only the $4,000 annual allowance for
maintenance heretofore granted, al
though a fight was made by Parks
Director Stephen T. Mather to have
added to the regular appropriation
$4,000 for road building The sundry
civil bill reported to the House of Rep
resentatives carries only the $4,000
for expenditure during the fiscal year
ending June 80. 1920.
Unless it suffers further damage
from unfavorable weather or disease,
the wheat crop in Colorado this year
will be approximately 20,60o,00o bush
els, or about 100000 bushels more
than the reported production for 1917,
the states banner wheat year 10 date.
The Colorado cooperative crop report
ing service in its June report forecasts
the production of winter wheat at r.
651,7s0 bushels and spring wheat at
1900 600 bushels.
Figures prepared by Horace Havens.
mineral superintendent of the State
Board of Land Commissioners. show
that more than 2O0,0oo acres of stnte
school land are under lease to oil com
panies. From these leases the school
fund derives more than $4,000 annu-
ally. Recent reports to the Land
Board show that ten wells are being
drilled in the state and that several
others are to commence operations
soon
A battle-scarred phonograph which
the Elks' Lodge of Montrose donated
to the members of Battery F of the
341st Division of the American Expe
ditionary Forces, has been returned to
them by the boys, who are now at
Camp Funston. This instrument was
carried through many battles by the
local boys. but is still in good playing
condition, although there are several
bullet wounds in its framework
Grasshoppers swarIned to upper
parts of the Paradox valley by thf
millions this spring, but a campaign
conducted by the Paradox Valley Lane
and Irrigat tion Company and many oi
the farmers of that section of this
county resulted in their total extinc
ton
The Rev Grover Harrison, 81 year
old, an Episcopal deacon, was success
full in his second attempt at suicide il
the Observation hospital at Colorad,
Springs, by hanging himself In a bath
room with rope fashioned from hi!
underwear. He stood on'a chair durin.
these operations and when he wa
ready to die kicked the chair from un
der him He was being held on stat
utory charge.
Taxpayers voted to bond the distric
for S13,500 for the erection of mod
ern school building at Agate, Colo
Work will begin at once, so it will b'
ready for next fall. Five new build
ings were erected this spring, anon:
them the new Peterson hotel, whicl
will be one of the most modern on tn,
Union Pacific. 1t has electric lights
running water and heated throughout
Word has reached Denver of th'
] sailing of the 115th engineers, com