The Ordway new era., 1919-06-27
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

RADIO to the end of 1918 is approxi-
mately $1,440.OOO,OOO, according to
metal production tables soon to be
published in the 1919 year book OF the
State Board of Immigration. These
tables are compiled from data furn-
ished by the United State Geological
Survey, and give the total production
Of the five metals in each metai-pro-
ducing county since 1858. Gold leads
the metals In total value of output
with approximately s63s 100000. Lake
county holds first rank among the
metal-prOducing counties, with an out
put valued at S41S,O0O.0OO, and teller
county is second, with S3O6,OOO,oOO
| Silver holds first rank in value among
the metals produced in Lake county,
though zinc far surpasses silver in the
value of Its output at tn-s time. Teller
county holds first place in the value
of its gold production, more than 9o.o
per cent OF Its metal values being gold.
The Greeley and the Weld County
| Commercial Clubs are working on
plans to change the route of the Den
ver-Cheyenne state highway through
Weld county. Between Platteville and
Evans there is a stretch of about seven
miles through the Platte river bottoms
which is extremely difficult to keep
up. There are also several dangerous
bridges, curves and railroad crossings.
1t is proposed to eliminte this stretch
by making a cutoff road through the
bench lands of the Peckham and Gil
crest districts part of the state high
way.
Attorney General Keyes rendered an
opinion holding that the concurrent
resolution by. which the prohibition
amendment to the federal constitution
was ratified by the Twenty-second
General Assembly cannot be referred
to the vote of the people of the state.
He advised Secretary of State Noland
not to accept the petition of the wet
forces asking for reference of the reso-
luton for filing. Mr.. Noland an
nounced that he would be guided by |
the advice of the attorney general and
decline to file the petition.
The Colorado Legislature will be
called into extraordinary session, pos
sibly in the fall, to consider the ratifi-
cation of the national suffrage amend
ment Gov. Oliver II. Shoup, in max
ing the announcement, said he would |
issue the call as soon as he had fixed |
upon date, which leaders are dis |
cussing The governor did not give
positive statement that the suffrage |
question alone would be considered.
saying that little else would be in
cluded in the call, If anything.
Five persons narrowly escaped
death near Colorado Springs, as the re-
suit of an automobile collision on the
Canon City road. Fred II. Smith,
cashier of the First, National Bank, is
suffering from fractured hip and
internal injuries; and his wife, two
daughters and a son are more or less
injured about the face and hands, The
machine was driven by Miss Dorothy
Smith, aged 10. and after striking the
other car It rolled down 20O-foOt
embankment
Among the arrivals from France re
Gently was Vernon r. Alspaugh and
his wife, charming little French girl
whom he married in Nantes, France.
last December while member of the
Sixteenth infantry OF the A. L. F. The
young couple went to Craig, Colo,
where they will live on Private Ais
paughs ranch. Alspaugh was a mem
ber of the first American unit under
fire and was gassed during an engage
ment in the Toul sector in January,
1918.
The big Fourth of July celebration |
planned at Greeley is going to be a
tremendous success If music can make |
1t so. Six bands and Cooks Drum |
Corps of Denver, have already been
engaged to furnish music for the
crowds that will be here. Mathide |
Miller Rosuch, celebrated soloist of
New York, has also been engaged to |
sing on the Fourth, giving three en-:
tertainments as intermission cards be-
tween the band concerts.
Grand Mesa may become one of the
greatest of Uncle Sans national
parks. if the proposals of the Western
Slope boosters are acted upon by Con-
gress in the form of necessary legis-
lation and appropriations. One sug-
gestion was that the mesa, one of the |
most beautiful points in America,
through the aid of returned soldiers,
could easily be converted into the
beauty land of America, besides giving
employment to the soldiers,
The Radium Ore Sampling Company
of Montrose, the only commercial ra-
dium ore sampling plant in the world,
has already accounted for more than
100000 of radium ore during the few
months it has been located at that
point. Despite the fact that only five
men are employed at this plant, 1t has
been of great benefit to the local mer
chants, since 1t has kept in operation
various nearby mines.