Gilpin observer., 1919-12-11

| The Red Cross Christmas Seal sale will
take place all over the United States
from December to 10. 1919.
Approximately $3,O0o,O00 is the to-
tai resources of the three banks Of
Montrose, according to the reports re-
Gently made in the government call.
A memorial tablet in honor of the
twenty-five Routt county men who
died in the war with Germany is to
be erected In the high school building
at Steamboat Springs.
Possibility of an early adjournment
of the extra session Of the State Leg
islature until after the holidays al
ready Is being discussed by members
of the Twenty-Second General Assem-
bly,.
The state highway commission has
included in It's 1920 program of rOad
| improvement an item of $146,OOO for
building six and one-half miles Of ce-
ment road between Brighton and Fort
Lupton.
At hearing on estimates for gov
ernment reclamation projects held be-
fore congressional committee, $780,
600 was asked for the Grand Valley
reclamation project and $4,000 to
continue work ON the Uncompahgre
project in Colorado.
Denied the release of coal shipped
in by rail, Manager w. w. Campbell of
| the Mesa flour mills Is keeping the
mill in operation by hauling in coal
by auto truck. Mines of the upper
valley are operating with normal
| forces of miners, but coal loaded out
| is being confiscated for essential in
dustrles and railroads.
Twenty-Five days after she was bit
| ten by rabid dog which terrorized
West Denver, Jessie Webster, 5 years
old, one of twenty victims, died of hy-
| drOphObia. She was taken to the cOun-
| ty hospital and with each succeeding
hour her condition grew worse. The
child was treated with a quantity of
| Pasteur serum, brought from Chicago
after the score of persons were bitten.
Judge John Hough, for more than
| forty years the dean of mining in the
San Juan country and especially Hins
dale county, Is dead. Had he lived un-
til Christmas he would have been 81
years of age. He had been county
Judge at Lake City, the county seat of
Hinsdale county, for many years and
was highly esteemed and respected by
the entire community.
Approximately 100000 feet Of tim
ber has just been sold by the United
States forest service to the Galbreath
Tie and Timber Company, which has
n sawmill on Hope creek about SIX
teen miles from South Fork. The tim
ber includes Engelman spruce and
Douglas fir. The lumber and ties are
to be hauled from the sawmill to the
railroad at South Fork by motor
trucks.
Taxpayers in Denver's election voted
the issuance of $2,OOOOO In bonds for
a building program for public schools
that includes the erection Of four jun.
ior high schools and tWo elementary
schools. The school levy will be n
creased approximately l mill to take
care of the interest on bonds, as well
as to meet increases in teachers sala-
rles. The regular school levy is 632
mills.
A prospecting course has been add
ed to the Opportunity school curricu-
lum in Denver when class to last
twelve weeks was formed under the
direction of T. A. Weaver. The Colo
RADIO Development and Manufacturers
Association are behind the course. Mr.
Weaver says that many business men
are ready to grubstake prospectors
who have sufficient technical knowl-
edge to make the expense of miner
aloglst unnecessary.
Never in the history of Walsenburg
have so many investors visited there.
Men from several states have been in
town looking for business openings and
for land which they can purchase.
Harry Hatters, n japanese, proprle-
tor of a barber shop in Swink, Colo,
was shot through the body and in
stantly killed by an unknown assail.
ant, believed to be another japanese.
The shooting occurred in n building
in the rear of the Saddle Rock restau-
rant in Swink. No further particulars
of the shooting have yet been obtain
ed. The only suspect arrested so far
Is n Japanese, who cannot speak Eng
lish, and has failed to shed any light
on the affair.
That building is still on the boom In
Pueblo is proven by the figures given
out by the city building inspectors Of
flee For eleven months so far this
year the value of buildings constructed
or under construction is 10 per cent
greater than that of the first eleven
months of 1918. There were 551 build.
Ing permits issued so far this year and
the value of these buildings approx
mates $685., 800 compared to 432 permits
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