Gilpin observer., 1919-01-09
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


copper, lead and zinc in Colorado
for the first eleven months of 1918
and the estimated output for Decem-
Der. according to data compiled by
Charles w. Henderson of the United
States Geological Survey, Depart
ment of the, Interior, amounted. to
$12,950,000 in gold, 100000
ounces of silver. 64,3OO.0O0 pounds
of lead. 6.450.000 pounds of copper
and S5.200.O0O pounds of zinc, hay
ing total value of $33,260,OOO,
compared with $15,849,3O2 in gold,
7,3O4,350 ounces of silver, $780,
900 pounds of lead. 8,122,OOO
pounds of copper and 11S.2OO,OO0
pounds of zinc. having q total value
Of $41.S38.S35 in 1917. This esti-
mate shows decrease of $2,9OO,OO0
in gold. $4,000 ounces in silver.
3.690,000 pounds in lead, 1,66O,OOO-
pounds in copper and 38,5OO,OOO
pounds in zinc. At the increased
price for silver the value of the sill
yer yield was $8sO.00O greater than
in 1917. but the value of copper de-
creased $624.OO0. lead $1.O25.0O
and zinc $s,52o.o0O.
Wyoming" is back in his pala-
tial stall at the w. N. w. Blaney
ranch near Denver, crowned king of
beef animals in all the world. At
the American National Live Stock
Show at Chicago in December he,
for the second year handrunning.
captured the grand prize of the
show. as he had done at Kansas City
and Denver for the two previous
shows. Mr.. Blaney will show "Wyo-
ming" again this year at the Denyer
show of the National Western Asso-
citation.
Following the announcement at
Windsor that the Great Western
Sugar Company would insist on the
old rate of $40 for beets next sea-
son, comes the news that the seed
bean men who have been contract
ing acreage in this vicinity desire to
increase that acreage by several
thousand acres, but at the same
price as last season, 10 cents per
pound. The bean crop last season
netted as high as 5000 per acre.
The Colorado Metal Mining Asso-
citation. meeting in joint session with
the Colorado chapter of the Ameri-
can Mining Congress in Denver
elected officers for the ensuing year
as follows: President, George M.
Taylor; first vice president, George
o. Argall; second vice president, r.
M. Henderson; third vice president.
Charles o. Chase; treasurer, George
E. Collins; secretary. M. B. Tomblin.
AS 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 SO many govern
ment activities because Of its central
location.
Lutte M. Wilcox was reelected presi-
dent of the workers for the blind at
a 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 M. Am
mons. L. c. jackson, Harley 8.
Fritchie and A. J. Closson.
A postofiice station at General
Hospital No. 81 at Aurora has been
opened by an order from the Post
Office Department at Washington un-
der the name of Camp Speer, and
henceforth all mail transactions with
the camp will be done through that
Office instead of through the Denver
office as heretofore.
More than $5O,0OO,OOO was paid out
to American farmers in the year 1918
for sugar beets, one-fifth of what they
would receive If domestic production
equaled consumption. The home pro-
duction of one ton of beet sugar re-
turns as much to American labor ~
the refining Of eleven tons of foreign
raw sugar
The thirteenth annual National
Western Stock show, to be held in
Denver Jan. 1925. will be known as
the "Victory Stock Show" in honor of
the ending Of the war, and all indica-
tions now are that it will be larger in
point Of attendance, exhibits and
sales than of any of the previous
shows.
A general meeting will be held by
state representatives and members Of
the good roads committee in Denver to
pass and appoint committees for ham
ding the $20,000.000 enabling act,
bond issue for good roads for Colora-
do to be presented to the Twenty-sec-
ond Assembly now in session.
Leaving an estate valued at ap-
proximately 100000. the will of
Eben l.. Smith. killed in. action in