The Colorado statesman., 1919-01-11
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

Charles w. Henderson of the United
States Geological Survey. Depart
ment of the Interior, amounted to
s12,95O.OOO in gold, 100000
ounces of silver, 64,300.000 pounds
of lead, 6,450,0O0 pounds of copper
and S5,20O,000 pounds of zinc, hav-
ing a total value of $33, 100000,
compared with $15,S49,30 in gold.
i 7,3O4,35O ounces of silver, $780,
600 pounds OF lead, S,l22,OOO
pounds of copper and 11S,2OO,OO0
pounds of zinc, having total value
of SAL, 1,93S,935 in 1917. This esti-
mate shows a decrease of $2,9OO.OOO
in gold, $4,000 ounces in silver.
3,69O,0O0 pounds in lead, 1,66O.OOO
pounds in copper and 3S,5OO.OOO
pounds in zinc. At the increased
price for silver the value of the sill
yer yield was sSS0,000 greater than
in 1917, but the value of copper de-
creased s624,00O, lead s1,025,OO0
and zinc s9,520,000.
A vivid dream of the death of Col
onel Roosevelt caused Mrs. Sarah
Lewis, mother of George Lewis of the
mountain division of the Red Cross,
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 sald
that she had dreamed that the colonel
had died while asleep. She insisted
on seeing newspaper at once, ana
only after reading it did Mrs. Lewis
feel more confident that ii was but
dream and not a premonition. But
twenty-four hours after that premoni-
tion, 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 oil
Land Commissioners from transac-
tioIfs in Colorado lands during the bi-
ennial period just closed were the
greatest ever recorded in the history
of the state, aggregating $2,5O9, ,23S.52,
or $720, ,S07.9S in excess of receipts for
the preceding biennium. The 1928
total is $1,000,000 greater than the re-
ceipts for any equal period between
1909 and 1915.
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 hate 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
mept 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 5,00O
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 ]. 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 s5O,Oo0,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 as
the refining of eleven tons of foreign
raw sugar
The basketball season will open on
Jan. "a. The opening Denver date
will be the Miners vs. D. U. at Univer-
sity Park
The twenty-second annual conven
ton of the American National Live
stock Association will be held at the
Broadway theater Jan. II, % and 20.
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 oil
1918, and became effective Jan. l.
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
suit for $4,000 damages brought by
Mrs. Bertha A. Bonham for the death
| of her husband Charles Pearl Ron.