The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-10-02


Oct. Is. ~
Miss Flora Brown, 80 years old, who
weighed 525 pounds, is dead in Denver
of heart trouble.
Half of the Colorado Fuel and Iror
Company's coal mines in Trinidad dis
trict are closed and total of over 1,
500 men are out of work as result.
The installation of u giant still al
the plant Of the Colorado Packing
Company at Canon City insures an
abundance OF pure distilled water fol
use at the plant, and also for the use
of the people of Canon City.
Sixty-six school teaches of Fort Col
Inns will receive u bonus of $3.50 each
on their years work, as a result of &C.
ton taken by the school board on a
petition asking for increases of % per
cent.
The town of Ault, Colo, has applied
to the State Utilities Commission for a
certificate of convenience and neces-
sity authorizing 1t to proceed with the
construction and operation of a NUM-
cipal light and power plant.
Fort Collins Industries will receive
one new unit shortly thru the filing in
the secretary of states office of arti-
cles of incorporation for the Fort Col
Inns Pressed Brick and Tile Company.
The organizers are ii. G. Finley, q. II.
Dixon and H. A. Myer, residents of
Larimer county.
The Rabbit Ear Pass highway, Il
twenty-five mile strip sixteen feet wide
extending from Steamboat Springs to
connection with the highway to Den
yer, has been completed after five
years of work, according to an an
nOuncement made at the United States
bureau In Denver.
A reward OF ~, 500 has been offered
for information that will lead to the
arrest and conviction of the slayers Of
Eric Smith, Gus Danielson, Fred Sund
and Celeste Mattivi at the TombOy
mine on Sept. 10. The reward Is Of
fered by the TombOy, Smuggler and
Liberty Bell companies and San Mig
ueI county.
Increased traffic on Main avenue at
Durango has made necessary the pass
ing of an ordinance by the City COun-
ell preventing the parking of cars
along that thoroughfare for n longer
period than thirty minutes Mt any one
time. A special traffic officer has
l-een added to the police force to en-
force the parking order.
The strike of the steel workers ut
Pueblo has resulted in the closing of
the canister quarries at Canon City
and the throwing out OF work of a con-
siderable number of men who are en-
ployed there. Canister is used as fux
in the making Of steel and large Quanti-
ties were furnished by the quarries
! ere to the Minnequa plant.
Governor Oliver II. ShOup has an
nounced the names Of three women
uppointees he has designated to repre-
sent Colorado ut the Farm Women's
National Congress at Hagerstown,
Md, on October cS to 81. The ap-
pointees are Mrs. Harvey Van Horne
OF DOtsero, Mrs Charles A. LOry Of
Fort Collins, and Mrs Bell Harbert of
Manxnnola.
That Salt Lake City business men
expect within eighteen months to in
wade Routt and Moffat counties In
Pullman cars over n newly built rail-
road to extend from Salt Lake to
Craig, Colo, is the burden of an article
appearing in the bulletin of the Salt
Lake Commercial Club. Funds have
been assured and strong group of
Utah financiers are determined TO see
the road through.
The budget for the city of Boulder
for next year, as submitted to the City
Council by Manager Salter, calls for
expenditures in the amount of $40, $50,
which is the estimated total of re-
ceipts.
There has been sharp deterioration
in the condition of potatoes since the
August report was issued and the In
dictated production is now 1O,59S, COO
bushels. The damage was most severe
in the north-central and northeastern
parts of the state where irrigated po-
iatOes suffered heavily. Non-irrigated
potatoes are almost a failure. The pO-
,ato crop last year was 1908, 900 bush
els. according to lately revised figures.
President ]. +. Welborn, of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company at
Pueblo, has ordered the company
mines mt Sunrise, Wyo., where the
bulk of the raw material used at the
local plants is mined, shut down for
an indefinite period. Five coal mines,
employing approximately 500 men in
The southern field, have also been or
dered closed. These mines have sup
piled the local plants with fuel. There
is no intention on the part of the COM
pany of closing its commercial mines
at this time.
Failure on the part of former state