The Elbert County tribune., 1919-01-10
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

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. 64,300,000 pounds
of lead. 6.450.000 pounds of copper
and s5.200.000 pounds of zinc. hav-
ing total value of 3,260.0 900.
compared with s15,S49.302 in gold.
7.304.350 ounces of silver, $780,
900 pounds of lead. S,122,000
pounds of copper and lis, 100000
pounds of zinc. having total value
of s41.93s,935 in 1917. This esti-
mate shows a decrease OF $4,000
in gold. $4,000 ounces in silver.
| 3,690,000 pounds in lead, $780, 900
pounds in copper and 3S.500.000
pounds In zinc. AT the increased
| price for silver the value OF the sill
yer yield was sss0.O0O greater than
In 1917. but the value of copper de-
creased s624,000. lead s1,O25.0 900
and zinc $9.520.o00.
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 Denver
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 $500 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 NJ
Taylor; first vice president, George
o. Argall; second vice president, r.
Nj. Henderson; third vice president.
Charles o. Chase; treasurer. George
f. Collins; secretary. NJ. B. Tomblin.
AS headquarters city for federal
bureaus. Denver ranks next to Wash
ington, even New York, Chicago and
nth pff hQ1n
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 NJ 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.
A postofiice station at General
Hospital No. 21 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 s5o.o0o.0o0 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 thirteenth annual National
Western Stock show, to be held in
4 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 1t viii 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 han
ding the $20.00o.0Oo 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 s500,000. the will of
Eben l.. Smith. killed in action in
| France Nov. 9. 1918, was filed for
| probate in the County Court in Den
| yer. The will leaves the whole es-
tate to Mrs. Margaretta Smith.
widow of the slain soldier.
| Farmers and livestock breeders in
| do 4.