The Dolores star., 1919-01-10
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| for the first eleven months OF 1913
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
sl2,950,OOO in gold. 100000
ounces of silver. 64.300.000 pounds
| of lead, 6,45O,O0O pounds of copper
and S5,20O.000 pounds of zinc, hav-
! ing total value of $33,26O.0oo,
| compared with $15.S49,302 in gold.
| 7,3O4,35O ounces of silver. $780,
| 600 pounds of lead, 8,122.OOO
pounds of copper and 11S,2OO,OOO
| pounds of zinc. having total value
of -s41. .93S.935 in 1917. This esti-
mate shows decrease of S2,9O0.OO0
in gold. $4,000 ounces in silver.
3,69O,OOO pounds in lead. 1.660,0OO
pounds in copper and 3S.50O.OO0
pounds in zinc. At the increased
price for silver the value of the sill
yer yield was sSS0,OOO greater than
in 1917. but the value Of copper de-
creased s624,OO0. lead s1,025,O00
and zinc $9.520.000.
| wyoming" is back in his spala-
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
inttc
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 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. X.
NJ. Henderson: third vice president.
Charles o. Chase: treasurer, George
| In,
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 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 postotiice 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 s50000.O0O was paid out
to American farmers in the year 1918
for sugar beets, one-fifth of what the;
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
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 $2o,OO0,00O 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
France Nov. 9, 1918, was filed for
probate in the County Court in Den
yer. The will leaves the whole es-
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