The Raymer enterprise., 1919-05-15
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


IHry Of The State Board Of Par1ons b,
Governor Shoup.
4 bond issue of $4,000 WIS voted
by the Brighton school district at th
election for the purpose Of erecting ar
ttgit-room addition to the prcsen
grade school building. =.
The Nucla Lumber Company vii
open its biz sawmlll In Tie Basin soon
la help take care If the immense or
ders for lumber now being received
from all over that valley.
Price of food took sudden leap up
ward at Loyeland and reached high
water mark Al u Farmers Inion pie
social. pie made by The belle of The
evening finally sold for ST..
Neil Eogie, 10, OF Goldfield. was
killed and Harry Jones, fellow work
man, WAS badly Injured by a prema.
ture explosion In the i,sdstfnuf level
of the Nindieaior mine at Victor.
Henry Sliaffer, employed nu ihe Il.
q. u. Bishopp ranch at Virginia Dale,
WAS exonerated by II coroner's jury
for the killing of Henry Hansen. a
mover, who had been stealing from
the ranch.
Few people even IN Colorado know
that this state has an available sup
ply OF hiturnlnons coal more than two
and one half times as great as the com
bined available supply Of anthracite
and bitumihous coal in the state OF
Pennsylvania. =..
Two new county high schools will
be established In Adams county as
result Of the school election held In
that county. The schools are to be In
the north and south ends of district
running north and south through Ad
ans county, twenty miles east OF
Brighton.
The women OF Breckenridge yanked
Summit county over the top in the
Liberty Loan right on time with the
rest OF the state. The county's quota
WAS $4,000. The women alone brought
In S32,800 There is now S43,35o
subscribed to The loan In the banks Of
this county.
One Of the oldest buildings In Lead
vile, the Hyman Isaacs clothing, dry
goods and household furnishings store,
has collapsed. The building was erect.
ed in 1879 and was at first of logs,
being one OF the first two-story los
business buildings in LeadyiIe. 1t was
remodeled about 1852 and portion
was bricked.
Sixty years ago this spring, John II
Gregory discovered the elusive ant
mnch-rumored gold OF Colorado In
gulch between Central City and Black.
Hawk. Sixty years ago the news wa.
spreading around the Clear Creek dis
trict, pereolating into the villages OF
The site of Denver and beginning tn.
great Colorado gold rush.
The union miners in the Silvertor
district Of the San Juan basin unani
mously voted TO reject the proposed
reduction of % cents day In wages
and an Increase Of 25 cents day fol
board, amounting 10 30 cents a das
less money, when they met to consider
and vote on such request from III.
mine owners, The prevailing wage I.
$3.50 for an eight-hour day.
Miss Helen Dove has accepted A 20.
sition AS lookout for the forestry stry,
ice and will spend the summer on Dey.
lis Head mountain, forty miles south
west of Denver. II will be her duty Il
report forest fires in the surrounding
area OF 1000 square miles. which In
rludes Pixies peak. Miss Dove is 1.-The
first woman lookout TO be chosen foI
this important work In the Colorado
Wyoming district
y. X. MeGreery. manager Of 1.-The
l.ongmont plant of the Great West tern
Sugar Company, announces that fhe
company will build $4,000 aormidory
for the use Of the employees of the CON
pany during the coming summer.
Five cities in Colorado are soon to
have recreation areas in the national
forests of the state under plans n ow
being worked out by the Denver office
OF the United States forest service, co
operating with the officials of the inu.
inequalities. Some definite action al.
ready has been taken by Fort Collins,
which has secured such n tract Of land,
and residents of Pueblo, Florence,
Longmont and Cai1on City are preror.
ing similar areas.
Up To May /, $3.50, $1,000 had been
collected by the office OF Secretary Of
State James +. Nolands office as cor.
'"ratlon tax, known as flat tax, for
1919. During the corresponding period
last year the amount received by The
department was SITS, ,l1002. This tax
is now $40 on the first 100000 worth
# stock or fraction thereof, and $40
for each additional sl,000. About TO-.
NM corporations In Colorado and So
from outside of the state have paid
This late in the spring the miners
NJ the boarding house ut the Noun.
lain Top mine at Ouray are using
the second story windows for doors
Ile 10 tile frameudnus a.,,l - a.