The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-05-15
Pitfly News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

western NeWspdper Union ENeWs SefNhSo-
Miss May Henderson. clerk in the
office of the State Board of Charities
and Corrections, was appointed secre-
tary of the State Board of Pardons by
Governor Shoup.
A bond issue of 100000 was voted
by the Brighton school district at the
election for the purpose OF erecting an
eight-room addition to the present
grade school building.
The Nucia Lumber Company will
open its big sawmill in the Basin soon,
TO help take care of the immense or
ders for lumber now being received
from all over that valley.
Price of food took sudden leap up
ward at Loveland and reached high
water mark At Farmers Union pie
social, pie made by the belle Of the
evening finally sold for $21.
Neil Boyle, so, of Goldfield. was
killed and Harry Jones, "A fellow work
man, was badly injured by prems-
ture explosion in the 1,SOOfoot level
of the indicator mine at Victor.
Henry Shaffer, employed on the B.
G. d. Bishopp ranch at Virginia Dale,
was exOnerated by coroner's jury
for the killing of Henry Hansen, n
mover, who had been stealing from
the ranch.
Few people even in Colorado know
that this state has an available sup
ply of bituminous coal more than two
and one-half times as great as the COM
bined available supply of anthracite
and bituminous coal in the state Of
Pennsylvania.
Two new county high schools will
be established in Adams county AZ a
result of the school election held in
that county. The schools are to be In
the north and south ends of a 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 $50, 800. The women alone brought
in $4,000. There is now $43,35O
subscribed to the loan in the banks of
this county.
One of the oldest buildings In Lead.
vile, the Lyman Isaacs clothing, dry
goods and household furnishings store
has collapsed. The building was erect.
ed in 1870 and was at first OF logs
being one of the first two-story log
business buildings In Leadville. 1t was
remodeled about 1882 and a portion
was bricked.
Sixty years ago this spring. John II
Gregory discovered the elusive and
much-rumored gold Of Colorado in a
gulch between Central City and Black
Hawk. Sixty years ago the news was
spreading around the Clear Greek dis
trict, percolating into the villages on
the site of Denver and beginning the
great Colorado gold rush.
The union miners in the Silverton
district of the San Juan basin unani-
mously voted to reject the proposed
reduction of % cents n day in wages
and an increase of % cents day for
board, amounting to 80 cents day
less money, when they met to consider
and vote on such request from the
mine owners. The prevailing wage is
$3.50 for an eight-hour day.
Miss Helen DOVE has accepted a po
sition AZ lookout for the forestry serv'
ice and will spend the summer on Dew.
lis Head mountain, forty miles south
report forest fires in the surrounding
area of 1000 square miles, which in
cludes Pixies peak. Miss DOVE is the
first woman lookout to be chosen fol
this important work in the Colorado
Wyoming district.
n. II. McCreery, manager of the
Longmont plant Of the Great Western
Sugar Company, announces that the
company will build $4,000 dormitory
for the use of the employees Of the com
pany during the coming summer.
Five cities In Colorado are soon to
have recreation areas in the national
forests of the state under plans now
being worked out by the Denver office
of the United States forest service, co.
operating with the officials of the mu-
inequalities. Some definite action al
ready has been taken by Fort Collins
which has secured such tract of land
and residents of Pueblo, Florence,
Longmont and CaiIon City are prepor
ing similar areas.
Up to May /, S1sO.4SO.9O had beer
collected by the office of Secretary OF
State James Z. Noland's office as cor