The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-04-10
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lea and IL growers will plant pseov
Of 6a0r beets. The total crop viii ~
about 10000 acres or enough to fur.
nish 10000 tons. The beet growsss
won their 9fO-a-ton price for all bssta
delivered up to 4 certain time. hate "
the fall, and after that the market %
sugar Is to determine the price. Everr
thing has been satisfactorily arranged
Success for the Victory loan for
large part of Colorado's Western slope
is promised by loan workers at Mont
rose, Delta, Grand Junction, Carbon
dale, Glsnwood Springs and olathA
Chairman 8. d. Nicholson Of the Colo
RADIO State Liberty Loan committee.
said on his return from campaign
visit to those towns Rallies were
held in the first three of these point1
and conferences with local committees
In the other three.
Montrose 10 the third best banking
city on the Western slope at present,
and the bankers say to watch for one
year and zee who's who on the West
ern slope. Durango leads with re
sources of $8,2o5,518.08 Grand juno
tion is next with S8,245,652.1s, and
Montrose third with $2,sSS, 790.O2. The
population of the three cities at pres
ent is: Grand junction, 10000; Duran
20, $500, and Montrose, A,100.
The Iron Silver Mining Company,
operating the Mikado and other prop
critics at Leadville, has announced
cut In wages Of 4 dollar a day, due, 1t
Is stated, to decentralization In metal
markets, especially lead and zinc. The
Yak mines, owned by the American
Smelling and Refining Company. also
have posted notices Of 4 similar cut,
and other lead-zinc mines Of the dis
trict probably will follow suit.
To be buried under n snow slide in
n bed room isn't an experience to be
desired, but A. e. Chapman and Don-
aid Stewart, miners of Telluride, re
Gently experienced 1t without injury.
A snowslide engulfed their boarding
house and filled their bedroom with
eight feet of snow. Rescusrs were
forced to cut hole In the side Of
the house to dig the men ont
A moonsaine still was raided at the
home Of Gus Lindstrum In Santa RITZ,
q suburb of Victor, by Sheriff Won
Publ and Assistant District Attorney
Shaw. The still, made Of copper. was
in operation when the officers ap-
peared. 1t was located in an outbuild-
ing and several gallons of raw white
whisky were seized.
Parvino Parmona, Pueblo italian,
was beheaded at Pueblo when he at
tempted to steal ride on Missouri
Pacific freight train In the yards.
brakeman saw him along the track,
carrying an overcoat, and, looking
back moment later saw him fall from
between two cars and the train pas
over his neck.
Littleton voters approved two bond
Issues in the town and school electiona
An issue for 100000 to erect new
high school building carried by vote
of $50 to 78. and a proposal to bond
the city for $4,000 to construct new
municipal building was approved, g
to 6S. But one municipal ticket was
in the field.
Walter e. Whitman. chauffeur fos
Mrs. A. v. Hunter, wife of A. v. Hun
ter, wealthy banker of Denver, was In
stantly killed when the car he was
driving overturned mile and q half
south of Sedalia. Whitman was
pinned under the car and his head was
caught under the steering wheel,
breaking his neck.
Rumors are current in Englewood
that the Denver 4 South Platte Rail-
road Company, which operates the
street car line between EnglewOcd
and Littleton, may discontinue bus&
ness soon. This action, II brought
about, would be the result Of steadily
increasing cost Of operation, officers
of the railroad say.
That at least nine Of the thirteen
piers already erected on Hyle bridge
across the Platte river east Of Greeley
are defective and will have to be re
placed or at least repaired at an enor
nous expenDe Is the opinion Of the
county engineer. who has just made an
inspection Of the bridge, and taken
large quantities Of disintegrated gravd
and pebbles from the piers.
william Smiley. 1O-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. b. B. Smiley bled t.
death when he fell from a burro cart
he was driving and the wheels passed
over his head and neck. His e-year.
old brother, Richard, was with him
and summoned help.
A couple of boys have been cited In
to court on a charge Of vandalism
committed in the Supnyside cemetery.
where the dead of Cripple Greek are
buried. More than 100 gravestonea