The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-06-06
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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vast quantity of high-grade ore i'll
sight that will keep the mine active
| for long time.
Colorado, Wyoming and New Mex
| leo men enlisting in the United States
navy now may choose whether they
wish to take their preliminary training
in San Francisco or at the naval train
ing station at Great Lakes, near Chi
(, cago.
Tony Cuaz, 80, well known as high
| grade operator in the Cripple Greek
| district, who was released from the
| federal penitentiary at Leavenworth,
Kan, three months ago, died suddenly
of heart failure in the Baltimore hotel
at Victor.
Real estate transfers up and down
the Arkansas valley are heavier than
they have been for several years. Con
| siderable farm land is also changing
| hands, among which was the transfer
| of twenty acres of irrigated land near
1 Holly from Charles Pinkham to Cline
| brothers. The consideration was S33,-
! 000
Marjorie Henry, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Russell Henry, who live nea"
Campfon, narrowly escaped drowning
when she fell into an irrigating ditch
near the, house and floated down the
stream for a distance that would Gov
| er about two blocks before she was
discovered and rescued by her grand
| father, G. w. Henry.
Weld county, Colorado's banner ag-
1 ricultural county, is the leader also in
/ the number of Incorporated cities and
| towns, number of banks, number of
| schools. number of farm owners and
number of tenant farmers. 1t ranks
second in number of automobiles and
assessed valuation and third in bank
| deposits
| Gov Oliver H Shoup is becoming
one of the heavy land owners of Col
| orado. He has recently bought four
additional ranches near Hustled, about
ten miles from Colorado Springs, Civ
/ ing him $3.50 acres in body at this
4 point He recently bought a ranch
! of $50 acres, and these four connect
| all five ranches.
With silver going up toward the for
mer coinage value, renewed interest
| is being taken in the older silver pro
ducers of Summit county. Silver and
gold will again be prospected for dur
ing the coming summer in the Breck
enridge district, which was formerly
considered gold camp" until the
output of zine aud lead ores gave for
mer gold and silver producers back
seat"
The crops in the Montrose section
| and most of the great Uncempahgre
/ valley are two to three weeks ahead OF
! the five-year average. The alfalfa
crop is over 100 per cent average and
is ready for the first cutting now
Some potato patches are showing re-
markable development and the farm
ers are declaring it is one of the most
advanced springs in the history OF
| Montrose county.
Eddie Foy and his family of seven,
who recently appeared at the Orphe-
Inn theater in Denver in an original
vaudeville comedy, will return TO Den
series of two-reel comedy pictures to
be known as the "Foy Fun Films. y
George McManus, the cartoonist, has
created a special cartoon character for
Mr.. Foy to be used in these pictures
Foy has signed a contract with the
National Film Corporation of Engle-
wood for these pictures, and the come
dian will be directed by Albert w
Hale, who is manager Of productions
in the National company.
A fine of $500 and costs and the loss
of $50 gallons of whisky, valued at
| S14,00o was the penalty paid by Her
| man B. Gates, former state treasurer
of Wyoming, for violation of the pro
| hibition law by importing the contra
band booze into Denver from Wyo-
ming The whisky was seized in the
Gates home in Denver.
The Wet Mountain mining section
was never so busy as it is now. More
mines are being worked, more ore
shipped than ever in its history. The
price of silver added to the lower
freight and treatment charges that
prevailed when the mines were allowed
to slip into neglect combine to make
things move and start leasers and
owners into action.
The Supreme Court has handed
down decisions under which the tele-
phone rates of 1918 must continue to
be paid while the case is refought !;
viii r. Murphy is given office as en-
glneer of the State Land Board /;
Judge Ben B. Lindsey must pay a
$500 fine for contempt of court, and
A. f. Enyart, Ordway, Colo, bank
president, gets II new trial on the
charge of murder.
Colorado court deerees dismissing
injunction proceedings brought to re-
strain Denver city officials from en-
forcing city ordinances requiring the
Denver e Rio Grande railroad to re-