The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-08-28
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
COMING EVENTS.

COMING EVENTS.
Boulder County Fair. Lonsmont' Sept.
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford.
Mers.n County Fair. Fort Morgan.
Routt County Fair. Hayden. Sept. SIS.
Logan County Fair Sterling Sept y
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept. >
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. 8
Moffat County Fair. M.ybeIl. Sept. IL
Plsts.u Valley State Fair. Cochran.
B.ca County Fair. Springfield. Sept.
Trinid.d-La. Anim.. County Fair.
co Trtnidad. Sept 1919. r San,
western Slope Fair. Montrose. Sept.
Central Community Fair. Greeley. Sept.
Yume County Fair Yuma. Sept 1920.
Ph sslsa. County Fair H0ly0k'' Sept
saEueche County Fair. saguache. Sept.
celoredo,New Mexico Fair. Durango.
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept. "a
eF ss,sz County Fair Krsmmlins' Sept
crsS,wisy County Fair. Sugar city. Aug.
.Inter-Mountain Lixe stock and Fair.
Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct. 3.
Oct. -.
G. w. Badger, for four years
scOutmaster in Denver and for one
year assistant executive of the Denver
Boy Scouts, has been elected executive
OF the Boulder troops.
By q coincidence, the only two Col
den boys entitled to wear wound
stripes arrived home from overseas on
the same day. They are Capt. Orville
Dennis and Private Delbert Parshall.
Isaac Victor, 25 years old. a patient
at the Jewish Consumptives Relief
sanitarium, shot and killed Miss Bes-
sic Marold because she refused to
marry him. The shooting took place
In the courtyard of the sanitarium In
West Colfax avenue. Denver.
Werner 2. Reed, late Colorado phil
lanthropist, was worth $5,777,91O.53
when ne died several months ago. This
valuation OF his estate is fixed by an
inventory filed in the County Court by
ecutrix of his estate.
Waunita is certainly coming to the
front, as one of the leading resorts
In Colorado. The popular resort is at
tracing hundreds of visitors this year,
twice the number OF last year. Fish
Ing has been remarkably good and
there have been numerous big catches
made all season
In Colorado approximately $4,000
900 is now being spent annually for
the construction OF state and county
much as was being spent annually five
years ago. The amount available for
road work il being increased each
year.
The death toll of the explosion at
Oakview mine OF Oakdale Coal COM
pany IL eighteen, and all the bodies ex-
cept three OF the miners whose lives
were snuffed out when the blast
caught them 1900 feet In the work
ings, have been recovered by rescue
crews.
Rolling down the hillside with the
velocity of cannon ball, n huge bOul-
der, which weighed at least two tons,
crashed through the two walls of a
barn at the rear of the residence of
Z. F. BOles at Telluride, and then
crashed through the walls of the
kitchen.
The Sunnyside mill of the Sunnyslde
Mining and Milling Company at Eu-
reka Is under operation utter II forced
closedown by the $25O,OOO fire that de-
stroyed the bunk and boarding houses
ut the mine several months ago. This
mill is one of the largest and best
equipped in the state.
Costly and Atkins, leasing on the
Southern Boy mine In the La Plata
mountains, have cut three-inch
streak of high-grade ore that assays
$3.50 per pound. The ore carries 41S
ounces gold and sixty ounces silver to
the ton, and was discovered in the
shaft that is being sunk in an open
cut where some good ore was mined
two or three years ago. The South
ern Boy is located one mile above the
camp of Mayday, and the high grade
is in monzanite-pOrphyry formation.
The first state fair ever held in
Colorado under state supervision and
financed and supported by the state is
to be held at Pueblo, September 22nd
to 9th. The state has acquired title
TO the fair grounds through purchase
with funds granted in special appro-
priation. The tax levy is being used
in the payment of premiums and other
items of expense of an educational
oh ur,lC tar a 10
Commission is spending $4,000 on the
sports and amusement program. 1t is
to be Colorados first 100000 fair.
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