The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-05-29
Pithy News Notes
From An Pans Of
Colorado

OF winfield Scott StrattOn, multl-mh-
lionaire mining man who died in 1902.
will be made in the county court of
FL Paso county.
Lawrence c. Phipps has become Of
ficially senator of Colorado. A tele-
gram to his son. Lawrence G. Phipps,
Jr.. announced that he had been sworn
in and taken his seat.
A widow with four children was ar
rested at her home In Waisenburg,
charged with bootlegging. She was
arrested on the same charge about q
year ago and convicted.
The average county tax levy in Colo
RADIO Ii 6.2S mills, which on an, as.
sessed valuation of $1,424,S11 .2Ss
should produce q county revenue from
direct taxation of $S,SSa,S51.71
To buy business and then close II
out was the way one man managed to
get a room in which to carry on his
own business at Castle Rock, there be-
Ing no vacant room available.
A mortuary to cost $4,000 is to be
built In Greeley this summer. The
building will be Of Gothic type of
architecture. The mortuary will be
the largest building of Its kind north
of Denver.
The lowest county tax levy in any
county in Colorado for the year 1919
is $50 mills in Phillips county, and
the highest is 1875 in Hinsdale coun-
ty. Seven counties have tax levies be-
low 8 mills.
The total production of coal in
Colorado was 12,65S, O55 tons, the larg-
est annual production in the history of
the state. This is approximately one
third OF per cent of the total avail
able supply.
According to A. L. Bailey, city at
torney of Glenwood Springs, the heav-
lest tourist traffic In the history Of
Colorado is expected to visit or. Mt
least, pass through the resort during
the present season.
Owen Matteson, q, discharged SOL
der, was out driving with his brother
at Fort Collins when a front tire blew
out, throwing the car into the ditch.
MattesOn tried to drive back on the
road, and the machine turned over.
Matteson's chest was crushed, and he
died four hours later
Congress is expected to act favora-
bly, on the $4,000 appropriation with
which the department Of petroleum
technology Of the United States bureau
of mines plans to start an experiment
station for investigation of Colorado
oil shale deposits, according to Con-
gresham Charles B. Timberiake.
The hotelkeepers and business men
of Estes Park are anticipating the big
gest tourist business this season that
the park has ever known. More reser-
vatiOns than usual at this early stage
are being received by all of the hotels.
and cottage renting has already passed
previous years. records by q big per
cent.
Denver took $l3,047 GOO In the Vic
tory loan. or more than 100000 above
the total, according to the announce
ment of the Denver Liberty loan COM
mittee. In this total is not included
subscription from the banks, this
amount representing the actual sub
scriptions solicited by the army work
ers In the drive.
Construction work on BrightOn's
new factory for the National Beet Har-
vester Company has started under the
direction Of QgN Leeper. local capi-
talist and men6ef OF the board of d.
rectors Of the company. The other
directors decided to turn the matter
entirely over to Mr.. Leeper and he Is
giving the work his personal atten-
ton.
The first high-grader convicted In
the San Miguel District Court in four
teen years was sentenced to the pen
itentiary for three years, when John
Cataftakis was convicted of stealing
rich ore from the Smuggler mine at
Telluride.
Grover, q little town with less than
$50 people In northeastern Weld coun-
ty, has voted to spend 1000 for
wsterworks and an electric light plant
this summer. Grover already has n
public school building costing $4,000
and has more money invested in pub
lie improvements per capita Of pop
ulatiOn than any other town In north
eastern Colorado, according to reports.
Marshall pass, COLORADO, has been
made n postoffice, and thereby takes
over the distinction of being the high
est postoffice In the United States.
Marshall pass has an altitude of TO-
$50 feet and what town is there has
been in existence thirty years or more,
so the designation as n postoffice
comes to 1t late in life. Corona, on the
Moffat line, is higher up in the air
than is Parshall pass, but 1t has never
asked for an office. f. Haley is post
master Of the new ''higher up"
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