Gilpin observer., 1920-02-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Denver Automotive Show will be held
in Denver, March to s, at Stock
Yards Stadium.

1000 tons of ice In the big ice houses
at Delta. They have bought 800 tons
from Frank II. Bosler's private ice
ponds at MOntrOse.
The foundations of a big building
and loan association for Olathe have
been laid. A committee has been ap-
pointed to solicit for probable stock
buyers.
Delta is to have new motion pic
ture theater. Denver parties are ne
gOtiating for its erection and 1t is to
cost between $4,000 and $4,000, it is
stated.
While playing tag with her sister
at Rockvale, Rose Bacerela, years
old, fell down the cellar steps at her
home and was almost instantly killed,
her skull being fractured.
a big mountain hunt is being
planned for GunnisOn county with de-
signs on the three mountain lions
which have been getting so much
stock this winter on Beaver creek.
en- good portion of the census
enumeration on snOwshOes. Upper
Ohio creek was so deeply buried all
other modes of locomotion are out of
the question.
Already 1000 sacks of cement have
been ordered for use in erecting the
immense new canning plant to be built
at Delta this year by the Colorado
Packing Company. Machinery is to
be ordered at once.
The miners of Aspen are beginning
to prepare for the early spring work
and many prospectors are getting
lined up for earlier trips to the hills
than ever before in hopes of finding
silver leads while silver is high.
The Liberty Bell mine at Telluride
is dumping it's ore in the bins now in
stead of sending 1t to the mill, as the
mill has been closed down temporarily.
The unrclability of electric power is
down of the big mill.
Edward Bell Field, Jr., vice presi-
dent and treasurer of the Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany and widely known clubman of
Denver, died at Hot Springs, Ark, ac-
cording to word received in Denver
by his sister, Mrs. Floyd Walpole.
Finding a glass containing power
full tonic prescribed by physician for
his father. mother and two sisters,
who We're i'll from influenza, the 49,
months-old son of Charles Wilcox of
Burns drank the draught and died
from its effects before physician
could be found.
Early indications are that Greeley
will equal or Outdo its building record
of 1918 this year. Last year the city
issued building permits in excess of
ST50.0O0. The building inspectors es-
timated that the actual value of build
ing constructed during the year was in
excess of S1,250,000.
with one-fourth of the army re-
cruiting campaign time limit gone and
only one-tenth of the quota enlisted,
Colorado and Wyoming must speed up
to reach the goal of l,iO3 recruits by
March 81. The drive begun on Jan.
10 has netted 1871 accepted recruits
for the regular army.
The number of other cattle on
hand in the state this year is esti-
mated at 1855, 900, compared with L.
425,OOO last year. and the average val
ne per head is S4S.1O, compared with
S54.4O last year. The number of
other cattle in the country at large
this year is estimated mt 44,3S5, 900,
compared with 45,OS5,000 on January
l, 1919.
Greeley's municipal water works
earned $7T,2S7.TO in 1919, according to
the annual report of Milton Seaman,
superintendent of the water works
system. In 1908, the first year the
mountain water system was used, 1t
earned only S43,1226i. AS rates have
remained stationary, the increase rep
resents the growth of the city's popu-
lation. One hundred and forty-eight
new houses We're connected with the
system this last year. The entire sys-
TEN represents an investment of $685.
571.43
Owners of the famous Victoria mine
at Summerville have organized the 81,
100000 Lincoln Silver Mining Com
pany in Boston and plan extensive de-
velopment of this lode and of n tun.
mel site at Salina. The Lincoln Com
pany is planning development work on
the Victoria by an extension eastward
of the 400-foot level, by an extension
of the No. > incline to the 400-foot
level, and by raising from the 400-foot
level to the 100-foot level 1t is ex.
pccted that this development will open
large amount OF the sllver-bearlng
ore for which the Victoria has been
famous.
The Daughters of the Revolution
have requested permission to tax,
aynr and cure for. the snrlnn On the