Gilpin observer., 1920-04-29
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


control. of the Rawley property. near
Bonanza, in Saguache county, and plan
to operate it on a large scale. A TOO
ton concentrating mill Is being dis
mantled at Midvale, Utah. to be
shipped to the Rawley property, and
a seven-mile tramway will be built to
connect the mill with the mine. The
mine has 6,OOO-foot tunnel and 1900
foot upraise. 1t has numerous levels
which disclose immense bodies of ore
running strongly in gold, silver and
copper. The development to be car
ried out at the mine this summer will
cost $25O,OOO or more.
The Colorado Good Roads Associa-
tion, including in its membership most
of the leading good roads advocates Of
the state, is expected to go on record
in favor of bond issue for state high
way development at its coming annual
meeting scheduled to be held in Colo
RADIO Springs May %. Whether the or
ganizatiOn will indorse $25,O0O,O0O
road bond issue, as urged by the BOul-
der Commercial Club, or urge support
Of the $5,OOO,0OO issue proposed by the
last Legislature, is one of the Ques-
tions which will be up for discussion.
During the fiscal year ended Nov.
80. last, there was an average of 141
inmates in the state refOrmatory at
Buena Vista. The cost of maintenance
was $66,774.47, a per capita expense of
$472.74, according to report just
compiled by state examiners and made
public by State Auditor Arthur M.
Stong. Earnings of the institution met
about one-fOurth of its support. These
amounted to $16,57S.25, realized prin-
cipally from sales of livestock and pro-
duce grown on the reformatory farm.
Forest Service road construction
plans in Colorado for 1920 call for 81
miles Of roads to be built at total
cost of $427, 500. Federal funds will
provide $271, 900 Of the total amount.
This construction program consists of
eleven road projects varying from
to % miles in length and scattered
over the whole western half of the
state from Bennett Creek in Larimer
county on the Colorado National For
est to the Crested Butte-Somerset
project on the Gunnison National For
est in Gunnison county.
Colorado college is to receive $4,000
from the Carnegie corporation of New
York to be used as special endow-
ment fund to maintain the system of
faculty retiring annuities now in Op-
GRAFTON. The annuity system was es-
tablished in Colorado College two
years ago. The extension Of these an
nuities is open to all retiring members
| of the faculty. The Carnegie cOrpo-
ration's proposal would obviate the
drawing of annuities from the general
fund of the college.
A wool pool has been organized at
Montrose in order that the small grow
er might benefit as much as the larger
| grower. Hitherto the small grower in
| that section has been forced to ship
| his wool to the markets on consign-
ment and trust to the judgment of 9th
ers, while under the new organization
the wool will be stored in warehouses
there and at Delta and purchasers in
vited to bid on the wool.
Ten women and two men of the
senior class of the University of Colo
RADIO have been elected to membership
in the honorary scholastic fraternity
Phi Beta Kappa. They are the lead
ers of their class in scholarship. At
torney Harold Fl. Healey, who was
graduated in 1911, and Wayne Ivers,
former football star and graduate of
1916, have also been elected to mem
bership.
Approximately $500 acres of state
land, comprising sections in twelve
counties for which applications have
been filed, will be put up for sale by
the State Board of Land Commission
ers ON May s, in a public auction to be
held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon in
the House of Representatives assembly
room at the state house.
The banking conditions of Colorado
are in better shape than in any state
west of New York, according to
Charles f. Junod, vice president of the
Atlantic National Bank of New York
City, who was in Colorado recently
Mr.. Junod is making a tour of the
West and has come in contact with
the principal banking interest Of the
Rocky Mountain and Middle Western
states.
A conscience" check for $500 has
been received by +. II. Wolcott, bur
sar Of the University of Colorado,
from w. S. Burnett of San Francisco,
who states that the money is but half
of what he calculates he owes the in
stltution for failure to pay his tuition
when he was a student in the law
school in 1897 and 1898. He stated
that another check for $500 would he