The Ordway new era., 1920-11-05
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

First Annual Standardization Confer
| enee, largely composed Of mining men
from the Western states. Standardi-
zation, II generally adopted, would
mean vastly increased production and
tend to safety of life and limb. The
object of the conference is TO enlist
the cooperation of mining men in the
working oI- of standard methods.
standard equipment and standard la
Dor saving devices 10 offset, as far as
possible, the present high cost of pro-
duction and shortage of skilled labor.
Two men were killed and a third
was wounded in a gun battle which
occurred when two Colorado Springs
policemen attempted to arrest the tri"
in connection with the attempted rob-
berry of the Bank of Elbert. The men
who were killed We're identified as
| Charles Sietz and George II. Brown Of
Pueblo. The wounded man is Frank
Green, 2s years old. of Colorado
Springs. Neither of the officers was
hurt in the exchange of shots which
occurred eleven miles north os Colo
rado Springs.
l L ne JtfOiIe fuIh bTdHND VI iIc
Colorado Midland railroad, beginning
east of Glenwood Springs and extend
ing norfhward to Jerome Park, dis
| tance of fifteen miles, is to be junked
Immediately, according to an an
nouncement made by General Manager
Coogan. The branch was primarily to
haul the coal produced in the Jerome
Park district. These mines are no
longer in operation and the branch has
been abandoned for a long time.
The state will have balance of
S21S,OO0 to its credit at the end of its
biennial period, which ends on Nov.
30, according to Arthur NJ. Stong.
state auditor. According to records in
his office. the state had expended to
date S3,66S, ,747.50 of a total Of 81 $685.
0S401 In the amount paid out is in
cluded 100000 on the educational
loan fund to ex-service men.
Wheat is Colorado's leading crop in
point of acreage, with corn ranking
second and hay third. According to
the reports made by county assessors
to the State immigration Department,
26.96 per cent. Of the acreage in culti-
vation in the state this year is devoted
to wheat, 2t-55 per cent. to corn and
1916 per cent to hay, exclusive of mill
let. sudan grass and small grains cut
for hay.
a readjustment of the freight rate
on coal shipped from the Pike View,
Keystone and City mines to Colorado
Springs, few miles south, is asked
of the state public utilities commits
sion in q petition filed by the Colo
RADIO Springs Chamber of Commerce.
The present rate is 67hs cents n ton.
The petition asks the restoration of
the % GENTS ton rate, which was
effective prior to June %, 1918.
A diamond drill hole is to be put
down not far from the town of Cam
eron, in the extreme north end of the
Cripple Creek district, and within the
known gold-producing area, the object
being to test the commercial possibili-
ties of vein systems that strike through
the section on a northwest-southeast
line, which is the general direction of
all the main ore-veins in the district.
The Industrial census for the Den
yer division, embracing South Dakota,
Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and
western Texas. has been completed by
the United States Census Bureau Mt
Denver after ten months canvass over
this district, and the local offices, un-
der the direction of Frank Adams, spe-
cial agent in charge, have been for
mally closed.
Charles Capra, Rockvale merchant,
was held up and robbed Of 5000 in
cash by two unmasked bandits on the
Florence-Pueblo Highway The high
waymen escaped in the bad lands
along the Arkansas river. Capra was
en- route to Pueblo to purchase mer-
chandise when the robbery was coIn-
| mltted.
The 1920 corn crop in Colorado is
estimated at 16,215,OO0 bushels and is
valued at S1e,e6s,795 in report is
sued by Howard Sullivan, deputy i'm
migration commissioner. Other crors
Of the state are estimated as follows ::
100000 bushels of barley at 91.2
cents a bushel, S,126,0Oo bushels of
oats at 6O.7 cents a bushel, IL, ,642, ,OOo
| bushels of potatoes at S1,34S a bushel.
A model mining camp has developed
at the Standard Chemical Company
plant in the west end of Montrose
county. While the settlement is more
than forty miles from the railroad, it
is equipped with electric lights, water
| is piped into the houses and every
thing necessary for the comfort of tine
employees and their families has boen
| installed by the company.
Boulder undertakers were asked by
the Ministerial Association, in resolu-
tions passed, to discourage Sunda.s fr-
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