The Elbert County tribune., 1920-04-09
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Opening of the Muncey hard coal de-
posits in the Ragged mountains in
western Gunnison county is announced
as one of many development projects
to he undertaken in that county this
summer.
Greeley painters and paperiangers
were given a - per cent Increase In
wages by the contractors. The men
have been receiving 50 cents an hour
for an elght-hour day, but the wage
was raised TO 81 an hour.
Trout streams in the Montrose sec
ton Will he wonderful meccas for an
glers this year, according to announce
ment by George l.. Price, secretary OF
The Montrose Fish and Game Club,
who stated that arrangements had
been made for an unusually large
| stock for the local streams.
Arthur Davis, "a, Il taxi driver, was
cut to ribbons when his car hit the
rear end of a truck near the Union sta
| tion at Pueblo He was hurled through
| the windshield and fell to the pave
ment thirty feet from where the COLT
sion occurred. He died few minutes
later
With the arrest in Denver of man
giving the name of "A f. Jones'" the
local police and state brand inspectors
believe they have captured the man
who has stolen at least $4,000 worth
Of cattle in Colorado during the last
few weeks. Jones is being held in the
Denver city Jail.
Inheritance taxes received by the
state for the last half of March to-
| tailed S40,S25.9i, bringing the total re-
ceipts for the biennial period to date
10 slightly over a million dollars. The
| largest taxes were on the estates of
| Amelia O. Peters and Lewis G. Colds
| borough, which We're appraised at
more than 100000 each.
Americanlzation work will be empha-
sized during the summer quarter of
the University of Colorado, which
opens June IA. Three courses in Amer
icanization will be conducted and the
training will be supplemented by lee
lures delivered during the quarter by
noted educators and Amercanization
workers from all parts of the country.
Grand Junction will raise 81 900, and
Mesa, DeBeque and Palisade will each
raise like amount, 10 make the ST.
900 which the government says must
he raised to pay for the building of
the link road between Mesa. Colo, and
the national forest 'lAie edge to con
necr Mesa. Colo, with the Mesa lakes.
The government is TO spend $4,000 on
the roal, work on which will be start
| ed shortly.
One thousand, five hundred and six
ty pieces of war material captured by
American troops from the German
army Will he distributed in Colorado,
according to n confidential memoran-
DUN sent by the War Department to
Chairman Julius Kahn of the House
military committee. The various
states will share, according to the per-
centage of troops furnished in the al
lotment of 2.19T pieces of artillery, L.,
900 war vehicles and Si1, ,117 small ar
ticIes OF various kinds
Chief Quartermaster Edeart l.. Ost-
| rander. who resides at Golden, Colo,
re-enllsted at the navy yard, ut Ports
mouth, n H, and has been trans
ferred to the L. S. Navy Recruiting
Station, Denver. Colo Chief Ostran-
der is considered a first-class athlete.
motorcycling being his long suit, and
is ready for n race at any time. While
at the Portsmouth station he organized
The All Navy Basketball team that won
- OF the Al games they played, there
by carrying away the big cup. While
in the Asiatic fleet he was coxswain of
the fast L. s. S. Denver race boat that
cleaned up the station.
Five hundred pounds of coal fell
from the roof of mine near I.afay
cite, pinning James Snow to the
ground and so badly injurng him that
he may lose a leg. He was taken to
the University hospital ut Boulder
and surgeons stated that it was the
worst injury of the kind they had
ever seen
According to information received by
the Colorado Cooperative Crop Report
Ing Service, through the Colorado
branch of the U. s. Bureau OF Mar
kets, there are in the state yet to be
shipped only about 500 cars of pota-
toes from the 1919 crop, compared
with about 1900 cars at this time last
yeer. Shippers in the Northern Colo
RADIO district We're receiving 50 per cwt
for potntoes about the middle of
March, which is said to he the record
price at that season during the his
tory OF the potato industry there Rec
ords of the Bureau of Crop Estimates
and the Bureau of Markets show that
up to March 10th there had been S,5T4
carloads of potatoes shipped from
points in Colorado. compared with
1,222 carloads shipped to the same
date last year and total shipment.
from the IBIS crnn of Ia Az cnrlonhs