The Ordway new era., 1920-05-28
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

reports received by the Colorauo 20
| operative Crop Reporting Service from
all sections of the state, while losses
from disease were about normal. These
reports show that losses of cattle from
exposure were A. head per 900, which
is she heaviest loss reported in the past
eight years. The loss of sheep from
exposure was 43 head per 1000, which
was the heaviest in the past eight
years with the exception of 1919. when
the loss was 50 head per 1000. Losses
of lambs from both disease and expos
ure were 80 head per 1000. compared
with an average loss of 40 head for the
past eight years. Losses from disease
were as follows: Horses, p head:
cattle. 20 head; sheep, 81 head; swine,
33 head.
An assay return from the Burling-
anne office in Denver attests the ex-
ceptional value of the latest ore strike
in the Gold King Extension mines at
Silverton. The samples We're taken
from the fifth level at 1000 feet from
surface. The ore body is five feet in
width and has been followed FOR twen-
ty-five feet without decrease in
strength. The assay return shows 9O.6
ounces in gold and 1873 ounces in sill
yer to the ton, calculated at $1,S25.3
per ton at the smelter
Reports received by the Colorado
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
from the Crop Reporting Board of the
United States Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates show that there Will be slight
-bnr to- 81 ,t.,I t.,v
tatoes in the principal late potato pro-
ducing states this year and a very ma
terial reduction in the acreage devoted
to dry beans for market. provided the
farmers do not revise their plans for
planting these crops.
Weld county is now upon a cash
bnsis, with not cent of bonded in
debtedness and with no registered war
rants outstanding. By the calling in
of S3S9,O00 worth of registered war
rants, of which sos, 500 worth was
paid, the last of the outstanding debt
of the county was wiped out. This
makes $4,000 worth of debts which
have been paid during the past two
years, of which all but $4,000 was
registered warrants in the road fund
An unsolicited advance of 80 cents
day has been granted to the miners
in the Cripple Creek district Under
the new scale the minimum wage paid
in that district will be S4.25 Machine
men will receive S5 and the timber men
S4.75. The increase also will apply to
contractors, men engaged in this line
of work receiving more money per foot
Of ground broken and per ton of rock
handled.
Golden probably enjoys the distinc-
tiOn of possessing the first and only
women's civic league in Colorado. Mrs.
w. ]. Hazard was elected chairman,
Mrs. f. L..Paddleford of the State
Boys. Industrial school, secretary, and
Mrs. +. e. Steward, treasurer The
chairman will appoint a captain in
each ward in Golden and the captain
will appoint her lieutenant.
Miss Thelma Conley of Denver, %,
and pretty, until short time ago an
artist in local department stores, went
to tool shed on a tennis court, and
ended her life by firing revolver bull
let into her brain. Friends said she
was suffering from mental derange-
ment caused by overwOrk and to rem
edy which she had recently taken a va
cation trip to California.
Samuel Phillips, 25 years old, was
instantly killed by lightning while
working in field near his home at
Ash Mesa, West OIatlie. The same bolt
knocked down several other men, but
none of them was seriously injured.
Two of three horses were felled 10 the
ground.
Miss Esther Watson, daughter of
Sheriff Jeff Watson of Mesa county,
has assumed duties as a deputy sheriff
under her father So far as known
she is the only woman county deputy
sheriff in Colorado.
Western Colorado and eastern Utah
people are warned that they should
take immediate steps to dispose of the
thousands of dead animals that are ly
ing on the open waste places, terrible
reminders of the hardest winter the
region has known in decades, and to
prevent summer of disease and pesti-
lence. The man, dead animals will be
burned, buried or destroyed by chem
icals, stockmen say.
Gunnison came into permanent pos
session of the Western slope oratorical
conference cup when for the third sue
cessive year it defeated the other
schools entered in the conference. In
the series of orations and declamations
Gunnison scored 40 points. Montrose
came second with :,3 points, Paona
third with ~ points, and Delta fourth
with % points.
George Pecry, who, with his two bro
thers. recently purchased the flour
mills OF the Golden Milling Company,