The Elbert County tribune., 1920-04-30
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

pHny OF Salt Lake Cfty, mas ODtaineO
control of the Rawley property, near
| Bonanza, in Saguache county, and plan
to operate II on a large scale. A 700
ton concentrating mill Is being dis
mantlcd at Midvalc, Utah. to be
shipped to the Hawley property, and
a seven-mile tramway will be built TO
connect the mill with the mine. The
mine has a 6.O00-foot tunnel and 1,2O0
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 S250.0O0 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 nj its coming annual
meeting scheduled to be held in Colo
RADIO Springs May 20. Whether the or
gnnization will indorse S25,0O0.OOO
road bond issue. as urged by the Boul-
| der Commercial Club. or urge support
of the $1,000. 900 issue proposed by the
| last Legislature, is one of the ques-
tions which will be up for discussion.
During the fiscal year ended Nov.
30 last there was an average of 14l
inmates in the state refcrmatory at
Buena Vista. The cost OF maintenance
was S6G,TT4,41 per capita expense of
$4T2.74, according to n report just
complied by state examiners and made
public by State Auditor Arthur NJ.
Stong Earnings Of the institution met
about one-fourth of its support. These
amounted 10 Sl6.57S.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 SO
miles of roads to be built at n total
cost of S42T, 800 Federal funds will
provide $271, 600 of the total amount
| This construction program consists of
| eleven road projects varying from 3
to % miles in length and scattered
over the whole western half OF the
state from Bennett Greek in I.arimer
county on the Colorado National For
est to the Crested Butte-Somerset
PROJECT on lne bunnlSou NdtlOHui " or
est in Gunnison county.
Colorado college is TO receive ST.. 600
from the Carnegie corporation of New
York 10 be used as II special endow-
ment fund to maintain the system of
faculty retiring annuities now in OPP
Grafton. The annuity system was es-
tabished in Colorado College two
80 "a.
nuities is open 10 all retiring members
of the faculty. The Carnegie corpo-
ration's proposal would obviate the
drawing of annulties 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 rs 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 Mt Delta and purchasers in
vited to bid on the wool.
Ten women and two men of the
RADIO have been elected to membership
in the honorary scholastic fraternit,
Phi Beta Kappa. They are the lead
ers of their class in scholarship. At
torney Harold I'll. Healey, who was
graduated in 1911, and Wayne Ivers,
former football star and Il 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 he put up for sale by
the State Board of Land Commission
ers on May 3, in Il public auction to be
held Mt > 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 +. Junod, vice president of the
Atlantic National Bank of New York
City, who was in Colorado recently
Mr. Junod Is making II tour of the
West and has come in contact with
the principal banking interest of the
Rocky Mountain and Middle Western
states.
A conscience" tchcck for $500 has
been received by f. 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
stitution for failure to pay his tuition
when he was student in the law
school in 1897 and 1898. He stated
that another check for $500 would be
sent next year.
The recent strike made by the Snug.
/ oipr on sing Compuny nm It's nrnnartV