The Elbert County tribune., 1920-02-13

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The Rio Grande rnilrond is storing
1000 tons of Ice in the big Ice houses
a, Delta They have bought 300 tons
from Frank r. Bosler's private ice
ponds AT Montrose.
The foundations of big building
and loan association for Oiathe have
been laid. A committee has been APP
pointed to solicit for probable stock
buyers
Delta is to have a new motion pic
ture thenter Denver parties are ne
gotiating for its erection and 1t is to
cost between $4,000 and $4,000. it is
stated
While playing tag with her sister
al Rockvale, Rose Baccrella, , years
old. fell down the cellar steps at her
home and was almost instantly killed,
her skull being fractured.
"A big mountain hunt IL being
planned for Gunnison county with de-
signs on the three mountain lions
which have been getting so much
stock this winter on Beaver creek.
l.. II. Easterly of Gunnison has taxi
enumeration on snowshoes. Upper
Ohio creek was so deeply buried all
other modes OF locomotion are out of
the question.
Already 1000 sucks of cement have
been ordered for use In erecting the
immense new canning plant to be built
Mt Delta this year by the Colorado
Packing Company Machinery Is TO
he ordered at once.
The miners of Aspen are beginning
to prepare for the early spring work
and many prospectors are getting
lined up for earlier trips TO the hills
dian ever before in hopes of finding
silver leads while silver is high
The Liberty Bell mine ut Telluride
is dumping its ore in the bins now in
siead of sending II to the mill. as the
nill has been closed down temporarily.
The unreinbility of electric power is
given as the reason for the shutting
down of the big mill.
Edward Bell Field, Tr.. vice presi-
dent and treasurer OF the Mountain
Stntcs Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany and widely known clubman of
Denver, died at Hot Springs, Ark, ac-
coriing to word received in Denver
by his sister. Mrs. Floyd Walpole.
Finding II glass containing a power
fu, tonic prescribed by physician for
his father, mother and two sisters
who were i'll from influenza, the 49,
months old son of Charles Wilcox of
Burns drank the draught and died
from its effects before physician
could he found
Fairly indications are that Greeley
win equal or outdo Its building record
of 1913 this year. Last year the city
issued building permits In excess of
~Tf0 600 The building inspectors es-
firinted that the actual value of build
ing constructed during the year was in
excess OF s1,250OO0.
with one-fourth of the army re-
cruiting campaign time limit gone and
only one-tenth of the quota enlisted,
Colorado and Wyoming must speed up
"a reach the goal of 1,403 recruits by
March 81. The drive begun on Jan.
10 has netted 137 accepted recruits
for the regular army.
The number of other cattle on
hand in the state this year is esti-
mated at 1,355,000. compared with L.
l25,OO0 last year. and the average val
ne per head is $3.50, compared with
S54.d0 last year. The number of
other cattle in the country at large
this year Is estimated at 44,3S5, 900,
compared with 45,0s5,000 on January
I. 1910.
Greeley's municipal water works
earned SIT ,2S7.70 in 1919, according to
The annual report of Milton Seaman,
superintendent of the water works
system. In 1908, the first year the
mountain water system was used, 1t
earned only $43 3122.64 AS rates have
remained stationary, the Increase rep
resents the growth of the city's popu-
Iation. One hundred and forty eight
new houses were connected with the
system this last year. The entire sys-
TEN represents an Investment of $685.
5T1.43.
Owners of the famous Victoria mine
at Summerville have organized the So
100000 Lincoln Silver Mining Com
pany in Boston and plan extensive de-
vcIOpment of this lode and of n tun-
mel site ut Salina. The Lincoln Com
pany is planning development work ON
the Victoria by an extension eastward
of 400-foot level, by an extension
of the No. 2 incline to the 400-foot
level. and by raising from the 400-foot
Level to the 100-foot level 1t is ex-
pected that this development Will open
large amount of the silverbearlng
ore for which the Victoria has been
famous.
The Daughters OF the Revolution
have requested permission to take