Gilpin observer., 1920-05-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.


A movement is on foot to obtain an
infantry company or cavalry troop
In the reorganized Colorado National
Guard for Grand county.
moderate measure of protection"
TO enable the tungsten industry to de-
velOp has been urged in the Senate by
Senator Phipps, Republican, of Colo
rado
Potato planting has started in the
Greeley district and is well under way.
About $4,000 acres will be planted this
year, as compared to 1000 planted
last year.
What is declared by mining men to
he one of the most important strikes in
the San Juan district in recent years
has been made by the Paymaster
Mines Company, operating the Paymas-
ter group of claims in the Red Noun
tain mining section.
The Rangely bridge, which fell into
the water three weeks ago, has been
raised and practically all the structure
saved, at saving to Moffat county of
$4,000. The bridge will be safeguarded
against future mshaps by concrete
abutments.
Anspering the spirit calling, she said
few minutes before, of a former hus-
band, James Waddell, who is dead,
Mrs. Josephine Stiles of Denver, the
wife of Frank Stiles, committed sui
eide by poisoning in her bedroom at a
hotel in that city.
Montrose will entertain the western
slope July with the largest celebra-
tion that has ever been planned in
MOntrose, according to arrangements
made at recent meeting of local bus
mess men. No Fourth of July celebra-
tion has been held there for two years.
d. E. Evans, a Craig business man,
finished the preliminaries which will
result in the opening of a coal mine
at the southwest limits of Craig and
bring, it is predicted, the expenditure
of IL quarter million dollars to that
district in the coming year. Mr.. Evans
has obtained options on two ranches,
Il total of 4S0 acres.
Crawling through hole in the stone
wall of the county Jail, previously dug
by Ed Williams in an attempted "jail
break" 13-year-old Willie Still, Jailed
at Grand Junction for throwing rocks
at trains, successfully made twelve
foot drop to freedom and ran to his
home, where he was later found by
his father and returned to Jail.
1t costs the taxpayers of the state Of
Colorado only 75.7 cents a day to keep
a prisoner In the state penitentiary.
The actual value of the upkeep Of each
of the $50 prisoners in the custody of
Warden Tom lyman is 93 cents day,
but the 17.3 cents in addition to the
taxpayers cost is represented by the
farm and dairy products of the prison
farms and gardens which are worked
by the prisoners
Nine hundred persons will take part
in the pageant to- commemorate the
founding Of the Union colony at Gree
ley, which will be given on the cam
pus of the State Teachers College on
Monday, June 14tA. Two thousand
dollars is being raised by popular sub
scription to pay the cost of staging the
pageant, which will picture the COM
ing of the immigrants, the development
of irrigation and the growth of Gree
ley.
Weld county is now upon a cash
basis, with not cent of bonded in
debtedness and with no registered war
rants outstanding. BY the calling in
of $3S9,OO0 worth of registered war
rants, of which S22s, 500 worth was
paid, the last Of the outstanding debt
OF the county was wiped out. This
makes $220,000 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.
Thirty-five British merchants, repre-
sentatives of the Royal Trade Board
of Great Britain, will arrive in Colo
RADIO Springs this week for n stay of
three days.
Carlos w. Hall of jefferson county,
and one OF Colorado's leading pure
bred Holstein men, received word that
he had been named by the HOlsteln-
Freisan Association one OF their twen-
ty-six judges In America and that he
had been selected to act as judge at
the Nebraska state fair this fall The
judges selected by this association
hold the judgeship for the remainder
of their lives.
Railroad men have acquired a new
mining property at Monarch lake,
about fifteen miles north Of CRANKY,
on the south fork OF the Grand river,
which is expected to develop into one
of the big mineral discoveries of Colo
RADIO. A small corporation has been
formed and work is being pushed. The
o lead is said to be sixtyfive feet wide
and at depth Of twenty-five feet gives
returns Of over 500 per ton in gold. It
is thought by expert geologsts to be