The Colorado statesman., 1920-05-22
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.


were ubnormally heavy, according 10
reports received by the Colorado Co
operative crop Reporting Service from
| all sections of the state, while losses
| from disease were about normal. These
reports show thar losses of cattle from
exposure were ~ head per 1000, which
| Is the heaviest loss reported In the past
eight years The loss of sheep from
exposure was - head per 1000, which
was the heaviest in the past eight
years with the exception of 1919, when
the loss was 30 head per 1000. Losses
| of lambs from both disease and expos
urc were 81 head per 1000, compared
with an average loss of 10 head for the
past eight years. Losses from disease
were as follows: Horses, 81 head;
cnttle. 30 head; sheep, II head; swine,
33 head
An assay return from the Burling-
| anne office i'm Denver attests the eN-
ceptional value Of the latest ore strike
| In the Gold King Extension mines at
| SilvertOn. The samples We're taken
| from the fifth level, nt 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 9Oi
ounces in gold and 13S ounces in sill
yer TO the ton, calculated ut 81 ,S253l
per ton AT the smeter.
Reports received by the Colorado
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
from the Crop Reporting Bnar'l'of the
| United States Bureau of crop Esti-
mates show that there will be u slight
shOriaGe in the acreage devoted TO po-
tatOes in the principal tate potato pro
ducins states this year and very ma
| terial reduction in the acreagc devoted
to dry heans for market, provided the
| farmers do not revise their plans for
| planting these crops.
| Western Colorado and eastern Utah
| people are warned that they should
| take immediate steps to dispose of tn"
| 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 n summer Of disease and pesti-
| lence The many dead animals will he
| burned. buried or destroyed by chem
| icals, stockmen say.
An unsolicited advance of 20 cents
a day has been granted to the miners
in the Cripple Creek district. Under
the new scale the minimum wage paid
in that district will he S4.2l. Machine
men will receive 50 and the timber men
! Sl75. The increase also will apply to
contra ctorS, men engaged in this line
of work receiving more money per foot
of ground broken and per ton of rock
handled
Miss Thelma Conley of Denver, 23,
and pretty. until short time ago AN
artist in local department stores, went
| to IA tool shed on tennis court and
ended her life by firing a revolver bul-
| let into her brain. Friends said she
was suffering from mental derange-
ment caused by overwork and to rem
cdy which she had recently taken va.
cation trip to California
George Peery, who, with his two bro
Tiers, recently purchased the flour
mills of the Golden Milling Company.
| perhaps the oldest flour mills in the
state is making arrangements to oper-
ate them after an idleness Of about ten
|
ily in Golden real estate and Will make
that city their home.
Samuel Phillips, - years old, WIS
instantly killed by lightning Will"
working in field near his home nj
Ash Mesa, West Olathe. The same holt
knocked down several other men, hui
none Of them was seriously injured,
Two of three horses We're felled 10 tl'c
ground.
Greving over an unsuccessful love
venture, it is said, Danny Mullen, 30,
mining man at Grand Junction, shot
himself below the heart. He is said to
have asked "A prominent young woman
to marry him; and when she refused
he went to room in the Bell hotel in
Grand Junction and attempted suicide.
Gunnison came into permanent pos
| session of the Western slope oratOriCnl
conference cup when for the third sue
cessive year il defeated the other
schools entered in the conference. In
the series of oratiOns and decanations
Gunnison scored 46 points. Montrose
came second with 33 points, Paonia
third with 81 points, and Delta fourth
with % points.
Real estate transfers recorded al the
Boulder county court house for the
first four months of the present year
represent Il money value of S2,434,33J
County Assessor John NJ. Jones csti-
mates the value of the escrowS and
contracts that have not been filed will
bring the total up TO $3,000,000.
Three thousand dollars already has
been raised mt Durango for July
Fourth baseball tournament open 10
any baseball team in the state. Seven
/ Thousand dOllMrs in purses will be