The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-10-30
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

the TWe0ey-tnlfQ Annual CONVENTION
of the American Mining Congress in
Denver, November 1919. will be the
First Annual Standardization Confer
ence, largely composed Of mining men
from the Western states. Standard
zation, If generally adopted, would
mean vastly increased production and
tend to safety Of life and limb. The
object Of the conference Is to enlist
the cooperation Of mining men in the
working out of standard methods,
standard equipment and standard la
Dor saving devices to offset, as far as
possible, the present high cost of pro-
duction and shortage Of skilled labor.
Two men were killed and a third
was wounded in a gun battle which
occurred when two Colorado Springs
policemen attempted to arrest the trio
in connection with the attempted rob-
berry of the Bank of Elbert. The men
who were killed were identified as
Charles Sietz and George H. Brown of
Pueblo. The wounded man is Frank
Green, 2S years old. of Colorado
Springs. Neither of the officers wns
hurt in the exchange of shots which
occurred eleven miles north OF Colo
RADIO Springs.
The Jerome Park branch of the
Colorado Midland railroad, beginning
east Of Glenwood Springs and extend
Ing nOrthward to Jerome Park, a dis
tance Of fifteen miles, is to be junked
Immediately according to an an
nouncement made by General Manager
Coogan. The branch was primarily to
Park district. These mines are no
longer in operation and the branch has
been abandoned for long time.
The state will have a balance of
$278,OO0 to its credit at the end Of its
biennial period, which ends on Nov.
80, according to Arthur NJ Stong,
state auditor According to records in
his office, the state had expended to
date $3,66S, TAI so of total of $4,693,-
084.O1. In the amount paid out is in
cluded 100000 on the educational
loan fund to ex-service men.
Wheat is Colorado's leading crop in
point of acreage, with corn ranking
second and hay third. According to
the reports made by county assessors
to the State immigration Department,
1896 per cent. of the acreage in culti-
walton in the state this year is devoted
to wheat, 21.55 per cent. to corn and
1916 per cent. to hay, exclusive of mil
let, sudan grass and small grains cut
for hay.
A readjustment of the freight rate
on coal shipped from the Pike View,
Keystone and City mines TO Colorado
Springs, few miles south, is asked
of the state public utilities commits
sion in a petition filed by the Colo
RADIO Springs Chamber of Commerce.
The present rate is 671a cents a ton.
The petition asks the restoration of
the % cents a ton rate, which was
effective prior to June 25, 1918
A diamond drill hole is to be put
down not far from the town of Cam
eron, in the extreme north end of the
Cripple Creek district, and within the
known gold-producing area, the object
being to test the commercial possibili-
ties of vein systems that strike through
the section on a northwest-southeas
line, which is the general direction of
all the main ore-veins in the district.
The industrial census for the Den
yer division, embracing South Dakota,
Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and
western Texas, has been completed by
the United States Census Bureau at
Denver after ten months canvass over
this district, and the local offices, un-
der the direction of Frank Adams, spe-
cial agent in charge, have been for
mally closed.
Charles Capra, Rockvale merchant,
was held up and robbed of $1,000 in
cash by two unmasked bandits on the
Florenee-Pueblo Highway The high
waymen escaped in the bad lands
along the Arkansas river. Capra was
en- route to Pueblo to purchase mer-
chandise when the robbery was coIn-
mitted.
The 1920 corn crop in Colorado is
estimated at 16,215,OO0 bushels and is
valued at S19,e68,79 in report is-
sued by Howard Sullivan, deputy i'm
migration commissioner. Other crors
of the state are estimated as follows:
5,320,000 bushels of barley at 91.2
cents bushel, s,126,0OO bushels of
oats at 60.7 cents bushel, 1852, 900
bushels of potatoes at $1,34S bushel.
A model mining camp has developed
at the Standard Chemical Company
plant in the west end of Montrose
county While the settlement is more
than forty miles from the railroad, it
is equipped with electric lights. water
is piped into the houses and every
thing necessary for the comfort Of tine
employees and their families has been
installed by the company
Boulder undertakers We're asked by
the Ministerial Association, in resolu-
tions passed, to discourage Sunda.. fi-
nerals. Church services and other
duties on Sunday make it inconvenient
for the ministers, according to the