The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1920-05-21
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

Colorado during the year ending May
were abnormally heavy, according to
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 that losses Of cattle from
exposure were As head per 1000, which
Is the heaviest loss reported In the past
eight years. The loss of sheep from
exposure was AZ head per 900. which
was the heaviest in the past eight
years with the exception OF 1919, when
the loss was 80 head per 1000. Losses
of lambs from both disease and expos.
ure were So head per 1000, compared
with an average loss OF 40 head for the
past eight years. Losses from disease
were AS follows: Horses. 81 head:
cattle. 20 head; sheep. 81 head: swine.
80 head.
An assay return from the Burling-
anne office in Denver attests the ex-
ceptiOnal value of the latest ore strike
in the Gold King Extension mines ut
Silverton. The samples were taken
from the fifth level, at 1000 feet from
width and has been followed for TWEEN
ty-five feet without decrease in
strength. The assay return shows 9O.i
ounces in gold and 1873 ounces In sill
yer to the ton, calculated at 81 ,s25.3l
per ton al the smelter
Reports received by the Colorado
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
DO, DO ,l
United States Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates show that there will be a slight
shortage in the acreage devoted to pO-
tHtocS in the principal late potato pro-
dncing states this year and very ma
terial reduction in the acreage devoted
to dry beans 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 the
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 aud pesti
lence. The many dead animals will be
burned, buried or destroyed by chem
icals. stockmen say
An unsolicited advance of 20 cents
| II day has been granted to the miners
| in the Cripple Creek district Under
| the new scale the minimum wage paid
| in that district will be S425. Machine
men will receive 81 and the timber men
| S4.15. The increase also will apply to
contractors. men engaged in this line
of work receiving more money per foot
Of ground broken and per ton of rock
| handled.
| Miss Thclma COnley OF Denver. 23,
and pretty. until IL short time ago an
| artist ii local department stores. went
10 Il tool shed on II tennis court, and
ended her life by firing II revolver bull
let into her brain. Friends said she
was suffering from mental derange-
ment caused by overwork and to rem
edy which she had recently taken a va
cation trip to California.
| George Pcery, who. with his two bro
theirs. 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 ideness of about ten
years The PeeryS have invested heav-
lily in Golden real estate and will make
that city their home.
Samuel Phillips, - years old. was
instantly killed by lightning while
working in II field near his home at
Ash Mesa, West Olalhe. The same bolt
knocked down several other men. but
none of them was seriously injured.
| Two Of three horses were felled 10 the
ground.
| Greving over an unsuccessful love
| venture, il is said, Danny Mullen, 30,
mining man al Grand Junction. shot
himself below the heart He is said to
| have asked prominent young woman
to marry him. and when she refused
he went to Il room in the Bell hotel in
Grand Junction and attempted suicide.
Gunnison came into permanent pos
session of the Western slope Drntorcai
conference cup when for the third sue
cessive year it defeated the other
schools entered in the conference In
the series of orations and determinations
Gnnnison scored i6 points. MonIrose
came second with 33 points. Paonia
third with 81 points, and Delta fourth
with % points
Real estate transfers recorded ut the
Boulder county court house for the
| first four months of the present year
represent a money value of 81, 434 ,33j.
County Assessor John NJ. Jones esti-
mates the value Of the escrows and
contracts that have not been filed will
bring the total up to Ss,OOO.OOO.
Three thousand dollars already has
been raised ut Durango for July
Fourth baseball tournament open to
any baseball team in the state. Seven
thousand dollars in purses will he
| hung M and the celebration will eX-