The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-05-21
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

Losses of livestock from exposure in
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 We're about normal. These
reports show that losses of cattle from
exposure We're 45 head per 1000, which
| is she heaviest loss reported in the past
eight years. The loss of sheep from
exposure was 43 head per 1000. 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 We're 81 head per 1000, compared
with an average loss of 40 head for the
past eight years. Losses from disease
We're as follows: Horses, n head;
cattle, 20 head; sheep, 21 head; swine.
| 33 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 at
Silverton. The samples were taken
! from the fifth level, at 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 500
ounces in gold and 1913 ounces in sill
yer to the ton, calculated at $1.S25.3l
per ton at the smelter
Reports received by the Colorado
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
from the Crop Reporting Board of the
United States Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates show that there will be slight
shortage in the acreage devoted to pO-
tatoes in the principal late potato pro-
ducing states this year and Il 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
| Weld county is now upon 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 800 worth was
paid. the last of the outstanding debt
of the county was wiped out. This
makes $220,0O0 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
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 S425. Machine
men will receive S. and the timber men
S4.75. 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.
Golden probably enjoys the disiinc-
! tion of possessing the first and only
il women's civic league in Colorado Mrs.
Il w. J. Hazard was elected chairman.
Mrs r. L. Paddleford of the STATE
BOYS Industrial school, secretary, and
Mrs T.. L. Steward, treasurer. The
chairman will appoint a captain in
each ward in Golden and the captain
will appoint her lieutenant.
Miss Thelma Coniey of Denver, %,
and pretty, until ii short time ago an
/ dIllsl III iOtdl itldltllctt Ntht
to tool shed on a tennis court, and
ended her life by firing a revolver bm-
let into her brain. Friends said she
was suffering from mental derangc-
ment caused by overwork and to rem
edy which she had recently taken Il VA
cation trip TO California
Samuel Phillips, % years old, was
instantly killed by lightning while
working in field near his home at
Ash Mesa, West Olathe. The same bolt
knocked down several other men, but
none of them was seriously injured.
Two of three horses were felled to the
ground.
Miss Esther Watson, daughter of
Sheriff Jeff Watson of Mesa county.
has assumed duties as a deputy sheriff
under her father So far as known
she is the only woman county deputy
sheriff in Colorado.
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
|
region has known in decades, and to
prevent a summer of disease and pesti-
lence. The many dead animals will be
i burned, buried or destroyed by chem
icals, stockmen say.
Gunnison came into permanent pos
session of the Western slope oratoricai
conference cup when for the third sue
cessive year it defeated the other
schools entered in the conference. In
the series of orations and declamations
Gunnison scored 46 points. Montrosc
came second with 80 points, Paonia
third with 2T points, and Delta fourth
with % points.
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