The state herald., 1920-03-19
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Newspaper Union News Service.

Ing TO n report compiled by Horace
Havens, mineral superintendent of the
State Board of Land Commissioners
After having lost complete trace of
his father, George Gray, for twenty
eight years, Charles Gray of Pueblo
suddenly recognized him on the street
In that city. The elder Gray has been
residing In Omaha, Neb.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for new commercial club In
Nederland In Boulder county. The
club is organized to promote the indus
trial interests and general prosperity
Of that famous mining camp and VI
cinity.
The work of paving the Santa Fe
trail will begin when the contractors
will start the excavation work. Sew
eral one.mile sections will be laid this
spring, the first just east of Rocky
Ford, then q mile just west of La
Junta and other sections in Manzan-
ola and Fowler In few years the
entire trail from the Kansas line to
Denver will be paved.
George Barrick, a. and Earl Walker,
81. were smothered to death by cave
in at the Golightly clay mine near
Golden. The bodies Of both men were
recovered by fellow workmen an hour
after the accident. The cave-in Oc-
CURED In q new vein, which 10 sup
posed to be very solid and came with
out warning whatever, according to
witnesses.
Colorado employees Of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company suffered a
loss Of f2.471 ,0O6 In wages as result
Of the recent steel strike. and wyo-
ming employees Of the corporation lost
$18l, ,4a9. making grand total Of g.
2,504, according to report filed
with the State Industrial Commission
by Fred Farrar, general counsel for
the company.
Alexander T. vogelsang, the first as
sistant secretary of the interior, has
designated i23,050 acres of land in
the Leadville district rs chiefly valu-
able for grazing and the raising Of
forage crops and as subject to entry
under the stock raising homestead
law. All OF these lands have been
applied for heretofore by several hun.
dred homes,eaders In the Lendville dis.
trict.
As the result of a whirlwind cam
paign recently closed by the Ault Com
mercial Club. the Great Valley Sugar
Corporation. with headquarters at Den.
yer. will build one Of their four plants
at Ault. The company requested that
the town furnish n site for the factory
and secure contracts for 1000 acree
Of beets on n three-year basls-condi.
tions which were quickly met by citi.
zens Of that burg.
Reports from all banks In the stnte,
tabuintcd by the State Immigration
Department. show that on the last day
Of 1910 the total deposits were $780,
267, ,503.11. compared with S255,ss7,-
031.s on the last day Of 1918. and
S2SS, 15i ,52S. IA at the close of 1916.
This is an Increase OF S6i,3S0, 0,4Il.29,
or about a5 per cent, during 1919, and
an Increase OF 500, ll2,9Ti97. or about
10 per cent since the beginning Of 1917.
Employees of the Colorado Springs
Light. Heat and Power Company have
asked for n wage increase OF 10 per
cent. Rush l.. Holland. vice president
Of the utility company. said that II was
impossible to grant the workmen q
raise under the existing operation con.
ditIons. II Is probable that the EN-.
ployes win petition the City Council
for an Increase In gas and electric
rates so that the wage increase may
be granted.
Approximately 10000 Of permanent
state school funds have been invested
In state. school and water bonds since
the first Of the present month. says
State Treasurer Harry 4. Mulnix. OF
this amount $4,000 was used to pur.
chase state bonds OF the national de.
fense series OF 1917 TO provide funds
with which TO take up certificates OF
Indebtedness Issued In connection with
the state troop mobilization Of three
months ngo.
Archie ioguc. a prominent railroad
contractor living In summit county.
has Just escaped miraculously from =
snowslide death. He had been leading
his horse down . deep gulch when he
heard a terrible road. He tried to run
up n short incline to get out Of the
path but slipped and fell and before
he could move the slide hit him. II
was entirely buried. he found hs
could wissie one arm and kept digging
until he got little room TO breathe aud
then worked nightly for an hour o.
more and finally. bleeding. exhausted
and nsnrly suffocated, he dragged
himself out Of his snow prison and
found As way A:n'.
six head of cattle belonging 10 A. l.
Thompsoa. q raasAsr and cattle man
living sessh Of nase. net death in a
peeuliaf naauss. Ths cattis WEN
Arifsias ahead - high vIsd ~
vsst late . Aessrtsl sAsch - tAs
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