Gilpin observer., 1920-10-28
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

SpcNluI. IlllS is IL llilerliil llicrcilSe
over the previous month and an in
crease of 1,44S,976 tons to date over
1919. The total coal mined throughout
the state for the nine months ending
Sept. 80. was 9,033,050, as compared
with 7,5S4,074 for the same period last
year. All but six coal producing coun-
ties in the state showed increases. The
most notable decrease from last year
is shown in the production of Routt
the 1919 record.
One of the important features OF
the Twenty-third 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
cation, 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 Ia
bor saving devices to offset, as far as
possible, the present high cost of pro-
duction and shortage of skilled labor.
Two hundred thousand acres of
Colorado land, reserved n number of
years ago for possible power site pur-
poses, have been opened for entry, ac-
cording to instructions received by NJ
D. McEniry, chief of the field division
office at Denver. Included in the re-
lease by the government are four or
five sections in the Platte cafion, to-
| gether with considerable area along
the Bear river In Moffat county In ad-
ditiOn to a considerable acreage along
the Grand river.
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
haul the coal produced in the Jerome
| Park district. These mines are no
longer in operation and the branch has
been abandoned for a long time.
The sixteen members 70 the Park to-
Park Highway Association who have
been touring the Western national
parks, have turned their faces east
ward from Los Angeles on the return
trip to Denver. The party will jour
ney to the Grand Canon National park
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| the Mesa Verde National park in
southwestern Colorado, and then to
Denver, arriving about Nov 10, ac-
cording to the present schedule.
Governor Oliver II. Shoup, as hon.
orary chairman of the 23rd Annual
Convention of the American Mining
Congress, Denver, November 1919,
| has invited Il number of governors,
and all senators and congressman of
the mining states to attend the con-
ventiOn. Hon. Horace S. Lunt. Colo
RADIO commissioner of mines, has sent
out special invitations to all state min
ing officials to attend the convention.
Miss Fannie Elizabeth Bartlett, 6S
| years old, resident of LOngmont
3.
r. s. Carl as the result of exposure
sustained after she fell from bed in
her sleep. Miss Bartlett had been an
invalid for number of years and
| lived alone When she fell she sus-
tained broken arm and dislocation
of the shoulder, which, with her chron-
| ic ailments, made her helpless
The state will have balance Of
$27S,OO0 to its credit at the end of its
biennial period, which ends on Nov.
30, according to Arthur NJ. Stong.
state auditor. According to records in
his office, the state had expended to
date $3,66S, ,T47.50 of a total of S4,693.-
OS4.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,
26.96 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 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 posslbili-
ties Of vein systems that strike through
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