The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-03-12
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

was never so good as at present. The
ment for all of its miners at good
wages. In a few weeks at most the
three gold dredging boats of the Tono-
pah Placers Company and the dredge
boat of the French Gulch Dredging
Company will again be at work on the
rich bedrock placers of the district.
The gold dredging boat Of the Blue
River Dredging Company has contin-
ued to operate steadily during the win
ter so far on the rich river bed de-
posits in the blue river valley, about
two and half miles north of Breck
enridge.
| The Salida Granite Corporation has
recently purchased the assets of the
Salida Granite Company, whose quar-
ries and factories they have taken
over, and have elected F. W. Gloyd
as president Citizens of Salida have
financed the new company, having
raised x62, 900 among themselves with
out paying any commissions The ell
tire capital stock is confined to Salida
business men. The granite industry is
Salida's largest asset, most of the
money derived from its sale going in
wages to skilled employees whose
homes are in that city.
Employees of the Colorado Springs
Light, Heat and Power Company have
asked for wage increase of 40 per
cent. Rush L. Holland. vice president
of the utility company. said that it was
impossible to grant the workmen a
raise under the existing operation con-
ditions. II is probable that the EN-
ployes will petition the City Council
for an increase in gas and electric
rates so that the wage Increase may
be granted.
While Mr. and Mrs. J. c. Nash, both
deaf-mutes residing at Pueblo, were
eating their breakfast firemen We're
busy pouring water on the roof of the
house to put out blaze that neigh
bors had discovered Mr. and Mrs
Nash were ignorant of the fact that
their. house was on fire and it was NOT
until Mr.. Nash started for work that
he discovered three fircfighters on the
outside throwing stream of water on
the roof.
Reports from all banks in the state,
tabulated by the State immigration
Department. show that on the last day
of 1919 the total deposits were $780,
267, SOB IL, compared with S255, $751;
031.S2 on the last day of 1918, and
$3.50, 154, ,52S IA at the close of 1916.
This is an increase of S64, $50, AL %,
or about 25 per cent, during 1919, and
an increase Of S92, liz, ,974.97, or about
40 per cent since the beginning of 1917
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 site for the factory
and secure contracts for 1000 acres
of beets on three-year basis-condi-
tions which were quickly met by citi-
zens of that burg.
A contract for repairs on six of the
buildings of the old Teller Indian
school has been let by State Engineer
A. ]. McCune The total cost of the
improvements is 5000 and when fin
ished on July / the famous old Grand
Junction institution will be converted
into new state home and training
school for mental detectives Gov.
Oliver H. Shoup has approved the con-
tract
Two hundred and fifty courses, con-
Quoted by more than eighty professors,
will be offered at the summer school
of the University of Colorado this
year The courses, as announced by
Prof Milo G. Derham, director of the
summer quarter, include, in addition
to those given last year, classes in
Americanization and in commercial
Spanish.
Archie Hogue, 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
beard a terrible road He tried to run
up short incline to get out of the
path but slipped and fell and before
he could move the slide hit him. He
was entirely buried. He found he
could wiggle one arm and kept digging
until he got little room to breathe and
then worked nightly for an hour or
more and finally, bleeding, exhausted
and nearly suffocated, he dragged
himself out of his snow prison and
found his way home
A report has just been received of
a deal under way in Pueblo, backed
by several business men, which, if sue
cessfully carried out, will give Pueblo
one of the largest and most complete
athletic fields west of the Mississippi
river. The site for the field has al
ready been selected and leases have
been secured on all the land under con-
sideration. The deal will be pushed at
once in order to have the field finished |
by summer so it can be used by the |
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