The Ordway new era., 1920-05-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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The Mountain Top mine has just
shipped single car of high-grade ore
from Ouray that netted S13.S91. The
car contained forty-five tons taken
from the 112-foot level.
Fred Linck, a veteran of the Clifton
section, and who recently sold all his
property at that place, was found dead
in his bed at Rifle n few days ago
Heart disease was apparently the
cause of his demise.
Fred McIlhenny, so. rancher OF
River Bend in eastern Ebert county,
dropped dead Of heart disease at his
home in Hugo. He came to Colorado
nearly forty years ago. He served two
terms as assessor of Ebert county.
Golden has organized commercial
club with Herman F. Coors as its pres
| ident. E. A. Phihney and Harry ID.
Martin, Denver undertaken who lives
in Golden, have been elected vice pres
idents: c. +. Quaintance, secretary,
| and Grover Taylor of the Rubey Ma
tional bank, treasurer
Reports are current of the probable
opening of the Colorado Midland rail-
road June l. The first work train
which has been clearing away rock
slides. etc. and opening the road for
other work trains, has passed Lead
vile and is now on its way up Hager-
man pass through the snow.
A fireproof apartment house, con-
tanning thirty-six apartments and cost
ing approximately S15O,OOO, Is to be
built in Greeley this summer. The
house is to be constructed adjacent to
the State Teachers College. 1t will be
of brick construction, three stories,
with n ground plan 100 by Ill feet.
One hundred thousand dollars is be-
ing spent in improving the Y. NJ. c. A.
camp in preparation for the 1920 sea-
son in Estes Park. The first confer
ence will be for students of the Rocky
Mountain states and will be held June
IL TO 20. The twenty institutions
composing the conference are expected
TO be represented by $50 students
Work has been started on the na-
tional forest road from Somerset to
Crested Butte, a distance of twenty
five miles, according to G. S.
Bright, district engineer of the United
States Bureau of Public Roads, who
said that road crews had left Denver
with equipment and machinery. The
road ii is estimated, will cost $4,000.
Sentiment on the western slope has
greatly increased in favor of the adop-
ton of the amendment to the state
constitution this fall which would au-
III thr tett tirr. of ha II,
tunnels to connect the eastern and,
western parts Of this state. The recent
snow blockade on Marshall pass, which
worked great hardship to this region,
is believed to have increased the SEN
timent.
John Giacomozzi was sentenced to
life Imprisonment following the return
of verdict of murder in the first de-
gree by jury in the District Court at
Telluride He was charged with COM
plicity in connection with the killing
of four men at the Tomberi mine last
September. Giacomozzi is the second
man to be convicted by circumstantial
evidence in this case. John Kichever,
another defendant, remains to be tried.
G. H. Thompson, student ut the
conservatory Of music of the State Ag
ricultural College. who was arrested at
Fort Collins, confessed to District At
torney Russell w. Fleming and Prof.
Alexander Emslie, head of the conserv-
atory Of music, that he had attempted
to extort by means of BLACK hand" let
tiers $4,000 from Charles II. Evans,
wealthy banker and livestock man of
that city, according to the two men to
whom the confession is said to have
been presented.
A convention Of the Rocky Noun
tain districts of the three engineering
raternities-American Institute of
Electrict Engineers, American Society
of Civil Engineers and the American
Institute of Mechanical Engineers
will be held in Boulder next month.
The date will not be set until the ac-
ceptances of the men who have been
invited to speak is received. 1t will be
about May 10, however. and will bring
to Boulder 200 of the leading engineers
of the Rocky Mountain district.
Several county assessors have made
partial reports to the State Immigra-
ton Department on agricultural statis-
tics for 1920, and the tabulation of
these reports in the office of the de-
partment will be begun about May /.
Such reports received to date indicate
that the total acreage in cultivation
this year will be somewhat greater
than that reported last year, though 1t
is yet too carly to make any forecasts
regarding the various crops. All ad-
vance reports indicate slight decrease
in the acreage of winter wheat, but a !.
possible increase in spring wheat. corn
and sorghums, and n possible slight in