The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-01-16
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

Rangers Ray Clark ana Ulrlcn TO the
United States Forestry Department.
Mr.. Clark desires to place 10000 each
in the North Fork Of Middle Boulder,
South Fork of Middle Boulder, Jenny
creek, South Boulder creek, Thumb
lake. lakes at the head of South Boul-
der and South Fork of Middle BOul-
der. Boulder creek, North Boulder
Greek, Caribou creek, Echo lake and
North Clear creek. Mr.. Erich would
place 10000 in the East Fork of James
creek, 10000 in Middle st. Vrain, TO-
600 in South St Vrain and 5000 in
small lake near timber line northwest
of Stapps.
Dr. A. l.. Burnett of Silverton per-
formed most unusual operation
when he saved the arm of Hans Han
son, whose arm was caught in Il mill
belt at the Iowa Tiger mill. Mr.. Han
sons arm was caught near the shoul-
der and badly cut. In trying to res
cut the arm, Mr.. Hanson jerked 1t sa
that the skin and flesh were pulled
from the bone from the elbow down,
and left hanging as if he We're taking
off a long glove. DR.. Burnett carefully
pulled the flesh back into place and
sewed the lower and upper arm Il
gether. After some weeks the wound
healed and forty-eight square inches
Of flesh were grated to the arm.
The local land office at Montrose re-
ports real "land office business dur
ing the past year, with $50 applica-
tions having been filed for home
steads during that period This is one
of the largest number ever filed at
this office during a similar period.
The records show, however, that due
to the holding up of many grazing
claims during 1918, that more applica-
tions were allowed during 1910 than
were filed, the total being TAI.
Of all the mountain counties in
Colorado, San Miguel seems to give
out the best report in mining opera
tions for the past year. The mines
around Telluride, taken with those
dealing in vanadium ores out in the
west valley, make an admirable show
ing The Tomboy mine alone is send
Ing out fifty cars Of concentrates per
month, and the Liberty Bell produces
three or four hundred tons of ore
day
The rare operation of TRANSMISSION of
blood was performed upon Thomas
Weiss at a local hospital In Alamosa.
His brother, Peter Weiss, mining
man of Creede, furnished the blood
and several ounces were transferred
to the veins of the patient. Weiss
suffered a breakdown from overwork
and his blood supply was so depleted
that physicians say it was only AZ per
cent of normal. The operation was
entirely successful
Claiming that Palmer Lake has
failed to clear snow from certain
parts of the Denver-C Colorado Springs
highway and that autoists stalled
there have been compelled to pay ex-
orbitant prices in order to get pulled
out of the snow banks, the Colorado
Springs Auto Trades Association has
submitted to the Chamber of Com
merce a resolution asking that Pal
mer Lake be cut off the intercity road
If the situation is not remedied.
w. c. Harris is rushing work on the
erection of the proposed new hotel for
Sterling. Work has been started on
razing the old buildings standing on
the site at the corner of Second and
Poplar streets, one block from the
Union station. 1t is not yet deter
mined whether the new hotel will be
five or six stories high. 1t will cost
at least $15O,OOO, but more likely the
figure will 60 much higher.
Five hundred and sixty-one next of
kin" of Colorado Yanks who made the
supreme sacrifice in the great war
will take part in the most dramatic
postwar celebration yet staged in
Denver, when, on Washington's birth
day, Feb. %, the representatives of
the French high commission will con-
fer on the fathers, mothers or wives
of the slain Yankees honorary French
certificates.
With a score of 743 out of possi-
BILE $50, DIR. ]. b. Ochsner of Durango,
at the last meeting of the Rifle Club,
scored what is believed to be worlds
record when he made seventy-five con-
secutive bullseyes in shooting offhand
from a distance of seventy-five feet at
a target with one-haIf-inch center. He
scored twenty consecutive tens and
during the seventy-five shots made
sixty-eight tens and seven mines. He
used regulation % caliber target
gun.
The state of Colorado and the coun-
ties are paying S9S,652 in benefits to
blind persons under the provisions of
the initiated law adopted at the last
general election. The first annual re-
port of the state blind benefit COM
mission shows that 800 blind men and
women are receiving aid from the
state and the counties One-half of
the benefits are paid by the state and
the other half by the counties OF
the 355 beneficiaries, 121 make their
home in Denver.
A proposed highway from the West
ern slope to Denver, which, it is said,