Gilpin observer., 1920-05-20
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


operative Crop Reporting Service from
all sections of the state, while losses
from disease were about normal. These
reports show that losses of cattle from
exposure were 40 head per 1000. which
Is the heaviest loss reported in the past
eight years. The loss of sheep from
exposure was 43 head per 1000, which
was the heaviest in the past eight
years with the exception Of 1919, when
the loss was so head per 1000. Losses
of lambs from both disease and expos
ure were 35 head per 1000, compared
with an average loss of 40 head for the
past eight years. Losses from disease
were as follows: Horses, 81 head;
cattle, 20 head; sheep, 21 head; swine,
83 head.
An assay return from the Burling-
ame office in Denver attests the ex-
ceptional value of the latest ore strike
in the Gold King Extension mines at
Silverton. The samples were taken
from the fifth level, at 1000 feet from
surface. The ore body is five feet in
width and has been followed for twen-
| ty-five feet without decrease in
strength. The assay return shows 0O.6
ounces in gold and 1873 ounces in sill
yer to the ton, calculated at $1,S25.31
per ton at the smelter.
Reports received by the Colorado
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
from the Crop Reporting Board of the
United States Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates show that there will be slight
shortage in the acreage devoted to po-
tatoes in the principal late potato pro-
ducing states this year and a very ma
terial reduction in the acreage devoted
to dry beans for market, provided the
farmers do not revise their plans for
planting these crops.
Western Colorado and eastern Utah
people are warned that they should
take immediate steps to dispose of the
thousands of dead animals that are ly-
ing on the open waste places, terrible
reminders of the hardest winter the
region has known in decades, and to
prevent a summer of disease and pesti-
lence. The many dead animals will be
burned, buried or destroyed by chem
icals, stockmen say
An unsolicited advance of so cents
a day has been granted to the miners
in the Cripple Creek district. Under
the new scale the minimum wage paid
in that district will be $4.25. Machine
men will receive IS and the timber men
$4.75. The increase also will apply to
contractors, men engaged in this line
of work receiving more money per foot
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handled.
Miss Thelma Conley of Denver, 23,
and pretty, until short time ago an
artist in local department stores, went
| to u tool shed on Il tennis court, and
ended her life by firing revolver bull
let into her brain. Friends said she
Nas suffering from mental derange-
ment caused by overwork and to rem
edy which she had recently taken va
cation trip to California.
George Peery, who, with his two bro
thers, recently purchased the flour
mills of the Golden Milling Company,
perhaps the oldest flour mills in the
state, is making arrangements to oper-
ate them after an idleness of about ten
years. The Peerys have invested heav.
lily IN Golden real estate and will make
that city their home.
Samuel; Phillips, % years old, was
instantly'trille by lightning while
working In a field near his home at
Ash Mesa, West Olathe. The same bolt
knocked down several other men, but
none of them was seriously injured.
Two of three horses were felled to the
ground.
Grieving over an unsuccessful love
venture, it is said, Danny Mullen, 30,
mining man at Grand Junction, shot
himself below the heart. He is said to
haye asked prominent young woman
to marry him; and when she refused
he went to a room in the Bell hotel in
Grand Junction and attempted suicide.
Gunnison came into permanent pos.
session of the Western slope Oratorical
conference cup when for the third sue.
cessive year it defeated the other
schools entered in the conference. In
the series of orations and declamations
Gunnison scored 40 points. Montrose
came second with 33 points, Paonia
third with % points, and Delta fourth
with % points.
Real estate transfers recorded at the
Boulder county court house for the
first four months of the present year
represent money value of 81, ,434, 1886
| County Assessor John NJ. Jones esti
mates the value of the escrows and
contracts that have not been filed will
bring the total up to $3,O00,OOO.
Three thousand dollars already has
been raised at Durango for July
Fourth baseball tournament open to
any baseball team In the state. Seven
thousand dollars in purses will be
hung up and the celebration will ex.