The Keota news., 1920-05-21
COLORADO N1Ws No11A


I were abaormally heavy. according 70
reports received By the Colorado CO.
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 %S head per 1000. which
10 the heaviest loss reported In the past
eight years. The loas OF sheep from
exposure was - head per 1000 which
was the heaviest In the past eight
years with the exception OF 1918. when
the loss was 90 head per 1000. Losses
Of lambs from both disease and expos.
urs were IS head per 1000. compared
with an average loss of 20 head for the
past eight yesrs. Losses from disease
were a. follows: Horses. q bead:
cattle. 70 head: sheep. 2l head: swine.
8S head.
An aAay return from the Burlin9.
anne office In Denver attests the ex.
ceptionsl value Of the latest ore strike
In the Gold King Extension mines at
Silverton. The samples were taken
from the NTH level. at 1000 feet from
surface. The ore body II five feet In
width and has been followed for TWEEN.
ty.f1ve feet without decrease In
strength. The assay return shows 80.S
ounces In gold and l38 ounces In all.
yer to the ton. calculated at 81 ,02aSl
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 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 aud 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 summer Of disease and pesti.
lencs. The many dead animals will be
burned, buried or destroyed BY chem.
icals, stockmen say.
An unsolicited advance Of 80 cents
q 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 44.25. Machine
men will receive $5 and the timber men
44.76. The increase also .will apply to
contractors, men engaged In this line
| Of work receiving more money per foot
| Of ground broken and per ton of rock
handled.
Miss Thelma Conley Of Denver. q,
and pretty. until short time ago an
artist In local department stores, went
to q tool shed on a tennis court, and
ended her life by firing a revolver bul.
| let into her brain. Friends said she
was suffering from mental deranse.
ment caused by overwork and to rem.
edy which she had recently taken ~.
cation trip to California.
George Peeey, who, with his two bro.
thers, recently purchased the -four
mills Of the Golden Milling Company,
perhaps the oldest flour mills In the
state, II making arrangements to 0per-
ate them after an idleness Of about ten
years. The Peerys have invested heav.
ily in Golden real estate and will make
that city their home.
Samuel Phillips, Is years old, was
instantly killed by lightning while
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