The Raymer enterprise., 1920-03-18
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Newspaper Union News Service.

SOloIuuOS y ScnOOl Iund is receiving
a yearly revenue Of $22,92525 from
oil leases on state school land, accord
Ing to report complied by Horace
Havens, mineral superintendent Of the
State Board Of Land Commissioners.
After having lost complete trace of
his father, George Gray, for twenty.
eight years, Charles Gray Of Pueblo
suddenly recognized him on the street
In that city. The elder Gray has been
residing In Omaha, Neb.
Articles Of incorporation have been
filed for a new commercial club in
Nederland in Boulder county. The
club Is organized to promote the indus
trial interests and general prosperity
Of that famous mining camp and VI
cinity.
The work Of paving the Santa Fe
trail will begin when the contractors
will start the excavation work. Sew
eral one-mile sections will be laid this
spring, the first. just east OF Rocky
Ford. then mile just west Of La
Junta and other sections in Manzan-
ola and Fowler. In few years the
entire trail from the Kansas line to
Denver will be paved.
George Barrick, "A, and Earl Walker,
81, were smothered to death by cave
In at the Golightly clay mine near
Golden. The bodies of both men were
recovered by fellow workmen an hour
after the accident. The cave-in oc-
CURED In new vein, which is sup
posed to be very solid and came with
out warning whatever. according to
witnesses.
Colorado employees Of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company suffered
loss Of $2,471, ,005 In wages as result
Of the recent steel strike, and Wyo-
ming employees Of the corporation lost
$16l, 400, making grand total Of 81
832, ,504, according to report filed
with the State Industrial Commission
by Fred Farrar, general counsel for
the company.
Alexander T. vogelsang, the first as.
sstant secretary Of the interior, has
designated 423,050 acres Of land in
the Leadville district as chiefly valu.
able for grazing and the raising of
forage crops and as subject to entry
under the stock fhising homestead
law. All Of these lands have been
applied for heretofore by several hun
dred homesteaders In the Leadville dis
trict.
As the result Of a whlrlwind cam
paign recently closed by the Ault Com
merclal 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 1900 acres
Of beets on three-year basis-condl-
tions which were quickly met by citi-
zens of that burg.
Reports from all banks In the state,
tabulated by the State immigration
Department, show that on the last day
Of 1910 the total deposits were $780,
267, ,503.11, compared with s255, ,Ss7.-
1872 on the last day of 1918, and
$288, 154 ,528.14 at the close Of 1916.
This is an increase of 1880, All 70,
or about 25 per cent, during 1919, and
an increase Of $02. .112,974.07, or about
40 per cent since the beginning Of 1917.
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
raise under the existing operation con-
ditions. 1t 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.
Approximately $500, 900 Of permanent
state school funds have been invested
In state, school and water bonds since
the first Of the present month, says
State Treasurer Harry Il. Mulnlx OF
this amount $4,000 was used to pur-
chase state bonds OF the national de-
fense series Of 1917 to provide funds
with which to take up certificates of
Indebtedness issued In connection with
the state troop mobilization Of three
months ago.
Archie Hogue, prominent railroad
contractor living In Summit county,
has just escaped miraculously from a
snowslide death. He had been leading
his horse down deep gulch when he
heard 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.
Six head Of cattle belonging to A. L.