Cheyenne record., 1921-01-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Roland G. Parvin, state game and
fish commissioner, announced that
1000 perch and bass had been sent
to Wray, Colo, and to the Minnequa
lake In Pueblo. These fish, which are
from four to five inches long, were OBJ
Colo.
The Great Western sugar factory at
Longmont divided $84.211.98 among
the employees Of the local factory us
result Of the record of the 192O-21 cam
paign. All share alike in the prize
money, regardless of wages drawn
during the campaign. The amount
paid to each employee was 1920
Routt county has just completed two
substantial steel bridges. One. spans
the Elk river at Glen Eden, and the
other is across the same stream at
Cochran ford. The former II seventy
six feet span and the latter ninety
feet Each bridge is sixteen feet wide
in the clear, with cement abutments,
and the cost was $11,5OO.
The biggest radlum ore deal ever
made in Mcntrose was completed when
Andrew Nylund of the Gateway sec
tlon sold carload Of carnotite ore to
G. Barlow Wilmarth of the Montrose
radium sampler which will run con-
siderably In excess of $4,000. This
is the richest ore that has ever passed
through the Montrose sampler.
Senator Robert f. Rockwell Of Pa
onia introduced In the Senate one of
the several Republican platform pro-
posals received by that body, provid-
ing that common carriers must trans
port livestock and perishable products
from the initial shipping point to des-
tinatiOn at an average speed Of not
less than ten miles an hour.
Miss Elm Sablestrom of Olathe,
county school nurse. reports that one
of the youngsters In school tried to lick
| frosted pipe and left part Of his
tongue on the zero cold pipe. He had
to get two small boys to help him get
loose from the pipe. He suffered con-
siderably from loss of blood and a
good coating of skin from his tongue.
A large Newfoundland dog at Love-
land saved the Vic Davis Sporting
Goods store in that town from being
ransacked by robbers. The robbers
battered in the back door, but when
entering the store they were attacked
by the dog. Such disturbance was
| raised that the robbers were frightened
away, after fighting the dog a short
| time.
Richard A. Parker has been elected
chairman for the ensuing year Of the
| Colorado section of the American In
stitute of Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers. At the recent annual meet
ing at which he was chosen, F. c. Gill
bert was elected vice chairman, H. r.
Lunt, secretary treasurer; r. w. Cor
don and R. II. Henderson, members of
| the executive committee.
Application Is to be made to United
States forest officials and to govern
ment and state game wardens for
| million trout to stock the streams and
lakes of Boulder county. A meeting
soon is to be held to organize a Boul-
| der county fish and game club to
unite the sportsmen of all communi-
ties in that section. Fred Fair and
| Pete johnson of Boulder and Charles
Carroll Of Longmont are behind the
movement.
A hearing relative to the Mountain
States Life Insurance Company, Of
which Claude w. Fairchild, former
state insurance commissioner, is pres
ldent former State Treasurer Robert
H. Higgins, treasurer, and Governor
Shoup stockholder, has been ordered
| by State Insurance Commissioner Earl
| Wilson US a result of allegations filed
| In the commissioners office by N. q.
Hodnette, a prominent Denver insur-
ance man.
Dewey Lawrence, "a years old, line
man for the Colorado Springs Light
and Power Company, was almost in
stantly killed when he cut into a live
wire while making adjustments on
pole at Colorado Springs. J. H. Fish
er, Lawrence's partner, who was work
ing on the pole with him, realizing his
partners error, cut one of the wires
to break contact, but was a fraction
| Of second too late.
Employees Of the Fort Collins factory
of the Great Western Sugar Company
now are receiving checks due them of
the prize money or bonus awarded by
the company for efficient service
throughout the last season. The total
sum being given out to Fort Collins
workers is $74,92021. Seven hundred
and ninety men participated in the
prizes, of which 235 lost no time from
their work during the entire season
and consequently received a full share
each Of $112.S7. The payment Of this
prize money adds $1.06 day for the
entire season to the income of these
men, or 1871 cents an hour. The Love-
land factory Of the Great Western
paid to its men a total in bonuses Of
S67 ,99O03. making a total paid out In