Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-03-18
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.


years. 1915 TO 1919 inclusive, accord
ing to the National Board of Fire I'm
fderwritcrs' report through its actuar-
ial bureau. A total of 1850 fires were
reported to The bureau md. in addi-
| ton, II Is estimated that % per cent
more should be added to cover those
not reported. strictly preventabie"
| fires, representing 81 per cent of the
whole, caused total loss of 81, ia, ,S06
Those partly preventabler were re-
sponsible for total .oss of 50, I99.-
758 or 1854 per cent of the whole. and
those originating from unknown
causes resulted In a total loss of ST.
T29,60S. or $50 per cent.
Great interest centers around the
announcements of the 1921 program Of
the Augusta mine in the Crested
Butte section of the county. The AL
lied Mines Corporation of Pittsburg,
Pa, is planning TO build the first fifty
ton unit of n 2O0-ton flotation mill, an
electric power plant and steel trans,
to handle the ore at the greatest posi-
BILE saving. II Is declared that 260, 600
tons of milling ore are now in sight,
including 100000 tons on the dump
Besides this, there is much ore packed
away in the slopes of the mine. ready
to he pulled out at will.
Il. A. McMurry and Conrad Floth,
sheep dealers, have filed suit In the
District Court at Fort Collins against
the Denver K Rio Grande railroad
and the Colorado & Southern for ST.
SJ9.23 for damages alleged to have
been sustained in the failure of the
two roads to deliver to them 1,120
lambs which they were having shipped
to them at Black Hollow Station.
Colo, from Fountain Green, Utah.
A mandatory order issued by the Su-
preme Court directs the State Public
Utilities Commission to compel the
operation of railroad that doesn't
exist-the Denver, Boulder & Western,
which, until August, 1919, ran from
Boulder to Eldora, Ward and other
Boulder county mining camps. The
unique order, which cannot be com
piled with, was issued Mt the instance
Of several mining companies.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
at Pueblo has announced that owing
to improved conditions in the steel in.
dustry, 1000 additional men will be
employed. Four idle mills will reopen,
running two eight-hour shifts Orders
for finished steel products have shown
a very large and gratifying increase
during the past month, officials of the
company stated.
Samuel d. Nicholson, Colorado's new
senator, managed to get into his office
in the Senate office building after
waiting several days for. IL place to
carry on his work. He mas the quar-.
ters vacated by Senator Sutherland Of
West Virginia. Senator Nicholson's
office force and equipment were
moved In and the office is running
smoothly
A total of $1S4,9SS.56 was collected
in fees in the corporation department
of the secretary of states office dur
ing the month of February, according
to report made by Secretary Mill
ken. This is an increase of 81 900 over
the corresponding period last year. In
cluded in the amount are filing fees
for foreign and domestic yearly re-
ports.
Dick Miller % years old, of Arizona
was arrested by Sheriff George Nick
son in strawstack on the Hunt ranch,
four miles east of Castle Rock, on
charge of having held up and robbed
]. 2. Riggs, proprietor of a general
store at Larkspur. A gold watch and
several dollars, said to be the property
of Riggs were recovered
Governor Shoup has named Clyde
Dawson of Denver to represent him at
the launching of the battleship Colo
RADIO at the shipyards of the New York
Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden
NJ. j., on March %. Mrs. Max Mel.
vile, daughter Of Senator Nicholson,
was named about two weeks ago to
christen the new dreadnought
Colorado regained its rank as eighth
among coal producing states in 1920
according to estimates officially an
nounced by the United States geology.
cal survey. Its production for the
year almost equaled the record out
puts of 1917 and 1918, and final fig.
ures for 1920 may bring the year up to
figures of the former years.
Three bandits entered the First Ma
tional Bank at Strasburg, with the use
of a crowbar, rifled fifty safety de-
posit boxes in vault and obtained
about 500 in pennies and nickels from
the cash drawer and escaped.
Improvement of the Mount Vernon
or "Hogback" road between Morrison
and the Golden paved highway will be
made as soon as weather conditions
permit, according to the state highway
commission.