The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-03-23

The Elk Mountain Pilot
c. T. RAWALT, Publisher
MATTE L. MILLER. Local Editor
Entered Second Glass Matter at the Postofice ct
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THEY say insects the world billion dollars
year. And this estimate doesn't include ravages
the humbug.
YOU can't make a silk purse from sows ear, but
many shrkers purse is lined with gold from a workers
hide.-Deb's Magazine
THE time has gone by for administering oxygen to
the railroads. declares the Wall Street Journal Then
why not try chloroform?
VOLIVIA says the sky is dome of solid material
1t is evident that the domes of solid material not
confined to the sky Naturalization Star.
IF Gompers looking worlds to conquer he
should establish union hours for housewives doctors and
poker players.-Boston Shoe and Leather Reporter
THERE is county in Colorado where the taxes
have down instead of going notwithstanding the
higher state levy That county Ebert Ninetyone per
of the it is ty farming county
put the matter to their county commissioners and
other officials that the work must be accomplished with
less and that said officials must learn to live and
with degree of pleasure, next to nothing the
farmers have had to do The scheme worked-Grand
Junction Sentinel.
THE armory at Delta, is nearing completion but
there is lack of interest in the state guard organiza
ton and the statement made last week in the Delta
Independent that the will have to get busy and
raise its quota to 65 members in order to keep together
the pay The enthusiasm the expenditure
of state money sufficient to raise the quota but in
good many other places the soldier sentiment fades
with time. This is another fine investment made by the
present state adminsration.-Grand Junction Sentinel
SENATORS Lodge and Underwood showed clearly in
the that of them does know what
the four rpower treaty One said it meant one
thing; the other another If these who listening
like provincial while the was pulled their
eyes, don't know what the treaty MEANS how much can
the senators generally know? Lodge and Underwood,
nominally, helped frame it. In reality it handed
to them Japan tell the two learned gentlemen what
the treaty means England If the republican par
ty passes it, that treaty will something at the
ballot box that will surprise good republicans.-Arthur
Brisbane.
THERE is nothing impossible in Thomas A. Edsons
prediction that gold will yet be artifciay made at
fraction of its present price Gold has already been ar
fcially made Sir William Ramsey a number of years
ago, converted radum into gold He made but few
grams of the yellow metal but what he identi
cal in every respect with gold know it in nature.
But the gold that Sir William made about twenty
times much the gold that from the ground.
The question before not whether gold be made
from base metals but whether it be made for less
than the cost of the gold that of the ground
agree with Mr. Edison that the discovery might be made
day. would add, however, that it may meyer be
made Nothing, however is certain than that
discoveries in metaurgy just ahead of The
requirements modern industrial life leave doubt of
this Metallurgy has not kept pace with the develop
of other sciences because known forms of metal
sufficient for needs New forms of metal
demand and in searching for them tell
what moment may stumble upon the way to
make synthetic gold and make it cheapy.-William A..
Baentne Metallurgist
FACTS IN THE IMPENDING COAL STRIKE
IT'S important to get few facts straight About
this impending coal strike Two BIG facts that you'll be
ied too ohuto ofte