The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1922-07-20
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

coal strike were relieved from active
duty by order Of Col. Patrick ]. Ham
rock, adjutant general. The three
units now in the field in the Freder-
lex district will be withdrawn soon, 1t
Is understood. Colonel Hammock. de-
cided danger Of trouble Is past and
that the Ranger force now is adequate
10 cope with the situation. The units
ordered demobilized are: Companies
i Of Boulder, II Of Fort Collins, / Of
Longnont and the Howitzer company
of Canon City. These have been held
in their armories. The company at
Brighton still is on duty at its arinory.
Troop Is, the tank company and med.
ical detachment, all Of Denver, are in
the field. After their withdrawal, it
is understood, an emergency force will
still be held Tor a time in the armory.
Sterling.-Forty county commission
ers from district 0 Of Colorado, COM
posed Of Adams, Logan, Phillips, Sedg-
wick, Yuma, Morgan, Washington,
Weld and Arapahoe counties, met here
for an annual conference on road and
other public matters. Commissioner
Tiffany Of Adams county was chair
man. The address Of welcome was
given by Mayor Sauter of Sterling.
Charles b. Undertake, congressman
from this district, and 4. X. Harper.
secretary to the governor, were among
the speakers ut the dinner given the
commissioners by the citizens Of Ster-
ling. A special road tax on heavy ve-
hicies was advocated by some Of those
present. The talks generally favored
the S6,000!0OO bond issue proposed for
road building.
Cripple Creek.-The spirit Of gold
holds the district In its grip. following
strike at the Portland mine Of the
richest vein OF ore found in the last
twenty-five years. Nothing since the
days Of STATIONS "jewelry shop" in
his old Independence, or the "Cresson
yug" Of 1917 can even approach 1t, ex-
perienced miners say. The "Cresson
vug" was rich find, but the new
strike is Of vastly more Importance
since 1t Is a real vein. The Portland
strike is also significant In that 1t was
made at a 2,G00foot level, a new rec
ord for mining in the state, and seems
to indicate that deep level mining in
the Cripple Creek district has future
that even dreams might underestimate.
Denyer.-The acreage under cultlva-
ton in Colorado this year is the larg-
est in the history OF the state. being
slightly more than 100000 acres. The
acreage devoted to nearly all the
major crops grown in the state is
greater this year than last and large
increases are shown in acreages Of
such crops as potatoes, beans, canta-
louDes and certain market garden veg
etables Reports to the State Immigra-
ton Department from the county as
SCISSORS Of thlrty-five counties show 81
597 1856 acres devoted to all crops ex-
elusive Of orchard fruits, compared
with 3,437,79S acres devoted to crops
in the same counties last year.
Cisco.-A vein of what is declared to
be the richest calaverite quartz discov-
cred In the Cripple Creek district was
found in the Portland mine at the @
60O-foot level, according TO recent
report. The vein Is thought to be a
continuation of the ore found at the q
450foot level, but is declared richer
and stronger. II is said to be the most
important discovery that has been
made in the Cripple Creek district in a
number Of years.
Greeley.-The office of public trus-
tee, to which Governor Shoup recently
appointed A. NJ. McClenehan as head,
Is the object Of a stormy fight. NJ. J.
Walsh, present incumbent, has refused
to rellnquish the station and turn over
the records to McClenehan.
Longm0nt-Howard Roberts. a state
ranger who shot and killed John Gas
par, alleged bootlegger, in a prohibi-
ton raid at Gaspar's home here, was
exonerated by a coroners jury. Gas
par was resisting arrest, the verdict
said.
Colorado Springs.-What is declared
the greatest gold strike Of recent years
in the Cripple Creek district, once the
foremost gold camp in the world, was
revealed In two streaks of rich four
foot vein at the 2,6O0-foot level of the
Portland mine at Victor. The ore In
the streaks, one and four inches In
width, will run from $4,000 to $4,000
ton, according to Joseph W. Ady, Jr.,
Of this city, managing director Of the
mine, while that In the vein, exclusive
Of the streaks, will exceed 500 ton.
BOu!der.-AnOther mountain climber
went to his death in an effort TO scale
the treucherOus third flatiron on Green
mountain. 1t is the first fatality in
three years and Is one of long list of
victims claimed by the giant monolith
in its history. The body of John Z.
Fitzgerald, 10 years old, of Tulsa,
Oklahoma, was found crushed and
mangled at the base Of the wall of
rock.
Pueblo.-C. F. Delliquadri, deputy
sheriff, and A. +, Baertsch. said to be
demented, were both wounded in
struggle when the officer attempted to