The Dolores star., 1924-04-04
COLORADO NEWS NOTES


able Improvement over January. Fnv-
orable weather permitted a partial re-
sumption of seasonal out-ofdoor activi-
| ties, which has resulted in relieving TO
some extent existing winter surplus OF
principally unskillcd labor. Labor sit
uation in the metal mining camps OF
this state continues TO improve and es-
| tablished metal mines and many small
enterprises recently initiated maintain
| practically normal forces. Favorable
weather has allowed building and 9TH
er outside construction, of which there
| are large programs, to resume earlier
| than anticipated. thereby causing EN-
| ployment for a moderate portion OF the
seasonal surplus of skilled construc-
| ton programs to be under way within
thirty days will cause employment OF
large numbers of local labor Indus
trial plants, particularly those manu-
featuring building materials, equip
ment and supplies for municipal I'M
provement and general construction,
and meat-packing plants are operating
to capacity. Railway shop employ
ment slightly increased.
Durango-A ton of dynamite, hurled
from forty bursting cases and scattered
along the railroad right of way for
more than 100 yards, failed to explode
when Telluride Durango passenger
train struck a wagon loaded with the
explosive ten miles west of this city.
-Four cases OF the dynamite were
ground to dust by the force OF the i'm
pact. The remainder, scattered for
hundreds OF feet, was salvaged. The
wagon was reduced to kindling wood
by the collision, as were the cnses in
which the dynamite was contained.
The driver of the wagon, II. c. Carey,
and the team of horses escaped injury.
BOulder.-That one good ore strike
is followed by others of like nature is
II common observation in precious met
al camps. On the heels of the $4,000
per ton gold-sllyer discovery by the
PhersOn brothers in their lease mt Gold
Hill, Boulder county, comes word from
Nedcrland, a neighboring district to
the south, that ore worth $3.50 per ton
and over has been located in the Fair
view property. This mine is owned by
the Fairview Mining Company of Den
Yer, with John Bergren as president
and ]. f. Rinehart rs superintendent.
Boulder-The executive committee
of the alumni of the University of
Colorado has directed the spreading
upon the minutes of resolutions prais-
ing Mrs. Werner II. Reed of Denver for
her recent gift of $12O,O0O for the
equipment of the medical school, which
will, the resolution reads, contribute
to the relief of suffering in Colorado
and to the discovery and application of
new methods for combating disease"
Colorado Springs.-Violet Pugsley
pleaded guilty in District Court here
to charge of obtaining money under
falst pretenSeS and was sentenced to Il
term of from one to five years in the
state penitentiary by Judge Arthur
Cornforth She is alleged to have
swindled more than thirty concerns, in
Guiding department stores, steam and
electric railway companies, by taking
an injury to her ankle.
a snowslide which swept away the
upper part of the Cascade terminal of
the Black Bear mine tramway, taking
out all telephone and power lines in
the mine, was nearly fatal to four men
who were carried unhurt into the low
er part of the terminal and left Perry
Hill, miner, stranded in the midair
dangling by swaying cable 300 feet
from the ground.
Denver.-James Dalrymple, state
coal inspector, announced that the
amount of coal produced in Colorado
in February exceeded that or any pro.
duction over a similar period The to.
tai for the month was 1.912,S12 tons
of February, 1928.
Arvada.-Pliny o. Clark, former
mayor of Arvada and ex-superintend
ent of the Presbyterian hospital ir
Denver, who disappeared from his
home last November, two weeks before
Mrs. Margaret Vaughn swore out {
warrant for his arrest on charges o,
| failure to contribute to the support o.
her unborn child, is now in Baltimore
Md, where he recently passed an ex
animation for the appointment as su
| perintendent Of the Baltimore munic
| ipal hospital.
| Lake Clty.-The recent strike in tn,
Golden Fleece mine, close to LAX,
City, is holding out and improving witt
development. Assays made Mt the Elm
rich laboratory in Denver show 27.24
ounces gold and liza ounces sIIve,
from twenty-inch streak in the regu
lar four-foot ore vein. This foots III
| S1,21T to the ton.
Hugo.-Weldon II. Elliott, 20 year!
old, Parks, Ark, opened the vestlbul,
door of Union Pacific chair car neal
Arroyo, Colo, stepped from speedin,
passenger train, and incurred Il frac
ture Of the skull which caused hi
death near here, as n second train wa,
rushing him to Denver for medica