The Colorado statesman., 1924-03-29
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

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| the U. S. Department of Labor. shows
that Industrial and employment condi-
dons in Colorado have made a notice
| able Improvement over January. Fnv-
orable weather permitted u partial re-
sumption of seasonal out-of- door actlvi-
| ties, which has resulted in relieving to
| some extent existing winter surplus of
principally unskllled labor. Labor sit
uation in the metal mining camps of
this state continues to improve and es-
| taDllshed 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 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.
| Loveland.-The Midwest Oil and
| Refining Company has taken up the
| leases for about 5000 acres on which
| they held options on the Red Rock
dome, southwest of Loveland, assur-
ing that the Midwest will drill in this
| section soon. Test holes at Red Rock
are said TO have revealed a favorable
| formation and the company expects to
| strike the oil sands at a depth of
4,200 to 4,500 feet. The Midwest has
a large force of men on the ground
and drilling is expected 10 start dur
| ing the coming month. Included in
the lands leased Is the acreage Sc
cured through Ray Baxter, public
! trustee of LariIher county, and the
| farms of l.. H. Pagan, Jay Chesbro,
Henry Rasmussen, Henry Hoffman
and L. S. Hertha.
| 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 a Telluride-D Durango passenger
| train struck 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 cases in
which the dynamite was contained.
The driver of the wagon, II. C. Carey,
and the team of horses escaped injury.
Denver.-Deposits in the banks of
| Colorado at the beginning of 1924 were
$299, ,7S6,014.22, compared with S304,
5S5,996.57 at the beginning of 1923, ac-
cording to compilations made by the
state board of immigration. The de-
crease is but 1.6 per cent, which is re-
| garded as an excellent showing in view
| of the financial depression that has af-
fected the agricultural districts of the
West and Northwest for the last two
| years. These figures Indicate that loss
of deposits in Colorado has been lower
in the past twelve months than in any
| other state in this section of the cOun-
| try.
Colorado Springs.-Violet Pugsley
| pleaded guilty in District Court here
| to charge of obtaining money under
| falst pretenses and was sentenced to a
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.
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,
an increase of 1877, JAG tons over that
of February, 1928.
Denver.-At the annual meeting Of
Colorado Fuel and Iron in Denver the
same board of directors that has
served for the past few years was re-
elected. Rumors that DUPONT inter-
ests had obtained control of the com
pany were denied by Colorado Fuel
and Iron officials, who pointed out
the manifest impossibility of this be-
cause the entire old board was re-
tanned.
Golden.-Sam Franklin, Jefferson
county youth, was found guilty of the
burglary of a mountain cottage in Bear
Creek canon by jury in the District
Court here. The charge against
Franklin, specifically, was that on two
occasions he entered the mountain
home of William l.. Spiegle, located
Just above Evergreen, in Bear Creek
canon, and stole articles of value.
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