Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-04
ROCKY MOUNTAINS
BOOM WITH TRADE
Gold Towns Stir With Activ-
ity-Farmers, Oil, Smelters
and Air Lines Busy.
~ N. Associated Press

~ ths Associated Press.
DENVER, Colo.. November Re-
newed life Is stirring in the Rockies.
New quests for gold are peopling ghostiy
cities. The live stock industry Is re-
covering, while dairy and poultry price
increases are encouraging the farmers.
who are concentrating aggregates in
millions
Production in sugar beet factories IS
rejecting exceptional Autumn weather
and laying the basis for increased
activity all along the business line.
Onion growers are expecting three TO
five times last years prices.
Protein Boosts wheat Price.
Sheen receipts on the Denver market
are two weeks ahead III last year, with
production costs down 20 per cent.
OIL drilling is stimulating population
and business in Northeast Colorado and
bringing employment ~ idle hands
wyoming farmers are looking forward
to IS 900 900 from potatoes, beans and
sugar beets. Montana is enjoying inn
proved prices for corn, barley, turkeys.
butterfat. eggs and hay. and lower
wheat yield is offset by high pro0m
content worth premium OF 4 cents
or more.
Telephone subscribers throughout the
mountain region are increasing. AR
companies are expanding. Extensive
road operations are under way.
CrippIe Creek Again Busy.
Cash distribution of $19,375,000 Is
forecast for the beet crop, which
pressed 81 Of the factories Of the Great
Western Sugar Co. to record production.
The new activity in gold mining Is
centered In Colorado and Montana.
Fixed price for the precious metal,
coupled with reduced mine operating
expense. has brought renewed life to
such famous, but long neglected, dis
tricts as Cripple Creek Boulder, San
Juan, Clear Creek and Gilpin Counties.
Gold equipment companies are corre-
spondingly busy.
Dredging operations are getting under
way in Alder Gulch in Montana. the
most famous of the early placer camps;
at Pioneer, another site of territorial
industry, and in Lincoln Gulch, where
many thousand dollars worth OF the
metal has been mined and panned.
Many OF the older quartz claims again
are producing.
Big Shelters Reopened.
There is revival of activity in smelters
which were closed earlier in the year.
on September is the American Smelt-
ing a. Refining Co.'S plant at East
Helena, Mont, one OF the largest in
the country, resumed operations on q
limited basis after a three-month shut
down. The phosphate plant of the
Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Ana
conda reopened in October with pros
poets of operating through the Win
Ter and well into the Spring.
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Colo, late in September for an in
definite period put l25 men back to
work. At Pueblo, Colo, the steel mills
of the Colorado Fuel g. Iron Co. showed
renewed signs Of activity after slack
Summer.
OIL Boom Brings New Town.
The oil development in Northeastern
Colorado brought a brisk movement of
business in that section, including
building of new town. Influx of cap
ital and labor in connection with the
oil field activities stimulated business
generally Twenty-Five of the ma jor
oil companies have taken leases in this
district, and 10 to Is new wells are
being drilled, at cost of 100000 each.
Department store trade showed sea-
sonal increase in September. which
brought the volume TO little short of
average.
Air Transportation Gains.
Air transportation gained by leaps
and bounds with extension of airmail
routes. Western Air Express reported
for the first 10 months an increase In
business volume of II per cent over
the same period last year. AS a re-
suit of this, and the extensions of the
Cheyenne-Pueblo airmail route to Ell
Paso and Amarillo, Western Air, dur
ing October, spent $4,000 rehabilitat-
ing eight airplanes and increased its
space at the Denver municipal hangar.
Thirty men we're added to the COM
pany's pay roll in Denver
Building operations in Denver in
clude erection Of a $5,000000 court
house and city hall. large library at
the University of Denver and a new
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