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Show THE CITIZ orchestra is ready with a number of original dance tunes, prepared especially for the day. There will be another fox trot contest Tuesday night, when three more Quples will be chosen to compete in ' ,'w lie final contest, August 30, for- silver loving cups. The bricklayers union will hold an outing Wednesday; there contest Thursday will be a one-ste- p night; Friday, the Modem Woodmen of America, Camps of Provo, Bingham, Ogden and Salt Lake, will hold their annual outing; Saturday, July 30, the D. & R. G. W. employees of Utah will stage their annual picnic. - LINDY I STAMP8 (By N. P. S.) Washington, D. C., July 22. Sales or the Lindbergh air mall stamps have already been so large that the Post-offic- e department Saturday night, when the first day's patronage was over, announced that all records for the public demand for a special issue of a stamp would be smashed. Washington, St. Louis, Detroit and Little Falls, Minn., were the four postoffices selected for the opening sales, and the transactions over stamp clerks counters in the four cities constituted a part of the big news of the day in . 1 i i i i i i i n i each community. In the Minnesota city where Colonel Lindbergh passed his boyhood, two brothers had a race to purchase the first stamp. Yale Fortier, a youth of 14, won the honor of owning the attractive blue piece of postage with its representation of the Spirit of St. Louis upon its face. Young Fortier will be envied by the boys of North Central Minnesota. Little Falls was instant in bringing into the internamotional picture the old broken-dow- n tor car that Lindbergh used for experimenting in the infancy of his flying studies, and it had dispatched a shipment of Todd county butter to Washington as a present from home for the intrepid flyer. That the Post-offic- e department did not forget to include the thriving little city in the group designated to open the sale of Lindbergh stamps was a source of intense gratification to the people of Little Falls. In the Capital City alone the first days sales totaled $65,500. The Post-offic- e department had assumed the de mand 'would be very great at the seat .rtf government, but It went miles beyond expectations. Branch postoffices of Washington had their Lindbergh stocks depleted before The demand for the commemorative stamp in Saint Louis and Detroit was also stupendous. The Postoffice department expects soon to have Lindbergh stamps placed on sale in other mid-afternoo- t i l 1 ! Colorad- Paper 148. During 1859 the great Pikes Peak excitement" lured a continuous stream of emigrants westward, and while many of those whose wagons carried the triumphant device Pikes Peak or Bust" returned later with the device significantly altered to Busted," o-Professional the more adventurous and hardy pioneers pushed resolutely up through the rocky gorges toward the sources of the streams. A few of them, early in 1860, found placer gold in the beds of California Gulch, which bounds the present city of Leadville on the south. In spite of the difficulties of communication in this wild region, news of the discovery spread with amazing rapidity, and by July there were about 10,000 people in the camp. It is said that $2,000,000 worth of gold was tas-e- n out during this first summer. The peak of production was soon reached, however, and after the. firs tyear the population of this new district, then known as Oro City, rapidly decreased. Vast Fortunes Overlooked Lead carbonate with a high content of silver is said to have been found in the gold bearing gravel as early as 1861, but was only a source of annoyance because it could not be readily separated from gold in the sluice boxes. In 1868 the first vein was discovered and produced gold, which was found in nests of lead corbonate. This and one or two other veins Imparted a fitful prosperity to the district, which seemed to be one of the many small and insignificant producers or gold that abound in the western states. And in 1874 Oro City was almost deserted, and the site of the present city of Leadville was an unbroken wilderness. If it had not been for the extensive experience of two men equipped with technical skill, itis quite probable that the region would soon have been entirely abandoned and the great bodies ore would have remainof silver-lea-d ed securely concealed to awhit the chance discovery of some future generation. These men, struck by the pppearance of the heavy rock" that annoyed the placer miners, identified lead carbonate it as silver-bearinand quietly prospected the wooded slopes that bordered the gulch. The first lead carbonate in place was found on Dome Hill in 1874, but none was mined until 1876. Production increased rapidly and in 1880 amounted to more than 66,000,000 pounds of lead and nearly 10,000,000 ounces of silver. g n. cities. NEW GEOLOGICAL REPORT ON LEADVILLE METAL MINING Colorado Mining District Has Produced Over $400,000,000. Mining men and others will be interested In a Geological Survey Just issued by the Interior Department describing the mineral de i velopment and the geology of the great Leadville mining district of PROS AND CONS FOR SILENT CAL. (By S. P. Armstrong) Black Hills Riffians pile up votes that outdo pulling off weighty stunts of government. But do the news stories spill the beans, or do they E N 1 out her sassy chin, she looked down with scorn of the rural coons of the wild and wooly West The infallible brand of the statesn man is the donning of the hat for a Letter" grade in the third-terrace. Spurred thereto by the yip, yip, huzzas of cowboy donors, the mighty man of valor was shy to straddle his gife mare Kit; but togged out in cowboy garb, chaps, spurs, red shirt, and bandana, appurtenent to the gift, he mustered courage to lead her on the grass while the movies shot the vainglorious parade. A glaring honor to Silent Cal is the s in admitting him beating of to fellowship in the wikiup of the noble Redmen. The solemn ceremony christens him Chief Stillwater. By all this vaudeville horseplay, the Daughertys, Denbys, Dohenys, and their ilk, hope to land the moron vote. With the cowboy yip and $30,000,000 slush fund, with which toply the verdant hicks with moonshine, they will put it over big, as did the Roman satraps secure their power prior to the final collapse of their powerful empire. This barbarian disciple of Isaac Walton hauled in one big fish and six little suckers, while one game fish got away. Baiting the trout hooks with worms, by handy-ma- n James, his liveried butler, is the one unpardonable sin that arose in the offing. Aristocratic sports have no stomach for such flagrant breach of . fishermans, etiquette. The wailing and gnashing of teeth presaged loss of votes, and he backed off the worms. The later diary records that, watching his step, he now casts the tinsel fly. Of course, all this fill and feathers is all propaganda broadcast to swamp the unwritten but basic law which ta-ten-gallo- m tom-tom- HOUSEWIVES ATTENTION!! government by and for the people. ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION The Utah Chapter of the Associated Contractors of America, in its weekly report, shows the following improvements and projects contemplated and under way; The Union Construction company of Ogden, A. G. C. members, was the only bidder for surfacing' nine miles of the Salmon-Montan- a t, line Federal Aid their bid being $40,677.35. The engineers estimate was $34,075. This company was also low bidder for the construction of four miles of this highway with a bid of $104,792.13. jro-jec- Sealed bids will be received by the State Highway Commission of the State of Wyoming at their office in NOTl CIS OF SPECIAL STOCKHOLDERS MEETING Stockholder, Lewls-Perkl- ns Sales, Inc. You are hereby notified of a special stockholders meeting of the Lewis-Per-kiSales, Inc., to be held in their offices, 203 Regent Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, at 3 p. m. August 13th, 1927, ns for the purpose of amending the Arti- cles of Incorporation, namely, to change the name to GFardwel Sales Company, and such other business that is neces- sary or proper in connection therewith. H. J. HEATON, Secretary. West of the Sierra .Visit jeweled LakeTahoeon your way. Then San Francisco and on to Los Angeles. ' It costs no more this way. Return via San Francisco if you wish, or via any routes covered by following reduced round trip summer fares: Los Angeles both ways via San Francisco . . . . . $40.00 famous Utah fruits put up with Utah sugar made from Utah sugar beets with Utah coal, Utah coke, Utah lime stone, Utah labor and other Utah supplies. San Francisco direct via Reno Los Angeles $40.00 one way via San Francisco; return via Las V egas$4750 . San Francisco WHAT UTAH MAKES circuit via Portland back to Salt Lake City . $62.15 Tickets on sale daily; good MAKES UTAH until October 31. Utah-Idah- IPacift Sugar Company o Gen. Offices: Vermont Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah 11 "g ! in primo-genitu- re direct Overland Route, Lake know their onions? Governmental affairs are shunted aside for these more important matters. The first matter of overwhelming importance Is the news that the pet pooch. Bod Roy, butted into the silence rudely barking from the gypsy train at a gaping goof by the wayside. Then the pet coon Rebecca took herself to the tree top, where, sticking and Tahoe Line, to California. For health and economy, stock your shelves with out r third-term- s cool playgrounds of the Pacific Coast never more inviting than now. Travel westward over the THE FRUIT PRESERVING SEASON IS HERE . boos I I PRESS BANCROFT General Agent 41 So. Main Street Salt Lake City Phone: Wasatch 3008 Wasatch 3078 |