The Ordway new era., 1919-11-28
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

county good roads men, backed by an
opinion from State Field Engineer ].
Il. Cheney, contend the Osier route,
which would place Antonito and La
Jara on an international highway, has
decided advantages. The alignment
and grade in the long and gradual
approach to the continental divide
from the Antonito side, and the easy
descent to the Los Plnos with water
grade from there to junction point
| with the present road is preferable in
the matter of exposure to the sun,
thus insuring a longer open season
| for motorists
| The general demand for authentic
| Information about the resources and
Industries of Colorado, which has been
| growing in all sections of the country
| in the past few years, is being ex-
tended into the public schools With
in the past year the State Immigra-
tion Department has had hundreds of
requests from school children Tor
booklets on different sections of the
state, to be used in class work. The
heaviest inquiry has been from the
city of Chicago, where students in the
intermediate grammar grades have
been making study of the Centen-
NAL state with particular reference to
its industries and resources rather
than its scenic attractions
Ground has been broken at Brigh-
| ton for the erection of the new wheat
products plant of the Midland Cereal
Products Company. which is to be To-
| cated opposite the Great Western Su-
| gar refinery. The building will be
constructed of steel, concrete and
glass. and when ready for operation
it will cost about S1J0,000. Part of
the plant equipment will be two huge
grain elevators. Norman * Two
good contra ctors of Denver, are in
charge of the construction.
Plans are under way for landing
| field and one of the finest aviation
stations in the West, to take care of
the travel that is expected in the
northern part of the state next sea-
son at LoveIand. Sportsmen inter
ested in aeronautics say that flights
will be common then in the Estes
Park region and around the horn
Longmont, Loveland and Fort Col
| lins.
The AIichigan-Colorado Copper Com
pany of Bedrock, in the west end of
Montrose county, will erect a 150-ton
| oil flotation mill at their mines in
| stead of the 100-ton mill as original
| ly planned. The company has recent
| ly increased tlr1r holdings in claims
and expects to Increase their output
at least 100 per cent by spring. This
mill will be the first unit In a series
of mills which they expect to con-
| struct as the output is increased.
II. L. Stringer, 90 years old. pioneer
| fruit grower, who was placed on trial
at Canon City on charge of murder
| ing his stepson, A. ii. Sutphen, 30
years old, was acquitted in the Ere
mont count District Court. Sutphen
| was killed on the evening of July 4th.
Stringer shot Sutphen with "A shotgun
pleading self-defense. Joseph ii. Maui
pin, former attorney general of Colo
RADIO, handled the case for the defense.
| In the case of the state versus Ar
thur Lyman Wright at Del Norte,
l
slaughter when he ran his automobile
into n wagon, killing one boy and in
| iuring others. in September, verdict
of guilty was returned by the jury.
| The defendants council was granted
| fifteen days in which to ask for a new
trial Pending the action of the court
he gave bonds of $500.
Without putting on drive and
| without the assistance of helpers. one
| woman, Mrs Melissa Hayden, chair
man of Summit county in the war saw
| ings campaign. trippled its quota in
| less than two weeks work.
| Karl c. Schuyler of Denver is trying
to give away a fifty and two twenty
five dollar prizes. He has offered
are printed in any Colorado pubiica-
tion before December 18th on the need
and opportunity of public health work
in Colorado Inquiries should be ad-
dressed to the Colorado Public Health
| Association, contest editor.
New Workers afflicted with tubercu-
losis. who imagine that mere residence
| Ill pehNer or any otner point III Soio-
| RADIO will effect cure, are warned by
the health department of New York
that unless such victim has enough
money to live on for two years in rest
and quiet the trip and sojourn in Den
yer will practically sign his death war
| rant
| "File your statement now; you may
die and the facts die with you,' is
the admonition directed by State En-
gineer A. ]. McCune in notices being
issued to holders of water rights or