Gilpin observer., 1919-07-31
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


year shows decrease of ], ,490, $50 tons
as compared to the production from
January 1 to July 1, 1913, according
to the report of James Dalrymple,
state coal mine Inspector. Every coal
producing county in the state, with the
exception of Routt and Rio Blanco
counties, shows a decrease for the six
months period as compared to the
same period in 1918. The number OF
miners employed last month was 10,-
92S, as compared to 1850 employed in
the previous year. The total produc-
tIon of coal in the state during the
first six months of 1918 was 6,414111
tons. The production for the first six
months of this year was 4,9235TS tons.
The average number of miners em-
ployed during the six months of 1919
was 1920
| kilograms received by Manager ]. l..
Beaman of the Colorado State Fair
from Congressman Vale and Hardy,
state that arrangements have just
been made by the War Department to
send an elaborate display of heavy war
materials for exhibit at the fair which
opens in Pueblo Sept. 90 This display
which is in addition to the trainlOad of
relics already promised, will include
captured tanks and tractors, heavy
cannon, mobile shops and other heavy
war material used by this country and
others, including Germany.
Plans have been started by the job
bers' bureau of the Civic and CONNER
cial Association to bring $4,000 mer-
chants into Denver this fall The plan
is to bring the merchants, in the ter
ritory served by Denver, to the city,
not In a body, but 100 each day. A
committee has been appointed to out
line the campaign. The jObbers be-
lieve by bringing the merchants into
Denver they will be able to look over
the stock and also they will be enter
tained.
Denver'S new state armOry will be
built on Thirteenth avenue between
Sherman and Grant streets, 1t has
been announced. The site, which was
purchased at cost of $4,000, has re-
ceived the approval Of Gov. Oliver H.
Shoup and Of the State Military Board.
A feature of the building will be the
gymnasium. The cost of the armOry
will be 100000, this amount having
been appropriated by the last Legisla-
ture. The design Of the building will
conform to the other state buildings.
There are 1921 farms in Colorado,
with a total area of 12,3SS,97O acres,
according to reports from county as
SCISSORS compiled by the state immigra-
ton department. Incomplete, the re-
ports show that the area in cultivation
| in Colorado this year as 4,42O, 785
acres. Complete reports, it is estimat-
ed, will raise this by not less than
100000 acres. This is exclusive of
216,102 acres Of land devoted to wild
hay, which has often been reported as
cultivated land.
The shipment of potatoes from this
state this season has been the great
est in the history Of Colorado. Ac-
esrding to records of the United States
Bureau Of Markets, 1860 cars of po-
tatoes have been shipped from the
1918 crop. This places Colorado
fourth among the twenty-One late pO-
tato shipping states of this country.
Minnesota ranks first, having shipped
some $4,000 cars, Wisconsin second,
with 10000 cars and Maine third, with
1S,9OO cars.
| Another municipal mountain park 10
about to be purchased for the use of
Pueblo people and the tourists. This
is to be 100 acres of the most pictur-
| 10 ~
where in the mountain regions of Colo
RADIO. 1t is at the entrance of the Beu-
lah valley, twenty-eight miles from
Pueblo, and overlooking all the coun-
try for 100 miles to the east and south.
nations of the nearby buttes.
The acreage cultivated without ir-
rigatiOn in Colorado has increased
there has been comparatively slight
increase in the acreage cultivated un-
der irrigation.
Mesa County's share of the state
school fund will total $9,0733S. The
entire fund totals 1885, ,S34, and the an
nOuncement OF the various apportion-
ments was issued from the state super.
intendent's office at Denver. Other
West Slope counties will receive the
following sums: Delta, S8,316.07; Do
lores, $429.71; Gunnison, $2,190.24
Hinsdale, $179.4S; Ouray, $9O7.56; Pit.
kin, $1,342.24, and San Miguel, ST.
S59.12.
f. r. O'Brien, reported officially
dead of pneumonia while serving In
France, gave his sister, Mrs. w. II
Wiggin of Pueblo, big surprise, by
appearing mt her home. O'Brien is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. ID. II. O'Brien OF
Denver and served In transportation
engineer company. His family re
ceived three notices Of his death from
the War Department.