The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1919-02-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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E. b. Field Sr, president of the
Mountain States Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, is dead at his Den
yer home.
AS soon as the frost is out of the
ground work will be started on the
electric light plant which Is to be the
latest addition to Craig.
Government reports show that there
are now 100000 hogs in Colorado,
worth $S,932,OOO, as compared with
1924 In 1910, worth $1,58S,1 5s.
Proposals for an appropriation of
$15O,OOO for tubercular hospital in
Colorado were rejected by the United
States Senate, according to dispatch
from Washington.
II. ID. May, % years old, fireman on
the Moffat road, was overcome by gas
III the snow sheds at Corona and died
two hours later in the railroad eating
house at Kremmling.
That Colorado is likely to receive a
large appropriation for the building or
roads and trails in the national forests
of Colorado is the prediction of fores-
try officials In Denver.
The acreage of wheat harvested in
Colorado in 1918 was $4,000, as COM
pared with $40, 729 acres for 1909. The
increase has been largely in the acre
age devoted to winter wheat.
Julio ChavOn, Mexican, pleaded
guilty to killing mountain sheep In
Glen canon near GlenwOOd Springs,
and was fined 500. This is the first
conviction of its kind In a number
Of years.
At the city election April LIST the
taxpayers will vote on bond issue
Of $4,000 for the building of new
city hall at LOngmOnt, and an issue
Of $85.OOO for the Improvement Of
city parks.
At monster smoker of the AamOsa
Automobile Club committee was
named and plans made to erect u
$4,000 building here as u memorial
10 the soldier and sailor dead of the
San Louis valley.
Work on the memorial gateway Mt
the army recuperitiOn camp, the gift
OF union labor OF Denver, Will begin
within Few days. The contract for
the memorial was let Monday. The
gateway will cost $4,000.
Officials Of eight Denver bonding
companies appeared before the Little
ton town board and offered tentative
bids for the floating of II $4,000 bond
ISSUE the none! 10 ne useh III the con-
structi"n OF new municipal building
Ut Littietoh.
Colorado holds first rank among the
4, .; =. ii,s--sr- acreage of land cultivated
under irrigation, with II total of nearly
3.OOO,OOO acres: yet there is nearly as
large an area wh''h might he irrigated
%! me '"hl"e'ioh Oh contemplated IT.
r'eatioh systems.
Building permits asked for and re-
ceived In Greeley seem to indicate
that the spring may open with IL good
amount of building to he done. The
city council ut the last meeting acted
favOrably upon applications involving
an expenditure OF H2''Wn.
WillfOrd Burwell and Morey Good.
man of La Juntn have been awarded
buttons by the United States Treas,
ury Department for their work In war
savings and thrift stamp sales. They
will also cnch receive II letter OF com.
mendntiOn from officials In Washing.
ton.
A ,ov.l m.,,s NJ conc.,,,py ,iouor
WINS un.nr,hed in Denver nv Sergeant
Hannebuth and Policemen Kelly and
Fitt when an examination OF II steam
h"nting radiator In the home OF Nick
IteittO. 1857 Inriiner street, proved II
I" m fitted up with n tiny faucet ana
used Ms receptacle Tor whisky.
The field artillery branch of the ar.
nv M Washington has recommended
the establishment Of n field artillery
unit nj the Colorado Agricultural Col.
lege. Fort Collins, MS wei! MS the en-.
tuhlishmnnt ~ nm engineering corns