The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-12-19
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

the short course to be held in Denver
on Saturday, Dec. 20, the day follow
ing the closing of the ANIMAL Farmers
Congress at Fort Collins A number OF
these short courses have been conduct
ed in other states with marked success.
The plan originated with the move
ment for National Federation Of Co
operative Livestock Shippers, an organ
ization OF national Importance which
hase recently been completed at a
| meeting in Chicago called in the inter
ests of cooperative livestock shippers.
The purpose of these courses is to pro-
vide managers, Officers and members
of Cooperative Livestock Shipping AS
sociations, County Agents and others
interested with the opportunity of be-
coming thoroughly familiar with all the
important phases of cooperative live
stock shipping, as well as livestock
marketing In general. Such topics as
Proper Methods of Loading and Mark
ing Cooperative Shipments and the
Grading of Cattle, Sheep and Hogs on
the Market, will form the basis for
practical discussion, while the tech
nical phases of cooperative livestock
shipping will be covered by demonstra7
tions and lectures on the use of Ac-
counting System Forms for Livestock
Shipping Associations and by an ex-
PLANTATION of the Methods Used by Live
stock Commission Firms in Handling
the Accounts of Cooperative Ship
ments. A number of Colorado's Live
stock Shipping Associations will have
carload shipments of livestock on the
market for that day.
That the war time policy of obtain
ing officers for the United States ma
rine corps from the ranks be continued
is the recommendation made by Secre-
tary of the Navy Daniels, according to
a report received at the marine corps
recruiting office in Denver, Colo. The
secretary points to the work of officers
commissioned from the ranks during
| the war, as his reason for making this
| recommendation. He also recommends
that additional officers be commits
stoned for the marine corps aviation
| branch, and that special aviation
| grades be created for enlisted men. A
permanent marine corps of 27,46T of
| ficers and men, or 20 per cent of the
naval strength. is also recommended as
well as the creation of chief warrant
| rank for marines
| More than million people spent
their vacation in Colorado's National
| forests during the season May TO Oct.
| 81. 1919, according to figures recently
made public by the Denver headquar-
| ters of the United States Forest Serv-
| ice. This is an increase in travel of G,i
per cent over 1916, and 81 per cent
over the season of 1917. Visitors to
other national forests of the Rocky
| Mountain district totaled 100000 for
| Wyoming, $500 for the Black Hills,
.ss+ith Dakota s05OO for Minnesota.
and $500 for the small forest areas in
Michigan and Nebraska, a grand total
of 1,250,O0O recreation seekers to the
twenty eight national forests of the dis
trict, an increase of "a per cent over
1917.
The Great Valleys Sugar Corpora
ton, recently organized company
capitalized at S6,000,000, has selected
Lafayette as the site of one of the four
IdtiOIltS WHICH W III ne Dulll III iipi III
ern Colorado. 1t is planned to have
the factory completed and ready for
the 1921 production. Sixty acres of
land lying one-half mile south of La
fayette have been purchased for the
proposed site and mill of sixty tons
daily capacity.
Income to the state from sales
through the board OF land commission
ers is increasing approximately $175.-
600 each year. report completed by
Commissioners John F. Vivian, Ray
mond Miller and w r. Murphy shows.
The total income for the 1919 fiscal
year, ending Nov. 30th last, was ST.
516,961. SO, as compared with S1,344
944.41 in the 1918 fiscal year and ST..
1874, ,294 II in the 1917 fiscal year.
w. E. Doyle, go years old. clothing
salesman of Walsenburg, was found
hanging by a rope in his room in that
city Mary Strock, Il housekeeper,
discovered the body and it is believed
that he had been dead for several
hours. According to friends, he had
been pondering over the matter for
some time He asked the postmaster
not to forward his mail. but to return
all Of it, as he intended going away.
Both the first and second prizes of
fered by Denver taXidermist for the
biggest and best set of antlers Sc
cured during the last hunting season
were won by Routt county huntsmen-
First prize went to Harry r. Bird of
Yampa for a spread of horns measur-
ing forty-three inches, with six perfect
beams on each side. A. L. Pierce of
Hayden took second prize for antlers
with spread of thirty-three inches
and seventeen points.
What is believed to be a record in
aviation in the Rocky Mountain region
was established when Lieut.. Bert l..
Cole, formerly in the United States avi-
alton service, piloted an airplane from
Casper to. Denver in three hours. 1t