The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-11-21
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

sides the Wolf Creek pass route
which ordinarily is blocked by snow
before Nov. of each year. Cone1os
county good roads men, backed by an
opinion from State Field Engineer J.
b. Cheney, contend the Osier route
which would place AntOnito and La
Jara on an international highway, mas
decided advantages. The alignment
and grade in the long and gradual
approach to the continental divide
from the Antonit0 side, and the easy
descent to the Los Pinos with water
grade from there to junction point
witt, the present road is preferable III
the matter of exposure to the sun
thus insuring 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 lmmgra-
tion Department has had hundreds OF
booklets on different sections of the
state, to be used in class work. Inc
heaviest inquiry has been from the
city of Chicago, where students in the
intermediate grammar grades have
been making study of the Centen-
nial state with particular reference TO
it's 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-
Gated opposite the Great Western Su-
gar refinery. TIE building VIII be
constructed of steel. concrete and
glass. and when ready for operation
it will cost about S150.O0O. Part OF
the plant equipment will be two huge
grain elevators Norman K Two
good, contractors 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
u
northern part Of the state next sea
son at Loveland Sportsmen inter
ested in aeronautics say that flights
will be common then in the Estes
Park. region and around the horn
from Denver to Greeley, through
I.ongmont, Loveland and Fort Col.
Inns.
The Michigan-C Colorado Copper Com
pany of Bedrock, in the west end OF
Montrose county, will erect l5O-tol
oil flotation mill at their mines in
stead of the 10O-ton mill as original
ly planned The company has recent
ly increased their holdings in claims
and expects to increase their outpu
at least 100 per cent by spring. This
mill will be the first unit in serie
of mfils which they expect to con
struct as the output is increased.
r. l.. Stringer, 50 years old, pionee
eruit grower who was placed on tri'
at Canon City on charge of murder
ing his stepson, A. Fl. Sutphen, y
years old, was acquitted in the Ere
mont count District Court. Sutphel
was killed on the evening of July 4tf
Stringer shot Sutphen with a shotgun
pleading self-defense. Joseph Fl. Mau
pin, former attorney general of Colo
RADIO. handled the case for the defense
In the case of the state versus Al
thur Lyman Wright at Del Nortt
Colo, charged with involuntary man
slaughter when he ran his autOmobil
into a wagon, killing one boy and III
juring others, in September, verdic
of guilty was returned by the jury
The defendants council was granite
fifteen days in which to ask for ne'
trial. Pending the action of the cour
he gave bonds of $500.
Without putting on drive an
without the assistance of helpers, on
woman, Mrs Melissa Hayden, chaii
man of Summit county in the war sa,
ings campaign. trippled its quota i
less than two weeks work.
Karl G. Schuyler of Denver is tryin
TO give away fifty and two twenty
five dollar prizes. He has offere
500 for the three best editorials whic
are printed in any Colorado publica
tion before December 18th on the nee
and opportunity of public health wor
in Colorado. Inquiries should be at
dressed to the Colorado Public Healt
Association. contest editor.
New Workers. afflicted with tuberc,
losis, who imagine that mere residenc
in Denver or any other point in Cole
RADIO will effect cure. are warned b
the health department of New YOr
that unless such victim has enoug
money to live on for two years in res
and quiet the trip and soiourn in Der
yer will practically sign his death wal
rant
"File your statement now: YOU ma
die and the facts die with you,'
the admOnition directed by State Ell
gineer A. J. McCune in notices bein
issued to holders of water rights q
claims who must file supplements