Cheyenne record., 1919-07-31
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| year shows Il decrease Of ], ,49O.oS0 ton !
as compared to the production from
January l to July 1, J91S, according
to the report Of James Dnlrymp!e,
state coal mine inspector. Every conl-
producing county in the state, wi h n"
exception of Routt and Rio Rlanco
counties, shows a decrease for th" s.N
months period as compared to the
same period in 1918. The number of
miners employed last month was TO-
92S, as compared to 1859 ennloyed il
the previous year. The total produc-
tiOn of coal in the state during the
first six months of 1918 was 6.4l4.llI
tons. The production for the FIRST six
months of tbs year was 4,923.57S tons
The average number of miners EN-.
ployed during the six months of 1919
was 1920.
Telegrams received by Manager J. L..
Beaman Of the Colorado State Fair
from congressman Vaile 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. %. This display
which is in addition to the train'oad 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 25,OO0 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. \
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
tanned.
Denver's new state armOry will be
built on Thirteenth avenue between
Sherman and Grant streets, it has
been announced The site, which was
purchased at cost of $45,OOO, 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 total area of 12,389,97O 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
200 900 acres. This is exclusive of
216,1O 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
| $4,000 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-
esque land and water to be found any
| 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
close to $50 per cent since 1909, while
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,O73.3S. The
entire fund totals $685., 1874, 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, $6,316OI; Do
loreS, $429.71: GunniSOn, 81, 1924 :;
Hinsdale, $179.4S; Ouray, 1907. Pit
kin, $1,342224, and San Miguel, ST.
S59.12.
f. E. O'Brien, reported officially
dead of pneumonia while serving in
France, gave his sister, Mrs. w. H.
Wiggin of Pueblo, big surprise, by
appearing at her home. O'Brien is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. O'Brien Of
Denver and served in a transportation
engineer company. His family re-
ceived three notices of his death from
the War Department.
-Four boys, all employees of Colo.