Gilpin observer., 1919-09-25

COMING EVENTS.
crSwley County Fair Sugar City. Aug.
er-Mountain Live Stock and Fair,
Grand Junction, Sept. 80 to Oct. 3.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock.
Oct. rs.
The value of all farm property in
Colorado at the present time is close to
81 1,000,OOO,OO0. In 1890 it was only
S11O,35S,0i0, and in 1919 it was only
$43l. 100000.
Mining in the La Plata district shows
more activity at the present time than
at any other time of the year and plans
are under way in many Of the proper
ties for an all-winter operation.
A long session of a cOrOner's jury
failed utterly to reveal the least clue
to the identity of the persons who
lynched Gonzales and Ortez as the
murderers of Police Officer Jeff Ev-
ans at Pueblo
The mystery that has for several
months surrounded the rObberies that
have taken place in Rocky Ford and
Crowley is thought to have been solved
by the arrest of Syrian who has a
store in La Junta.
Prof. Fl. s. Evans has been chosen
as new dean of the school of engineer
Prof Milo S. Ketchum, who has re-
signed to accept a position with the
University of Pennsylvania.
One soldier was so injured he died
in short time, two were badly hurt
and thirteen others were more or less
bruised when large army automobile
from Fort Logan, bearing members of
the post baseball team, turned over in
Denver.
Giovannia Cudacio, an underground
engineer was instantly killed and
Joseph Petschauer, trammer, was Sc
riously burned and blinded by the ex-
plosion of twenty-five giant caps on
Leadville.
President Woodrow Wilson will
greet the people of Colorado at the
state fair between 3 and 5 o'clock on
the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 25,
Arkansas Valley day at the state fair.
Thousands of returned veterans of the
world war will be the escort of the
President.
After seven days without food or wa
ter, Fred Burns, II years old, Of Terre
Haute, Ind, was found unconscious in
boxcar on the Burlington tracks in
Denver. When Burns regained con-
seriousness, he said he entered the
ROT oh in oh
days before.
]. Allard Jeancon, Colorado Springs
archaeOlogist, who has been exploring
the cliff dwellers' ruins in northwest
ern New Mexico for the last six
months, has opened up l27 rooms and
made discoveries of great Importance,
according to experts who have ex-
amined his finds.
That Salt Lake City business men
expect within eighteen months to in
wade Routt and Moffat counties in
Pullman cars over ii newly built rail-
road to extend from Salt Lake to
Craig, Colo, is the burden of an article
appearing in the bulletin of the Salt
Lake Commercial Club Funds have
been assured and strong group of
Utah financiers are determined to see
the road through.
There has been a sharp deterioration
in the condition of potatoes since the
August report was issued and the in
dicated production is now 10,59S. 900
bushels. The damage was most severe
in the north-central and northeastern
parts Of the state where irrigated po-
tatoes suffered heavily. Non-irrigated
potatoes are almost failure. The po-
tato crop last year was 13,0S3,000 bush
els, according to lately revised figures.
The oldest man in Colorado, William
Earl Van Etten, is dead at Boulder at
the age of l02.
A drive for 200OO,00O members ana
$15,OO0,000 to carry out the peacetime
program of the Red Cross will he held
throughout the country in the period
of Nov to II, according to announce
ment of representatives of the noun
tain division.
l. The State immigration Department
has had prepared n wheat Map of
Colorado for 1919" the first map OF
| the kind ever made for the state. 1t
shows the distribution of both winter
and spring wheat in the state, MS in
dicated by the reports of county as
| SCISSORS A glance at the map will
show where wheat is grown in Colo
RADIO and how extensively. A small
| symbol is used to represent each 1000
acres of wheat grown. and the coun-
ties In the northeast corner of the
state are so crowded with these SYM
tols that there is hardly room left for
the names of the counties. Four coun-
ties In this district have grown more
wheat this year than was grown in the
entire state In 1907 and seven coun-