Gilpin observer., 1919-05-01
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


at Leadville on the basis of mini
mum wage of 81, cut of SO cents {
day.
Fifty-One Seniors will be graduated
from Colorado college at the com
mencement exercises in June, accord
ing to the official list reported by tn.
registrar.
The town of Byers, in Arapahot
county, is enjoying an unprecedented
building boom. Several new busines.
structures are being built, as well as
u number of homes.
AS result of a wOOdtick's bite re
ceived about two weeks ago, Fred
Yale, farmer residing near Collbran
became infected with blood poisoning
and died at Grand Junction.
James H. Chatfield, for many years
justice of the peace in LittletOn and
widely known throughout that district
is dead in HOquiam, Wash, according
to information received from there.
Fire Of unknown origin destroyed
all of the buildings of the Sunnyside
mine at Eureka except the transform
er house, with loss estimated at
$250,00O, that is partly covered by In
surance.
most ambitious project for the ex-
termination of 1,OO0,O0O prairie dogs
in territory including about 5000
square miles in Fremont, Teller, Park
and Chaffee counties has been orgail-
iZed in Canon City.
In 1918 there were 14,12S,3O7 acres
of patented land in Colorado assessed
as grazing area, of which a very small
amount is in cultivation. Much of this
land, perhaps 40 per cent, will ulti-
mately lie farmed.
The San Juan basin will have from
fifteen to thirty days longer tourist
season than usual, as the people of
Durango, Pagosa Springs, Del Norte
and Monte Vista are planning to open
Wolf Greek pass the latter part of
May.
Las Animas has had q visit from
burglars. They entered the office of
the Las Animas Lumber Company and
robbed the safe of $75 in cash and Il
certificate containing twenty war saw
ings stamps, besides So in postage
stamps
Robert Burnett, a farm laborer, liv-
ing at Eaton, shot his wife seven times
without causing death, and then shot
himself In the head. Burnett died In
stantly. His wife is In the Greeley
hospital. There is no chance, for her
recovery.
The total area of patented land in
Colorado, according to reports of
county assessors, is 26,49O,156 acres,
while the total area of government
homestead land, national forests, state
land and national parks and mOnu-
ments is 26,997 .O2O.95 acres.
There are S,5S3, 800 acres of patent
ed land in Colorado assessed as dry
farming area. Less than 100000
acres of this Is In cultivation and per-
haps 4,OOOO0O acres more of it might
be cultivated successfully under prop
er dry farming methods.
Howard Nusbaum, 4-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Nusbaum of Mont
twin brother, Harold, and little La
Verne Williams. and wandered to u
place two miles east of the city. There
Howard fell from n plank crossing an
irrigation canal and was drowned.
State officials have estimated that
the inheritance tax from the Werner
u. Reed estate, which is variOusly
placed at from $1S,0O0,OOO to $2O,OOO,-
900, will double the amount of any
previous single Inheritance tax paid
into that department. The tax Is ex-
pected to be in the neighborhood of
S750,OOO.
Delta Is to have a new $65, 900 fac
tory soon. 1t will be mill for MAX
ing potato flour. The company has
been Incorporated as the Farmers Pro-
duce and Milling Company. A half
block of city lots on Kellogg avenue
has been purchased for $4,000, and
ground Is to be broken inside of three
weeks.
Werner Y. Reed, one of Colorado's
wealthiest citizens, an oil magnate,
mining man, philanthropist and author,
died at Coronado Beach, Calf, follow
ing long period of III health. Pneu-
monin developing caused his death, but
not until three hours before the end
did his physicians consider his condi.
tion serious.
Charging his former partner in the
automobile business not only with
stealing his wife and breaking up his
home, but also with attempting to
steal his youngest son, w. J. Woods,
3S, stepped out Of his garage door In
Sterling and shot George Dykes, 80,
five times. firing once, 1t is said, while
Dykes lay ON the ground. Three OF
the bullets took effect In the right leg,
one in the body and one penetrated an
ear and grazed Dykes face. None, II
is said, will prove fatal.
The 1919 wool crop of the San Juan
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