The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-03-29
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

s6S.S4 In one-teacher schools to SlOj45
In high schools
The Child Welfare station is prov
Ing TO be one of the most wonderful
organizations in the city of Pueblo
both educationally and philanthropic-
ally.
The school board for the city Of En-
glewood has tentatively sold bonds for
$4,000 for construction of new high
school building during the coming
months.
70 Perry Majors, Montezuma
county rancher, belongs the honor for
raising the biggest pig in the San
Juan basin. The porker dressed 498
pounds and was sold for S04.24.
Colorado has more than 100000
acres of agricultural land that has
never been broken, or enough to sup
port Il farm population more than
twice as great ms the state now has.
Approximately 10000 acres of sugar
beets have been contracted in Weld
county by the Great Western Sugar
Company. This is almost double the
normal acreage which is about 10000
acres
j. C. Cessna, IS, local manager of
the Gilpin County Light, Heat and
Power Company, was electrocuted at
Central City on pole when his hand
! slipped and came in contact with a
hlgh-pOwered wire.
Elmer Mckee, sc, a Santa Fe loco
motive engineer, died in La Junta as
the result of leaping over fence
while going TO assist Il neighbor whose
house was on fire. The jar tore loose
hgament near McKee's heart.
Colorado Springs and the Pixies
Peak region will spend $4,000 in adj
vertising during the coming year. In
addition the hotels and amusement
owners will spend an additional $1,000
as part Of the publicity advertising
campaign.
The Fort Collins House Building and
Development Company is a corporation
formed just recently, with capitaliza-
ton of $4,000, for the purpose of
building fifty bungalows in Fort Col
Inns, ranging in cost from $4,000 to ST.
600 each.
A prairie fire that started in the
Thomas Ord pasture near Falcon and
about ten miles east of Colorado
Springs caused damage to 5000 acres
OF pasture land and completely de-
stroyed 300 tons of hay before 1t could
be checked.
With more than S25O,O00 worth of
new buildings, public and private, al
ready under process of erection and
more in prospect, the building boom
which has struck northern Colorado
towns seems to be most pronounced
at Windsor.
The annual dividepd of the Grand
Junction Fruit Growers Association
has just been paid out. The total
business was 81 1877 ,439 and the net
profits Sl4,4S3.5O The dividend paid
was 10 per cent and 1,025 stockhold-
ers received checks.
Slos are swelling the profits of the
cattle and lamb feeders of the Greeley
| district. Silage raised on farms east
of Greeley has been selling at $40
ton from the silo. Some fields have
yielded thirty tons to the acre, max
ing $500 crop on $3.50 land.
With determined spirit to help
put Denver and Colorado in the honor
list for a 100 per cent subscription to
the Fifth-and last-Liberty loan, the
leaders Of Denver's army of 1000
women war workers are organizing
their forces for the drive tc start
April 81.
Although totally blind, Emil Ander-
son, Greeley farmer, pleaded his own
case and cross-eIamiDed witnesses so
cleverly that he won S25 verdict
against Robert Ragen of Lpveland in
Justice Court. Anderson claimed that
Ragen took advantage of his blindness
and misrepresented a team of horses
sold to him.
The Greeley Home Building Com
pany, syndicate, will build sixty
houses in Greeley this summer. Con-
tracts for lumber and other material
for the first group of six houses have
been let to lumber company and
agents are buying every available lot
in the residence district south Of State
Teachers College
Five Greeley banks and the bank of
Keota will finance extensive expert
ments in the summer following system
of dry land farming in the Keota dis
trict, fifty miles east of Greeley. Units
of ten farmers, each of whom will sum
mer fallow fifty acres of land, are be-
ing made up, and the banks will ad-
vance $40 on each acre, plowed, sum
mer fallowed and cropped Thirty
farmers have already entered the ex-
pertinent, and the $4,000 necessary for
financing them will be available May l.