The Colorado statesman., 1919-12-13
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS,

lent showing for the first years work
under the new law Several of the
counties have reports more than o.
per cent complete, while II few of then,
are below - per cent. Special effort
will he made to obtain full reports for
all counties in 1920 and with the eN'
perence county assessors alrenuS
have had in the work IL Is believed that
the report for the state next year
should be fully 9S per cent complete.
All commercial bodies in the state
will be asked to cooperate with the
State Immigration Department in max
ing manufacturing survey of the
state early in 1920. The Board or
Immigration voted mt its November
meeting To have this survey conducted,
and an effort will be made to get the
work under way sometime in January,
covering operations of manufacturing
establishments for the calendar year
1919. The federal census inquiry VIII
he made about the same time ana
many of the items Of information com
piled by manufacturers for this inquiry
may he used without change for the
state inquiry.
Inquiries are coming in daily from
Eastern capitalists who are anxious
for investments in Ghpin county mines
and the indications are that 1920 Will
show much greater activity in the
mining industry than for many years
past. The handicap that has been
placed on the mines which produce
only gold by the high cost of labor and
mining supplies, with the staple ana
one price for the yellow metal of S20.6I
per ounce has retarded operation and
production on those properties.
L. ID. Smith, agricultural agent for
La Plata county, has announced that
in the near future he will conduct
throughout the country series or one
day institutes mt which he Will IN
struct the ranchers in farm manage
ment and the keeping of their ac-
counts, many of them desiring infor-
nation on simple system of book
keeping in particular. as they have had
much difficulty in the past of making
out their income tax returns.
In one of the first convictions re-
turned under the Colorado truSt Jaw,
James NJ. Campbell, Frank Theob"li,
f. w. Patterson, Il. S. Barnes and
Thomas McCarty, members of the Mas
ter Plumbers Association, were FOUND
guilty in the District Court at Colo
RADIO Springs of the charge of unllw-
full combination in restraint of trade.
1t is the first decision in the plump
ing trust cases which have been in the
courts since November, 1917.
The value of all livestock on the
farms in Colorado in 1919 as estimat-
ed by the Bureau of Crop Estimates
of the United States Department of
Agriculture, was S172,751, 900. Asses
sors' reports show increases this year
in practically all classes of livestock,
so that indications are that the State
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
will find the value of livestock ON
farms January 1, 1920, to be close TO
2OO,OOO,OOO
Struck by mammoth rock while at
work in the Sopris mine of the Coip-
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company, Antanio
Salla, coal miner, 80 years old, was
instantly killed. The rock, weighing
several tons, struck Salla on the head,
crushing it to pulp and scattering
brains about the working place. The
lower portion of the body was also
badly crushed. The dead man leaves
widow and two children at Sopri;.
Girard Douglas, cOlored youth,
charged with statutory offense fol
lowing his alleged attack upon Miss
Lutte Marshall, a Sophomore student
| in Colorado College on the night of
/ 10 FI1D n
| Springs for trial on the first day of
the January term of the District court
the January term of the District Court.
Court requesting his delivery into the
| court on that day.
The farm products of Montrose
county again came to the front when
John Howell of Bostwick Park, with
| exhibits in the international grain and
hay show at Chicago, captured sew
eral of the most important prizes in
| the wheat and oats entries mainly.
| These same exhibits recently took the
| main prizes at international eXposi-
| tions at Kansas City and Wichita, Kan.
Due to the stimulus of the two
weeks campaign to secure jobs TO" ex-
| service Iltl, eihpiosoiS III DVh'Si ''''
| Colorado have responded to The call
to such an extent that job is Wat
ing for every Yank who is quail fled TO
fill it, according to reports received at
the rehabilitation bureau in the
Chamber of Commerce building in Den
yer.
new Boulder beet sugar company,
capitalized at S2,OOO,OOO, has filed in
corporation papers with the secretary
of state. 1t is to be known as the
Farmers Independent Sugar Company.