The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-10-03

DouEias county tatr, Castle Rock.
The total value of all property in
Colorado for taxation is 81, ,4S7 ,931. 19l,
according to complete reports from all
counties in the state of the Colorado
Tax Commission.
The budget for the city of Boulder
for next year, as submitted to the City
Council by Manager Salter, calls for
expenditures In the amount of S120, 80,
which is the estimated total of re-
ceipts.
| Excellent crops are reported in the
Arkansas valley by the secretary of the
dairy division of the Civic and Com
from trip through Rocky Ford, La
Junta and Ordway
Stock raising is, next to mining,
ColOrado's oldest industry The cen
sus bureau found the value of all do
nestle animals sold and slaughtered
last year close to $125,OOO,OOO or 400
per cent better than in 1909.
S. E. Carver, Elkton, Colo, 80 years
old, pioneer miner, was killed at the
Cresson mine, near Cripple Creek,
when two tons of loose rock fell on
him in a slope between the seventh
and eighth levels of the mine.
The town of Ault, Colo, has applied
to the State Utilities Commission for Il
certificate of convenience and neces-
sity authorizing it to proceed with the
construction and operation of a muni-
| I;~h r,Io
Franklin Pierce Parker. 81 years old
end the father of nine children, who
has been farming dry land near Stone
ham for several years. became discour-
aged because of crop failures and com
mitted suicide by taking poison.
Tony Marmone of Mt. Harris mar
rowly escaped death at Oak Creek
when he backed out of the Newberry
| garage into Oak creek. He was caught
underneath the automobile and held
| there several minutes before he was re-
| leased.
More than two-fifths of the beans
raised in Colorado this year are being
| grown in three counties-Weld Ebert
end FL Paso. Pintos are grown largely
in the last two counties named, while
| Weld county produces a large acreage
of seed beans.
Through an agreement between the
State Highway Commission and the
commissioners of Larimer countT $780,
900 will bs spent in improySnE tbe
Ioveland canon road betwehn Love-
land and Estes Park. 1t is expected to
have the work completed before travel
to the hills starts next year
Clinton w. Dexter. 23 a sugar fac
tory employe, is dead from injuries
suffered when he was struck by an au-
tomobile at Longmont Dexter made a
leap for passing truck in order to get
II ride home. when he missed the vehi-
Gle and stepped in front of an automo-
bile coming in an opposite direction.
The Ward Nederland road, high
line road connecting the two mountain
towns about twenty miles west of Boul-
der, has been completed at cost of
$4,000. The road is 1919 miles long,
and is through some of the most rugged
mountains in the Colorado Rockies. 1t
is thought to be one of the most scenic
drives in the entire state.
The strike of the steel workers at
Pueblo has resulted in the closing of
the canister quarries at Canon City
and the throwing out of work of con-
t siderable number of men who are em-
ployed there. Canister is used as flux
in the making of steel and large quanti-
ties were furnished by the quarries
ere to the Minnequa plant.
Business men of Nederland, a tung-
sten mining town twenty miles west of
Boulder, have organized commercial
association.
Threshing machines are busy in ev-
cry section of Routt county and the
yield of grain is far above expectation.
Notwithstanding the dryest season
known for many years. Routt county
maintains its position as a section that
; as never known crop failure. In
quantity the Weld is satisfactory in
some cases phenomenal.
The Colorado Cooperative Crop Re
N"rtlhg Service is making an effort
lhls year TO determine as accurately as
'oSsible what percentage of corn and
Sorghums is grown for grain in this
state and what percentage cut green
FOR slage. Inquiry is also being made
10 determine what proportion of the
rye and oats crops is cut for grain and
, what parts are cut for hay or other
: Gi1poSes. This Information has never
been available before and will be OF
J much value to those interested in
Knowing the approximate amount OF
/ silage produced in the state and the
) amounts of these various crops grown
for grain.
Lora Doak, 16-year-old son of Mrs.
Chalon Moon, twenty-five miles south
east of Hugo, accidentally shot himself
while out hunting The gun was dis
charged while the young man was tax
lng il ont of The yrnr1,, tho huIlat strik.