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

to get the Montrose building campaign
into full swing. The items which will
go to make up the program for the
summer include the $15O,OOO court
house, the $4,000 city hall, the $780,
BOO Main street paving, the $4,000
residence street paving, the $4,000 ho-
dehydration plant, the 5000 Congre-
gatiOnal Church, the $1,000 Christian
Church, some $25,OOO in new resi-
dences, and added to this the $4,000
now being expended in new buildings,
the amount In sight for probable 1919
construction makes a total of $685.
900. The erection of the $3.50, 700 fed
eral building is slated for 1920, and
possibly the erection of $1,000 900
sugar factory in 1920.
Among the attractions at the Rocky
Ford fair will be miniature horse
show. Attractive purses will be of
fered for a number of events in the
fancy class and already the associa-
tiOn is promised a number of fine ami
mails from Pueblo, Colorado Springs
and other places. For the past few
years there has been some trouble in
securing the quality of melons that
the association desires to give to pa
irons, but this year some twenty-five
acres will be grown in different parts
of the valley on the best melon land
to be found, from selected seed, and
there is reason to believe that the big
pile will be the most attractive that
has ever been offered.
The resources Of the banks of Colo
rado have increased $2,5SS, ,792.O4
since Dec 81, 1918, according to alb
stracts in the office of Grant Meier
son, state bank commissioner. The
figure covers the aggregate gain in as
sets of 215 state and savings banks,
eighteen trust companies and eight
private banks. The total resources of
the banks amounted to $1O2, ,SO4, ,974.3S.
of which savings banks held $53,292,-
955.29, trust companies $4S, ,21O, ,594 80,
and private banks $1,3O1 ,4247O. The
average reserve was 27.53 per cent.
Archibald Cowie, former manager of
the Beaver Park Land and Water COM
pany, editor and publisher of the Pen
rose Press and the head of many other
organizations and projects connected
with the town Of Penrose and the Bea-
yer Park district, and who pleaded
guilty to the charges of embezzlement
and Of padding the pay rolls of his
company, was sentenced by Judge
James L. Cooper of the Fremont coun-
ty District court to term of from
two to three years in the penitentiary.
Potato acreage will be cut about rs
per cent Of the 1918 acreage this sum-
mer, according to dealers and farmers
around Greeley. This years potato
shipments will total 5000 carloads,
while the 1919 crop probably will run
under 1000. Much of the potato acre
age is going into sugar beets, while
other potato land Is being seeded to
alfalfa. The value Of the 1918 crop
to the farmer was about $2,25O,OOO.
A lone armed bandit held up and
robbed Conductor F. w. Schulz and
Brakeman l.. f. HOrten Of Colorado
Southern freight train at Louisville
Junction. The rObber secured two valu-
able watches, n fine Elks fob charm
and $40 in money. Schulz and Hor-
ton were unarmed and therefore could
not resist
Confessing to the shooting of Jacob
Mellinger, proprietor of store at
Rush, Earl and Tom Combs, cousins,
are in the county Jail at Colorado
Springs, where they will face charges
of deliberate murder. The two men,
attempting to rob the store, shot Mel
linger through the back and then tried
to escape.
Tom and Earl Combs, confessed
murderers Of Jacob Ballinger, Rush
merchant, made a strenuous effort to
plead guilty to the charge of murder
in the first degree, and Judge J. w.
Sheafor had to force them to make
plea of not guilty when arraigned for
preliminary hearing at Colorado
Springs.
John w. Spencer, supervisor of the
Battlement forest, with headquarters
Grand Junction, has made a requisi-
tion upon the federal government for
10000 black spotted trout which will
be distributed in the streams of this
section of the state. Another reQulsi.
tion, about one-fourth as large, will be
made upon the state government. The
hatcheries at Glenwood also will make
| a volunteer contribution.
Prices received by the war depart
ment In the sale Of surplus supplies
totaling $14O,OOO,0OO, the war depart
ment announced, averaged 81 per cent
of the initial cost Military railway
material disposed of brought $71,OOO,-
900; exactly what these supplies cost
the government. Aircraft production
material was sold at 30 per cent of
its cost and ordnance supplies brought
81 per cent.
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