The Dolores star., 1919-08-01
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

state coal mine inspector. Every coat
producing county in the state, with the
execution of Routt and Rio Blahco
counties. shows a decrease for the SIX
months period as compared 10 tne
same period in 1918. The NUMBER oi
miners employed last month was ~
e2S. as compared to 1863 employed III
the previous year. The total produc-
ton of coal in the state during the
first six months of 1918 was 6,4l4,l
tons. The production for the flrst SIX
months of this year was 4,923.51S tons.
The average number of miners EN-
ployed during the six months OF 1919
was 1920.
Telecrnms received by Manager J. l..
Beaman of the Colorado State Fair
from Congressman Vale and HARDY,
state that arrangements have JUST
been made by the War Department TO
send an elaborate display of heavy war
materials for exhibit at the fair which
opens in Pueblo Sept %. This display
which is in addition to the trainload OF
relics already promised, will include
captured tanks and tractors, heavy
cannon. mobile shops and other heavy
war material used by this country and
others, including Germany.
Plans have been started by the JOB
bers' bureau of the Civic and CONNER
cial Association to bring 10000 mer-
chants into Denver this fall. The plan
is to bring the merchants, in the ter
ritory served by Denver, to the city,
not In a body, but 100 each day. a
committee has been appointed to out
line the campaign. The johbers be
licve by bringing the merchants into
Denver they will he able to look over
the stock and also they will be enter
tained
Denver's new state armory will be
built on Thirteenth avenue between
Sherman and Grant streets, it has
been announced. The site, which was
purchased at a cost of $4,000, has re-
ceived the approval of Gov. Oliver IL.
Shoup and of the State Military Board.
A feature Of the building will be the
gymnasium. The cost Of the armory
will be 100000, this amount having
been appropriated by the last Legisln-
ture The design of the building will
conform to the other state buildings.
There are 1921 farms in Colorado,
with a total area of l2,3SS,9TO acres,
according to reports from county as
SCISSORS compiled by the state immigra-
tion department. Incomplete, the re-
Il . ON
in Colorado this year as APO, O,I61
acres. Complete reports, it is eStimat-
ed, will raise this by not less than
100000 acres. This is exclusive of
PIG. 1O2 acres of land devoted to wild
hay, which has often been reported as
cultivated land.
The shipment of potatoes from this
state this season has been the great
est in the history of Colorado. Ac-
Cording to records of the United States
Bureau of Markets. 1860 cars Of po-
tatoes have been shipped from the
fourth among the twenty-One late po-
tatO shipping states of this country
Minnesota ranks first, having shipped
some $4,000 cars, Wisconsin second
with 10000 cars and Maine third, with
lS,90O cars.
Another municipal mountain park IL
| about to be purchased for the use OF
Pueblo people and the tourists. This
| is to be 100 acres of the most pictur
eSque land and water to be found any
| where in the mountain regions of Colo
| RADIO. II is at the entrance of the Beu
lah valley, twenty-eight miles from
| Pueblo, and overlooking all the coun
try for 100 miles to the east and south
nations of the nearby butteS.
The acreage cultivated without ir
rigation in Colorado has increased
close to $50 per cent since 1909, while
there has been Il comparatively Sigh
| increase in the acreage cultivated un
der irrigation.
Mesa County's share of the stat,
school fund will total S9,O13.3S. Tn,
entire fund totals S3Sj,S34, and the an
nOuncement Of the various apportion
ments was issued from the state super
intendent's office at Denver Othe
| West Slope counties will receive tn,
following sums: Delta, SG,3l6.O7: Do
lores, Si29I1 GUnnison, S2,19O.24
Hinsdale, S179.4S; Ouray, S9O7 80; Pit
kin, Sl,342.24, and San Miguel, 81
S59.12.
+. L. O'Brien, reported official
dead of pneumonia while serving ii
France, gave his sister, Mrs w. I
Wiggin of Pueblo, big surprise, b.
appearing at her home. O'Brien is tn
son of Mr.. and Mrs. ID. II. OBrien o
Denver and served in Transportation
engineer company. His family re
ceived three notices of his death froI
the War Department.
-Four boys, all employees of Col,
rado Springs garages, have bee
arrested on a charge of OF
Grating tire stealing ring whic
has disposed of more than 81, 900 wort
of stolen tires in the last six week.
The boys range in age from is to .
and police say they have traced a larg