The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-07-25
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

as compared to the pr0ductlOn IrOW
January 1 to July 1, 1918, according
to the report of James Dalrymple,
state coal mine inspector. Every coal
producing county In the state, with the
exception of Routt and Rio Blanco
counties, shows a decrease for the six
months period as compared to the
same period In 1918. The number of
miners employed last month was 1O,-
D2S, as compared to 1860 employed in
the previous year. The total prOduc-
ton of coal in the state during the
first six months of 1918 was 6,414,117
tons. The production for the first six
months of this year was 4,923,57S tons.
The average number of miners en-
ployed during the six months of 1919
was 1920.
Colorado's wheat and corn crops this
year will exceed last years crops by
millions of bushels, according to esti-
mates by the Colorado cooperative
crop reporting service, based on acre
age returns sent In by the county as
SCISSORS, in accordance with the new
agricultural statistics law adopted by
the last Legislature. These estimates
place the wheat crop this year at 49,
627, 900 bushels for both spring and
winter wheat, as compared with 49,
535 900 bushels last year; and the corn
crop at %, 14S, 900 bushels as against
20,585, 900 bushels in 1918
Plans have been started by the job
oers' bureau of the Civic and CONNER
cal Association to bring 25,OOO 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 jobbers be-
lieve by bringing the merchants into
Denver they will be able to look over
the stock and also they will be enter
tanned.
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 cost of $45,O0O, has re-
ceived the approval of Gov. Oliver H.
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 Legisla-
ture The design of the building will
conform to the other state buildings.
There are 1921 farms in Colorado.
with total area of 12,3SS,91O acres,
according to reports from county as
SCISSORS compiled by the state immigra-
ton department. Incomplete, the re-
ports show that the area in cultivation
in Colorado this year as APO, I63
acres Complete reports, it is estimat
ed, will raise this by not less than
100000 acres. This is exclusive of
216,102 acres of land devoted to wild
hay, which has often been reported as
cultivated land. -
Charles Graves, 43 years old, a
rancher at Shaffer's Crossing, few
miles south of Golden. was shot by
Wade Williams, 80 years old, farm
hand, following an argument over the
latter's work on the farm. Two bull
lets lodged in Graves chest. Williams
surrendered to Sheriff Jones of Col
den and declared, according to the
sheriff. that he shot Graves because
the latter drove him about the farm
like a slave"
Four boys, all employees of Colo
RADIO Springs garages have been
arrested on a charge of op-
Grating a tire stealing ring which
has disposed of more than $1,000 worth
of stolen tires in the last six weeks
The boys range in age from IS to "a
and police say they have traced large
number of thefts to them.
Colorado is to have an initial Ma
tional Guard unit consisting of 1,200
men, to be reorganiZed during the
year, with 80 per cent to be added
each year for succeeding years until
the total State strength is 4,400 men,
according to plans announced by the
War Department at Washington.
Another municipal mountain park is
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. 1t 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.
Across the seas to Estes park. Such
is the record established by Mrs r. HI.
Rhodes of New Zealand, who with her
daughter and another young woman,
Miss Teschemaker, is staying at one of
the hotels after journey all the way
from the Antipodes, just to see Colo
RADIO. The party came directly here via
southern California and the Grand
cation.
While prospecting for talcum depos-
its twelve miles east of Keota in the
Pawnee Breaks district, G. o. Dodder
uncovered the remains of large In
dian village Twenty-Five chimneys
and ovens of rock have been uncovered