The Colorado statesman., 1919-11-15
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS.
The Red Cross Christmas Seal sale VIII
take place all over the United stat
from December | to 10, 1913.


20 heartily approve of the work which
has been carried on by your orgnniza-
tion for several years" states the e
ernor in "a letter to John NJ. Kennedy,
.Ir.. executive secretary of the stat,
Health Association.
Bert Dollard, wealthy stockman sof
Gunnlson county, wos gored by fnill
while loading stock. The horn pepc-
trated his groin and he was thrownfto
the top of Al board fence. He was
rushed to Salida hospital in II special
train.
Mrs. 4. T.. Rea of Longmont, wlrle
in Boulder, said that she was feeling
fine, despite the fact that no food hns
passed her lips for twenty-six days.
She was advised by her physician 3to
fast for Il month in order TO reduce Her
flesh She has lost, at the rate or II
pound day. She is still able to fio
part of her housework.
A tremendous explosion awakelled
the inhabitants of Golden and inve<ti-
CATION showed that a great part of the
big M on Mt. Zion had been bloNn
away. Students at the School tot
Mines blame the explosion ON men
from Denver University, believing ii
done in revenge for tue dynamite eN-
plosions which broke many of the win
tIows mt the Denver University.
The State Board of Land Commits
sioners sold at public auction in the
state house 10,S54.09 acres of land,
distributed over seventeen counties,
for S219OT9.12 The average price
paid per acre was SPOIL. The rfcord
price realized from the sale waS SIG
an acre. paid by Mary J. Hauck of
La .Iunta for parcel of land in Otero
county, containing 1857 acres.
The first stretch of government
state concrete Ii ghway to he built in
Pueblo county is completed and will
be seasoned for travel not later than
December 1st 1t is known as the
first leg on the Santa Fe trail, is
5000 feet long, and extends from san
IN Fe avenue, to the main gateway of
the Roselawn Burial park. Cost Of
one and three-fourths miles is approx
imately $4,000.
maj estimates ny lht .''heN ~ NP
erative Crop Reporting Service on the
total production of potatoes in Colo
RADIO this year apparently Will SHOW II
considerable increase in the output
over the S.096,000 bushels indicated by
the October estimate. Though 1t is yet
foo early to give definite figures 1t iErw
appears that the production VIII be
nd .lnsrInS
as high as II 100000 bushels.
Every Colorado doughboy who has
been "over there" knows it as the lib
erty Cross" The kaiser calls it the
double cross. To the knights Templar
it is n mark of their readiness to fight
for the good and the true. And that Is
the reason why the double-barred Red
Cross has been adopted as the emblem
of the Colorado Public Health .Associa-
ton which is fighting for a hundred
per cent health record in this state.
Three scenic routes from the East
TO the Pacific will touch Montrose
when the new scenic route between
Silverton and Durango is completed,
placing that city on the direct route
from the eastern slope to Durango ana
the west. The SilvertOn route will
probably be the most beautiful of these
three routes and the most Travelled.
This route will go from MontrOse TO
Ouray and Durango, thence into New
Mexico, through Arizona near the
Grand Canon of the Colorado and on
into southern California.
The drainage work for the RELIEF
of that portion of South Delta was
begun and is making satisfactory pro-
gress.
The oil shale industry in Colorado
is about TO come into its own, with the
erection of two S2,000,0OO refining
plants in Grand valley, according to
NJ. II. Callahan of De Beque, Colo,
pioneer in the oil shale Industry In
this state, and the original locator OF
the Callahan Oil Shale Company hold
ings in Grand valley.
Preliminary figures on the produc-
ion of winter wheat in Colorado this
year, now being compiled by the Stat
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
show that Logan county leads all other
counties in the state in the production
of this crop. with total output OF
close to 100000 bushels. Only three
other counties, Washington, Weld and
Yuma, have produced more than LOCO,
600 bushels of winter wheat this year
and ten counties in the state, Chaffee
Clear Creek, Denver. Gilpin, Hnsdale
Lake, Mineral, Rio Grande, San Juan
and Teller report no production of this
crop. The total production is approxi'
mately 100000 bushels, the largest
On record.
For the first time s.nce the Great
Western Sugar Company established
factory at Brighton, cattle will be
| fed Mt the comnnnY firm Already