The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-15
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


of the county agricultural report
there are 555 ranch owners with com
bined acreage of 104,6S5 acres; III
renters with an acreage of 2o,S41 ten
ure not specified of eighty-three with
an acreage of 1,630. The average size
of those reporting is 192.O9 acres.
Ninety-seven farmers failed to report
their total acreage, but estimated on
the general average given, amounts TO
1882. .73, giving a total of 145, 194.I3
acres.
SUSPENSION of assessment work dur
ing 1919 on unpatented mining claims
has been granted by Congress, the
Senate adopting the House resolution,
which now goes to the President Ior
signature There are 5000 unpatent-
ed ore claims in Colorado which will
be benefited by the resolution, If
signed by the President. This means
relief from assessment work amount
ing to S5OO,OOO, and will stimulate pro-
duction, according to NJ. B. Tomblln'
secretary of the Colorado Metal Mill
ing Association.
Alfalfa, the great hay and feed crop
of the irrigated districts Of the West,
is being rapidly developed as dry
farming crop in Weld couSy. In the
Grover district, fifty miles northeast of
Greeley, farmers are putting up their
second crop of alfalfa. The crop IS
planted in rows and is cultivated until
it has gotten a good start. The Gro
yer Community Club is urging every
new settler TO put in from twenty to
forty acres of alfalfa for hog posture
and for hay.
The lives of at least four stunned
passengers from a wrecked autono-
bile were saved by Mrs. Henry M.
Jones, Jr., of Danville, ILL.,, on the Flor
ence-Yictor highway when she dragged
them from the waters of Phantom
creek. Mrs. Tressie Wiggington Of
Brighton, Colo, scnool teacher, and
Hubert Stevens of Jewell Kan, were
killed and six others injured when the
car left the highway and plunged down
the seventy y-five-foot embankment.
Bonifacio Basques was killed and his
father-in-law, Rufaeio Garcia, danger
ously wounded following quarrel at
dance hall with two men al Pueblo,
said to have been Juan Trajilla and
Joe Savas. The quarrel started in the
hall because the alleged murderers OBJ
jected to criticism by Garcia as to their
actions. 1t was finished in the street
an hour or so later, when Trajilla and
Savas are said to have drawn revolvers
and fired upon Basques and Garcia.
DIR. j. Walter Fewkes of the Smith
sonian Institute, Washington, D. c., is
at the Mesa Verde national park,
where he will spend the next six weeks
to two months in excavating new ruins.
He expects to make many new discov-
cries In these ruins, leading, perhaps,
| to more definite information concern
,<ing the prehistoric dwellers Of the most
magnificent ruins on the American con-
tinent
One of the largest wholesale hard
ware organizations on the western
slope has been perfected by Montrose
and other western slope city business
MEN. This company will be known as
the Colorado Utah Hardware Company
anA will have it's headquarters and
main warehouse in Grand Junction,
with branch houses later in various
cities on the western slope.
A sheepherder, Leon Rispoud was
killed near Leadville when the mule
he was riding became frightened at an
approaching automobile and fell,
throwing RIspoud under him Rispoud
was driving a pack train of four mules
when an automobile came down a hill
in back of them, throwing the train
into confusion.
DIR. G. X. Olmsted of Denver was
chosen head physician of the Wood
men of the World by the board of
managers which held its regular quar-
DR.. J. G. Twitchell, formerly of Port
land, Ore who came to Denver three
years ago to take up the duties of the
position.
Pueblo's police department is union
lied, receiving a charter from the
American Federation of Labor, and ap-
pointing representatives in the citys
trades and labor assembly. 1--WE are
not contemplating a strike" said the
president of the new organization, but
Pueblo's policemen are underpaid and
unless we are given q substantial in
crease by charter we will be forced to
ask the aid of organized labor
Earl p Bennett, residing northwest
of La Junta, Is erecting what is
thought to be the largest silo west of
the Mississippi river The silo will
have a capacity of 1000 tons, and is
being constructed of vitrified hollow
tile. In addition to this silo, Mr.. Ben
nett has two others, each of 200 tons
capacity He is engaged in sheep and
cattle feeding.
Charles H. Bliss, prominent Greeley
farmer, has been elected president OF
the Industrial Sugar Company, to sue
ceed John A. Hicks of Brighton. The
Industrial Sugar Company is $4,000
900 corporation controlled by beet