The Raymer enterprise., 1919-12-25
Pithy News Notes
From An Paris Of
Colorado

VI NOiOiduO III 1880 anu STATE ScuatoE
from Pueblo for four years, died sud-
denly at his home in Pueblo. He was
81 years old. Il.
All crops In Colorado during 11aD
are valued n $f9l. 100000. This is 1a.7
per cent more than the crops last year
and II ID the most valuable ever har-
vested In the state.
All reports indicate that about 1000
new silos were built In Colorado this
year and that the total number in the
state In now about 1000 The produc-
tion Of corn for silage In the state Is
increasing rapidly.
Plans have been completed for re-
funding and rehabilItating the Denver
Greeley valley irrigation district.
which Includes 3a,OO acres south and
east Of Greeley under the Barr lake
and Milton reservoir canal system.
1t lms been definitely decided that
The II. q. G.'s Association will have a
stock show M Monte Vista. Feb. III. l.
and IL. 1870. The Live Stock Associa-
tion, the Poultry Association and the
ranchmcn are supporting the under
taking.
Mrs. Henrietta Lindsey, wife of
Judge Ben u. Lindsey Of Denver, was
one Of seven persons injured when
Chicago & Northwestern railroad train
was accidentally deraled ut Meqaoin,
fifteen miles north Of Milwaukee. Mrs
Lindsey's injuries were slight Judge
Lindsey. who was with his wife on the
train, is on speaking tonr.
Approximately Sl,3U00O, represent-
ing payments ON the last quarterly in
stallment Of The income, war-profits
and excess-profiis taxes for 1918, has
been from Colorado people by Internal
Revenue Collector Mark A. Skinner. A
large number Of Colorado citizens had
taken advantage of the opportunity
given them by the government TO pay
the taxes In quarterly installments.
The work of gathering and prcserv-
ing for the state archives the records
of coi0rado's men and women who
took part In the world war, In order
that true and complete history of
Colorado's participation In the conflict
may be compiled. has been started by
the State Historical and Natural His
tory Society, under the direction of
l.. G. Carpenter. Its president.
Incomplete estimates made by the
State Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service show that the value OF all
crops in the state this year Is In ex-
cess Of S170,000O00, which is much the
largest on record. Twenty years ago
the value Of all crops grown In the
state, rs reported by Federal Census
Bureau, was a little short Of $1,000
900, or one-teDth OF the value OF all
crops grown this year. Ten years ago
the Federal Census Bureau found the
value OF all crops grown In the state
to be a little short of $5l 900 600, or
considerably less than 0ne-third OF the
value OF this years output.
More than million people spent
their vacation In Colorado's National
forests dnring the season May to Oct.
81, 1919, according 10 figures recently
made public by the Denver headquar-
tiers Of the United States Forest Serv-
ice. This is an increase In travel Of o.
per cent over 1916. and q per cent
over the season Of 1917. Visitors to
other national forests OF the Rocky
Mountain district totaled 100000 for
Wyoming. $500 for the Black Hills,
South Dakota: 60,5OO for Minnesota.
and $500 for the small forest areas In
Michigan and Nebraska, grand total
OF 100000 recreation seekers to the
twenty eight national forests Of the dis
tric,, an increase OF "a per cent over
1917,
Montrose citizens will play big
brother 10 sixty orphans at the Me-
Clelland home in Pueblo, according to
the plans Of A. q. Talbot OF that city,
who has agreed TO collect q broad
gauge carload Of provisions and cloth
ing for the orphans Of the home, who
are in urgent need Of assistance.
The Great Valleys Sugar Corpora.
ton. recently organized company
capitalized at S6,0OO,OOO, has selected
Lafayette as The site OF one Of the four
factories which will be built in north
ern Colorado. 1t IL planned to have
the factory completed and ready for
the 1921 production. Sixty acres Of
land lying one-half mile south OF La
fayette have been purchased for the
proposed site and mill Of sixty tons
daily capacity.
W. Il. Doyle. 80 years old, clothing
salesman OF Walsenburg. was found
hanging by Il rope In his room In that
city. Mary Strock, a housekeeper,
discovered the body and II IL believed
that he had been dead for several
hours. According to friends, he had
been pondering over the matter for
some time. He asked the postmaster
not to forward his mail. but to return
all Of 1t. as he intended going away.
In order to protect themselves during
the Christmas season from thcfts.
which lave become unusually numef-
Gus, the merchants Of Montrose organ