The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-11-14
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

assessors, SHOW very rapid increase
in the number of farm tractors owned
and operated by farmers themselves
in the more important agricultural
counties in the state. The reports
made by county assessors early this
year Indicated that there were approNi-
mately $500 such farm tractors in the
state on April LIST. and later reports
from dealers show that the number is
now perhaps 1000 greater than the
assessors showed.
Reports compiled by the State I'm
migration Department from the rec
ords of the State Tax Commission
show that the area of farm land re-
ported for assessment this year is 26.-
574,201 acres, compared with 25,129,-
943 acres last year Most of the in
crease is in the acreage of dry farm
ing land, which assessors now report
as 9,952, 1872 acres. There is also
slight increase in irrigated land, the
area reported this year being 2.220, 739
acres, compared with 2,144,617 acres
last year.
Only three applicants presented
themselves at the court house in
Canon City for the special federal eX-
animation preliminary to appointment
as enumerators in the government
census work in Fremont county next
year. The census will begin January
2nd and must be completed in thirty
days, as it will require about twenty
enumerators to collect the census da-
70 hnx ~,
be held to get the required number
necessary to do the work.
Reports received by the Immigra-
tion Department from all sections of
the state Indicate that the population
of Colorado is now approximately l.,
100000, an increase of about IS per
cert in the past ten years. The cen
sus bureau found the population of
the state in 1910 to be 799,024, an in
crease of As percent over that for the
preceding ten years. The increase in
the decade just ending is confined
largely to the agricultural districts and
is greatest in the non-irrigated sections
of eastern Colorado.
BY the warning cries of Polly" Mr.
and Mrs. George McQuown and the
entire family were aroused from sleef.
and saved horrible death when the
electric light building, the back par!
of which they occupied, took fire in
the middle of the night and burned to
the ground at New Raymer. The fire
started in the engine room, which is
in the front part of the building, anG
4 tI,. nxrin r.
were not disturbed by the smoke pour
ing through into their sleeping apart
ments until aroused by the screams
Of Mrs McQuown's pet parrot.
The Windsor Beet Growers AsSocia-
tion will demand $40 ton for sugal
beets for the 1920 season and one-half
of the profits the Great Western Sugar
Company may make through the opera
tion Of its Windsor plant. This would
be equivalent to $40 to $14 per ton for
beets. The price paid for beets for
1919 was $40 per ton.
Thieves entered the drug store of G.
T. Gilbert at Sterling and carried away
$1,000 worth of Christmas stock. in
Guiding fountain pens. razors and toilet
articles. The persons who committed
the robbery were familiar with the
store and knew where the keys to the
various display cases were kept.
A warning of counterfeit $50 bill
has been sent out by secret service
department, and experts are working
on the case Operatives claim the bin
tn ho ba aIfnif
discovered since the surplus 500 Mon
roe silver certificate in 1889.
A forty-acre tract one mile from
Colorado Springs, was designated rs
an aviation landing field by the Pixies
Peak Aero Club, and suitable hangers,
markings. etc, will he erected at once.
A bill providing Indemnity TO Colo.
RADIO citizens whose arms and ammuni-
tion We're seized by federal troops dur
ing the 1914 coal strike became law
with the Presidents signature.
Jesse Harris. former mayor Of Fort
Collins and one of the most noted
horsemen in the United States, died nj
FIT Collins of neuralgia of the heart. an
ailment that had kept him inactive in
public life for many years. He had
been member of the state board of
agriculture. of the penitentiary and re
formation board and was elected may
or of FIT. Collins in 1911 by the greatest
majority ever polled by candidate.
Farmers in the IToyt district will
have the best wheat crop in the history
of that section of the state, according
TO reports from the dry land farmers.
Most of the winter wheat was sprouted
before the heavy snow and this insures
heavy stand this fall. Additional
SHOWS will give the wheat moisture for
next summer and the farmers are all
iubilant
Governor Shoup has officially en-
'iorsed the ealth-educational wor
which is being carried ON by the Colo
RADIO Public Health Association and the
campaign which the organization has
aunched to raise $50 600 for its work
IN 1920 by the sale of health bonds and