Gilpin observer., 1919-11-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.
COMING EVENTS.

COMING EVENTS.
The Red Cross Christmas Seal sale will
take place all over the United States
from December to 10. 1919.
The State Board of Capitol Man.
ayers have awarded the contract for
building the states new $4,000 Of
flee building at Colfax avenue and
Sherman street, Denver. The bid was
$457 900, the lowest of four received.
The nation expects from Colorado
S150,0O0 of the $S,OO0,0OO to be raised
In the United States In December to
combat tuberculosis in this country,
according to statements made at the
opening dinner of the local campaign
committee in Denver.
The average yield Of potatoes in
Colorado this year 10 apparently
about 40 bushels per acre. This Is
considerably below the normal aver
age, the low yields in some of the
principal producing districts being
due to unfavorable weather condi-
tiOns.
Construction of a 5,OOO-ton coal
storage reservoir at Greeley to safe
guard the city against coal famine
and exorbitant prices, is urged by Jo-
seph G. Ewing, attorney and real es-
tate operator, and his plan is ap-
proved by several of the largest fuel
dealers.
Alfalfa and other hays are more
widely distributed in Colorado than
any other crop, there being only one
county in the state, San Juan, which
tn N
1919. Wheat ranks second. there be-
ing but three counties reporting no
wheat.
The estimated value of the fruit
crops of the Grand valley for this year
alone is $2,OO0,OO0, according to fig
ures available for the first time this
year. The value of the apple crop is
estimated at 100000; peaches
SSOO,OOO; pears, 100000, and other
fruits, $4,000.
The total assessed valuation of
property in Colorado, as returned by
the state tax commission, is 81, 1885,
2OO,659, an increase Of about $7O,OOO,-
600 over that for last year. Final re-
ports from county treasurers are ex-
pected to increase this to approx
mately S1,5OO, O,0OO,OO0.
A 6-cent fare has gone into effect on
all local street car lines of the Trini-
dad Electric Transmission Railway
and Gas Company. Application for in
creased fare was granted by the Colo
RADIO public utilities commission. No
increased fare is effective ON the in
terurban coal camp lines.
The body Of an unknown Mexican
was foun.l partly concealed in hay
stack on the farm of G. N. johnson,
two miles northwest Of Atwood, by Mr..
Johnson, when he went to the stack to
repair fence. The body of the un-
known Mexican with bruises about the
head and face indicated that his death
had been violent one
Residents and the town govern
ment of HaXtun, Phillips county, filed
before the State Public Utilities Com
mission petition which asks that
the Burlington railroad be ordered to
erect a new railroad station at HaX-
tun. Growth of the town and the in
crease of business at the station make
new depot imperative, the petition
declared.
Final estimates by the State Coop
erative Crop Reporting Service on the
total production of potatoes in Colo
RADIO this year apparently will show
considerable increase in the output
over the S,O96.0 900 bushels indicated by
the October estimate. Though it is yet
too early to give definite figures it now
appears that the production will be
above 100000 bushels and perhaps
as high as II zoo, 600 bushels.
Every Colorado doughboy who has
been "over there" knows ii as the LIB
erty Cross" The kaiser calls 1t the
double cross To the Knights Templar
1t is n mark of their readiness to fight
for the good and the true And that is
the reason why the doube-barred Red
Cross has been adopted as the emblem
of the Colorado Public Health Associa-
tiOn which is fighting for hundred
per cent health record in this state.
Preliminary figures on the produc-
ton of winter wheat in Colorado this
year, now being compiled by the State
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service,
show that Logan county leads all other
counties in the state In the production
of this crop, with II total output of
close to 100000 bushels. Only three
other counties, Washington, Weld and
Yuma, have produced more than 1,QOO,-
900 bushels of winter wheat this year
and ten counties in the state, Chaffee,
Clear Creek, Denver, Gilpin, Hinsdale,
Lake, Mineral; Rio Grande, San Juan
and Teller, report no production of this
crop. The total production Is approx
mately II 100000 bushels, the largest
on record