Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

$127, 900 for the State Reformatory al
Buena Vista; appropriation Of $S5, ,O0O
for the state hospital at Pueblo; ap-
preparation of $4,000 for hospital
and cottages at the State Industrial
School for Girls in Golden; establish
ment of $4,000 fund for ore testing
and experimental work in conjunction
with the federal bureau of mines at
the Golden research station; apprOpri-
alton of $3OO,OOO to meet the expenses
of the Colorado National Guard during
the recent mobilization in the coal
fields; provision for monthly allow
RADIO National Guardsmen.
That The war time policy of obtain
ing officers for the United States ma
rine corps from the ranks be continued
is the recommendation made by Secre-
tary of the Navy Daniels, according to
report received ut the marine corps
recruiting office in Denver, Colo. The
secretary points to the work of officers
commissioned from the ranks during
the war, as his reason for making this
recommendation. He also recommends
that additional officers be commits
stoned for the marine corps aviation
branch, and that special aviation
grades be created for enlisted men. A
permanent marine corps of 27,467 Of
ficers and men, or. 20 per cent of the
naval strength, is also recommended as
well as the creation Of chief warrant
rank for marines.
All general appropriations for 1920
will be pared down ''in accordance
with strictest economy" except the
PostOffice and Naval Departments, the
estimates of which are less than for
the present year, Majority Leader Mon
dell of Wyoming told the House when
the first urgent deficiency bill of this
session was brought up. Greatest re-
ductiOns would be made in the army
and fortification estimates, he said, the
former request totaling S9S2, SOC, ,O2O,
and the latter SIT, 7,793, $50, an increase
of more than S1O6,OOO,OOO over the
present appropriation.
The Holbrook valley, a farming COM
munty a few miles north of La Junta,
will probably have the first community
house to be erected and dedicated to
the soldiers of the Holbrook valley
who served in the late war. A meeting
was held Mt the town of Cheraw, ut
which steps We're taken to complete the
building at an early date. The struc.
ture will contain IL gymnasium and
other modern improvements. The au-
ditorium will have seating capacity
of 800
Segregation or disposal of CONNER
cial lines not directly allied with the
meat and provision business of the five
great packing companies as agreed up
on between them and the United States
attorney general announced by the lat
ter, will involve reorganization of
huge industry with assets Of more than
81. 900, 100000. The agreement was re-
garded by the packers as marking an
epoch in industry in that for the first
time big business bows to public opin-
ion.
Building of three railroad tunnels,
under James peak, Cumbres pass and
Marshall pass, by means of state
bond issue authorized by an amend
ment of the state constitution to be
voted for by the people at the general
election next year-this Is the program
recommended by the State Railroad
Commission, appointed by the governor
by legislative authority in 1918, in it's
first report to Governor Oliver H.
ShOup.
A new coal field situated east of
of the coal strike. Prospecting has
been going on I'm the Gill district, elev-
en- miles northeast of Greeley, for
some time and development work will
probably be started by local capitalists
next summer.
Income to the state from sales
through the board of land commission
ers is increasing approximately $175.-
900 each year, report completed by
Commissioners John f. Vivian, Ray
mond Miller and w. II. Murphy shows.
The total income for the 1919 fiscal
year, ending Nov. Both last, was ST.
516961.96, as compared with $1,344-
044.41 In the 1918 fiscal year and ST.
4,294.11 in the 1917 fiscal year.
Il. II. Bauer, representing the Walsh
estate, is preparing to begin work on
the Hidden Treasure mine, at Ouray.
A small force Of men will Immediate
ly begin cleaning up the property and
getting it in readiness for extensive
work in early spring.
Plans have been completed for re-
funding and rehabllitating the Denver
Greeley valley irrigation district,
which includes $4,000 acres south and
east of Greeley under the Barr lake
and Milton reservoir canal system.
Government Investigators are now