Cheyenne record., 1919-11-20

The State Board of Capitol Man.
ayers have awarded the contract for
building the states new $5O0,OOO 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.
S15OOO0 of the $S,OOO,OOO to be raised
in the United States in December to
according to statements made at the
opening dinner of the local campaign
committee in Denver.
The average yield Of potatoes in
Colorado this year is 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 unfavOrablc weather condi-
tiOns.
Construction of u 5,OOO-ton coal
storage reservoir at Greeley To safe
guard the city against coal famine
and exOrbitant prices, is urged by Jo-
seph c. Ewing attorney and real es-
tate operator, and his plan is APP
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
reports no acreage devoted to hay in
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 S2,OOO,OOO, according to fig
ures available for the first time this
year. The value OF the apple crop is
estimated ut S980,OOO; peaches,
SSOO,OOO: pears, 100000, and other
fruits, Sl4O,OOO.
The total assessed valuation of
property in Colorado, as returned by
the state tax commission, is $1,495,-
2OO,659, an increase OF about xIO,OOO,-
900 over that for last year. Final re-
ports from county treasurers are eX.
pected to increase this to approxi-
mately S1,5OO,OOO,OOO
A 6-cent fare has gone into effect on
all local street car lines Of the Trint-
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 founl partly concealed in hay
stack on the farm of c. N. Johnson,
two miles northwest of Atwood, by Mr..
| johnson, when he went TO the stack to
repair a fence. The body of the un-
known Mexican with bruises about the
head and face indicated that his death
had been a violent one.
Residents and the town govern
ment of HaXtun, Phillips county, filed
before the State Public Utilities Com
mission II petition which asks that
the Burlington railroad he ordered to
erect Il new railroad station at IIaS
t,n. Growth of the town and the in
crease of business at the station make
Il new depot Imperative, the petition
declared.
Final estimates by the State Coop
erative Crop Reporting Service Oh the
total production of potatoes in Colo
RADIO this year apparently will show II
considerable increase in the output
over the 5000. 600 bushels Indicated by
the October estimate Though it is YET
too early to give definite figures 1t now
appears that the production will be
above 1O.OOO,OOO bushels and perhaps
as high rs 11,OOO,OOO bushels.
Every Colorado doughboy who has
been cover there" knows it as the lib
double cross. To the knights Templar
1t is IL mark of their readiness to fight
for the good and the true. And that is
the reason why the dOuble-barred Red
Cross has been adopted as the emblem
Of the Colorado Public Health AsSocia
tiOn which is fighting for Il 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 Stat
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service.
show that Logan county leads all other
counties in the state in the production
of this crop, with Il total output of
close TO 2.0OO,0OO bushels. Only three
other counties. Washington, Weld and
Yuma, have produced more than 1000.
900 bushels of winter wheat this year
and ten counties in the state, Chaffee,
Clear Creek, Denver. Gilpin, IIinSdalc
Lake, Mineral, Rio Granle, San Juan
and Teller, report no production of this
crop. The total production is approx
mately 1l,OOO,OOO bushels, the largest
on record.
''As Governor of Colorado, I desire
to heartily approve of the work which
has been carried on by your Organiza-
ton for several years." states the