Cheyenne record., 1919-02-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
v.stss. N.wsp.p.r u.ion New, Service.

Western Nswspapsr UAion Nsws Service.
The acreage of wheat harvested In
Colorado in 1918 was $4,000, as COM
pared with $40, ,729 acres for 1909. The
increase has been largely in the acre-
age devoted to winter wheat. H
Denver's population il estimated at
2S0,OOO in booklet of tax information
just published by the treasurer's d.
vision of the Department Of Revenue,
under Clair J. Pitcher.
There are approximately $4,000
farms in Colorado, as compared with
6,17O in 1910, 24,7OO in 1900 and 1889
in 1890. The average size of farms
has increased slightly since 1910.
The Summit County Winter Sports
Club will hold its first ski tournament
at Lake hill, near Dillon, March and
8, Immediately succeeding the winter
carnival at Steamboat Springs.
Being at the crest of the continent,
Colorado contains the headwaters OF
some of the principal rivers of the
United States, including the Colorado,
Rio Grande, Platte, Arkansas and Re
publican.
Colorado has 1900 miles Of high
way and nearly 100000 automobiles,
more than two automobiles for each
mile of highway. Many states less
than half as large as Colorado have
a much greater road mileage.
Colorado Springs was selected as
headquarters and I. w. Ross, news
r1lD do, n olQrfnd
secretary of the Pixies Peak Ocean-to-
Ocean Highway Association sat the
sixth annual meeting in St Joseph,
Mo.
The first concerted effort to obtain
high school building for Englewood
was taken when, at a meeting the
Parents and Teachers club at Engle-
wood, a petition was drafted asking
the city school board to vote such an
improvement. -ri
A house fell on George Hubbard at
Montrose and so severely crushed his
left leg that amputation was neces-
sary. Hubbard was engaged in mov-
ing the structure when his team
lurched and the house slid from its
tTuckS anu pllueu llilh pShShIh.
A fire, far-reaching and destructive
in its result, occurred in buckingham
when the village light plant, the home
of ]. H. Johnson, manager OF the
Buckingham elevator, and the Buck
ingham garage, were all destroyed.
The garage contained seven ,autOmo-
biles at the time of the fire, three OF
them high priced cars.
The greatest event Of the year in
school circles, the meeting of the
Western Slope Athletic and Rhetori-
cal Association, will be held in Mont
rose Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
May %, "a and %, this year, with
eleven schools taking part, as follows: ::
Grand Junction, Montrose. Delta,
Ouray, Gunnison, Olathe, Hotchkiss,
Nucla, PaOnia, Ridgway ana Telluride.
Dave Shogrin, proprietor of a Mont
rose restaurant, is under arrest at Sa-
Ida, his romance. of a few hours ended
by angry creditors in MOntrose. He
is alleged to have done Il brisk bust
ness in meal tickets at half prize and
in checks for which the bank had no
money anu lllVll NloSCu w ShoRS Wv
parting with his head waitress, leaving
unpaid bills for several thousand dol
lars.
Fifty thousand dollars damage was
done when fire started at the rear of
the New York store, owned by Rach-
ofsky & Son. pioneer Colorado mer-
chants of LOveland. The blaze was
hy nf tha ELL
lodge, which occupies the second floor
of the building, and is believed to have
started from an ash pit or furnace.
The damage to the stock is estimated
at $4,000 and to the building S5,OO0.'
Death has claimed Victor Sanity, a
well-known mining and mill man with
an atiOnalkreputation. He was
a resident of Durango.
The secretary of the interior has
designated sO,332 acres Of land as
stock grazing homesteads, Colorado
list No. II, within Pueblo and Sterling
land districts, to become effective
Feb. 1S, 1919. OF this great acreage,
all of it has practically been applied
for by citizens of this state. Within
the Pueblo district fOrty-nine applica-
tons were made, and in the Sterling
land district forty-One citizens made
applications.
Upon receipt of information that the
Spanish trail had been accepted and
designated as the westward continu-
ntion of the National Old trails. an in
vitatiOn was extended for the associ-
alton to hold its annual convention
in Durango during the summer, and
while the designation Of the cOnven-
ton town likely will not be made un-
til the April meeting Of the National
Old Trails Association, 1t has been in
timated from high official sources
.h.t n,rop1o ia osaurod NJ the mid.