Gilpin observer., 1919-12-18
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

livestock shipping and livestock mar
keting in general will be emphasized at
| the short course to be held in Denver
on Saturday, Dec. 20, the day follow
ing the closing of the Annal Farmers
Congress at Fort Collins. A number of
these short courses have been conduct
ed in other states with marked success
The plan originated with the move
ment for National Federation OF Co
operative Livestock Shippers, an organ
iZatiOn of national Importance which
haSe recently been completed at a
meeting in Chicago called in the inter
ests of cooperative livestock shippers.
The purpose of these courses is to pro-
vide managers, officers and members
of Cooperative Livestock Shipping AS
sociations, County Agents and others
interested with the opportunity of be-
coming thoroughly familiar with all the
important phases of cooperative live
stock shipping, as well as livestock
marketing in general. Such topics as
Proper Methods of Loading and Mark
ing Cooperative Shipments and the
Grading of Cattle, Sheep and Hogs on
the Market, will form the basis for Il
practical discussion, while the tech
meal phases of cooperative livestock
shipping will be covered by demonstra-
tions and lectures on the use of Ac
counting System Forms for Livestock
Shipping Associations and by an eN-
planation of the Methods Used by Live
stock Commission Firms in Handling
tIn A ts nf tt,.., sI,i,
mentS. A number of Colorado's Live
stock Shipping Associations will have
carload shipments of livestock on the
market for that day
American boys who fought in the
great European war are keenly inter-
ested in the national campaign which
has been undertaken to eradicate tu-
berculoss. Official support of the
Christmas seal campaign by which
funds are being raised by the National
tuberculosis Association and its state
branches for the fight against the
white plague is announced by the
American Legion which adopted reso-
lutions to that effect at the national
convention held in Minneapolis. Army
men realize the need of this work from
the fact that draft statistics show that
enough men to comprise nearly three
divisions were rejected as unfit for
military duty. The local work is be-
ing carried on by the Colorado Public
Health Association.
More than a million people spent
their vacation in ColOradO's National
forests during the season May to Oct
81, 1919, according to figures recently
made public by the Denver headquar-
ters of the United States Forest Serv
ice. This is an increase in travel of 66
per cent over 1916, and ~ per cent
over the season of 1917. Visitors to
other national forests of the Rocky
Mountain district tOtaled 100000 for
Wyoming, $500 for the Black Hills,
South Dakota; 6O,50O for Minnesota.
and $500 for the small forest areas in
Michigan and Nebraska, a grand total
Of 1,25O,OO0 recreation seekers to the
twenty-eight national forests of the dis
trict. an increase of "a per cent over
1917, the last year in which tally of
recreation visitors was made by the
forest service.
A verdict Of acquittal was rendered
at Pueblo in the case of Mrs. Elizabeth
Haskell, charged with the murder of
Charles Goldstrap, 11-year-old suitor
of her daughter, on Dec. IS, 1918. The
jury was out twenty-three hours and
fifty minutes. The defense claimed
that young Goldstrap was shot while
he was pounding upon Il back door
of the Haskett home late at night. Mrs
Haskett firing to frighten the intruder.
DIR. Frank Wilbur Chuce has been
appointed head of the chair of music
In the University of Colorado to sue
ceed Prof. George NJ Chadwick, who
recently resigned his position in the
school. Professor Chadwick has been
connected with the university for the
last ten years, and is recognized rs
one of the foremost pipe organsts in
the country.
Both the first and second prizes of
fered by n Denver taxidermist for me
biggest and best set of antlers Sc
cured during the last hunting season
were won by Routt county huntsmen.
First prize went to Harry Il. Bird of
Yampa for n spread of horns measur-
ing forty-three inches, with six perfect
beams on each side. A. l.. Pierce of
Hayden took second prize for antlers
with spread of thirty-three inches
and seventeen points.
The value of all livestock on the
farms in Colorado In 1919, as estimat-
ed by the Bureau of Crop Estimates
of the United States Department of
Agriculture, was S172.75l,0O0. Asses
sors' reports show increases this year
in practically all classes of livestock,
so that indications are that the Stute
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service