Gilpin observer., 1919-11-13

from December l to 10, 1919.
The drainage work for the relief
of that portion of South Delta was
begun and is making satisfactory pro-
gress.
The 100000 bond issue for q me-
mortal park for returned service men
carried by small margin in the B0ul-
der election. The issue carried by
seventeen votes. Eight hundred and
two were cast.
Walter S. Clark, one of the found
ers of Aspen, and prominent in min
ing circles for nearly half century,
died at his home there after a pro-
paralysis thirteen years ago and has
been confined to his bed since.
For the first time since the Great
Western Sugar Company established
a factory at Brighton, cattle will be
fed at the company farm. Already
several hundred head of cattle have
been placed on the farm and will be
fed the beet pulp. The pulp has al
ways been dried in the past and
shipped to other points for feeding.
The State Board of Land Commits
sioners sold at public auction in the
state house 1O,S54.O9 acres of land,
distributed over seventeen counties,
for S219O79.12. The average price
paid per acre was SPOIL. The record
price realized from the sale was 1925
an acre, paid by Mary J. Hauck of
La Junta for parcel Of land In Otero
county, containing 1857 acres.
The first stretch of government
state concrete highway to be built in
Pueblo county is completed and will
be seasoned for travel not later than
December LIST. 1t is known as the
first leg on the Santa Fe trail, is
5000 feet long. and extends from San
ta Fe avenue. to the main gateway of
the Roselawu Burial park. Cost of
one and three-fourlhs miles is approx
imately S44.0W
Records at the postoffice show that
during the first eighteen days of Oc-
tOber fifty-seNen tons of parcels post
matter was mailed through the Grand
Junction office, this exceeding all pre-
viOus records. The growth of Grand
Junction as wholesalng center Is re-
sulting in the heavy increase in par
cells post shipments Parcels post ship
mentS of fruit from the smaller cities
surrounding Grand Junction have also
been exceptionally heavy this fall.
The largest acreage ever devoted to
corn in Colorado was planted for this
Years crop and the State Co-opera-
tive Crop Reporting Service is making
IL special effort to determine just what
proportion of 1t have been harvested
for the various purposes for which
corn is used in this state. Advance
crop reports Indicate that about 66 per
cent of the crop has been harvested
for grain, the remainder being cut for
sllage or for dry forage, fed to stock
in the fields without harvesting
The Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service began on November lst, the
calculation of the total production Of
all principal crops in the various coun-
ties In Colorado and will complete the
utCeSSuiy W.
in the December number of the Crop
Bulletin. In these calculations the
acreage reports furnished by county
assessors will he used, which are very
complete for most counties in the
state, and which give much larger total
acreage for the state than have been
furnished before from any source.
nntntfnS hnwaynr N
which the acrenge reports are incom-
plete, and such counties will be given
credit for smaller production than they
have made.
The oil shale industry in Colorado
is about to come into its own, with the
erection of two S2.0OO,0O0 refining
plants in Grand valley, according to
NJ. II. Callahan OF De Beque, Colo,
pioneer In the oil shale industry In
this state, and the original locator of
the Callahan Oil Shnle Company hold.
ings in Grand valley.
If the present plans of the United
States Department of Agriculture are
carried out there will be available, be-
ginning with next year, much more
complete and detailed information re-
gardng the livestock industry in all
states than is available nt the present
time. These plans provide for fire.
quent reports showing the number of
livestock of different kinds on hand
In the various counties of each
state, the number Of animals born, the
number marketed, the number slaught.
cred and other important information
not now available. In Colorado this
new program of furnishing the public
information regarding the livestock in.
dustry will be handled largely by the
Colorado Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service, In which the United States
Bureau OF Crop Estimates and the
Colorado Immigration Department are
represented.
Three scenic routes from the East
to the Pacific will touch Montrost