Gilpin observer., 1919-10-02
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

which are being paid by the bureau
Of war risk insurance to beneficiaries
named at the time application was
made by soldiers sailors and marines,
now dead. Disabled soldiers, as well
as widows and children and dependent
parents of those who have died are be-
ing made comfortable by the govern
ment, which is paying 1853 compensa-
tion claims to residents of this state"
This is the gist of report which has
been sent out from the Treasury De-
partment concerning the work which
the war risk insurance bureau is do
ing in Colorado. Other statements in
cluded in the report are that in atldi-
tion to the compensation claims which
are already being paid, 651 cases for
claims are under investigation by bu-
| reau representatives.
| President ]. +. WelbOrn, OF the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company at
Pueblo, has ordered the company
mines at Sunrise, Wyo., where the
bulk of the raw material used at the
local plants is mined, shut down for
an indefinite period. Five coal mines,
employing approximately 500 men in
the southern field, have also been or
dered closed. These mines have sup
piled the local plants with fuel. There
Is no intention on the part of the com
pany of closing it's commercial mines
at this time
All previous records for visitors
wer broken in the Rocky Mountain
National Park during the past season,
according to report just issued by
Stephen 7. Mather, director of the ma
tional park service. According 20 sta
tistics taken at the park, 161 900 have
teen visitors during the past summer,
while last year only 101,OO visitor,
were recorded. Last year 2O,5SS motor
cars passed through the park, while
during the past season this number has
been nearly doubled with a total of
40,S71.
Decrease in the amount OF land
available for homesteading in Colo
RADIO has reduced the number of appli-
cations this year by One-third, as corn
pared with 1915 records, according 10
State immigration Commissioner Ed
this fall as three years ago. There IL
still total of 9,5OO,OOO acres open 10
entry, records of the department show,
but this total is 100000 acres less than
that available year ago and 5,OOO.C9O
acres less than on July 1, 1916.
Painters at Trinidad, who were pre-
pared to 20 on strike for higher wages,
nrn nt .,I- ~,
compromise reached at a meeting of
employers and iOurneymen and Arl
Fincher, investigator for the state in
dustrial commission. The painters
formerly received rs cents an hour
They agreed to return to work at S7h
cents an hour until Jan. l. after which
their wages will be 90 cents.
G. +. Burke of Pueblo was elected
secretary-treasurer of the Colorado
Duroc Jersey Hog Association at Il
meeting held in Pueblo. Professor
Morton of the Colorado State Agricul-
tural College, Fort Collins, was elected
president. j. w. Brewer of Colorado
Springs was chosen vice president. The
association members plan on taking II
large number of head of fancy Duroc
Jerseys. possibly thirty, to the Denver
stock show this winter.
The shipping season for pinto beans
is just opening in this state, and Colo
RADIO is facing a very serious situation
in this industry. Bigger marketing
problems are confronting the pinto
Lean producers than last year. because
there vii! he no big government ,orders
to be filled, such as there was during
the season of 19ls-1919, the biggest
bean year in the history of the state
A total of 307 applicants have been
granted for total allowance of $685.
512 under the new state benefit of the
blind law since the beginning of its
operation this year. the State Board
has announced
Two leprosy cases in Colorado have
been reported to the State Board of
Health within six weeks, 1t was report
ed mt the boards regular meeting at
the state house. Both patients are
Mexicans. One Is confined outside the
city limits of Pueblo and has been
turned over to the federal immigration
bureau. The other, who has been TAX
en- in charge by the federal public
health service, is confined in Otero
county.
a searching investigation of health
conditions at the state reformatory at
Buena Vista will be instituted by the
State Board of Health as an outcome
of disclosures made at a meeting of
the board by DIR. s. II. McKelvey, for
merly member of the board. who in
dignantly declared the bedding in use
In the cells Is 80 filthy 1t is not fit for
n dog to sleep upon"
Two Arkansas valley counties,
Crowley and Otero. produce 90 per
cent of the cnntaoupes grown in Colo
rndO. and this state rnnkS among Ile