The Ordway new era., 1919-06-13
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

portance. The sports committee has
been especially active, and already
many of the best riders of northwest
crn Colorado are lined up for attend
ance. 1t is planned to make the rough
riding feature of greater interest than
ever before. Some of the recent con-
tests have been rather tame, but
George Long, on a trip to the lower
country interested some of the, best
riders in the contest. They are anx-
ious to try conclusions with the crack
riders of the Art-O-Graf Film Com
pany, who will be there.
Fifty students, all of them newly ar
rived soldiers from France, have been
enrolled by the Denver branch of the
federal board for vocational training
to attend the classes at the Opportun-
ity school. These are the advance
guard of about $50 students who will
be enrolled at the Opportunity by the
federal board this summer. Many sub
jects will be taught to these men,
among them automobile repairing in
all its phases. sheet metal work, Hng-
lish show card writing, commercial
branches, salesmanship drafting. al
zebra and other branches of mathe-
matics.
The final statistics on May travel
to Colorado will equal that of Junes in
the past, said Frank A. Wadleigh, pas
senger traffic manager of the Denver
K Rio Grande. 1.-THE May travel has
kept pace with the June travel and l
sholl not be surprised if the final re-
turns show that May was ahead of the
usual June" said Mr. Wadleigh. "As
a rule, May travel is light to Colorado,
the summer tourist rates becoming eff
fective June 1, and June being the
month when people start for their
summer vacations"
Colorado crop planting, which is
completed, indicates the acreage under
cultivation this year will be the larg-
est in the history of the state, accord
ing to reports compiled for the Coop
erative Crop Reporting service by
county assessors. In addition to the
large increases for wheat and sugar
beets previously reported, there is said
to be large increase in the acreage
devoted to corn. Completed reports
beans this year viii not exceed that
planted in 1918 by more than 20 per
cent.
The gold ore production in the Grip
pie Creek district in May amounted
to 55,376 tons, carrying gross bull
lion value of $691, ,S61.45, which is an
increase over April of 100000. The
general average of all ore produced
was $1O.5S. Nine hundred and ninety
tons were shipped to the smelters,
which returned $50 per ton. The divi-
dends paid during the month by the
Cresson and the Golden Cycle Com
panies amounted to S1G7 900.
Denver at its tractor show June 8
to - is going to-bel given praS,ical
demonstration OF the meaning of
treat 'em rough - The boys who did
it and the things they did it with will
be there. They came from the govern
ment arsenal at Rock Island, Ill, and
the Aberdeen proving grounds in Mary
land, and every part that the tank and
the tractor played in the war in France
will be demonstrated in Denver.
The 1919 year book of the state i'm
migration department will show that
the total assets of all banks in Colo
RADIO at the beginning of 1919 were
$305, 49,, ,264.4 .46, compared with $3.50
SS5,059.52 at the beginning of 1918.
There were in the state at the begin
ming of the year 126 national banks
and 240 state banks and trust com
panies, or total of 1886 banks for the
state.
Unnaturalized foreign-born residents
of Colorado have but short time in
which to hunt X. Il. Parvin, state fish
and game commissioner, has given no.
tice that the department was prepar-
ing to enforce the law as passed at the
last session of the Legislature prohib-
iting aliens from hunting or even car
rying firearms after June 10.
Efforts of Charlie Gardner of San
Diego, blind newsie, to save the life
OF John ID. Kennedy, rancher, from
Gunnison, Colo. has been repaid by Il
81 1000 legacy. Hearing that Kennedy,
casual acquaintance, was dying
Gardner went to his physician and in
sisted that he be allowed to submit
to blood transmission. Gardner lost
n quart of blood in the operation, but
Kennedy died. He left his entire es-
tate, valued at $4,000, to Gardner.
Charles III. Wright, %, linemon EN-
ployed by the Western Union Tele-
crap Company, was electrocuted and
burned almost to crisp at Colorado
Springs when his body accisleEtally
came in contact with high power line
while at work. 1t was necessary to
shut off the entire electric system of
the city and summon the fire depart
ment before the body could be re-
moved from the pole.