The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-02-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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The area of patented land in Colo
RADIO is less than 10 per cent Of the TO-
tai area, most OF the remainder being
national forests, homestead land and
state land.
A committee of citizens from Fruita.
| in Mesa county, is in Denver urging
the State Legislature to pass law
creating the county OF Pabor on the
Western slope.
The value of farm. orchard and gar
den crops grown in Colorado in 1918
was approximately Sl50,UoO,Oo0. as
compared with S50,974.9Js for 1903
and Sl6,5SS for 1899
Considerable raneh property is
changing ownership in the various acc
| tions of La Plata county. During the
| past week sales aggregating more
than $4,000 have been completed, the
largest transaction being the transfer
of the II. u. Brindle 2o0-acre ranch TO
| Groves Brothers for $4,000.
steel and concrete bridge is being
| built across Black creek on the
| Kremmllng- Dillon mail route, twenty
miles south of Kremmling. It's cost,
| $1,000 Is divided between Summit
county and Flebbe Brothers, whose ir
rigation pipeline will be carried across
| the canon on the new bridge.
The grand encampment Of Odd Eel
| lows will be held in Denver Feb. II.
1t was scheduled to be held in Fort
| Collins last October, and was post
| poned on account of the Influenza
oil
Patria rchs Militant will meet the eve
ming of the opening day at 173l
| Champa. The final feature of the pro-
gram will be a grand ball.
| The mysterious disease which has
been killing many cattle around Crest,
| Colo. and which started in the west
ern part of Morgan county, where 1t
| destroyed entire herds, has been d.
| agnosed as corn stalk disease by vet
| erinarians from the State Agricultural
| College at Fort Collins, and there is
no cure for it save to keep the cattle
ont OF the corn fields.
All the Weld county sugar mills are
| assured long campaigns next season.
| because Of the immense beet tonnage
contracted for in the country, accord
| ing to Hi Tymothy, agricultural super
intendent of the Greeley factory. He
says that the Greeley factory has con
| tracted more than 1900 acres, and
| that Windsor and Eaton have con-
tracted about 10000 acres between
| them.
Death a few days ago claimed one
| of the earliest pioneers in J. $. Silva,
IA member of the First New Mexico
! company of volunteers during the
| Civil war A short time before death
Mr.. and Mrs Silva celebrated their
| golden wedding anniversary AT their
| home near Allison Their nineteen
sons and daughters with their seven
ty-four children and grandchildren
We're present.
Although X. Lee Craft, special
agent of the Department of Justice,
went TO Fowler to arrest one man on
| charge Of evading the draft. he
| brought TO Pueblo another on the same
charge. and through peculiar cir
cumstance the name of the man
| caught is the same as the man sought.
He is James NJ. George. and he is held
in the local Jail awaiting action on
the part Of government officials.
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 Is, 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-
tions were made. and in the Sterling
land district forty-one citizens made
applications.
More than 5000 men, women and
boys were placed in farm and ranch
jobs in Colorado last year through the
agricultural and livestock bureau of
the Denver Civic and Commercial AS
| sociation, according to "A report issued
by ID. w. Thomas, farm help specialist
and secretary of the bureau. This was
accomplished with the aid of $50 local
organizations throughout the state, in
cluding county agricultural agents,
farm bureaus and county councils of
defense.
Original Jurisdiction was assumed by
the Colorado Supreme Court in the
civil service wrangle arising from the
appointment of two commissions, one
by the outgoing governor, Julius G.
Gunter, and the other by Gov. Oliver
II. Shoup. The court, sitting en- banc.
authorized writ of custer to issue,
which compels the members of the
Gunter commission to make reply as
to why they should not be removed
from office. In announcing that the
writ may issue, the court let it be
known that it would consider no dis
puted facts This will limit the de-
| l,isiou n 8 tn ,rto In law constituted the