Gilpin observer., 1919-08-14
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

10 IlkuTeS COillplleu Dy tne Stute L uDiiS
Utilities Commission on the basis of
acquisitions received. The Palisade
peach crop will require more cars for
shipment than ever before, $50 cars
being asked. Fifteen hundred cars for
apples will also be used in that district.
The San Luis district has asked for A.
200 cars to handle its potato and vege-
table crops alone OF the total cars
needed in the state from July to De-
cember, inclusive, 1900 will be used in
transporting peaches, 5000 for apples,
1895 for potatoes and vegetables, 42O
for pears and mixed fruit shipments.
Suspension of assessment work dur
Ing 1919 on unpatented mining claims
has been granted by Congress, the
Senate adopting the House resolution,
which now goes to the President for
signature. There are 5000 inpatient
ed ore claims in Colorado which will
be benefited by the resolution, II
signed by the President. This means
relief from assessment work amount
ing to $50O,O0O, and will stimulate pro-
duction, according to M. B. Tomblin,
secretary of the Colorado Metal Mill
Ing Association.
The 1919 issue Of the Colorado Year
Book Is now in tho hands of the print
.ers and will be issued early in August.
An effort was made to have the book
ready for publication about July LIST,
but the difficulties encountered by
county assessors in some counties In
completing their work Of collecting ag-
| ricultural statistics delayed the work
materially. The volume will contain
for the first time set Of tables show
ing by counties the acreage of all the
principal crops planted for the har-
vest of the current year.
| Alfalfa, the great hay and feed crop
Of the irrigated districts Of the West,
is being rapidly developed as a dry
farming crop in Weld county. In the
Grover district, fifty miles northeast of
Greeley, farmers are putting up their
second crop Of alfalfa. The crop Is
planted in rows and is cultivated until
1t has gotten a good start. The Gro
yer Community Club is urging every
new settler to put in from twenty to
forty acres of alfalfa for hog posture
and for hay.
A total Of 6,651.S5 acres of public
land, located in Alamosa, Baca, Elbert,
Ell Paso, Kit Carson, Lincoln, LO-
gan, Moffat, Montezuma, Pueblo
and Weld counties were sold by the
State Land Board at public auction in
the state representatives hall in the
state capitol building. The average
amount received for each acre of land
was $3.50, or an aggregate amount of
sos, ,421.49. The sale reserves mineral,
coal, asphaltum and oil rights on the
land.
DIR. ]. Walter Fswkes of the Smith
sonian Institute, Washington, D. c., is
at the Mesa Verde national park,
where he will spend the next six weeks
to two months in excavating new ruins.
He expects to make many new discov-
cries in these ruins, leading perhaps,
to more definite information concern
ing the prehistoric dwellers of the most
magnificent ruins on the American con-
tinent.
AS a result Of the survey of busl
ness and professional openings in the
various smaller cities and towns of
the state, conducted early this year by
the State immigration Department,
very considerable number Of business
and professional people from other
and have added materially to the
wealth Of the smaller communities.
About 10000 acres of land will be
included in the new irrigation project
now being promoted in Huerfano coun-
ty. This land was isolated under the
Carey act years ago, but has never
been opened. Messrs. Lowrey and VIII
liams, president and secretary of the
new company, respectively, have
opened offices in Walsenburg and are
preparing to push the project
Pueblo's police department is union
lied, receiving charter from the
American Federation of Labor, and ap-
pointing representatives in the city's
trades and labor assembly. 1--WE are
not contemplating strike" said the
president Of the new organization, "but
Pueblo's policemen are underpaid and
unless we are given a substantial in
crease by charter we will be forced to
ask the aid Of organized labor"
Morgan county will shortly have a
full-fledged country club near Fort
Morgan under articles Of Incorporation
filed with the secretary Of state by the
Morgan County Country Club. Organ
izers, who are also part Of the four
teen directors for the first term are
Charles r. Conlee, Ace Gillett, L. v.
Rothrock, g. Q. Wyatt, Walter 8. CO.
en-, Ira @. Brown, Leigh Sanford and
r. B. Spencer.
Any homesteader who has failed to
produce a crop and wishes to be ex-