The state herald., 1919-12-26
Pithy News Notes
From All Paris of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

I
Of Colorado In 1903 and state senator
from Pueblo for four years, died sud.
denly at his home In Pueblo. He was
81 years old.
All crops In Colorado during 1913
are valued at $191, ,OOO,OOO This is 1871
per cent more than the crops last year
and 1t is the most valuable ever har-
vested In the state.
All reports indicate that about 1000
new sil0s were built In Colorado this
year and that the total number In the
state Is now about 1900. The produc-
tion Of corn for silage In the state 10
increasing rapidly.
Plans have been completed for re-
funding and rehabilltatlng the Denver
Greeley valley Irrigation district,
which includes $1,000 acres south and
east Of Greeley under the Barr lake
and Milton reservoir canal system.
1t has been definitely decided that
the II. o. G.'s Association will have a
stock show ut Monte Vista, Feb. II, Y
and Is, 1920. The Live Stock Associa-
ton, the Poultry Association and the
ranchmen are supporting the under
taking.
Mrs. Henrietta Lindsey, wife Of
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver, was
one Of seven persons injured when a
Chicago 4 Northwestern railroad train
was accidentally derailed at NeQuoin.
fifteen miles north Of Milwaukee. Mrs
Lindsey's injuries were slight. Judge
Lindsey, who was with his wife on the
train. is on a speaking tour.
Approximately $780, 900. represent.
Ing payments on the last quarterly In.
stallment Of the income, wnr-profits
and excess-profits taxes for 1918, has
been from Colorado people by Internal
Revenue Collector Mark A. Skinner. A
large number of Colorado citizens had
taken advantage Of the opportunity
given them by the government to pay
the tnxes in quarterly installments
The work of gathering and preserv.
ing for the state archives the records
OF Colorado's men and women who
took part In the world war. in order
that a true and complete history Of
Colorado's participation in the conflict
may be compiled. has been started by
the State Historical and Natural His
tory Society. under the direction Of
L. g. Carpenter. Its president.
Incomplete estimates made BY the
State Cooperative Crop Reporting
hae etsA nH Ill
crops In the state this year 10 In q.
cess Of 10000 900. which 10 much the
largest on record. Twenty years ago
the value Of all crops grown In the
stats. a. reported BY Fedeal Census
| Bureau, was q little short Of $l7 600.
900, oe ons-tsnth Of the value Of all
erops grown this year. Ten years ago
the Federal Census Bureau found the
value Of all CROPS grown In the state
to be n little short Of S5l, ,000. 900. or
considerably iess than one-third Of the
value Of this years output.
More than n million people spent
their vacation In Coiorado's National
forests during the season May to Oct
81, 1919. according to figures recently
made public by the Denver headquar-
ters Of the United States Forest Serv-
Ice. This Is an increase In travel OF o.
per cent over 1915, and q per cent
over the season Of 1917. Visitors to
other national forests Of the Rocky
Mountain district totaled 100000 for
Wyoming. $4,000 for the Black Hills,
South Dakota; 0O.500 for Minnesota,
and $500 for the small forest areas In
Michigan and Nebraska. q grand total
Of l,250000 recreation seekers to the
twenty-elght national forests Of the dis
tdet, an Increase Of - per cent over
1917.
Noutrose citizens will play big
brother to sixty orphans st the Nc
Clslland home In Pueblo. according to
the plans Of A. o. Talbot OF that city.
who has agreed 10 collect q broad.
sauss carload Of provisions and cloth.
Ing for the orphans Of the home. who
are in urgent need Of assistance.
The Great Valleys Sugar Corpora.
tieu. = recently Organised company
capitalized at $4,000. 900, has selected
Lafayette as the site Of one Of the four
factories which will be built In north.
erp Colorado. II IL planned to have
the factory completed ind ready for
the 1921 production. Sixty ncres OF
land lying onc-hnif mile south Of La
fayette have been purchased for the
proposed site and . mill Of sixty tons
daily capacity.
W. 4. Doyle. 90 years old. clothing
salesman Of walsenburg. was found
hanging by q rope in his room In that
city. Mary Strock, housckecper,
discovered the body and II is believed
that no had been dead for several
hours. According to friends. he had
been pondcrins over the matter for
some time. lie nskcd the postmaster
not to forward his mall. but to return
nil Of Il, ns he intended going away.