Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1919-02-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
vsstsr. Newspaper uaion N.ws Service.

Western Nswspapsr Union Nsws Service.
The acreage Of wheat harvested in
Colorado in 1918 was 742, 1000. as COM
pared with 340.72o acres for 1909. The
increase has been largely in the acre
age devoted to winter wheat.
Denver's population il estimated at
100000 in a booklet of tax information
just published by the treasurer's d.
vision of the Department of Revenue,
under Clair J. Pitcher.
There are approximately 6S,OOo
farms in Colorado, as compared with
46, 10 in 1910, 24,70O in 1900 and 1889
in 1890. The average size of farms
has increased slightly since 1910.
The Summit County Winter Sports
Club will hold its first ski tournament
at Lake hill, near Dillon, March and
8, Immediately succeeding the winter
carnival at Steamboat Springs.
Being at the crest Of the continent,
Colorado contains the headwaters of
some of the principal rivers of the
United States, including the Colorado,
Rio Grande, Platte, Arkansas and Re-
publican.
Colorado has 41,OOO miles Of high
way and nearly 100000 automobiles,
more than two automobiles for each
mile of highway. Many states less
than half as large as Colorado have
a much greater road mileage.
Colorado Springs was selected as
headquarters and I. w. Ross, news
paper man of Colorado Springs elected
secretary Of the Pixies Peak oceanic
Ocean Highway Association at the
sixth annual meeting in ST. Joseph,
Mo.
The first concerted effort to obtain
high school building for Englewood
was taken when, at meeting the
Parents and Teachers club at Engle-
wood, a petition was drafted asking
the city school board to vote such an
Improvement.
A house fell on George Hubbard at
Montrose and so severely crushed his
left leg that amputation was neces-
sary. Hubbard was engaged in NOV
ing the structure when his team
lurched and the house slid from its
trucks and pinned him beneath.
A fire, far-reaching and destructive
in its result, occurred in Buckingham
when the village light plant, the home
of ]. II. Johnson, manager OF the
Buckingham elevator, and the Buck
ingham garage, were all destroyed.
The garage contained seven automO-
biles at the time of the fire, three Of
them high priced cars.
The greatest event of the year in
school circles, the meeting of the
Western Slope Athletic and Rhetori-
cal Association, will be held in Mont
rose Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
May %, "a and 25, this year, with
eleven schools taking part, as follows:
Grand Junction, Montrose, Deltar
Ouray, Gunnison, Olathe, Hotchkiss,
Nucla, Paonia, Ridgway and Telluride.
Dave Shogrin, proprietor of a Mont
rose restaurant, is under arrest at Sa-
Ida, his romance of few hours ended
by angry creditors in Montrose. He
Is alleged to have done a brisk busi-
ness in meal tickets at half price and
in checks for which the bank had no
money and then closed up shop, de-
parting with his head waitress, leaving
unpaid bills for several thousand dol
lars.
Fifty thousand dollars damage was
done when fire started ut the rear of
the New York store, owned by Rach-
ofsky' & Son, pioneer Colorado mer-
chants of Loveland. The blaze was
discovered by members of the Elks
lodge, which occupies the second floor
of the building, and Is believed to have
started from an ash pit or furnace.
The damage to the stock is estimated
at $4,000 and to the building $1,000.
Death has claimed Victor Sanity,
well-known mining and mill man with
an internationaltrep reputation. He was
a resident Of Durango.
The secretary of the interior has
designated SO,3S2 acres of land as
stock grazing homesteads, Colorado
list No. IL, within Pueblo and Sterling
land districts, to become effective
Feb. 10, 1919. OF this great acreage,
all of 1t has practically been applied
for by citizens of this state. Within
the Pueblo district forty applica-
lions were made, and In the Sterling
land district forty-one citizens made
applications. a
Upon receipt Of information that the
Spanish trail had been accepted and
designated as the westward contnu-
Dtion of the National Old trails, an in
vItation was extended for the associ-
alton to hold Its annual convention
in Durango during the summer, and
while the designation OF the conven-
lion town likely will not be made I'M
I'll the April meeting OF the National
Old Trails Association, It has been in
timated from high official sources
that nura N Un In aaaurad NJ tho mid.