The Colorado statesman., 1919-10-04

Miss Flora Brown, 80 years old, who
weighed 525 pounds, is dead in Denver
of heart trouble.
Business men of Nederland, a tung-
stem mining town twenty miles west of
Boulder, have organized commercial
association.
The total value of all property in
Colorado for taxation is Sl,4S7 ,93l ,19i,
according to complete reports from all
counties in the state of the Colorado
Tax Commission.
The budget for the city of Boulder
for next year, as submitted to the City
Council by Manager Salter, calls for
expenditures in the amount of $120, go,
which is the estimated total of re-
ceipts.
| Excellent crops are reported in the
Arkansas valley by the secretary of the
dairy division of the Civic and Com
mercial Association, who has returned
| from trip through Rocky Ford, La
Junta and Ordway.
| Stock raising is, next to mining
Colorado's oldest industry. The cen
sus bureau found the value of all do
nestle animals sold and slaughtered
last year close to S125,000,000 or 400
per cent better than in 1909.
s. f. Carver, Elkton, Colo, 80 years
| old, pioneer miner, was killed at the
Cresson mine, near Cripple Creek,
when two tons of loose rock fell on
him in slope between the seventh
and eighth levels of the mine.
The town of Ault, Colo, has applied
to the State Utilities Commission for
certificate of convenience and neces-
sity authorizing it to proceed with the
construction and operation of NUM-
| cipal light and power plant.
Franklin Pierce Parker, 67 years old
| and the father of nine children, who
has been farming dry land near Stone
| ham for several years, became discour-
aged because of crop failures and COM
mitted suicide by taking poison.
| Tony Marmone of Mt. Harris mar
rowly escaped death at Oak Creek
when he backed out of the Newberry
| garage into Oak creek. He was caught
underneath the automobile and held
| there several minutes before he was re-
| leased.
The Rabbit Ear Pass highway, a
twenty-five mile strip sixteen feet wide
extending from Steamboat Springs to
| connection with the highway to- Den
yer, has been completed after five
years of work, according to an an
nouncement made at the United States
bureau in Denver.
Through an agreement between the
| State Highway Commission and tie
| commissioners of Larimer county S36.-
| 600 will be spent in improving the
Loveland canon road between Love
land and Estes Park. 1t is expected to
have the work completed before travel
to the hills starts next year.
Clinton w. Dexter, %, n sugar fac
| tory employe, is dead from injuries
suffered when he was struck by an au-
tomobile at LongmOnt. Dexter made Il
leap for passing truck in order to get
Il ride home, when he missed the vehi-
Gle and stepped in front of an automo-
bile coming in an opposite direction.
The strike of the steel workers at
Pueblo has resulted in the closing of
the canister quarries at Canon City
and the throwing out of work of a con
siderable number of men who are em-
ployed there. Canister is used as a fluX
| i'm the making of steel and large quanti-
ties were furnished by the quarries
tere to the Minnequa plant.
Half of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company's coal mines in Trinidad dis
/ t,.;nt al total nj
500 men are out of work as result.
Sixty-siX school teachers of Fort Col
| Inns will receive bonus of $50 each
on their years work, as result of ac-
ton taken by the school board on
petition asking for increases of % per
cent.
Threshing machines are busy in ev-
] cry section of Routt county and the
yield of grain is far above expectation.
Notwithstanding the dryest season
| known for many years, Routt county
maNitains its position as section that
las never known crop failure. In
quantity the yield is satisfactory. in
some cases phenomenal
The manufacturing industry in. Colo
RADIO had developed rather rapidly in
the past twenty years. During that
Period the number of manufacturing
establishments has nearly doubled the
| capital invested has increased about
225 per cent, the number of persons en-
| gagged has more than doubled, and the
| value of manufactured goods produced
annually has increased approximately
| ITO per cent.
Lora Doak, 16-year-old son of Mrs.
| Chalon Moon, twenty-five miles south
east of Hugo, accidentally shot himself
| while out hunting The gun was dis