The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-02-20
Pithy News Notes
Fso,, An Pans Of
Colorado

RADIO is less than 40 per cent OF the To-
tai area, most of the reminder being
national forests, homestead land ana
state land.
Denver's population is estimated at
$50, 600 in booklet of tax Information
just published by the treasurer's d.
vision of the Department of Revenue,
under Clair ]. Pitcher.
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 rs Colorado have
= much greater rOad mileage.
The first concerted effort to obtain
"A high school building for Englewood
was taken when, ut meeting the
Parents and Teachers club Mt Engle-
wood, n petition was drafted asking
the city school board to vote such an
improvement.
The mysterious disease which has
been killing many cattle around Crest,
Colo, and which started In the west
crn part of Morgan county, where 1t
destroyed entire herds, has been d.
ngnosed 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
out of the corn fields.
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 23, "a and 81, this year, with
eleven schools taking part, as follows;
Grand Junction, MOntrose. Delta,
Ouray, Gunnison, Olathe, HOtchkiss,
Nucla, PaOnia, Ridgway and Telluride.
Death a few days ago claimed one
OF the earliest pioneers In J. $. Silva,
u 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 weddingNnniversary Mt their
home near Allison. Their nineteen
sons and daughters with their seven
iy-fOur children and grandchildren
were present.
The secretary of the interior has
designated SO,332 acres of land as
stock grnzing homesteads, Colorado
list No. IL, within Pueblo and Sterling
land districts, to become effective
Feb. 1S, 1910. 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
Jobs In Colorado last year through the
agricultural and livestock bureau of
the Denver Civic and Commercial As
sociation, according to IA report issued
by ID. w. Thomas, farm help specialist
and secretary OF the bureau. This was
accomplished with the aid of 100 local
organizations throughout the state, in
Guiding county agricultural agents,
farm bureaus and county councils of
defense.
Upon receipt of information that the
Spanish trail had been accepted and
designated as the westward. cOntinu-
ntion of the National Old tvnils, an in
vitatiOn was extended for the associ-
ation to hold Its annual convention
in Durango during the summer, and
while the designation Of the conven-
tion town likely will not be made un-
Ill the April meeting Of the National
Old Trails Association. 1t has been in
tlmated from high official sources
that Durango liz assured of the mid
summer meeting. in which case 1t Will
he the first national convention ever
held In that part of the state.
A fire, far-renching and destructive
in It's result. occurred In buckingham
when the village light plant, the home
of J. II. johnson, manager of the
buckingham elevator, and the Buck
ingham garage, were all destroyed.
The garage contained seven autono-
biles at the time of the fire, three of
them high priced cars
Ths grand encnmpment OF Odd Fel-
lows will be held in Denver Feb. II.
1t was scheduled to be held in Fort
Collins last October, and wns post
poned on account of the Influenza
epidemic. The military council of
Patriarchs Militant will meet the eve
Mug of the opening day mt 1851
Champa. The final feature of the pro-
gram will be grand ball.
Fifty thousand dollars damage was
done when fire started at the rear of
the New York store, owned by Rach-
Ofsky 4 Son, pioneer Colorado mer-
chants Of I.oveland. 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