The Elbert County tribune., 1920-01-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
IN Nerapaper Union Sera service


cruig viii have modern creamery
manufacturing butter and ice cream II
sufficient cream can be secured Ia
make the proposition a success-
Nels johnson, G2. first FIRE chief in
c,,iarndc Springs and organizer OF the
FIRST volunteer company, is dead. lie
had been resident Of Colorado
Springs for forty years.
l:e.ef growers Of the Longrnonf lis
trsct win get nm extra $4,000 from
ire puyment of 81 additional a ton ..
tccts by the Great Western Sugar
c",npsny. according TO an announce
ncnt made 10y y. II. McCreery of the
Lonsnont factory
Mrs Nevada J. Haywood. 80 years
Old and wife of William ID. Haywood.
general secretary OF the l. w w. who
WAS recently released from Leaven-
worth prison. died in Denver at a san
iiarium Of which she had been an in
mstc since last August.
Frank S. Lane. living near Grand
Junction. is under arrest, charged with
having killed two deer out of season.
The report of the game warden. c. IL.
Hici,ols. was that Lane was found
win, the butchcred carcasses of two
fine Yenlson in his home.
William G. Jenkins, one OF three sur
Yly,pg members of the famous light
brigade which took part in the bloody
intiie of BalnkIava, in the Crimea.
mnde famous by Tennyson's poem,
TUE Charge OF the Light Brigade,
died Mt Pueblo. He was 90 years old
Plans for building tent city In
Houider to accommodate summer
tourists have been initiated by the
i.ions' Club. George j. Breifenstein
asked the club TO get behind a move
neni to obtain army tents. A com
uitiee was appointed TO look into the
matter OF obtaining tents.
Under the siockraising homestead
ac, Of Dec 20. 1916. more than 3,294.-
~: acres OF land have been taken up
ia This state. according to statement
issued by NJ. u. McEuiry. chief of the
Denver field division. In addition to
thnt amount, lie estimated that nearly
Gusoo0G more acres are available fol
homestead ng under that act.
Students of the University of Colo
RADIO at Boulder will establish co
operative sore. II charges of prof
f,.cring against stores on ''the hill'' ar,
proved true President George Nor
lin Inns issued statement calling fol
probe of the alleged profiteers
Manager bryant Smith of the Asso
Glazed Students has also asked for ar
invest CATION.
Airs. Lois Allen of Canon City, edi
tar of the Fremont County Leader
nus elected president of the Colorado
Editorial Association at the convention
in Denver The other officers elected
Il, the association are l.. l. Griffin oi
The Or,lway New Era. vice president
nnd George 7. Haubrich of the Welc
fn-,iv News. Greeley, secretary anc
treasurer.
tpein Is TO have new canning plant
\ committee of Delta business mer
spent several days in Denver working
cut the details. They are going tc
deal with a large eastern slope can
nng company. The plant will be pui
up on n large scale. Deltn plans many
hig improvements this year, and the
outlook was never brighter for big
business campaign.
Assessors from fifty-five Colorado
counties who held their annuol confer
ence with the State Tax Commission
in the Senate chamber Mt the stat,
house, voted to assess automobiles oil
the same basis as employed last yea
with the exception that second-yea
valuations shall he 60 per cent of orig
inaI value instead of being left chief.
to the assessors discretion.
Coal production in Colorado de
crcased from 1265S,055 tons in 1918 t
l0395 56s tons in 1919. total decreas
3. OF 2.262,4 1872 tons, the report for Decem
ber issued by State Coal Mine Inspec
tor james DalrympIe showed. tbougl
production in. December alone wa
greater than 1000. 900 tons
Apother new discovery of ore bear
Ing gold and silver and one of TIL
richest finds in the Sllverton section
in years. is reported from the prop
erty of the Gold King Extension
Mines Company on Bonita mountain
1he find was made in eighteen inche
~ white quartz and values up to 5O
ounces of gold per ton and 40 to .
ounces of silver are reported.
weld county farmers will receive
$600.OO0 additional payment from th
1910 sugar beet crop as the result o
the action of the Great Western Suga
Company in raising the price paid fo
the bcets already ground into sugn
from $40 ton to Sl1. Three factor.
districts, Greeley. Windsor and Eaton
raised approximately 100000 tons o
beets each and more than 100000 tom
were raised by. farmers in southern
aud western Weld county for factories
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