Gilpin observer., 1920-12-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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The Boulder City Council plans to
expend $25O,OO0 on paving and storm
sewers.
The Western Products Company
plans to erect concrete manufactur.
ing plant in Delta costing approximate
ly 100000.
The new state home and training
school for mental detectives, located
at Grand Junction, Colo, is now ready
for occupancy.
The citizens of Weldon Consolidated
School District No. 63 have voted ia
vorably on the bond issue of $4,000
for the erection Of school building.
The State Highway Commission
plans to build three concrete bridges
in Montrose county at cost of $45,-
600.
High-grade ore in small quantities
has been encountered at the Rose Nicol
mine of the Reva Mining Company at
s25 to $75 per ton.
Complete arrangements have been
made for the twenty-first annual con-
vention of the Retail Merchants As
sociation of Colorado, which is to be
held at Colorado Springs January II,
1S and 10.
The maturing pond for small trout
which has just been completed in the
Big Thompson canon near the Fork
hotel has been officially accepted by
the commission. The pond is not to be
filled with water until spring.
Weld county commissioners have
asked the Colorado highway commits
sion to spend $2s5,42 on the 317 miles
of state road in the county during 1921.
The county agrees to put $139,395 with
this budget, making total expenditure
of $412,725.
Assurance that the Fall River road
to Estes Park will be ready for the
summer tourist travel was given when
the state highway commission ap-
proved the appropriation of $4,000 to
cover the cost Of improvements to be
made in the early spring.
Lester A. Kelsey, charged with the
embezzlement of three $50 Liberty
bonds last April while employed at
Lafayette, Colo, as an agent of the
American Railway Express Company,
has been arrested in Salt Lake by an
agent of the Department of Justice.
Fifty per cent federal aid has been
asked by the State Highway Commits
sion in the construction of a 81 miles
of improved mountain graded road be-
tween Buena Vista and the Continental
divide, in Chaffee county, at total
cost of S110,775.50.
Contact of water with red-hot
crown sheet exploded the boiler of
big Santa Fe freight engine at Pring,
Colo, fifty-seven miles from Denver,
resulting in the death of one man and
the serious injury Of two others, all
residents of Denver.
Rienzi Dickens, who was convicted
four years ago of second degree muir
der of his father, w. III. Dickens,
wealthy Longmont farmer and banker,
is to be retired at Greeley early next
year, the exact date to be set within
n few days.
There is considerable stir in oil
shale possibilities in Rio Blanco coun-
ty at present 1t appears that fail
ure to do the assessment work before
December 31st on claims initiated
prior to the passage of the leasing bill
by Congress last February means that
private control thereof comes to an
end for all time, and hence the locat-
Ors are busy endeavoring to perform
the work so that they can hold on an
other year, during which time they
making "stake."
OF nine entries made by Moffat
county farmers in the worlds greatest
grain exhibition, the International Hay
and Grain Show at Chicago, eight pre-
miums were brought back, carrying
SS5 in prize money. OF this the High
School Athletic Association will re-
ceive $50. The winnings were made
against competition from the entire
United States and Canada, and with
the exception Of Montrose county, Col
orado, Moffat county carried away
more premiums than any other county
entered. A number of entries will be
made at the Denver potato show.
Approximately $4,000 has been
raised in Denver since December 18th
for the relief Of distress In Europe, it
was announced by DIR. S. G. Dorey,
field secretary for the Near East Re.
lief in Colorado. No estimate has been
made of the funds subscribed by the
entire state.
Frank Lee Cantonwine, 5 years old,
was killed in front Of his home at Colo.
RADIO Springs when he jumped from the
'ear of an ice wagon in the path of an