The Colorado statesman., 1920-04-17
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado


The construction of the Solandt Me
mortal Hospital at Hayden will begin
soon. A total Of $4,000 has been sub
scribed for the institution.
BY vote of 30 to Il, property own
ers at Kersey favored floating bond
issue of $4,000 to $4,000 to construct
Il modern waterworks system.
Property owners. voting ut Mum on
bond issue, balloting 43, to II in
favor of floating $4,000 in bonds to
construct a waterworks system and to
string an electric power line from
Pierce to Num-.
-Four hundred dollars has been
raised by twelve students at the Uni
verslty of Denver to aid in providing
for the balance of the university's war
debt, now aggregating $4,000, it was
announced by Chancellor Henry A.
Buchtel.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany, through Dave Sloan of Crested
Butte, has purchased 200 town lots on
the north side of Crested Butte. AS
soon as the weather permits the COM
pany plans To begin the erection of
fifty new houses for its employees.
District Forester Allen s. Peck has
announced that fifty-four men passed
| the civil service commissions eXamin-
ations for positions as forest rangers
and that nineteen of the eligibles have
been appointed Thirty-siX will be as
signed to stations in the Colorado ma
tiOnal forests
The United States general land Of
| flee has announced that 3O,63429 acres
| of homestead land i'm Moffat county,
formerly i'm the Carey act segregation
known as the Great Northern project,
has been opened for entry by order of
| Clay Tallman, commissioner of the
general land office, under date of
April l.
Three growing towns of eastern
Colorado are to have municipal water
systems. The Colorado Public Utilities
| Commission granted the applications
of the towns of Seibert and VOna i'll
Kit Carson county. and of Eads in XII
owa county for certificates of public
convenience and necessity, authorizing
them to proceed with the installation
of plants.
Four airplanes appear on the Den
yer assessment rolls this year. as
| against only one last wear, according
to William j. Hamilton, deputy county
assessor under NJ. ]. Mccarthy, man
| ager of revenue. Approximately a.
| 600 automobiles will he found upon the
tax schedule for 1920. The tax sched
ules are coming in at the unusually
rapid rate of more than 1000 asaaS
The board of directors of the new
Grand Mesa Resort Company have an
nounced that they are going TO builn
n summer hotel on the Grand Mesa at
the lakes, under the southeast rim. this
summer They plan to put up pre-
tentiouS building. The hotel will pro
vide accommodations for hundreds of
people who heretofore have been un-
willing to stay at the lake over night
because of the lack of accommodations.
Charles c. Gates, president of the
Gates Rubber Company of Denver, has
announced that the company has put
in group insurance for its employees
Each of the 1000 employees will be
given life insurance policy, the com
pany paying the premiums, according
to Mr.. Gates The principal amount
of each policy will be based on length
of service, and will be increased at in
tervals of six months. More than
$500, 900 were required to initiate the
plan. The insurance will be written
by the Capitol Life Insurance Com
pany of Denver The plan TO adopt
group insurance was recommended by
the Industrial Congress, composed of
employees of the plant.
Delta, lacking a city park, has put
committee of business men at work
regarding a proposed park. The mem
bers are trying to raise money to buy
a site this spring and do the plOwing
and grass seed planting before 1T is
too late to get lawn started this
year. The seven-acre tract just east
of the new high school site has been
selected as the most desirable and Will
probably be purchased and improved.
The biological report of the United
States district forest service for 1919
has Just been completed, and will be
submitted to the biological survey in
Washington by Allen S. Peck, district
forester. The estimates of the num-
ber of game animals in the state in
1918 and 1919 are as follows: 4,911
elk in 1918, 1884 in 1919; no moose in
either 1918 or 1919; 1928 mountain
sheep in 1918, 6,772 in 1919; 40 ante
lope in 1918, 90 in 1919; no caribou in
either year; 22,717 mule deer in 1918,
23,T97 in 1919; 43 white-tailed deer in
1918, 60 in 1919; q, 1888 beavers in 1918,
33,777 in 1919; 2,190 black or brown
bears in 1918, 1859 in 1919; II silver