Gilpin observer., 1920-05-06
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

people in some Of the most prosperous
cities and towns in the state. accord
ing to the annual opportunity survey
now being completed by the State I'm
migration Department. Apparently
there is greater demand for hotels at
the present time than for any other
kind of business establishments, more
than sixty cities and towns reporting
need for new hotels or for purchasers
for existing hotels. There is also con-
siderable demand for physicians,
though not so large call as there was
at this time last year. The list now in
cludes nearly 1000 opportunities, in
more than fifty different business and
professional lines. 1t does not include
positions Of employment in established
business houses, but only opportuni-
ties for the establishment of new busi-
ness houses in locations WHARF condi-
tions are favorable for success.
Reports received by the Colorado Co.
operative Crop Reporting Service from
correspondents in all parts of the state
indicate that there will be falling
off in the acreage devoted to both
beans and potatoes in Colorado this
year, unless plans of growers are ma
terially revised between now and plant
ing time. These reports indicate that
only about 20 to 75 per cent as large
an acreage will be planted to beans
this year as last year. The total acre
age reported for this crop in Colorado
last year was 6930O acres, compared
with $1,000 acres in 1918. and 250,OOO
acres in 1917. The indicated acreage
this year is from $4,000 to $1,000 acres.
Reports from the principal potato pro-
ducing sections indicate that the grow
ers now contemplate planting Slightly
more than 80 per cent as great an acre
age of potatoes to be grown under ir-
rigatiOn as were planted last year.
Reports from the districts where pota-
toes are grown without irrigation indi-
cate about the same percentage.
Twelve years OF differences between
rival factions of the G. A. r. at Grand
Junction, the Grand Junction Post No.
80 and Phil Sheridan Post No. 49, end
ed when a charter for the new John
A. Logan Post No. 81" arrived from
the commanders office in Denver.
There was great rejoicing among the
old soldiers as the news spread that
the long-drawn-out disagreements had
been forgotten and old ties united. A
big celebration for Memorial day is
planned by the combined posts.
o. L. Croft, 72 years old, of Denver,
conductor on the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad for the past thirty
years, was found crushed to death in
an elevator shaft in the Congress hotel
at Pueblo. His body was found by
Joe Walker, freight elevator pilot, who
starts to work at 8 o'clock. Walker
conducted the elevator from the base
ment upward and when he got between
the first and second floors he noticed
several hours.
Patrons in the rural school districts
Of Ell PasO county in the last four
years have decreased the number of
districts in the county by one-fifth
through the casting of majority ballots
for school consolidation. The latest
consolidation was effected when Dis
trict No. 81, northeast of Calhan, voted
to combine with Calhan, which has a
modern building and High school.
The children from the northeast dis
trict are to be transported to- Calhan
by motor bus.
At a meeting of fair officials Of
Grand, ROutt and Moffat counties
plan was recently evolved whereby the
arin
operate in the matter of fairs. There
will be no competition in the matter
of dates this year. Moffat county
comes first, September 10 and IL;
Routt county next, September Is, 10
and II, and Grand county the follow
ing week.
Advance reports from county as
SCISSORS on the number of fruit trees
Of bearing age in the various counties,
| now being-received by the State Immi-
grafton Department, indicate that the
total number of fruit trees in the state
will be considerably greater than most
people have believed. There has been
no complete survey of the number of
fruit trees in the state since that made
by the Federal Census Bureau in 1910,
and the general impression has been
that the increase In all classes of fruit
has been very slight since that
time and in some classes decrease
has been forecasted. Such reports as
have been received to date, however,
indicate increases in all classes of fruit
trees and rather large increases in
most classes. These increases are due
chiefly to relatively small increases in
counties where fruits are not raised
extensively.
William I. Lott, 25 years old, for
mer soldier, shot and killed himself at