The Ordway new era., 1920-12-31
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


A new 100000 consolidated high
school building has been dedicated at
Del Norte.
The Western Concrete Products
Company plans 10 erect n four-unit
system plant in Sterling.
The citizens of Boulder will vote on
$4,000 bond issue for the construc-
tion of n bridge over Boulder creek on
Feb. 4.
Montrose merchants rejoiced when
IT was announced that daily express
service between Denver and MontrOsc
was assured.
The new state home and training
school for mental detectives. located
at Grand Junction, Cola, is now ready
for occupancy.
John Colbert and Allen Fossen were
killed when an automobile, in which
the two We're riding. was struck by a
Rock Island train at the Byers depot
railroad crossing.
Permission. to substitute tri-weekly
for daily passenger service from Jan.
3 to April l has been granted the Mof-
fat rond by the Colorado Public Utili-
ties Commission.
Motorists have been warneu not to
try TO make 1t over Tennessee pass
any more this year, as the recent
snow has piled up more than two feet
of snow on level.
Up to the present time Olathe has
shipped S56 big carloads of potatoes
this year. There are still $50 cars of
spuds TO be shipped. This will make
the total crop for 1920 1,006 cars.
Henry +. Southard, formerly over
seas war veteran, Is in Jail in Durango
on a charge of obtaining S11,T00 under
false pretenses from the Durango
Trust Company about year ago.
The 1922 convention of the Western
Surgical Association will be held in
Colorado Springs, DIR. l.. ii. Mckinnie
reported on his return to Colorado
Springs from the convention held at
Los Angeles.
The Blende plant of the United
States Zinc Company at Pueblo is be-
ing converted from a smelter plant to
zine oxide plant and already one
unit has been completed at an initial
cost of about $4,000.
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.
Fifty per cent federal aid has been
| asked by the State Highway Commits
sion In the construction of 81 miles
of improved mountain graded road be-
| tween Buenn Vista and the Continental
divide, in Chaffee county, ut n total
cost of S110,775.50.
A rehabilitation training school for
disabled soldiers will be established in
Pueblo by the United States govern
ment as soon as suitable quarters can
be found, according to statement
issued by w. II. Logan, supervisor of
vocational education at Pueblo.
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.
| Although the aggregate production
of all crops in Colorado in 1920 was
by far the largest in the historr of
the state, their value will be consider
ably less than that of last years crops,
us a result of the heavy decline in
prices of farm products that has
occurred in the past four months.
Final arrangements for putting the
recently adopted "two-platoon" system
for firemen into effect in Denver on
Jan. /, 1921, have been reached.
A denial of the motion of Attorney
l.. w. Jordan, attorney for Antonio
CozcorraZo and Tont Repolado for the
return of contraband liquor and mash
seized in n raid of officers on the
Spanish pool hall several weeks ago,
was announced in County Court at
Grand Junction by Judge n. C. Miller.
Washouts of the Santa Fe tracks and
bridge over Sand Creek, south of Colo
rado Springs, are to be checked in the
future through the erection of an i'm
mense breakwater, 300 feet long, now
being constructed primarily to protect
the south end of the Sand Creek bridge
where the riprap has failed TO halt
swerving of the stream.
Holders of mining or oil shale claims
who wish to take advantage of the six
month extension of time for doing 1920
assessment work will not be required
10 file notice with their county clerks
of their intention to do their work in
the first half of 1921, according to NJ.
B. Tomblin, secretary of the Colorado
Metal Mining Association.
Jesse ]. Hittle, well-known rancher
| af tho p1utaau roIIay thirty ,,iIas. oo