The Elbert County tribune., 1920-03-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western :srwspaper Union News Service.

n February were ITO cars, three cars
more than In the same month last
gear.
Pruning is now In full swing at the
;rand Valley and in almost every
,rcIiard men are being employed In
Ibis necessary spring work. The trees
,how little effect OF the severe winter.
Miss Dorothy Smith, 18-year-old
inughter of Frederick X. Smith, cash
.er Of the First National Bank of Colo
rudo Springs. is near death at Welles-
ley. Ainss., as the result of a skiing ac-
-ident in Which she was impaled by
broken skiing rod. Miss Smith fell on
the fragments OF the stick and her alb
aomen was perforated In three places.
Negotiations were completed in Den
rer for the purchase of $56,5O0 worth
u iridium by the Medical and Surgical
group OF Denver. The deal was made
with the Rndium Company of Colo
ado one-haif gram, or seven and
ihrce quarters grams Of the precious
mineral Is contained In the tube pur-
chased.
An excess Of $37,sT1.31 over the
amount available for administration
and engineering purposes was spent
by the State Highway Commission In
the fiscal year ending Nov. 30. 1919,
according to report by State Audi
tor stong. The total expenditure for
these purposes was $1s2.775.o6. or
ii,'s. $45, 5,22s so was spent in prelim-
mary engineering for future federal
aid projects.
Isdwa-d Ives, n mental defective
convict, sawed his way through steel
bars ut IL window of his cell in the
state peniteItiary hospital at Canon
City and made his escape. After saw
ing tUongh two heavy steel bars. the
ends of which he forced outward, Ives
crawlcd through the opening and
gained access to low stone wall, from
wiicli he climbed TO the high wall sur
rounding the prison enclosure.
The growth of saw timber in the
Quilted States is believed to be only
one-third Of the amount annually cut.
Twenty-ninc of our states import more
timber than is cut within their bound
aries, and every exporting state is cut
ting faster than their timber grows. "a
Timber famine Is bound to come" says
w. J. Morrill, OF the Colorado Agrlcul-
turni College Indeed locally In many
parts of the United States 1t has ar
rived already as reflected in the high
prices OF lumber"
II costs the state OF Colorado Sl3.T6
less to educate II student mt the Fort
Collins Agricultural college than ut the
state university at Boulder, according
to reports on the two big institutions
submitted to Governor Shoup by Audi
tor OF State Stong. The average ex-
pense of educating student at the
Agricultural college, Stong reports, is
sIST51, while at the state university
II is $2312T. The Agricultural college
spent S22s 01S.OS educating 1.1S4 stu
dents while at the university the edu-
cation OF 1.745 students cost x4O3,-
4F52 80 These figures nreefor the year
1910.
Colorado and Wyoming naval re-
servists who served during the wal
with Germany may obtain Victory but
tons by applying to Lieutenant Com
mander Z. S. Thesis of the Denver
navy srecruiting station or to the petty
officer in charge OF the recruiting sta
ton nearest them. Hitherto only men
who served In the regular navy could
obtain these buttons in Denver, the
rcservists being required to apply to
the commnndant of the Twelfth Naval
district, san Francisco, Calf. All ap-
pIicatIons for Victory buttons must be
accompanied by discharge or release
from active duty.
Petitions IRE now being circulated In
the territory affected for the forna-
ton of Il drainage district that Will
drain a total area of 10000 acres, ex-
tending northward from the Rio
Grande to the vicinity of Center, in the
Snn Luis valley. Thirty thousand acres
of. this vast tract is not now under cuI-
tlyatIon, and this drainage district viii
convert the greater part of this acre
age into productive farms.
Reports to the State Cooperative
Crop Reporting Service indicate that
Va per cent of the 1910 Colorado corn
crop, or 1922, 900 bushels, was in the
hands of growers on March l. com
pared with 80 per cent, or 3,202,0N
bushels on March l last year. The
amount of the 1919 wheat crop on hand
March 1 Is estimated at is per cent, OF
2,Gi7 600 bushels. compared with 10
per cent. or 2.464,0OO bushels on
March 1, 1919. The amount of oats on
hand is estimated at 30 per cent, or q
OsS, 900 bushels, compared with "a per
cent. or 3.2ST. 900 on March l, 1919, and
the amount of barley on hand Is esti-
mated at 80 per cent. or 1,1T0,000 bush
els. compared with 80 per cent, or L.
$4,000 bushels on March last year.
Prof Alexander Enslie of the Colo.