The Ordway new era., 1920-06-18
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


Colorado's rural population has i'll
creased very materially in the past ten
years, and in the principal agricultural
districts has increased more rapidly
than the urban population. This is
just the opposite 10 what has occurred
in the principal agricultural states fur
ther east, where census reports now
being made public show that rural
population hns not Increased nearly so
rapidly as that of the cities, and in
many districts has actually decreased
since 1910. In the non-irrigated dis
tricts of eastern Colorado the rural
population has Increased very rapidly
since 1910, and in some cases the num-
ber of farms under cultivation at pres
ent, as shown by assessors reports,
is more than double that of ten years
ago. This Ii also true in many dis
tricts on the western slope, particu-
larly In Moffat, Rio BlancO, San Miguel
and Dolores counties. The records of
the Immigration department show that
several thousand people from other
states have come TO Colorado in the
past two years and have purchased or
large number of persons from other
states have filed upon homesteads in
this state.
schedule of seventeen trips, six Of
them for three days each, has been
arranged by the Officers of the Rocky
Mountain Climbers Club for the 1920
season. The first trip will be taken
lima 10Th IN
der, and will be followed "A week later
by an alI-night trip on Flagstaff noun
tain. The first three-day trip will be
conducted July "a to DEVILS Thumb
and jasper lake. The club is starting
its activities three weeks earlier than
usual at the request OF Out-of-statc
members, who already are beginning
to arrive in Boulder.
Grand valley fruit growers have
learned sad but nevertheless true news
about the 1920 fruit crop. 1t was be-
lieved that the apples had escaped
damage from the winter cold, and all
varieties but one did escape, but the
popular Wlnesap suffered almost com
plete extinction in that valley, 1t is
declared, so far as the 1920 crop is
concerned. The winter cold damaged
the buds so that they had no vitality,
and although they bloomed as usual
the blooms fell off and the trees will
be bare of fruit.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Pughley of Wich-
ita, Kan, who formerly lived on a
ranch near lobe. in Las Animas coun-
ty, positively Identified clothing found
in ravlne near Tobe as that worn by
their 4-yearrold son, Donald, when he
disappeared from their ranch home
April 10, 19l9Jt Donald was playing
about the ranch near TObe late in the
afternoon of April 10. 1919. but that
was the last glimpse his parents had
of him.
The state school fund was enriched
by $149,4S0 as the result of the June
sale Of state school laod. The State
Board of Land Commissioners sold 81
$40 acres for that sum. The average
price per acre, $25.6O, is the highest
obtained by the board for months. Con.
siderable rivalry developed in the bid
ding for certain parcels of land. The
highest price was realized for tract
of irrigated land in Weld county. For
this the board obtained $170 an acre.
Carlos NJ Cole, superintendent o.
Denver's public schools since 1917.
died at St Lukc's hospital in that city.
His death, which came unexpectedly,
was due to Influenza, his attending
declared, contracted while
he was In weakened condition fol- |
lowing an operation for appendicitis.
The proposed new highway over Ber-
thOud Pass, between Empire and Fra-
izer, Colo, a distance of twenty.sevcnl
miles, will cost about $20O,OOO, accord
ing to the survey made by crews WORK
ing Under the direction of A. II. Palen,
senior highway engineer of the United |
States Bureau of Public Roads.
. A ten-pOund son was born to Mayor |
and Mrs. +. W. Slower mt their home
in Fort Collins. In addition to being |
born the son of the mayor of Fort Col
Inns, the new arrival has been named |
William charles-Wiiliam for his pa
ternal grandfather, a pioneer and the
first president of the Poudre Valley
Bank of that city, and Charles for his
maternal grandfather, Congressman
Charles B.NTimberlake.
r Ranchmen along Muddy creek in
Grand county have bought the tele-
phone lines Of the Mountain States
Telephone and Telegraph Company In
that district and have organized the
Muddy Greek Telephone Association.
They will extend the lines from
kremmling, twenty-three miles north.
to the Martin postoffice at Whitley's
peak. Fifteen phones will be connect
ed with the new lines.
A. Power, farmer of Yough,l, was
droyned in the Yampa river while
wnding to the stake fastening of the