The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-30
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


states. 1t appears from the Bureau
Crop Estimates, generally accepted as
official, that the shrinkage in the bean
acreage for 1919, compared with 1918,
was 81 per cent in California, 40 per
cent in Michigan, and 20 per cent in
Colorado; and advance information
from the Pacific coast is that the COM
ing seasons acreage in California will
probably not exceed so per cent of
last years acreage; with the probable
ity that the Michigan acreage will be
further cut this year; SO it would seem
that our Colorado and New Mexico
bean growers might be interested in
this information, since it follows that
those growers who put in about the
bean acreage they can well take care
of ought to have very good prospects
and no cause for regret when harvest
ing time arrives.
The Colorado Good Roads Associa-
ton, including in its membership most
of the leading good roads advocates of
the state, is expected to go on record
in favor of bond issue for state high
W dy OCSCIOPilCAl dL lis COiulIe
meeting scheduled to be held in Colo
RADIO Springs May 20. Whether the or
ganization will indorse $25,OOO.O .OOO
road bond issue, as urged by the BOul-
der Commercial Club, or urge support
Of the $5,OOO,0OO issue proposed by the
last Legislature, is one OF the ques-
tions which will be up for discussion.
During the fiscal year ended Nov
80, last, there was an average of 141
inmates in the state reformatory at
Buena Vista. The cost of maintenance
was $66, ,77447. a per capita expense of
$472-74, according to report just
compiled by state examiners and made
public by State Auditor Arthur NJ.
Stong. Earnings of the institution met
about one-fourth of its support. These
amounted to S16,57S.25, realized prin-
cipally from sales of livestock and pro-
duce grown on the reformatory farm.
A wool pool has been organized at
Montrose in order that the small grow
er might benefit as much as the larger
grower. Hitherto the small grower in
that section has been forced to ship
his wool to the markets on cOnsign-
ment and trust to the judgment of 9TH
ers, while under the new organization
there and at Delta and purchasers in
vited to bid on the WOOL
Ten women and two men of the
senior class of the University of Colo
RADIO have been elected to membership
in the honorary scholastic fraternity
Phi Beta Kappa They are the lead
ers of their class in scholarship. At
torney Harold H. Healey, who was
graduated in 1911, and Wayne Ivers,
former football star and Il graduate Of
1916, have also been. elected to mem
bership.
The snow on Rabbit Ear pass, at the
top of the continental divide, is re-
ported to be fifty feet deep in places.
Telephone poles forty feet high are
showed under by at least ten feet, ac-
cording to linesmen. AT Steamboat
Springs, but few miles away, there
is but little snow on the surrounding
hills and none in the town.
San Juan county-the Silverton dis
trict-is in line for large gain i'll
mine output during 1920, compared
with last year, when several of the
larger properties, such as the Gold
cally out of commission by reason of
destruction by fire. the influenza epi-
demic and shortness of labor.
The members of the Olathe Hog
Shipping Association since November,
1919, have shipped more than $4,000
of stock, according to report read by
JudsOn Solomon, manager of the asso-
citation, at a banquet recently held in
Olathe. This included seventeen cars
Of livestock thirteen of hogs, three Of
cattle and one of sheep.
The recent strike made by the Snug
gler Leasing Company on its property
at Lenado is richer than was at first
believed The ore runs stronger than
80 per cent zinc and the ore body, as
ii has been blocked out at this time,
will more than pay the company for
the necessary outlay to fully de elop
the property.
The State Highway Commission ap-
propriated $4,000 for completion of
the Big Thompson canon road in Lar
inner county. Thomas J. Ehrhart, state
highway commissioner, stated that this
amount would make possible the OPEN
ing of the road in time for the opening
of the tourist season this year.
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adian poplar trees, which will be set
out by the town of Steamboat Springs.
Several years ago virtually every
street in town was planted with trees.
These have grown remarkably well,
and the town council has decided to
extend the work
Martin Y. Luther, wealthy resident
of Jefferson county, who had lived in
this region since coming to Colorado
hy ny cart in 1S59 died at the aoa of