The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-07-16
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

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attack of heart disease while on his
way to the Denver stockyards. He was
6S years old. Accompanied by
rancher friend, Mr.. Gregg motored
down to Denver from Longmont to
attend to business at the stockyards
and they were motoring along Cali
| fornia street between Twentieth and
Twenty-first streets when .he was
| stricken. The veteran ranchman died
few hours later.
One hundred thousand people will
pass through the turnstiles of the
Colorado State Fair this year. This
is very conservative estimate based
on the attendance in 1919 and the as
surances already given for this years
big show. At low estimate there
will be 1,500 exhibits. Think of the
educational results to come from 10O,-
900 people studying 1,5OO interesting
and instructice object lessons. Fair
dates are September 10 to 20 and all
railroads are making rates from all
over the state to Pueblo.
Killed and buried by snow slide
many years ago, unmissed, unidenti-
fled is the story to be told by the
skeleton of a man which was found
in the debris of last years slide from
the Telescope mine near Chattanooga.
The bones were found by a prospector
and the accident which befell the un-
known several years ago was only
revealed by another slide. Every eff
fort is being made to connect the dis
covery with some one missing for
years from the district, but so far none
has shed light on the mystery.
Two Western slope swimming pools
were recently caught in the net which
local internal revenue collectors put
out for those who failed to pay proper
taxes to the government. The tax on
swimming pool sales became effective
in September, 1917, and up to the mid
die of this year the swimming pools
at both Ouray and Ridgway had not
made any payments of taxes. The pool
at Ouray was forced to pay more than
$500 in taxes. Appeal has been taken.
The pool at Ridgeway had to pay more
than $500.
Apportionment of the $3.50, ,191.64
public school income fund which was
assigned for distribution July 1, 1920,
is now ready, according to a state
ment made from the offices of the
state auditor Mary C. G. Bradford,
superintendent of public instruction,
will make the apportionmept, basing
the various sums on the district school
populations. The money will be turned
over to the counties for actual ex-
penditure.
Work has started on 2O,OOO-bushel
grain elevator at Agate for the Scott
George Grain Company of Denver,
Colo. This win place the total value
Of buildings under construction there
at more than $4,000. This building
bonn is the result of the bumper crop
Of wheat and corn crops raised there
last year. The prospects are for
much larger yield of wheat this year,
and the corn acreage will exceed 15,-
900 acres.
Wheat and corn crops will be
greater in the state this year than ever
before, according to forecast by the
Colorado crop reporting service made
public. The report is based upon crop
conditions on July 1. 1t is estimated
that 4, ,49S, 900 bushels of wheat will be
harvested. The yield of corn is placed
at $4,000 900 bushels. The average in
crease over any previous year is about
II per cent, according to the report
Nova thar QAO troDhiac ~ xuor will
be received by the state of Colorado
as Its share of the articles which are
being distributed to various states
and territories, on the basis of the
number of men who were in service
during the conflict, according to a
bulletin received by Morton M.-David,
state adjutant of the American Legion,
from Lemuel Bolles, national adjutant
of the organization.
Five firemen were injured and thou
sands of dollars worth of property
destroyed when fire of unknown
origin broke out in the storeroom of
the Pioneer garage in Pueblo, in the
Bessemer district. The garage was
completely destroyed and sparks flying
from the building set fire to the homes
of George C. Lutz, proprietor of the
establishment, and r. G. Thompson,
who lives next door.
Delta people are not satisfied with
the government census of the city.
The 1920 report gives Delta 1928,
while it is believed the city has 1000.
Efforts will be made to have munich
pal census taken soon. This is AIT less
than the count made by the Chamber
of Commerce two years ago and Delta
has grown greatly since then. The
Chamber of Commerce count gave s.
050 in 1918.
The Fort Collins city council has
adopted a report of committee ap-
pointed to ascertain whether the rates
of the Poudre Valley Gas Company
should be raised No action will be
taken, however, until decision in the