Gilpin observer., 1920-03-04
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

turing industry in Colorado have been
prepared by the State Immigration De-
partment, with the cooperation of this
Denver Industrial Bureau, the Denver
Manufacturers Association and other
organizations familiar with the class Of
Information which should be gathered
through such Il survey. The immigrn-
ton department has obtained from The
Federal Census Bureau a copy of its
list of manufacturing establishments
in the state, and the schedules will be
mailed in few days to all names ap-
pearing on this list. Commercial clubs
and other organizations also will be
called upon to aid in obtaining the
names Of new manufacturing estab-
lishments not appearing on the list, to
the end that no manufacturer in the
state shall be overlooked in the survey.
An increase in acreage from 800 TO
more than 5000 acres of sugar beets is
the record which Montrose county has
pledged to fulfill this year in order TO
assure sugar factory enough sugar
beets to operate a 1,000-ton daily ca
pacity factory there. AS guarantee
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the Midwest Sugar Company, which
will move It's factory from Hamilton
City, Calf, to MOntrose Immediately,
has more than 1000 acres under con-
tract and written pledge by the lead
ing business men and growers of this
county that they will have the other
1000 acres ready to harvest this fall.
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treme GOODNESS when he continued an
operation after the alarm of fire had
been turned in from the hospital in
which he was performing the operation
at Delta. While the fire was not
dangerous one, DIR. Macarthur said that
1t required all the control he could
muster to continue the operation while
n blaze was going on on the roof above
the room.
The population has grown to such
an extent that the $4,000 school
building, erected three years ago at
Craig, now requires a $4,000 annex,
which will be built in the spring The
present high school has a four-year
course with special instructors in
music, domestic science and manual
training and is accredited by colleges
and universities of the west.
The cattlegrowers of western Colo
RADIO are cooperating heartily with the
cattlemsn Of other sections Of the state
in bitter fight to prevent the passage
of u bill in Congress which will revise
the charge for grazing permits on the
national forests and eventually lead to
the selling Of these permits to the high
est bidder, regardless Of priority Of
claims and residence.
Murdoch Nelson, one of Fort Col
Inns most prominent residents, is dead
J of heart disease. Mr.. Nelson was cash
{ Ter of the First National Bank at Fort
y Collins. At the time Of his death he
: was a candidate for delegate to the
Republican national convention to be
held in Chicago. He left q widow and
, two children.
: Berne H. Hopkins, millionaire oil
operator Of Colorado Springs, and his
brother. Albert G. Hopkins, narrowly
escaped death near Prng, fifteen
miles north Of Colorado Springs, on
, the Denver-C Colorado Springs road,
when an automobile in which they
were riding skidded and plunged down
fifteen-foot embankment.
!, Que Of the largest real estate deals
completed on the western slope in sew
eral months took place when Col. Man-
ford w. Smith sold the "Golden Rod"
ranch to Fred Light, ST., for $4,000.
This sale includes 800 acres. all the I'M
provements, buildings, machinery, i'm
plements and livestock near Aspen.
More than 200 gallons of wine, u
large quantity Of "white mule" whis.
key, fifty gallons Of raisin mash and
thirty gallons of prune mash, in pro-
cess of fermentation, with part of q
distilling plant, were seized by sher.
ifs officers in the basement Of the
dwelling Of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Jackson
in Agullar.
Colorado will be represented among
six national delegates who will speak
for American woman suffrage in the
international convention of suffrag.
lists at Madrid, Spain, during the week
beginning May 2. Word of the ap.
pointment of Mrs. Helen Ring Robin
""A VI DohNSi' ioi"ei ''"ee Seh"soi'
as one Of the group, has been re-
ceived by the Colorado Woman Suf.
frage Association at Denver.
: L. B. Crawford, predatory animal
inspector Of Colorado, has completed
D arrangements here for war on
Archuleta county animals that have
heretofore been preying on livestock.
, The death knell has been sounded for
the coyote, wolf. mountain lion, lynx
and bObcat. The first means for
eradication will be traps and poison.