The Ordway new era., 1920-05-28
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Weld county's next factory of the
Great Western Sugar Company will be
located on the w. A. Purvis 2OO-acre
farm adjoining the town limits of
Johnstown.
The Colorado Aggies have recently
received full sized silver football as
trophy for winning the Rocky Noun
tain Conference football championship
last year. The token is a gift of j. A.
McKenna of Boulder, Colo. 1t is rep
licn of regulation football. even down
to the stitches and the lacing.
Professor w. ]. Morrill,, state forest
er and head of the forestry department
of the Colorado Agricultural College,
has distributed this spring at cost
about $1,000 small trees, including
seeding elm, honey locust, black locust
and Russian olive, and about 10000
three-year-old pines. These trees have
gone chiefly TO farms in eastern Colo
RADIO.
1t costs the taxpayers of the state of
Colorado only 75.7 cents day TO keep
prisoner in the state penitentiary.
The actual value of the upkeep of each
of the $50 prisoners in the custody of
Warden Tom lyman is 93 cents day,
but the 1T.3 cents in addition to the
taxpayers cost is represented by the
farm and dairy products of the prison
farms and gardens which are worked
by the prisoners.
The Boy Scouts of Longmont, Louis
vile, Nederland and Boulder will CO.
operate i'm field day exercises at the
Colorado Chautauqua at Boulder on
May 20. The Boulder brass band will
assist in the program and will lead the
parade. An extensive program, fol-
lowed by an ail-night pow-wow ut the
camp of Troop No. 3, south of Boulder,
has been arranged for by Scout Execu-
tive C. w. Badger.
The Fort Collins Commercial Club
has definitely decided to make a CEN
sus recount of the city. The commit
tee appointed to make careful survey
Of the various records, which would in
1icate whether the official government
census, giving Fort Collins popula-
tion of S,73I only, was short of the ac-
tual population. reported that it is con-
cided to make recount.
Tony Hanna, well known Fremont
county miner and popular catcher for
the Canon City baseball team, was run
over by a loaded car in the Wolf Park
coal mine, sustaining injuries that re-
suited in his death on the way to the
hospital. Hanna was accidentally
thrown from the loaded car on the
way to the shaft, the car passing over
his body and Inangling him SO badly
that he never regained consciousness
and died before he reached the hospital
in Canon City.
The Pixies Peak auto road races,
suspended when the United States en-
tered the war, will be resumed this
year and will he run during the latter
part of July. The races this year will
be backed by the Colorado Springs
Chamber of Commerce and have a gen.
uine community character. Only stock
cars will be allowed entry, and a large
number of manufacturers have already
| announced that they would send ma
| chimes here to compete in the big
mountain event.
With Montrose at one end and Du-
| range ut the other end of probably the
greatest eNpansc of scenic beauty in
the world. TO he made accessible to
| travel. thousands of citizens are eager
| ly awaiting the completion of the Du-
| range -Silverton highway. This road
will enable thousands of tourists each
| year to visit one part of Colorado that
| has been a closed book to all except
| tourists who seek the most rugged
| scenery, regardless of the trouble and
inconvenience of getting to it,
| Thirty-five British merchants. repre-
senratives of the Royal Trade Board
of Great Britain, will arrive in Colo
RADIO Springs this week for stay of
three days.
| u +. Evans, a Craig business man,
| finished the preliminaries which will
result in the opening of a coal mine
at the southwest limits of Craig and
bring, it is predicted. the expenditure
of a quarter million dollars to that
district in the coming year. Mr. Eyans
has Obtained options on two ranches,
total of $50 acres
| Two important announcements con-
uected with the development of gov
ernmcnt hospital projects in Colorado
have been made. One was informa-
tion that plans have been completed
10y the war department that will make
United States Army General Hospital
No. u not only the show place ot the
West from n landscape viewpoint but
probably The most complete in utility
features Of any permanent army hos
pital in the world. The cost of this
Improvement is estimated by officials