The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

planning n $4,000 brick plant in Glen
wood Springs. 1t will be known as the
Glenwood Brick Company.
BY vote of 30 to 1t. property own
ers at Kersey favored floating bond
IA modern waterworks system.
Property owners, voting at Num- on
IL bond issue, balloting 43 to IA in
favor of floating $4,000 in bonds to
construct Il waterworks system and to
string an electric power line from
Pierce to Mum.
Gov Oliver H. Shoup and Mrs. Mary
C. q. Bradford, state superintendent
of schools, have been invited to at
tend the More Pay For Teachers"
conference to be held in Washington,
May II. John B. Payne, secretary of
the interior, extended the invitations.
Wholesale bituminous coal prices in
Colorado have been advanced from 50
cents to 80 cents at the mouth of
the mines, compared to prices at this
| time last year, as result of the
q per cent wage increase granted the
miners, it was announced by leading
coal companies.
| ]. L. Bennett of Colorado Springs
has been appointed chairman of the
delegation of Chamber of Commerce
members, who will attend the conven-
| ton of Chambers of Commerce in the
United States at Atlantic City on April
27, % and 20. C. c. Hamlin was named
as alternate to Mr.. Bennett.
Trout streams in the Montrose sec
ton will be wonderful meccas for an
glers this year, according to announce
ment by George l.. Price, secretary of
the Montrose Fish and Game Club,
who stated that arrangements had
been made for an unusually large
stock for the local streams.
Ashley Murphy, former sheriff of
Bent county, Colorado. died at Los An
geles after drinking poison at the home
of woman who had declined to see
him. The woman told the police she
had known Murphy in Colorado, and
that he had threatened to commit
suicide il she refused his attentions.
BY the accidental discharge of his
.3s-caliber revolver when it slipped
from its holster at the police station
ut Trinidad, Archie Mccoy, night cap
tain of police, was shot through the
ankle, inflicting an injury which may
keep him out of service for several
months. w. f. Waller will serve as
'''11s The 'spssa. sesss Hlsnway COMMISSION son at
recent meeting designated the road
materials laboratory of the Colorado
Agricultural College as their official
laboratory for the testing of road ma
terials. This action came as a result
of the work done by the laboratory
for state highway officials throughout
the state during the year 1919.
Eleven and three-quarters per cent
of the school children in the Greeley
district are of Russian parentage, ac-
cording to school census just COM
pleted The census shows that there
are 1884 persons of school age in the
district, and fourteen foreign coun-
tries are represented. Seventy-two
gave Mexico as the birth of their par
ents, and sixty-three Sweden.
1t is estimated that fully 100000
acres of land in Weld County will be
planted to sugar beets this year for
the Great Western Sugar Company
and the new Industrial plant at Fort
Lupton. These beets will bring the
farmers more than $15,OOOO0O. Fif-
teen thousand five hundred acres have
been contracted in this district for the
Eaton factory and 1900 acres in the
Windsor section for the Windsor fac
tory.
Inheritance taxes received by the
state for the last half of March to-
tailed $49,S25.94, bringing the total re-
ceipts for the biennial period to date
to slightly over a million dollars. The
largest taxes were on the estates of
Amelia o. Peters and Lewis G. Colds
borough, which were appraised al
more than $5OO,OOO each.
According to information received by
the Colorado Cooperative Crop Report
ing Service, through the Colorado
branch of the U. S. Bureau of Mar
kets. there are in the state yet to be
shipped only about 500 cars of pota-
toes from the 1919 crop, compared
with about 5000 cars at this time last
year. Shippers in the Northern Colo
RADIO district were receiving $5 per cwt
for potatoes about the middle of
March, which is said to be the record
price at that season during the his
tory of the potato industry there. Rec
ords of the Bureau of Crop Estimates
and the Bureau of Markets show that
up to March Goth there had been S,574
carloads of potatoes shipped fH6m
points in Colorado, compared with
11,222 carloads shipped to the same
date last year and total shipment
from the 1918 crop of 1891 carloads
The Industrial Sugar Company of
Colorado is considering thirteen or
more towns and beet growing COM
munities as sites for its factories, it
was announced by Secretary r. e.
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