The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-08-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
A summary of the effect on Denver
of the first week of the tramway mems
strike follows:
Casualties.
Dead 6; wounded 81
Financial Losses,
Expense of bringing in 600 strike
breakers, $4,000; two street cars
burned, six others wrecked, damage
to company barns and tracks, $4,000 ;
loss to company in fares owing to in
operation of cars, $84,OOO; loss to
union men in wages, $40, 1850; total H.
nancial loss. $4,000.
Men Under Arms.
Regular soldiers from Camp Fun
ston, 528; regular soldiers from Fort
Logan, 250; regular police, 24O; Ameri-
can legion men, 1000; volunteer civil
ian police. 1000; total men under
arms, 3,O1S.
Lincoln County Fair will be held at
Hugo, Sept. 20, 80, Oct 1, 2, and prom
ises to be one Of the most successful
ever held
Frank Norman Of Crested Butte died
from injuries received in an accident
which occurred when he was helping
tear down the old anthracite breaker
at the Ruby anthracite coal mines near
Floresta.
Paul Hinman, II years old, Of Den
yer, died at the county hospital from
the effect of internal injuries received
when the motorcycle he was driving
crashed into a telephone pole in North
Denver
More than 200 delegates attend
ed the twenty-fifth annual conven-
ton of the Colorado Federation
Of Labor at Labor Temple in
Pueblo. This was the silver an
niversary of the Colorado Federation
Of Labor, which held its first meeting
in Pueblo at Labor Temple twenty
five years ago.
Colorado will come into its own as
q result of the freight increase an
by the Interstate Commerce
Freight rates, for years
against the west, will
be more nearly equal those of the east
under the new schedule, with the re-
suit that present manufacturing indus
tries will be vastly stimulated, and
that many new industries will be es-
tablished in the west.
A new valuation on Logan county
land was established when Henry
Therkhorn, owner of a five-acre tract
short distance south of Sterling,
along the Lincoln highway refused an
offer of $1,000 for his place. This is
equal to 81, 400 tan acre. bae includes
all improvements, and if the cost fof
the latter were deducted the price
would represent at least $500 an acre,
as the improvements could be replaced
for $1,000
Colorado's alfalfa crop this year will
be the largest on record and at cur
rent prices will be worth above $685.
100000, compared with about S31 ,OOO,-
600 last year. Nearly complete r."
ports from county assessors show 1885,
677 acres of alfalfa in the state, com
pared with total of 620, 1856 acres re-
ported last year. Complete reports
this year will show above $4,000
acres, an increase of 10000 acres over
the amount reported last year.
The Monte Vista second annual
Stampede" proved one of the best
events of its kind held in Colorado in
recent years. The program featured
twenty of the best riders who took
part in the Cheyenne Frontier day
celebrations. including Miss Wyoming.
More than 10000 persons attended the
fair, which was held at Monte Vista
on Aug to 6. A special carload of
longhorn steers were shipped from
Texas for the occasion, in addition to
sixty head of running horses.
A "get- together meeting" and picnic
of the farmers of Larimer county was
held at the State Agricultural college
at Fort Collins.
The already spacious grounds of the
Colorado State Fair were so COM
petely filled with exhibits last year,
that an additional forty acres has been
purchased by the fair commissioners,
on the west. Fair officials decided to
use this largely for added buildings and
ponderous exhibits, and decided upon
an elaborate system of wire fencing for
the new acreage. To fill the require
ments Of the specifications, the War
ner Wire Fence company of Pueblo,
was obliged to have special machines
built and installed, and the product is
simply superb. A considerable portion
Of this added tract will be set aside
for the use of campers Families and
parties coming by automobile or other
private conveyance to attend the fair,
will have the privilege of camping in
side the new enclosure, where they will
have fire and police protection, water
and all the comforts. This will enable
those who so desire, to spend the week
most comfortably at the fair
An examination for the position of
postmaster at Fort Logan, carrying