The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-02-06
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

stock on farms on january lSt, lnO1-
Gates n decrease in the number Of beef
and range cattle, sheep and swine and
possibly slight increases in the number
of dairy cattle, horses and mules, as
compared with the number Of the vari-
GUS classes Of livestock on farms Jan.
1, 1910. A decrease in the average
value per head of every class of live
stock is indicated and apparently there
will be rather a sharp decrease in the
total value Of all livestock on farms
as compared with year ago.
The wild game in the forested areas
of the western slope are in fine condi-
ton and will not need state feeding
unless some unusually bad weather
comes, according to J. d. Jennings. He
reports that quail have suffered severe
losses. One herd of fifty or more deer
has been seen on South Beaver creek.
Sixty-five elk have been observed in
one band in the Soap creek region and
fifty more in Taylor park Rangers
agree in reports from several points
that there are fully 2,500 elk in the
Big Muddy country, northeast of Delta.
Greeley's municipal water works
earned S7T,2S770 in 1919, according to
the annual report of Milton Seaman,
superintendent of the water works
system. In 1908, the first year the
mountain water system was used, it
earned only $43,122.64. As rates have
remained stationary, the increase rep
resents the growth of the city's popu
nna hupdrad and FORTY oh
new houses were connected with the
system this last year. The entire sys-
TEN represents an investment of S5O3,-
571.43.
During the year 1919 COloradoans
enjoyed more days of perfect sunshine
than the residents of any other state in
the country. There We're 135 days on
which the sun shone brightly without
a cloud in the sky, according to the Of
ficial annual report issued by the Den
yer branch of the United States wealth
er bureau Only on eightyfour days
was the sun hidden from view for the
entire day, and on 146 days it was OBJ
scured only part of the time. accord
ing to the report.
Transfer to the permanent state
school fund Of $6OO,9OO worth of bonds
which have been held in the public
school income fund of Colorado for a
number of years will make available,
under an agreement reached by o.
ficials of the state land, school ind
yearly for distribution to the school
districts of the state until the entire
5000, 800 has been converte1 into in
come and apportioned to n counties.
After drawing up Will providing
how his estate. amounting TO several
thousand dollars, should be divided
and leaving Instructions as to his bur
ial, Alfred T. Norman, 45 years old, a
veterinary inspector attached to the
United States bureau Of animal indus
try, committed suicide by shooting him
self through the mouth in his room at a
Denver hotel with .92caliber revol-
yer. Death was instantaneous.
The body of Steve Borad, cage ten
der, was found at the bottom of the
shaft of the Sunnyside mine, near Sill
verton, crushed almost beyond recog-
milton. No one knew of the accident
which is believed to have caused BOr-
ads death until the discovery of the
body 1t is supposed he lost his foot
ing at the top of the shaft and fell in
to the opening.
Hilary King, 27, was instantly killed
while hauling timber to his ranch, some
twenty-nine miles west of Colorado
Springs, near Divide. He lost his bal
ance from the humping of the wagon
on the frozen roads and fell beneath
one of the rear wheels which crushed
ont his life.
Mining activities are reflected in the
planned erection in the San Juan min
a fifty-ton mill early this spring. The
Incas Mining Company is financing the
building of the plant.
David Lloyd, age 10, student in
the local high school at Grand juno
tion, ended his life by shooting him
self through the head while at the
home of his sweetheart, Miss Vida
Fowler, 16. also a high school student
The couple are said to have quarreled
about company whom Miss Fowler ac-
companied to a dance the night before.
A rich strike is reported made in
the Golden Cycle mine, located on the
south slope of Bull hill at point
about 1,5OO feet from the shaft on the
], 1,7OO-foot level. Details are not yet
given out as to the dimensions of the
ore-shoot in width, as it is claimed
that not enough work has been done
to determine its full width.
The cooperative shipping of live
stock movement is getting well under
way in Colorado. At the present time
there are about thirty cooperative
live stock shipping associations in the
state, saving the farmers hundreds of
thousands of dollars annually.
A few men are working steadily on
the new entry to the big coal mine at
Sunlight. Everyone is hoping that the
Colorado Midland again will be oper-
ated and the output from the mines
will ho rnuch larUer than avar