Cheyenne record., 1920-01-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Craig Will have modern creamery
manufacturing butter and ice cream II
sufficient cream can be secured to
make the proposition success.
Nels johnson, 62, first fire chief in
Colorado Springs and organizer of the
first volunteer company, is dead. He
had been q resident Of Colorado
Springs for forty years.
Beet growers of the Longmont dis
trict will get an extra $214. 600 from
the payment Of 81 additional q ton Of
beets by the Great Western Sugar
Company, according to an announce
ment made by N. r. McCreery OF the
Longmont factory.
Mrs. Nevada J. Haywood. 50 years
old, and wife Of william d. Haywood,
general secretary Of the 1. w. W., who
was recently released from Leaven-
worth prison, died in Denver at SAN
itarium Of which she had been an In
mate since last August.
Frank 8. Lane. living near Grand
Junction, is under.arrest. charged with
having killed two deer out OF season..
The report Of the game warden. Q. B.
Nichols, was that Lane was found
with the butchered carcasses Of two
fine venison in his home.
william G. Jenkins, one Of three sur
viving members Of the famous light
brigade which took part in the bloody
battle Of Balaklava, in the Crimea,
made famous by Tennyson's poem.
1.-THE Charge Of the Light Brigade" !"
died at Pueblo. He was 90 years old.
Plans for building tent city In
Boulder to accommodate, summer
tourists have been Initiated by the
Lions Club. George J. Breftenstein
asked the club to get behind q move
ment to obtain army tents. A COM
mittee was appointed to look into the
matter Of obtaining tents.
Under the stockraising homestead
act of Dec. %, 1915, more than S,294,-
1888 acres Of land have been taken up
in this state, according to a statement
issued by NJ. D. McEniry, chief of the
Denver field division. In addition to
that amount, he estimated that nearly
100000 more acres are available for
homesteading under that act.
Students of the University Of Colo
RADIO at Boulder will establish a CO.
operative store, II charges of profi-
teering against stores on "the hill' are
proved true. President George Nor.
lin has issued a statement calling for
a probe Of the alleged profiteerA
Manager Bryant Smith OF the Ass0-
ciated Students has also asked for an
investigation.
Mrs. Lois Allen Of Canon City, edi.
tor Of the Fremont County Leader,
was elected president Of the Colorado
Editorial Association at the convention
in Denver. The other officers elected
by the association are L. I. Griffin Of
the Ordway New Era, vice president
and George T. Haubrich of the Weld
County News, Greeley, secretary and
treasurer.
Details to have a new canning plant.
A committee of Delta business men
spent several days in Denver working
out the details. They are going to
deal with large eastern slope can.
ming company. The plant will be put
up on large scale. Delta plans many
big improvements this year, and the
outlook was never brighter for big
business campaign.
Assessors from fifty-five Colorado
counties who held their annuol confer.
ence with the State Tax Commission
in the Senate chamber at the state
house, voted to assess automobiles on
the same basis as employed last year
with the exception that second-yeal
valuations shall be 60 per cent Of orig
inal value instead of being left chiefly
to the assessors discretion.
Coal production in Colorado de.
creased from 12.85S, ,O55 tons in 1918 te
1895, ,563 tons In 1919, a total decrease
of 2,262, ,492 tons, the report for Decem.
ber issued by State Coal Mine Inspec,
tor James Dalrymple showed, though
production in December alone was
greater than 100000 tons.
Another new discovery of ore bear
ing gold and silver and one of the
richest finds in the Silverton section
in years, is reported from the prop
erty of the Gold King Extension
Mines Company on Bonita mountain
The find was made In eighteen inches
of white quartz and values up to SOC
ounces of gold per ton and 40 to *
ounces Of silver are reported.
Weld county farmers will receive
100000 additional payment from the
1919 sugar beet crop as the result Of
the action of the Great Western Sugar
Company in raising the price paid for
the beets already ground into sugar
from SO ton to $11. Three factory
raised approximately 100000 tons Of
beets each and more than 100000 tons
were raised by farmers In southern
and western Weld county for factories
MT IOnRmOnt IOveland and RriRhf0n