The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-31
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

| as chairman of the field department
committee, which is to work out IA
thorough organization of the associa-
| tiOn throughout the state, and TO en-
courage the organization OF local bod
| les to cooperate with the state asso-
| citation. The committee is to consist
of three members, one of whom is 10
be the field secretary, and will be paid
n salary by the state association for
his services.
John Kodel, miner who has been
persistently prospecting claims In the
| Kodel canon, three miles southwest OF
| Fruta, reports that his efforts have
been rewarded by the finding of some
very rich gold and silver ore. He says
| that the ore Is in vein six feet wide.
Two three-foot veins came together
about seventy-five feet below the sur
face of the ground and Sylvanite ore,
| from Il formation much like the Cripple
Creek formation, yielded up the values.
| He believes the ore will run over $50.
600 per ton.
Silver dollars are going to be scarce
from now on, due TO q scarcity of sill
| NtI. III tutll Iidit bliiN WIZ
| he circulated, as in Eastern cities. No
more silver dollars can he obtained by
| banks unless silver certificates are
given in exchange. Silver, under this
ruling cannot be bought with gold.
There is shortage of silver certifi-
Gates. The banks will be able to get
only n limited number of 81 and 81
bills. The result is expected TO he Il
revival of silver mining in Colorado.
Approximately S25,O0O,OOO changed
hands in live stock transactions dur
ing the six days of Denver's four
teenth annual National Western Stock
| Show, which closed its gates after the
most successful season in its history.
Men in close touch with the market
have computed the amount from COM
parative bank clearings and other
available data. Attendance records
were also smashed this year. Total
attendance figures for the show were
announced as 1881.
An epidemic of smallpox has broken
out in the city of Durango. The city
commissioners, acting as the board OF
health. have issued orders to the eff
feet that no person shall he permitted
to attend the public or private schools
of the city unless they have been vac
cinated. The board of directors of tn"
public schools and managers or per
sons in charge Of private schools are
expressly forbidden to permit any stu
dent who has not been vacclnated to
attend school.
Of A SnlIiqrS who
died or were killed In Europe during
the war either will be brought to the
United States without charge or left
i'm the honored military cemeteries as
relatives may desire, according to
letter received by Rex b. Yeager, sec
retary of the Colorado State Board of
Embalming Examiners, from Repre-
sentative Charles b. Timberlake, mem
ber of the ways and means committee
OF the House.
Rule X. Johnson, alias Charles II.
Jewell, the alleged fOrger, who was
shot and dangerously wounded by
Turnkey Ed Coats when Johnson, to-
gether with several other inmates of
the county Jail, attempted to break out
of that institution Dec. 2T, pleaded
guilty before Judge f. A. Park in Dis
trict Court at Pueblo to the charge of
passing bogus checks and received
sentence of from seven to ten years in
the state penitentiary.
Newcastle may have to close its pub
lie schools as the result of refusal OF
the school board to grant an increase
of 5000 a year in the salaries of the
teachers.
Craig will have a modern creamery
manufacturing butter and ice cream If
sufficient cream can be secured to
make the proposition success.
Colorado has spent on an average of
$25, 900 to $4,000 per mile on concrete
roads.
Colorado is coming to he one of the
most important states in the produc-
ton of vegetable seed. The Seed Re
porting Service of the United States
Bureau of Markets found total of
3T,131 acres devoted to vegetable
seeds, including sugar beet seed, in
1918. There was considerable falling
off in 1919, principally in seed beans,
which is the most important seed crop
grown In the state.
A tent city of 400 tents, to cost
S165 900, is to be built in Colorado
Springs before the summer tourist sea
son in order TO accommodate the eX-
pected crowds. The. tents will be
equipped and furnishf and there will
be a garage and cafeteria in connec-
ton. The Chamber of Commerce is
backing the project, owing to the com
plants of last season of the lack of ac-
commodations.
The end of the 1919-20 beet season
Il, Of 81,