The Keota news., 1920-05-14
COLORADO NEWS MOTIFS.

portunltles In Colorado for the estab-
lishment of business houses In various
lines, for new factories and for tho To-
cation of business and professional
people In some Of the most prosperous
cities and towns In the state. accord
Ing to the annual opportunity survey
now being completed by the State I'm
migration Department. Apparently
there 10 greater demand for hotels at
the present time than for any other
kind of business establishments. more
than sixty cities and towns reporting
need for new hotels or for purchasers
for existing hotels. There II also con.
siderable demand for physicians,
though not 70 large coil as there was
at this time last year. The list now In.
cludes nearly 1000 opportunities. In
more than fifty different business and
professional lines. 1t docs not include
positions Of employment In established
business houses. but only opportuni'
tics for tho establishment OF new bust.
ness houses In locations WHARF condi-
lions are favorable for success.
Reports received by the Colorado CO.
operative Crop Reporting Service from
correspondents In ail parts Of the state
indicate that there will be . falling
uff In the acreage devoted to both
beans aud potatoes In Colorado this
year, unlexS plans Of growers are ma.
tcrinlly revised between now and plant.
Ing time. These reports Indicate that
only about 20 to Is per cent NJ large
an acreage will be planted to beans
this year ~ last year. The total acre
age reported for this crop In Colorado
last year was 00,30O acres, compared
with ~, 600 acres In 1918. and 1000
acres In 1917. The indicated acreage
this year Ii from $1,000 to g. 900 acres.
Reports from the principal potato pro-
duclng sections indicate that the grow
ers now contemplate planting slightly
moro than 90 per cent - great an acre
age Of potatoes to he grown under ir-
risation N were planted last year.
Reports from the districts where pota.
toes are grown without Irrigation indi.
cate about the same percentage.
Twelve years Of differences between
rival factions Of the q. A. II. at Grand
Junction, the Grand Junction Post No.
IS and Phil Sheridan Post No. 1A, end.
ed when q charter for the new "J0hn
A. Logan Post No. q" arrived from
the commanders office In Denver.
There was great rejoicing among the
old soldiers as the news spread that
the ong.tlrawn-odt disagreements had
been forgotten and old ties united. A
big celebration for Memorial day u
planned by the combined posts.
O. L. Croft, e years old, Of Denver.
Q conductor on the Denver & Rio
0rande railroad for the past thirty
years, was found crushed to death In
an elevator shaft in the Congress hotel
at Pueblo. His body was found by
Joe Walker; freight elevator pilot. who
starts to work at o'clock. Walker
conducted the elevator from the base
ment upward and when he got between
the first and second floors he noticed
Mr.. Croft's body. He had been dead
several hours.
Patrons In the rural school districts
Of FL Paso county in the Inst four
years have decreased the number Of
districts in the county by one-flfth
through the casting Of ma jorlty ballots
for school consolidation. The lntest
consolidation was effected when Dis
trict No. 0l, northeast Of Calhan, voted
to combine with Calhan, which has q