The Dolores star., 1920-06-18
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

Statistics gathered throuF" '"'
.,..s.ors and COMPLIED by The stale
immigration Department Indicate '''''
colorudo's rural population has in'
creased very materially In 'he P'st ""
years. and in tl. principal asricu''ur"'
districts has Increased more fhplulN
than the urban population. inns ~
inst the opposite TO what has "''"rr'"
i'm the principal agricultural states i"''
thor east, where census reports ~"
lhains made public show that ruraI
nonulntion has not Increased nearly 50
r,ridIy us that of The elites, aud IN
many districts has actually decrease"
sine, 1910 In the non.irrigai'h us
tricts Of eastern 'olorad" Tue rura'
pnpnlntion has increased very rilp'uE
since 1910, and In some cases the NUM-
her of farms under cultivation NJ pres
ent. ms shown by assessors reports,
| s more than double that OF ten years
ago This Is also true in many dis
tricts on the western slope, pnr'icu-
lnrly In Moffat, Rio Blanco, san Nigu"i
and Dolores counties The records OF
the immigration department show iia'
several thousand people from other
states have come 10 Colorado IN the
past two years ind have purchased or
rented farms, while an almost equally
large number of persons from other
states have filed upon homestcnds In
this state
A schedule Of seventeen trips, six or
them for three days each, has been
arranged by the officers of the Rocky
Mountain Climbers Club for the 1920
season The first trip will be taken
Iune 10Th to Green canon, near Bout
der. and will be followed a week later
by an alI-night trip ON Flagstaff noun
tain. The first three-day trip Will he
conducted July - to Devils Thumb
and Jasper lake. The club is starting
its activities three weeks earlier than
usual nj the request OF "uiof-stat"
members. who already are beginning
to arrive in Boulder.
Grand valley fruit growers have
learned sad but nevertheless true news
abou, the 1920 fruit crop. 1t was be
licved that the apples had escaped
damage from the winter cold, and all
varieties but one did escape, but the
popular Winesap suffered almost com
plete extinction i'll that valley. IL Is
declared so far as the 1920 crop is
concerned The winter cold damaged
the buds so that they had no vitality,
and although they bloomed as usual
the blooms fell off and the trees will
be bare of fruit
Nr. and Mrs. G. A. Pughley of Wich-
ita, Kan, who formerly lived on Il
ranch near Tobe. in Las Animas couu.
ty, positively identified clothing found
in ravinc near Tohe as that worn by
their i.ycnr-old son, Donald, when he
| disappeared from their ranch home
| April 10, 1919. Donald was playing
about the ranch near TObc late in the
afternoon of April 10. 1919, hut that
was the last glimpse his parents had
| of him.
| The state school fund was enriched
by Sl49,4S0 as the result of the June
sale of state school land. The State
Board of Land Commissioners sold ;,
$40 acres for that sum. The averag,
price per acre, $3.50, is the highest
obtained by the board for months Con
siderable rivalry developed in the bid
ding for certain parcels of land The
highest price was realized for a trac
of irrigated land in Weld county. Fol
this the hoard obtained $40 an acre.
Carlos NJ Cole, superintendent o.
Denver's public schools since 1919
died at st. Luke's hospital in that city
His death, which came unexpectedly v
was due to influenza, his attendinj
physicians declared. contracted Will,
he was In a weakened condition fol
lowing an operation for appendicitis
The proposed new highway over Ber
thoud Pass, between Empire and Fra
iZer, Colo, a distance of twenty-scve
miles, will cost about 100000. accord
ing to the survey made by crews wOrE
ing under the direction of A. +. Pnler
senior highway engineer of the Unite
States Bureau of Public Roads.
A ten-pound son was born to Mayo
and Mrs. +. w. Stovcr at their hom
, in Fort Collins. In addition 10 bein
born the son of the mayor of Fort Co
5 Inns, the new arrival has been name
Wiliinm Charlps-William for his ~;
terial grandfather, Il pioneer ana III
first president of the Poudre Vale
Bank of thai city. and Charles for hi
maternal grandia.l"r, Congressman
Charles Il. Timberlake
Ranchmen along Muddy creek il
Grand county have bought the tele
phone lines of the Mountain State
Telephone and Telegraph Company il
: that district and have organized th
Muddy Creek Telephone Association
They will extend the lines from
. kremmling, twenty-thrce miles north
TO the Martin postoffIcc at Whitley
peak. Fifteen phones will be connec,