Gilpin observer., 1920-01-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


Craig will have a modern creamery
manufacturing butter and ice cream ii
sufficient cream can be secured to
make the proposition a success.
Nels Johnson, 81, first fire chief in
Colorado Springs and organizer of the
first volunteer company, is dead. He
had been resident of Colorado
Springs for forty years.
Beet growers of the Longmont dis
the payment of 81 additional a ton of
beets by the Great Western Sugar
Company, according to an announce
ment made by N. II. McCreery of the
Longmont factory.
Mrs. Nevada J. Haywood, SO years
old, and wife of William d. Haywood,
general secretary of the I. 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 s. Lane, living near Grand
Junction, is under arrest, charged with
having killed two deer out Of season.
The report Of the game warden, G. 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,
| Cho Nf ;svI, l. l,.;r Il
died at Pueblo. He was 80 years old.
Plans for building a tent city in
Boulder to accommodate summer
tourists have been initiated by the
Lions Club. George ]. Breitenstein
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 3,294,.
1888 acres of land have been taken up
in this state, according to a statement
issued by N. D. McEniry, chief Of the
Denver field division. In addition to
that amount, he estimated that nearly
| 6,OOOO00 more acres are available fol
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 fol
probe Of the alleged profiteers
Manager Bryant Smith Of the Asso
ciated Students has also asked for ar
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. 1. Griffin OF
the Ordway New Era, vice president
and George T. Haubrich Of the Weld
County News, Greeley, secretary ant
treasurer.
Delta is to have a new canning plant
A committee. of Delta business mer
spent several days In Denver working
out the details. They are going tt
deal with a large eastern slope can
ming company. The plant will be put
up on large scale. Delta plans man!
big improvements this year, and the
outlook was never brighter for a bis
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 or
the same basis as employed last yeal
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 12,65S, ,055 tons in 1918 tt
1885,, ,583 tons in 1919, 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 wa.
greater than 1,OOO,OOO tons.
Another new discovery Of ore bear
ing gold and silver and one of thu
richest finds In the Silverton sector
in years, is reported from the prop
erty of the Gold King Extension
Mines Company on Bonita mountain
The find was made in eighteen inche,
of white quartz and values up to 5O(
ounces Of gold per ton and 40 to q
ounces Of silver are reported.
| Weld county farmers will receive
100000 additional payment from the
1910 sugar beet crop as the result OF
the action Of the Great Western Sugar
| Company in raising the nrice maid for
the beets already ground into sugar
from $40 ton to $11. Three factory
districts, Greeley, Windsor and Eaton,
raised approximately 100000 tons of
beets each and more than 100000 tons
were raised by farmers In southern
and western Weld county for factories