The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-01-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS.
Denver-Colorado Metal Mining Asso-
citation meet Jan. 20. 81 and 20. 1920
Denver-Colorado Editorial Associa-
Denver-Live Stock Show, January II
to "a. 1920.
The Holly Sugar Corporation will
spend 100000 on the Grand Junction
plant, work to start with the close Of
sugar campaign this month.
Grand county roads will be improved
with the expenditure of $175.OOO fed
eral and state funds during 1920, ac-
cording to report from the recent
highway commission meeting
About 1900 acres of broom corn was
grown in Colorado in 1919. compared
with 10000 acres in 1918. The decrease
in acreage was due largely to dissat-
isfaction on the part OF growers with
the prices obtained for the 1918 crop
Alloy plants and mining properties
in Colorado valued at approximately
$4,OOO,0OO changed hands when the
holdings of the Primos Chemical Com
pany were purchased by Charles M
Schwab, according to officials of the
Primos company in Denver.
Another road project has been sub
mitted by the state to the federal bu
reau of roads. 1t is known as project
No. 95 and calls for the construction of
six miles of sand and clay surface high
Il H. ~
an estimated cost of $24, ,42O.
Over 100000 pieces of Denver and
Colorado literature, booklets, pam
phlets and postcards were distributed
during 1919 through the main office
and Union station offices in Denver
and branch offices in Colorado
Springs, Chicago, Kansas City, st.
Louis and Los Angeles.
Receipts of gold and silver bullion at
the Denver mint in 1919 totaled $19.-
13,2S9.13, according to announcement
by Thomas Annear, superintendent of
the mint. The bullion included ST.
73,2SS0S of gold and S1,S4O, ,OO1 05 of
silver. The receipts for 1919 are ST.
1000 less than in 1918.
Colorado spent on its own account,
in round figures, $1,500,00O for good
roads during the year just closed. The
exact amount, as shown by voucher
records in the office of State Auditor
Arthur nj. Stong, was $1,477 ,245.SS
This is by far the largest expenditure
the state has ever made in single
Eear for highway construction.
is one of the greatest play
Ris OF. the 7nutioA Ia aosA- ma q
tgana million people spent their vaca-
lions jim the national forests of the
state. Automobiles to the number of
| $4,000 also toured the forest highways
during the summer season. SO vast are
these Fairgrounds to the people that it
is impossible to go into the Rockies
without entering national forest
The Colorado apple crop was one of
the largest the state has produced in
spite of the severe damage caused the
crop by the frost on and about June 1.
The agricultural production is estimat-
ed at 3.41S.000 bushels, compared with
2,511 100 bushels in 1918 and 1868 094
bushels reported by the census In 1909,
| which was one of the best fruit years
Colorado has ever enjoyed. especially
for apples
The State Inheritance Tax Depart
ment closed the year with the remark
able record of having turned 1885,
039.10 into the state treasury since
Dec. l, 1918, the beginning of the 1919
20 biennial period This showing
breaks all previous records for the de-
| partment and is more than double
what state officials had estimated ear
ly in the year would be received from
this source.
Reports of county assessors give
| 967,3S2 acres of winter wheat for the
state in 1919, and 35S,351 acres of
spring wheat. With 10 per cent added
the areas devoted to these two crops
are found to be 1,064,00O acres and
395,000 acres respectively Reports of
threshermen indicate that the average
yield of winter wheat per acre was 11.2
bushels, and that of spring wheat las
bushels. The higher yield of spring
wheat is due to the fact that about 46
per cent of spring wheat was irrigated
while somewhat less than u per cent
of the winter wheat was grown under
irrigation.
Boulder county increased its output
| of silver from 157, 900 ounces in 1918
| to 100000 ounces in 1919 from the
Yellow Pine at Sugar Loaf, the White
Raven at Ward, and from the mines
| at Caribou. The mines in Gilpiu
| county were not active, and the closing
| of the Argo mill and its associated
fremont (GunnelD mine at the end
of the ,Argo adit, reduced the produc.
tion Ksyly. This county produced
$S3,J00sS gold and 1900 ounces of
| silver. The Becky Sharp mine pro
Guced considerable gold ore, and the
Gilpin Eureka shipped amalgam bul-
| lion and concentrates.
K total of 3,036 building permits
We're isued during 1919, for $6,779,SSC