Gilpin observer., 1920-03-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

The ore shipments from Telluride
in February were 11O cars, three cars
more than in the same month last
gear.
Pruning is now in full swing at the
Grand Valley and in almost every
orchard men are being employed in
this necessary spring work. The trees
show little effect of the severe winter.
Miss Dorothy Smith; 16-year-old
daughter Of Frederick r. Smith, cash
Ter of the First National Bank of Colo
RADIO Springs, IL near death at Welles-
ley, Mass, as the result of a skiing ac-
cident in which she was impaled by a
broken skiing rod. Miss Smith fell on
the fragments of the stick and her ab-
domen was perforated in three places.
Negotiations were completed in Den
yer for the purchase of $56,5O0 worth
of radium by the Medical and Surgical
group of Denver. The deal was made
with the Radlum Company Of Colo
RADIO. One-half gram, or seven and
three-quarters grams Of the precious
mineral is contained in the tube pur-
chased.
An excess Of $37,s71.51 over the
amount available for administration
and engineering purposes was spent
by the State Highway Commission in
the fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1919,
according to report by State Audi
tor Stong. The total expenditure for
these purposes was $1S2,775.96 OF
this, $45, ,22S.S0 was spent in prelim-
mary engineering for future federal
aid projects.
Edward Ives, mental defective
convict, sawed his way through steel
bars at window Of his cell in the
state penitentiary hospital at Canon
City and made his escape. After saw
ing through two heavy steel bars, the
ends of which he forced outward, Ives
crawled through the opening and
gained access to a low stone wall, from
which he climbed to the high wall sur
rounding the prison enclosure.
The growth Of saw timber in the
United States is believed to be only
one third of the amount annually cut.
Twenty-nine of our states import more
timber than is cut within their bound
aries, and every exporting state is cut
ting faster than their timber grows. "a
timber famine is bound to come" says
w. ]. Morrill, of the Colorado Agricul-
tural College; "indeed, locally in many
parts of the United States it has ar
rived already as reflected in the high
prices of lumber"
1t costs the state Of Colorado $43.76
less to educate n student at the Fort
Collins Agricultural college than at the
state university at Boulder, according
to reports on the two big institutions
submitted to Governor Shoup by Audi
tor of State Stong. The average ex-
pense of educating a student at the
Agricultural college, Stong reports, is
$1S7.51, while at the state university
it is $231.27. The Agricultural college
spent 5000, 2,01SOS educating 1,1S4 stu
dents, while at the university the edu-
cation of 1,745 students cost $4OS,-
1923 These figures are for the year
1919.
Colorado and Wyoming naval re-
servists who served during the war
with Germany may obtain Victory but
tons by applying to Lieutenant Com
mander p. 8. Theiss of the Denver
navy recruiting station or to the petty
officer in charge Of the recruiting sta
tion nearest them. Hitherto only men
who served in the regular navy could
obtain these buttons in Denver, the
reservists being required to apply to
the commandant of the Twelfth Naval
district, San Francisco, Calf. All ap-
plications for Victory buttons must be
accompanied by a discharge or release
from active duty.
Petitions are now being circulated In
the territory affected for the forma-
tion of drainage district that will
drain a total area of 10000 acres, ex-
tending northward from the Rio
Grande to the vicinity Of Center, In the
San Luis valley. Thirty thousand acres
of this vast tract is not now under cul-
tivation, and this drainage district will
convert the greater part of this acre
age into productive farms.
Reports to the State Cooperative
Crop Reporting Service indicate that
35 per cent of the 1919 Colorado corn
crop, or 8,822,0O0 bushels, was in the
hands Of growers on March 1, COM
pared with 80 per cent, or 3,202,OOO
bushels on March 1 last year. The
amount OF the 1919 wheat crop on hand
March Is estimated ut Is per cent, or
2,647 900 bushels, compared with 16
per cent, or 2,464,0OO bushels on
March 1, 1919 The amount of oats on
hand Is estimated at 80 per cent, or q
OSS, 900 bushels, compared with "a per
cent, or 3,2s7, 900 on March 1, 1919, and
the amount Of barley on hand is esti-
mated at 30 per cent, or 1,17O,OO0 bush
els, compared with 30 per cent, or L.