The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-03-05
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

tnrOugn tne agency OF greater idh
road facilities, reflected in the pro-
posed construction of three railroad
tunnels through the Rockies, was dis
cussed in Denver at the Auditorium in
conference attended by 125 dele
gates, including mayors and other of
ficials representing forty towns OF
Colorado No formal action was tax
en-, the object being to present in de-
tail the advantages of the proposed
series of tunnels. Expressions OF
visiting mayors after the conference
brought assurances that the projects,
which entail construction cost OF
$l5,OOO,OOO, will be approved by the
voters in the November election.
Three more new sugar factories will
be built in northern Colorado this
year, according to announcements
made by two different companies. Of
fieers of the Mountain States Beet
Growers Association and officials of
the Midwest Sugar Co. of Cali
fornia plan to erect $1,500,00o
plant at Fort Collins. The Great Val
ley Sugar Corporation also announces
that they will build plant at Lone
Tree, two miles from Gill, Colo, at
cost of 100000. Another plant is
planned between the towns of Johns
town and Milliken that will cost about
IA million dollars.
Monarch pass will be open for traf-
| fic the latter part of July or the first
of August, according to the prediction
of United States Engineer Lafferty,
who is in charge of the work. All the
rough grading has been done between
Maysyille and Monarch. Hills were
blasted away and many ravines filled.
There remains nothing to be done on
this side practically except the sur
! facing of the road and the filling OF
some of the ravines. This will not be
attempted until the earth thaws.
Colorado will be represented among
six national delegates who will speak
for American woman suffrage in the
international convention of suffrag-
lists at Madrid, Spain, during the week
| beginning May 2 Word of the ap-
pointment of Mrs Helen Ring Robin
son of Denver, former state senator,
as one of the group. has been re-
ceived by the Colorado Woman Suf-
frage Association at Denver
| L. b. Crawford, predatory animal
inspector of Colorado, has completed
arrangements here for a war on
| ArchuIeta county animals that have
heretofore been preying on livestock.
The death knell has been sounded for
the coyote, wolf, mountain lion, lynx
and bobcat. The first means for
eradication will be traps and poison.
Den hunting will be extensively car
ried on later.
Colorado Springs has obtained
another convention for next August.
The Association of Chief Special
Agents of the United States Railroad
Administration, which recently has
been in session at Omaha, has voted
to meet there next summer, according
to Charles s. Rallsback, special agent
for the Santa Fe, who attended the
conference.
Murdoch Nelson, one of Fort Col
Inns most prominent residents, is dead
of heart disease. Mr. Nelson was cash
ier of the First National Bank at Fort
| Collins. AT the time of his death he
was a candidate for delegate to the
Republican national convention to be
held In Chicago. He left a widow and
two children.
Berne III. Hopkins, millionaire oil
operator of Colorado Springs, and his
brother, Albert G. Hopkins, narrowly
escaped death near Pring, fifteen
miles north of Colorado Springs, on
the Denver-Colorado Springs road,
when an automobile in which they
were riding skidded and plunged down
a fifteen-foot embankment.
| The Orchard Mesa irrigation fIume
was badly damaged and the automo-
bile road leading TO the Plateau val
ley was completely blocked when a
huge mudslide, carrying thousands of
tons of rocks and earth, crashed into
the road canon east of this city.
Victors postal carrier system is no
more. The government permanently
| discontinued mail deliveries making
the order effective at once, because of
| the dwindlng population of the town
Two carriers had handled the work in
late years. victor's population is now
estimated to be 1,500. The Postal De-
pdrtfneul uIu not consider tnlS number
large enough to justify further deliv-
cries.
The population has grown to such
an extent that the $4,000 school
building, erected three years ago at
Craig, now requires a $4,000 annex,
which will be built in the spring The
present high school has four-year
course with special instructors in
music, domestic science and manual
training and is accredited by colleges
and universities of the west.
The county commissioners of Doug
las have engaged the services of Ray
mond Miller of Rifle, Colo, as county
agriculturist for the coming year. He
is graduate of the State Agricul-
tural College and is highly recon-