The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-01-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union New. service.

ty-two cities in the West and Far
West to be placed on the itinerary of
a 6.000-mile trade extension tour to be
undertaken in February by members
OF the manufacturers and wholesale
merchants board OF the Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce.
The county commissioners of Routt
county have selected the site for
new courthouse The proposition will
be put up to the public next election,
when an $4,000 bond issue will be
submitted. The location is on the
principal street of Steamboat Springs
and Will be whole block.
UnseasOned or green posts, ties and
poles in contact with the soil will
last practically as long as seasoned
wood This Is the conclusion of expe-
riments and observations made by the
Forest Products laboratory at Madi-
son, Wis., and was given to this paper
by Professor Morrill,, head of forestry
department at Colorado Agricultural
college.
Five men, arrested last summer on
charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses, have been placed on
trial in the District Court at Brighton.
1t is charged that the men sold stock
to certain residents of Adams county
at price far in excess of the market
value. They are alleged to have Sc
cured $4,000 from local farmers in
this manner.
The Longmont Stave Silo Company
has bought a factory site at La Sale
with railroad loading facilities and
will build a cement stave silo factory
there this winter The company will
employ eighteen men and has con-
tracts of 100000 in 1920 business.
The La Sale plant Will be the second
stave silo factory to be constructed in
Weld county this year.
Work has been started at Brighton
on a new theater building, to be COM
pleted by May l, when it will be
opened as a picture show by H. w.
james, local capitalist. ]. N. Counter,
retired business man, is interested
with James in erecting the structure.
The building is modelled after the
Webber theater in Denver and will
cost approximately $4,000 when COM
plete.
King Spud will reign supreme in
Denver from January 20 to %, inclu-
sive. A western potato exposition OF
seven states will be held in the Den
yer Auditorium. The annual meeting
| of the Colorado Potato Growers AS
| sociation, at which the reorganization
of the association will be perfeS1ed
| and important legislative action on
seed certification laws and shipping
point inspection service will be dis
| cussed.
| On a shipment consisting of thirty
| two carload lots of manganese ore.
| which sold at the end of the line to
which they had been consigned for
| only $500, the director general OF
| railroads, in a suit filed in the Dis
| trict Court at Denver, demands rail-
| road charges of $22. 2.S64.3S. The ac-
| ton is directed against George p.
| Goodier, who is stated to have shipped
| the ore from Leadville to the Sea-
| board Steel and manganese Company
| at Temple, Pa.
| An order authorizing the disburse-
| ment of S25O,OOO annually in Colorado
| and Wyoming was received by Lieu
| tenant Commander Thesis of the Den
yer navy recruiting station. Lieuten-
| ant Thesis received permission to en-
| roll in class two of the naval reserve
| force all men who have given salts
| factory service in the navy, even
| though they took advantage of Secre-
tary Daniels order permitting them
to leave the service without complet-
| ing their enlistment.
Denver is one Of twenty-five cities
in the West and Far West which has
been placed in the itinerary of g.
OOO-mile trade extension tour to be
undertaken in February by members
of the manufacturers and wholesale
merchants board of the Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce. The party will
spend Saturday, March 6, in Denver,
meeting with the manufacturers bu-
reau of the Civic and Commercial As
sociation and various other business
mems organizations.
Reports of county assessors for
1919, as tabulated by the State Immi-
grafton Department, show that 26,-
62O,O94 acres, or 40.13 per cent of the
total area of the state, is assessed as
agricultural land This includes Il
very large area that has never been
broken and much that will never be
broken, being valuable only for graz
ing purposes. 1t includes more than
| 10.000,UO0 acres cassed as 'dry farm
| ing" land, most of which ultimately
will be cultivated. Reports of coun-
ty assessors made to the Immigration
| ro,,,rt,,apt in 1910 Shn,yad that tI,ors
was approximately 5,500,0O0 acres in
cultivation last year, the largest ever
cultivated in one year.
The correspondence of the State
Immigration Department indicates
that more than 800 people have come
to the state in the past year as di-
rect result of the work of the depart
| ment. while many more have been in