Gilpin observer., 1920-04-22
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

County tables now being prepared
BY the State immigration Department
for the Colorado Year Book will show
general increase in the county tax
levies for the construction and main
tenance of highways. The levies range
from 1 mill to mills, and the total
revenue to be collected by the coun
ties for highway purposes will be in
the neighbOrhOod of S3,O00,O0O, the
highest in the history of the state, and
more than was available annually for
highway purposes from all sources in
the state ten years ago. In addition
to this there will be substantial in
creases in the amount collected this
year for highway purposes from auto
mobile license tax and from gasoline
tax, and the amount to be turned over
to the state by the federal government
from various sources for highway pur-
poses also will be larger than ever be-
fore. Apparently the total amount
available for highway purposes in the
state from all sources this year will
be in the neighbOrhood of $7,OOO,OOO.
Children between the ages of IA and
16 are barred from working in Colo
RADIO factories and industrial establish
ments later than p. M, as the re-
suit of ruling by w. l.. MOrrissey,
state labor commissioner, from fed
eral labor officials in Washington.
The ruling holds that the federal la
Dor law supersedes the state law in so
far as working hours for children are
concerned. Under the state law, chill
dren between the ages of IA and IS
could work until 8 o'clock at night,
under permit.
James Girardet and Fred S. Hotch-
kiss, two Delta county contractors,
have been given the contract for the
construction of the Delta -Montrose
| gravel highway, according to an
nOuncement from the State Highway
Commission. This contract calls for
an expenditure of from $4,000 to
| $50, 900 and the work will be completed
| this summer. When finished, this will
make the longest stretch of gravel
road in the UncOmpahgre valley,
twenty-three miles.
Rienzi Dickens of Long Beach,
| Calf, after an absence from Colorado
of four years, appeared in the District
Court at Boulder and was granted
further liberty under bond of $37, 800.
The bond was signed by himself, his
mother, Mrs. w. H. Dickens, and by
Walter G. COulehan, cashier of the
Farmers National bank Of Longmont,
who is his brOther-in-law. Dickens is
accused of having killed his father, w.
ii. Dickens, Longmont pioneer and
| banker.
| Denver restaurant keepers who be-
gan campaign to reduce the con-
sumption of potatoes will not deprive
their patrons of potatoes by removing
them from the menus, but instead will
suggest daily that their customers use
substitutes, such as sweet potatoes,
cabbage, macarOni and other food
stuffs, until the price of potatoes is
forced down through lack of demand.
The repeal of the compulsory vac
cination law was advocated by II resO-
luton passed by the Mothers Congress
and ParentTeacher Association at IL
meeting held in Denver. The resolu-
tiOn stated that a committee appoint
cd by the chair should seek to have
this law revoked at the next session
of the State Legislature.
To honor the memory of George
DuclO, ManitOu marine killed in the
war, the town council of Manitou has
changed the name of Ute avenue to
Duclo avenue for all time A bronze
monument to Duclo is to be erected
also. DuclO was killed at Chateau
Thierry.
The House committee on public
buildings and grounds have agreed OH
legislation authorizing expenditure OF
$50, 100000 to Duiid or purchase hos
pitfalls for soldiers in the various states
This will include one hospital or more
in Colorado.
Colorado is working to establish a
state forest of something over 100000
acres to be conservatively managed
for the sustained yield of timber and
forage:
Investigations by the Colorado Agri
cultural College are beginning to show
that shrinkage of live stock when
shipped to market can be greatly re
duced. The most important thing Is Il
comfortable car and not much crowd
ing. The next thing is to have the
animals well fed and contented when
they are loaded and until they ar.
sold at the terminal market. In Other
words, plenty of feed and water and
comfortable quarters are most import
ant.
Unless more substantial evidence Is
submitted to the government census
bureau by the Chamber of Commerce
the city of Colorado Springs will have
to accept as final and official the re
cent census report Of slightly less than
10000 for that city From the nature