The Ordway new era., 1920-03-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

stallntion of cement sidewalks through
out the town.
Boulder has purchased 400 acres Of
land along the watershed of North
Boulder creek to protect the city's wat
er supply.
| Denver's population is 263,973, ac-
cording 10 semi-official reports of the
census recheck now being made in
Washington.
Miss Lillian Brunstein. an accom-
plished 17-year-old viOlinist, who was
born and raised In the city of Fort Col
Inns, has been declared by critics of
national reputation to be one of the
most technically perfect musicians of
the day.
william Hogan of New York City
hus sued the Borden Condensed MIX
Company for 100000, alleging that as
a consequence of one of the milk COM
pnny's horses having bitten his wife
few months before his baby Jeannette
was born. the child came into the
world physically deformed.
Miss Dorothy Smith, 16-year-old
daughter of Frederick II. Smith, CASH
| Ter of the First National Bank of Colo
RADIO Springs. is near death at Welles-
ley, Mass, as the result of n skiing ac-
cident in which she was impaled by
broken skiing rod. Miss Smith fell on
the fragments of the stick and her abb
domen was perforated in three places.
More than $1,000 was raised at
MOntrOse by committee to insure the
construction of the new court house
| for MOntrose county on new site,
instead of building it on the present
site of the old court house which has
served the county since Its incorpora-
ton, but which is now being sur
rounded by wholesale houses, produce
markets and railroad switches.
Petitions are now being circulated in
the territory affected for the forma-
tion of drainage district that will
drain a total area of 60000 acres, eN-
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.
Edward Ives, mental defective
convict, sawed his way through steel
bars at window of his cell in the
state penitentiary hospital Mt 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 low stone wall, from
which he climbed to the high wall sur
rounding the prison enclosure.
Approximately $500, 600 of permanent
srate school funds have been invested
In state, school and water bonds since
the first of the present month, says
State Treasurer Harry e. Mulnix. or
this amount $4,000 was used to pur-
chase state bonds of the national de-
fense series of 1917 to provide funds
with which to take up certificates of
| Indebtedness issued in connection with
the state troop mobilization of three
months ago.
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. IA
timber famine is bound to come" says
w. j. Morrill, of the Colorado Agricul-
tural College "indeed, locally In many
parts of the United States 1t has ar
lived already as reflected In the high
prices of lumber"
Alexander T. vogelsang, the first as
s,stnnt secretary of the interior, has
designated 423,050 acres of land In
| the Iendvllle district us chiefly valu-
| able for grazing and the raising of
| forage crops and as subject to entry
| under the stock raising homestead
| law. All of these lands have been
ar,aied for heretofore by several hum
dred homesteaders In the Leadville dis
| trict
Reports to the State Cooperative
Crop Reporting Service Indicate that
35 per cent of the 1919 Colorado corn
crop, or 3,922, 900 bushels. was In the
hands of growers on March l, COM
pared with 80 per cent, or 3,202 900
bushels on March l last year. The
amount of the 1919 wheat crop on hand
March is estimated nt Is per cent, or
2.647, 900 bushels, compared with 16
| per cent, or 2,464,000 bushels on
March /, 1910. The amount of oats on
hand is estimated at 30 per cent, or q
0SS,OOO bushels, compared with "a per
cent, or 3,2S7 900 on March 1, 1910, and
the amount of barley on hand is esti-
mated at 30 per cent, or 1,170.0O0 BUSH
els, compared with 30 per cent, or l.
10000 bushels on March last year.
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