The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-05-07
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

correspondents in all parts of the state
indicate that there will be a falling
off in the acreage devoted to both
beans and potatoes in Colorado this
year, unless plans of growers are ma
terially revised between now and plant
ing time. These reports Indicate that
only about 20 to IS per cent as large
an acreage will be planted to beans
this year us last year. The total acre
age reported for this crop In Colorado
last year was 69,300 acres, compared
with 252,OO acres in 1918, and 25O.0OO
acres in 1917. The indicated acreage
this year is from $4,000 to $1,000 acres
Reports from the principal potato pro-
ducing sections indicate that the grow
ers now contemplate planting slightly
more than 80 per cent as great an acre
age of potatoes to be grown under ir
rigation as were planted last year.
Reports from the districts where pota-
toes are grown without irrigation indi-
cate about the same percentage
Advance reports from county as
SCISSORS ON the number of fruit. trees
of bearing age in the various counties,
now being received by the State Immi-
grafton Department, indicate that the
total number of fruit trees in the state
people have believed. There has been
no complete survey of the number Of
fruit trees in the state since that made
by the Federal Census Bureau in 1910,
and the general impression has been
that the increase in all classes Of fruit
has been very slight since that
time and in some classes a decrease
has been forecasted. Such reports as
have been received to date, however,
trees and rather large increases in
most classes. These increases are due
chiefly to relatively small increases in
counties where fruits are not raised
extensively.
Twelve years of differences between
junction, the Grand Junction Post No.
80 and Phil Sheridan Post No. IS, end
ed when charter for the new John
A. Logan Post No. 81" arrived from
the commanders office in Denver.
There was great rejoicing among the
old soldiers as the news spread that
the ng-drawn-out disagreements had
been forgotten and old ties united. A
big celebration for Memorial day is
planned by the combined posts.
o. L. Croft, 70 years old, of Denver,
conductor on the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad for the past thirty
years, was found crushed to death in
an elevator shaft in the Congress hotel
at Pueblo His body was found by
Joe Walker, freight elevator pilot who
starts to work at o'clock. Walker
conducted the elevator from the base
ment upward and when he got between
the first and second floors he noticed
Mr.. Croft's body. He had been lead
several hours.
Patrons in the rural school districts
of El Paso county in the last four
years have decreased the number of
districts in the county by one-fffth
through the casting of majority ballots
for school consolidation. The latest
consolidation was effected when Dis.
trict No. 81, northeast of Calhan, voted
to combine with Calhan, which has a
modern building and High school
The children from the northeast dis
trict are to be transported to Calhan
by motor bus.
William l. Lott, % years old, a for
mer soldier, shot and killed himself at
Canon City. He placed the revolver
at his right temple and pulled the trig-
ger, dying Instantly. No reason is Civ
en- for ending his life. He has been
at the head of the street cleaning de-
partment since his return from war
The annual field day of the women
of the University of Colorado will be
held on May 10Th, and in connection
with it there will be a dance-drama
that promises to become the feature of
the days program. Contests that have
been scheduled include tennis, archery,
baseball and certain track events.
Three days of watchful waiting on
the part of city and federal authorities
of Denver resulted in the capture i'll
the fashionable Park Hill residential
district of Harry F. Edwards and Jack
Richardson, two alleged moonshiners,
and the confiscation of what was said
to be the largest collection of moon
shine paraphernalia ever found in Den
yer. One thousand gallons of whisky
was also captured.
At a meeting of fair officials of
Grand, Routt and Moffat counties a
plan was recently evolved whereby the
various Moffat road counties may CO.
operate in the matter of fairs. There
will be no competition in the matter
Of dates this year. Moffat county
comes first, September 10 and IL:
Routt county next. September Is, 16
and II, and Grand county the follow
ng week.
The snow on Rabbit Ear pass, at the
top of the continental divide, is re-
ported to be fifty feet deep in places.
Telephone poles forty feet high are
showed under by at least ten feet, ac-
cording to linesmen. At Steamboat