The Dolores star., 1920-05-07
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

cities and towns In the state. accord
ing to the annual opportunity survey
now being completed by the State I'm
migration Department. Apparently
there is greater demand for hotels at
the present time than for any other
kind of business establishments, more
than sixty cities and towns reporting
need for new hotels or for purchasers
for existing hotels. There Is also con-
siderable demand for physicians,
though not so large call as there was
at this time last year. The list now in.
rludes nearly 1000 opportunities, in
more than fifty different business and
professional lines. 1t does not include
positions of employment in established
business houses, but only opportuni-
ties for the establishment of new bust.
ness houses in locations WHARF cOndi.
tions are favorable for success.
Reports received by the Colorado Co
operative Crop Reporting Service from
in all parts of the state
Indicate that there will be falling
rn 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 10 per cent as large
an acreage will be planted to beans
this year as last year. The total acre.
age reported for this crop in Colorado
last year was 69,3O0 acr, :, compared
4, t..
acres in 1917. The indicated acreage
this year is from $4,000 to 5000 acres
Reports from the principal potato pro.
ducing sections indicate that the grow.
ers now contemplate planting slightly
more than 90 per cent as great an acre.
age of potatoes to be grown under ir.
rgation as We're planted last year
Reports from the districts where pota
toes are grown without irrigation indi.
cate about the same percentage.
Twelve years of differences between
rival factions of the G. A. X. at Grand
Junction, the Grand Junction Post No
81 and Phil Sheridan Post No IS, end
ed when charter for the new "Johr
a. Logan Post No. u" arrived from
the commanders office in Denver
There was great rejoicing among the
old soldiers as the news spread that
been forgotten and old ties united. a
big celebration for Memorial day Il,
planned by the combined posts.
o. l.. Croft, 10 years old, of Denver
Grande railroad for the past thirty
years, was found crushed to death IL
an elevator shaft in the Congress hote.
at Pueblo. His body was found BY
Joe Walker, freight elevator pilot, who
starts to work at s O'Clock Walker
conducted the elevator from the base
ment upward and when he got betwecr
the first and second floors he noticed
Mr.. Croft's body. He had been .leat
several hours.
Patrons in thesrural school districts
of FL Paso county in the last fou
years have decreased the number OF
districts in the county by one-fiftl
through the casting of ma iOrity ballot.
for school consolidation. The lates
consolidation was effected when Dis
trct No. 81, northeast of Calhan, vote6
to combine with Calhan, which has {
modern building and High school
The children from the northeast dis
trict are to be transported to CalhaI
by motor bus.
At n meeting of fair officials OF
Grand, Routt and Moffat counties &
plan was recently evolved whereby the
various Moffat road counties nav 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 IL, II
and II, and Grand county the follow
ing week.
Advance reports from county as
SCISSORS on the number of fruit tree.
of bearing age in the various counties
now being received by the State Immi
grafton Department, indicate that tn,
total number of fruit trees in the stat,
will be considerably greater than mos
people have believed. There has beer
no complete survey of the number o.
fruit trees in the state since that mad,
by the Federal Census Bureau in 1910
and the general impression has beer
that the increase in all classes of frui
has been very slight since tha
time and in some classes n decreas,
has been forecasted. Such reports IA.
have been received to date, however
Indicate increases in all classes of frui
trees and rather large increases II
most classes. These increases are du,
chiefly to relatively small increases il
counties where fruits are not raiset
extensively.
William !. Lott, 25 years old, for
mer soldier, shot and killed himself nj
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 beer
nt tho hpu1 of tho Strnat ,.lounin, 1n