The Colorado statesman., 1920-03-06
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

prepared by the State immigration De-
partment, with the cooperation of the
Denver Industrial Bureau, the Denver
Manufacturers Association and other
organizations familiar with the class OF
information which should be gathered
through such a survey. The immlgrn-
tion department has obtained from .he
Federal Census Bureau n copy of its
list of manufacturing establishments
in the state, and the schedules will be
mailed In few days to all names ap-
pearing on this list. Commercial clubs
and other organizations also Will be
called upon to aid in obtaining the
names of new manufacturing estab-
llshments not appearing on the list, TO
the end that no manufacturer in tile
state shall be overlooked in the survey.
An increase in acreage from 800 10
more than 5000 acres of sugar beets Is
the record which Montrose county has
pledged TO fulfill this year in order 10
assure a sugar factory enough sugar
beets to operate 1,000-ton daily ca
pacity factory there. AS guarantee
the Midwest Sugar Company, which
will move its factory from Hamilton
City, Calf. to Montrose Immediately,
hns more than 1000 acres under con-
tract and a written pledge by the lead
ing business men and growers of this
county that they will have the other
1000 acres ready to harvest this fall.
The population has grown to such
an extent that the $4,000 school
building, erected three years ago ut
Craig, now requires II $4,000 annex,
which will be built in the spring. The
present high school has four-year
course with special instructors in
music, domestic science and manual
training and is accredited by colleges
and universities of the west.
The cattlegrowers of western Colo
RADIO are cooperating heartily with the
cattlemen of other sections of the state
in a bitter fight to prevent the passage
of a bill in Congress which will revise
the charge for grazing permits on the
national forests and eventually lead to
the selling of these permits to the high
est bidder, regardless of priority OF
claims and residence.
The county commissioners of Doug
las have engaged the services of Kay
mond Miller of Rifle, Colo, as county
agriculturist for the coming year. He
is a graduate of the State Agricul-
tural College and is highly recon-
mended by that institution. He also
has practical experience as farmer,
having operated ranch near Rifle
for some time.
Murdoch Nelson, one of Fort Col
Inns most prominent residents, is dead
of heart disease Mr.. Nelson was cash
Ter of the First National Bank at Fort
Collins. At the time of his death he
was n candidate for delegate to the
Republican national convention to be
held in Chicago. He left a widow and
two children.
Berne H. Hopkins, millionaire oil
operator of Colorado Springs, and his
brother, Albert G. Hopkins, narrowly
escaped death near Pring, fifteen
miles north of Colorado Springs, on
the Denver Colorado Springs road,
when an automobile in which they
were riding skidded and plunged down
fifteen-foot embankment.
Que of the largest real estate deals
completed on the western slope in sew
eral months took place when Col. Man-
ford w. Smith sold the Golden Rod"
ranch to Fred Light, Sr., for S113,00O
This sale includes 800 acres, all the mi-
provements, buildings, machinery, i'm
plements and livestock near Aspen.
More than 200 gallons of wine,
large quantity of white mule" whis-
key, fifty gallons of raisin mash and
thirty gallons of prune mash, in pro-
cess of fermentation, with part of n
distilling plant, We're seized by sher-
ifs officers in the basement of the
dwelling of Mr.. and Mrs Joe Jackson
in Aguilar.
Colorado will be represented among
six national delegates who will speak
for American woman suffrage in the
international convention of suffrag
lists at Madrid, Spain, during the week
beginning May .. Word of the APP
pointment of Mrs. Helen Ring Robin
son of Denver, former state senator,
as one of the group, has been re-
ceived by the Colorado Woman Suf-
frage Association at Denver.
L. b. Crawford, predatory animal
inspector of Colorado, has completed
arrangements here for war on
Archuleta county animals that have
heretofore been preying on livestock.
The death knell has been sounded for
the coyote, wolf, mountain lion, lynx
and bobcat The first means for
eradication will be traps and poison.
Den hunting will be extensively car
ried on later.