Gilpin observer., 1920-02-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
| Denver Automotive Show will be held
in Denver. March to 8. at Stock
yards Stadium.
Store, at Aurora, and stole merchan
disc estimated by H. Mcdowell. propri
etor of the store to be worth $1,000.
The Cox Mercantile Company store
at Fruita was entered by burglars and
$50 worth Of clothing was confiscated
and some cash taken from the regis
ter.
Twenty-seven building permits, in
vOlving the expenditure of more than
| $4,000, have been issued by the city
of Fort Collins since the first of the
year.
A tract of 5000 acres in the Black
Forest, northeast of Colorado Springs
owned by Gov. o. H. Shoup and asso,
ciates, is to be cut up and sold for
| farming land.
Residents of Nucla are planning to
| drill an artesian well with the hope
that they may strike oil also while aft
er water. A fund of $4,000 is being
raised to finance the work.
| The number of swine in Colorado at
the beginning of this year Is estimated
at 3S2,OO0, compared with 100000 last
year, and the average value per head
Is $1S, compared with 500 last year.
The Ford assembling plant in Den
yer, closed during the war, will be re-
opened on March Is, according to
Emory Alton, the Ford Manager. The
plant will give immediate employment
to 225 men.
Julian Martinez, wealthy ranchman
near Monte Vista, was arrested by
Warden Glen Goad for killing deer ont
of season. Martinez was taken to Del
Norte, where he pleaded guilty and
was fined $14O
The number of mules on hand in
Colorado this year is estimated at 81,
800, compared with $1,000 last year,
and the average value per head is es-
timated at S101, compared with S107
last year.
Three drafts which total more than
| $2OO,OOO and n large number of checks
which bring the entire amount to $780,
600, mailed from Pueblo, Feb. 6, have
failed to arrive at their Denver des-
| tinatiOn and bank officials fear that
they either have been lost or stolen
from the mails.
At meeting of the Larimer County
Fair Association in Loveland the fair
this year was set for Aug 81, Sept l.
2, 3. The Larimer county fair is one
of the largest in the state and is recog.
nized by all breeders OF livestock as
one of the best advertising mediums In
the fair field in the West.
| Mrs. Anna f. Mccormick, 86 years
old, pioneer of Cedaredge, who ar
rived in Denver May 3, 1874, and was
married there in 1882, Is dead She
was one of the prominent residents OF
Cedaredge and her death has occa-
stoned general sorrow She had spent
| fifty-six years in Colorado
| Theodore S. Smith. 81, farmer,
committed suicide mt the home of
his mother, Mrs. Belle Harper, who
lives on RalstOn avenue, just outside
of Arvnda, by shooting himself in the
head with revolver. Harper had
been despondent for several days. He
Is survived by his widow and baby
and his mother.
| Work on the Loveland- Estes Park
road is progressing fast and one of the
| finest roads in the state will be open
to the public by June 1, according to
Contractor Dooling. Five road gangs
are now ut work and pushing the grade
from higher to n grade of per cent
| all the distance from Loveand into the
park.
Carl Howelson, well known profes
sional ski jumper, is directing crew
of workmen in preparing the Steam
boat ski course for the midwintei
Sports Carnival to be held on March
4 and 3. Among those practicing Oh
the course are several amateurs no,
over II years old and some have sue
ceeded in riding" IL well over ION
feet
A large still producing enough
moonshine to supply Morgan count,
and its surroundings for weeks wn'
discovered In operation on farm
eighteen miles south of Fort Morgan
by Sheriff Il. A. Morse. More than {
hundred gallons Of whiskey, ready fol
customers, was awaiting shipment. A
huge supply of barley, corn and raj
sins were also seized.
With disbursements of SS,413,94S.3;
in 1919, Denver paid out more none!
than In any other year In the histor.
of the city, according to statistics com
piled on the cash balance and receipts
for the past year by City Auditor r. d
Stackhouse. Not only were the dis
bursements much larger than in othe