The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-02-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING E.vENTs.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS.
Denver Automotive Show Will be held
in Denver. March to 9. at Stock
| yards Stadium.
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
yolving 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 $1,000 is being
raised to finance the work.
The city of Fort Collins will spend
| $5OO,0O0 fer street improvements, IN
cluding concrete paving and graveling
according to projects now being pro-
NOTED by various civic organizations.
The number of swine in Colorado at
the beginning of this year is estimated
at $4,000, compared with 100000 last
year, and the average value per head
;s, Iae
The number of dairy cattle on Colo
RADIO farms this year is estimated at
272,O00, compared with 264,OOO last
year, and the average value per head
is $s7, compared with SS8 on January
/. 1919
Declaring that his life was a failure
and that he had nothing to live for"
John Maholic, 10 years old, shot him
self through the head in barn at the
home of his sister, Mrs. w. r. Smith,
one mile west of Hudson
The State Highway Department lost
$1,000 in the fire which destroyed the
Tom Roberts garage in Denver. This
sum represents the value of Marmon
passenger car belonging to the depart
ment and stored in the garage. No in
surance was carried on the machine.
Railroad Administration estimates
| place the net cost to the government
of federal control of the railroads at
| s636, ,0o0, 900, Chairman Esch Of the In
| tcrstate Commerce Committee told the
House iii opening debate on the Con-
ference report on the compromise rail-
road bill
| Three drafts which total more than
| 100000 and a large number Of checks
| which bring the entire amount to $780,
900, mailed from Pueblo, Feb g. have
| failed to arrive at their Denver des-
| tination and bank officials fear that
| from the mails.
/ Jack Kipeck, Il prominent mining
| man of the San Juan section, is dead,
| following an attack of pneumonia He
was one of the promoters in opening
the famous Kansas group of mines be-
tween Gladstone and Red Mountain.
He had just reorganized his company
to operate this summer.
At q meeting of the Larimer County
| Fair Association in Loveland the fair
this year was set for Aug 81, Sept. l.,
., 8. 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, 66 years
old, "A pioneer of Cedaredge, who ar
rived in Denver May 3, 1874, and was
married there i'll 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.
Robbers entered the Acacia Drug
Store, at Aurora, and stole merchan-
disc estimated by H. Mcdowell, propri-
etor of the store to be worth $1,000.
Que of the largest real estate deals
completed on the western slope in sew
eral months took place when Col. Mau-
ford W. Smith sold the Golden Rod"
ranch to Fred Light. Sr, for S113,0u0.
This sale includes 800 acres, all the i'm
provements, buildings, machinery, i'm
plements and livestock near Aspen
Schedules for the annual agricultur
al survey will be sent out to county as
SCISSORS from the office of the State
Board of Immigration about March l
this year, giving assessors a month to
prepare for this work, instead of the
few days that were allowed last year,
because of the fact that the law pro-
viding for this survey was signed only
a few days before the actual assess
ment began The blanks are in book
form this year and Will be much easier
for assessors to handle than those used
in 1919 They will also call for fuller
information on crops that are not ex
tensively grown, thus giving better rep
resentation to counties that grow gar
den and seed crops and vegetables for
canning to considerable extent.
The number of sheep in the state at
the beginning of this year was esti-
mated at 2,121 900, compared with q
100000 last year. The average value