Gilpin observer., 1920-11-04
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Frank II. Crawford, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Crawford. living east of
Oak Greek, is dead as the result Of
injuries received when he fell from q
horse.
In the recent count of parcel post
matter at the Craig postoffice, en-
ployes handled over fifty tons of par
eel post packages. Over $4,000 pounds
Of mail matter originated at Craig; the
rest came into the local office.
Charles A. Campbell, miner, for
merly of Leadville, was shot and al
most instantly killed at Creede by
Mack Davis, owner of n restaurant and
well known as a musician. Following
the killing Of Campbell, Davis surren-
dered to the sheriff. He declares that
he shot in self defense.
Governors of Wyoming, New Mexico
and Colorado, mayors of the principal
cities in these three states, educators,
professional men and citizens who are
interested in education are to be in
vited to attend the Citizens Confer
ence on Education to be held in the
state house at Denver Dec. s and 8.
Charles Capra, a Rockvale merchant,
was held up and robbed of $1,000 in
cash by two unmasked bandits on the
Florence-Pueblo Highway, The high
waymen escaped in the bad lands
along the Arkansas river. Capra wac
en- route to Pueblo to purchase mer-
chandise when the robbery was com.
mitted.
While unhitching team Of horses,
]. n. Wilson at Ridgway was the vic
tim of painful accident One tug
was still fastened to the wagon when
one of the horses started, pulling the
wagon onto Mr. Wilson, who suffered
a broken arm and terrible lacerations
on one leg. Mr.. Wilson was taken to
the hospital at Ouray.
Among the subjects considered by
the twenty-third annual convention of
the American Mining Congress, No.
vember 1919, will be legislation in.
Guiding tariff pertaining to the prod
ucts of the mines, uniformity Of ma
tional and state mining laws, revision
Of the general mining code, state and
national "blue-sky" laws, employers
udDlllty laws.
Gov. Oliver H. Shoup appointed
delegation of forty prominent fariacrs
throughout the state to represent Colo
RADIO at the Farmers National Con-
gress to be held in Columbus, Ohio,
on Nov. 16 to 10. Included in the
number are officers of the State Farm
Bureau as follows: J. ID. Flint Broom
field, president; e. E. Denhart, Brigh
ton, vice president, and Frank Aichel-
man, Brighton, secretary-treasurer.
The Montrose Hardware and Impc-
ment Company, a new corporation
with capital stock of $4,000, has
opened for business in that city. THIS
makes the third large hardware stors
in Montrose. This is one of a chain
of hardware stores on the western
slope, being connected with the Cola
RADIO and Utah Hardware Company Of
Grand Junction, the wholesale derart.
ment and the Delta Hardware Com
pany of Delta.
The U. s. census report for 1920
shows that, since 1910, seven typical
Colorado mining counties have lost
nearly so per cent of their population.
Similar conditions exist in other states.
The mines are not played out This
serious decline in population mostly
dates from the commencement of th2
war in 1914, but especially since 1877,
when this country entered the war 1t
mainly resulted from "war conditions"
and still continues by reason of "after-
war conditions" 1t Is to be hored
that the mining convention in Denver,
November 1919, will be able to do
something to revive the mining in
dustry.
More than 11,5OO,OOO acres of stock
raising homestead land and $500 acres
of land embraced under the enlarged
homestead laws were classified during
September in eight Western states, ac-
cOrding to statement given out by NJ.
ID. McEniry, chief of the field division
Of the United States general land Of
flee. Almost $4,000 acres OF land in
Colorado are embraced under both
classifications, 1t was announced.
Seven of the principal crops grown
in Colorado declined in value S2O,323,-
$50 during the month of September, or
1913 per cent, according to calcula-
tions made by the State immigration
Department, based upon average
prices Sept. / and Oct. /, as reported
by the United States Bureau of Crop
Estimates. The crops in question are
corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley. potatoes
and hay. Their value on Sept. at
prices prevailing on that date was
S15S, 1885, ,240. and on Oct. l 1t had fallen
to S137, ,S29, ,130. The decline in values
in Colorado was not quite so severe as
for the country at large, the percent
age Of loss on the principal crops for
the United States being 1915 per cent,
according TO the calculations mnde by