The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-06-11
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

assessors and compiled by the State
Immigration Department indicate that
Colorado's rural population has in
creased very materially in the past ten
years, and in the principal agricultural
districts has increased more rapidly
than the urban population. This is
just the opposite to what has occurred
in the principal agricultural states fur
tller east, where census reports now
being made public show that rural
population has not increased nearly SO
rapidly as that of the cities, and in
many districts has actually decreased
since 1910. In the nOn-irrigated dis
tricts of eastern Colorado the rural
population has increased very rapidly
since 1910, and in some cases the num-
Der of farms under cultivation at pres
ent, AS shown by assessors reports,
is more than double that of ten years
ago. This Is also true in many dis
tricts on the western Slope. particu-
and Dolores counties The records of
the immigration department show that
several thousand people from other
states have come to Colorado in the
past two years and have purchased -Or 4
rented farms, while an almost equally
large number of persons from other
states have filed upon honlesteads in
this state.
A schedule of seventeen trips, six of
them for three days each, has been
arranged by the Officers of the Rocky
Mountain Climbers Club for the 1920
season. The first trip will be takeh
June 10Th to Green canon, near Bout
der, and will be followed Il week later
by an all-night trip on Flagstaff noun
tain. The first three-tay trip will be
conducted July "a to Devils Thumb
and Jasper lake The club is starting
its activities three weeks earlier than
usual at the request of out-of-state
members, who already are beginning
TO arrive in Boulder
Grand valley fruit growers have
learned sad but nevertheless true news
about the 1920 fruit crop. 1t was be-
lieved that the apples had escaped
damage from the winter cold, and all
varieties but one did escape, but the
popular Winesap suffered almost com
plete extinction in that valley, il is
declared, so far as the 1920 crop is
concerned. The winter cold damaged
the buds so that they had no vitality,
and although they bIoomed as usual
the blooms fell off and the trees will
be bare of fruit
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Pughley of Wich-
ita, Kan, who formerly lived on a
ranch near Tobe, in Las Animas coun-
ty, positively identified clothing found
in Il ravine near Tobe as that worn by
heir 4-year-old son, Donald, when he
disappeared from their. ranch home
April 10, 1919. Donald was playing
about the ranch near Tohe late in the
afternoon of April 10, 1919. hut that
was the last glimpse his parents had
of him.
The state school fund was enriched
by $149, ,4S0 as the result of the June.
sale of state school land. The State
Board of Land Commissioners sold 81
$40 acres for that sum. The average
price per acre, $3.50, is the highest
obtained by the board for months. Cen
siderable rivalry developed in the bid
ding for certain parcels of land. The
highest price was realized for ii tract
of irrigated land in Weld county For
this the board obtained S170 an acre.
Carlos NJ. Cole, superintendent of
Denver's public schools since 1915.
died at st. Luke's hospital in that city.
His death, which came unexpectedly.
was due to influenza, his attending
physicians declared, contracted while
he was in a weakened condition fol-
lowing an operation for appendicitis
The proposed new highway over Ber-
thoud Pass, between Empire and Fra
izcr, Colo, distance of twenty-seven
miles, will cost about 100000, accord
ing to the survey made by crews WORK
ing under the direction of A. Il. Palen,
senior highway engineer of the United
States Bureau of Public Roads.
A ten-pounds son was born to Mayor
and Mrs. +. w. Slower ut their home
in Fort Collins. In addition TO being
born the son of the mayor of Fort Col
ins, the new arrival has been named
William Charles-William for his pal
tefilli sfahuia'Hei, d pioieer anu tne
first president of the Poutlre Valley
Bank of that city, and Charles for his
maternal grandfather, Congressman
Charles B. Timberlake.
Ranchmen along Muddy creek in
Grand county have bought the teIe-
phone lines of the Mountain States
Telephone and Telegraph Company III
that district and have organized the
Muddy Creek Telephone Association.
They will extend the lines from
Kremmling, twenty-fhree miles north,
to the Martin postoffice ut Whitleys
peak. Fifteen phones will be connect
ei with the new lines.
A. Power, farmer OF Youghal, was
drowned in the Yampa river while