The Ordway new era., 1920-03-26
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

IN Colorado in the past four years,
while 1t has been general and rapid,
| has not been so great as the increase
| Tor the country as a whole and not
nearly so great as 1t has been In some
states. These reports indicate that
the prices OF land in Colorado Mt this
time are much lower than in states i'm
medintely to the east, where most OF
the buyers of Colorado land come
from. The indicated average value of
all plow lands in Colorado Mt present Is
500 an acre, compared with $50 In 1915,
showing an increase of 80 per cent.
The average value of all farm lands
In Colorado at this time, with improve
ments, Is estimated at $50 an acre,
compared with $50 in 1915
Physical specimens of. Colorado's in
dustrial plants, farms and mines,
which have been featured In n special
exhibit room of the Denver Manufac-
turers' Association for some time, are
| to be done away with and the money
invested In showing moving pictures of
scenery, industry and commercial life
OF Colorado at the noonday concerts at
the Auditorium. The directors of the
Manufacturers Association voted to dis
continue their exhibit room, believing
that the motion picture plan will reach
thousands of tourists who take advan-
tage of the MONDAY organ recitals.
CoIoradlos road building equipment
is TO be placed under fire Insurance
protection Mt once, it has been decided
4. ,.,I,. ccin
Attention was called to the complete
lack of insurance on S25O.OOO worth
of motor trucks, autos, graders and
other highway equipment belonging to
the stnte, when valuable state auto
mobile used by Thos. ]. Ehrhart state
highway commissioner, was destroyed
in the blaze which recently Quilted the
Tom Roberts Garage in Denver.
Word has been received in Denver
of the death at his home in Omaha,
Neb., Of Colonel Samuel $. Curtis.
aged 50. formerly of Denver. He was
a Colorado pioneer of 1857, when he
was engaged IN mining in Gilpin cOun-
ty. He was the first Republican post
master and the second postmaster to
he appointed in Denver, having been
named for that office in March, 1860.
He was son of Gen. Samuel Curtis
of Civil war fame, for whom Curtis
street was named.
Everyone In Colorado Is interested
in roads. Practically all the public
service organizn tions are doing their
bit. The United States Forest Serv-
ice is doing Its bit. In 1912 it built
one mile of road; in 1910 it built sixty
four miles of road in Colorado. Dur
ing the last eight years the forest
service has built 277 miles of roads in
Colorado at a total cost of $772,OO0
During the same period 1t has MAIN
tanned 46S mlles ut cost Of about
| $4,000.
Three minutes after he had eaten
the evening meal, brought to him by
| Jailer John McLachlan, Jacob Baker,
alias jacob Becker, SO, blacksmith,
held merely for Investigation, COM
mitted suicide at the city Jail in Den
yer, by hanging himself in the cell
which has become known as "the hoo
doc CELL" following the escape there
from recently of Virgil Trimble and
two other prisoners.
G. A. Mclaughlin, government hunt
er, located In the vicinity of Estes
Park, has bagged his fourth mountain
| lion this winter. The Inst one he cap
tured was at the mouth Of the Love-
land Grand Canon. Mclaughlin, In
company with John Griffith, Of the
park. tracked the lion for ten miles
before 1t was located in the den and
shot.
The bodies Of about $4,000 of the
American dead in France Will he re-
turned to the United States, while he
tween 10000 and 25,00O will remain
permanently inferred overseas, Secre-
tary Baker has Informed Chairman
WadswOrth of the Senate Military
Committee.
John d. Rockefeller. Jr., Mt his own
request, retired from the board of di-
rectors of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company at the twenty-elghth annual
stockholders meeting, held in Denver.
John G. Mitchell, president of the Dem
yer National Bank, was elected direc-
tor to succeed the famous millionaire.
There are thirty-three acres Of land
for every head of mature livestock
(animal unlt) In the dry land district
of eastern Colorado, The average
farmer has from eight to ten acres of
crops per animal unit. By using silos
and proper crops and cropping meth
DDS, few farmers have reduced this
to from two and three acres per animal
unit.
Recruiting for the United States
army in the Wyoming division of the
Denver district exceeded all other di-
visions for the past month except that
of the city of Denver, according to
Capt. G. b. Cox. Captain Cox is in
Denver to make his report to the Of