The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-23
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

for the Colorado Year Book will show
| a general increase in the county tax
Ievies for the construction and main
| tenance of highways. The levies range
from l mill to Z mills, and the total
revenue to be collected by the coun-
ties for highway purposes will be in
the neighborhood of $3,O0O,O0O. the
highest in the history Of the state, and
more than was available annually for
highway purposes from all sources In
the state ten years ago. In addition
| to this there will be substantial in
creases In the amount collected this
year for highway purposes from auto
mobile license tax and from gasoline
tax, and the amount to be turned over
to the state by the federal government
from various sources for highway pur-
poses also will be larger than ever be-
fore. Apparently the total amount
available for highway purposes in the
state from all sources this year will
be in the neighborhood Of $7,OOO,OO
Forest Service road construction
plans in Colorado for 1920 call for S3
miles Of roads to be built at total
cost of $427,5OO Federal funds will
provide S271,OOO of the total amount.
This construction program consists of
eleven road projects varying from 3
to % miles in length and scattered
over the whole western half of the
state from Bennett Creek in Larimer
| county on the Colorado National For
est to the Crested Butte-Somerset
project on the Gunnison National For
est in Gunnison county.
Children between the ages of IA and
| l6 are barred from working in Colo
RADIO factories and industrial establish
ments later than Z p. M, as the re-
suit of ruling by W. L. Morrissey,
state labor commissioner, from fed
eral labor officials in Washington.
The ruling holds that the federal la
| Dor law supersedes the state law in so
| far as working hours for children are
concerned. Under the state law, chill
dren between the ages of IA and 1S
could work until o'clock at night.
under permit
James Girardet and Fred S. Hotch-
kiss, two Delta county contractors,
have been given the contract for the
construction of the Delta -MontrOse
gravel highway, according to an
nouncement from the State Highway
Commission. This contract calls for
an expenditure of from $4,000 to
sec, 600 and the work will be completed
this summer. When finished, this will
make the longest stretch of gravel
road in the Uncompahgre valley,
twenty three miles,
Rienzi Dickens of Long Beach,
Calf, after an absence from Colorado
of four years, appeared in the District
Court at Boulder and was granted
further liberty under bond of $37 800.
The bond was signed by himself, his
mother, Mrs. w. II. Dickens, and by
Walter G. Coulehan, cashier of the
Farmers National bank of LongmDnt,
who is his brother-in-law. Dickens is
accused of having killed his father, W.
III. Dickens, Longmont pioneer and
banker
Denver restaurant keepers who be-
gan campaign to reduce the con-
sumption of potatoes will not deprive
their patrons Of potatoes by removing
them from the menus, but instead will
suggest daily that their customers use
substitutes, such as sweet potatoes,
cabbage, macarOni and other food
stuffs, until the price of potatoes is
forced down through lack of demand.
To honor the memory of George
Duclo, Manitou marine killed in the
war, the town council of Manitou has
changed the name of Ute avenue to
Duclo avenue for all time. A bronze
monument to Duclo is to be erected
also Duclo was Killed at Chateau
Thierry.
The House committee on public
buildings and grounds have agreed on
legislation authorizing expenditure of
$40 100000 to build or purchase hos
pitfalls for soldiers in the various states.
This will include one hospital or more
in Colorado.
Unless more substantial evidence is
submitted to the government census
bureau by the Chamber of Commerce,
the city of Colorado Springs will have
to accept as final and official the re-
cent census report of slightly less than
CO,UUU lOr tlidt CitN. TOiii tne nature
of the letter received from the census
bureau it appears that only a COM
plete recount by the city will be ac-
cepted as substantial evidence.
Colorados beet sugar production in
1919 totaled 193,S9O tons, according to
revised statistics issued by the Depart
ment Of Agriculture at Washington.
This total is over 1000 tons more than
in 1918, when the states sugar produc-
tion amounted to 191.SS0 tons. The
sugar beets required to make the 1919
crop of sugar totaled 1855, lib tons,
compared to 1853, ,277 tons in 1918
A total of 1,450 wagon loads of trash
represents Grand functions cleanup
campaign. The rubbish has teed
hauled, making the cleanup one of the
most extensive in the city's history