The Elbert County tribune., 1920-03-05
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

prepared by the State immigration De-
partment, with the cooperation OF tbs
Denver Industrial Bureau, the Denver
Manufacturers Association and other
organizations familiar with the class of
Information which should be gathered
through such a survey. The immigra-
tion department has obtained from .hc
Federal Census Bureau q copy of it's
list of manufacturing establishments
| In the state, and the schedules will be
mailed in a few days to all names aD-
pearIng OH this list Commercial clubs
and other organizations also VIII be
called upon to mid in obtaining the
names of new manufacturing estnb-
llshments not appearing ON the list, to
the end that no manufacturer in the
state shall be overlooked in the survey.
An increase in acreage from 800 10
more than 5000 acres of sugar beets is
the record which Montrose county has
pledged to fulfill this year In order 10
assure a sugar factory enough su2a.
beels to operate 1,OOO-ton daily ca
pacity factory there. AS guarantee
of this increase and production in 1870
the Midwest Sugar Company. which
will move Its factory from Hamilton
City, Calf. to Afontrose Immediately,
has more than 1000 acres under con-
tract and written pledge by tile lead
ing business men and growers of this
county that they will have the other
1000 acres ready to harvest this fall
DIR. Macarthur, surgeon, showed ex-
IRENE cooIness when he continued an
operation after the alarm of fire had
been turned In from the hospital IN
which he was performing the operation
at Delta. While the fire was not
dangerous one, DR.. Macarthur said that
1t required all the control he could
muster to continue the operation Will.
a blaze was going on ON the roof above
the room.
The population has grown to such
an extent that the $4,000 school
building, erected three years ago ut
Craig, now requires $4,000 annex,
| which will be built In the spring. The
present high school has n. four-ycar
course with special Instructors in
music, domestic science and manual
training and is accredited by colleges
and universities of the west
The cattlegrowers of western Colo
RADIO are cooperating heartily with rhe
cattlemen of other sections of the state
in n bitter fight to prevent the passage
OF bill in Congress which Will revise
the charge for grazing permits on the
national forests and eventually lead 10
the selling of these permits to the higt-
est bidder, regardless of priority OF
claims and residence
Murdoch Nelson, one of Fort Col
Inns most prominent residents, is dead
of heart disease. Mr.. Nelson was cash
Ter of the First National Bank at Fort
Collins. AT the time of his death lie
was candidate for delegate to the
Republican national convention to be
held in Chicago. He left widow and
two children.
Berne II. Hopkins. millionaire oil
operator of Colorado Springs, and his
brother, Albert G. Hopkins, narrowly
escaped death near Pring, fifteen
miles north of Colorado Springs, on
the Denver-Colorado Springs road,
when an automobile In which they
were riding skidded and plunged down
a fifteen-fo0t embankment.
Que of the largest real estate deals
completed on the western slope In sew
eral months took place when Col. Nam
ford w. Smith sold the Golden Rod"
ranch to Fred Light, Sr, for Sl13,OJO
This sale includes $50 acres, all the IiIi-
provements, buildings, machinery, i'm
plements and livestock near Aspen.
More than 200 gallons of wine.
large quantity of white mule" whis-
key, fifty gallons of raisin mash and
thirty gallons of prune mash, in pro-
cess of fermentation, with part of
distilling plant, were seized by sher-
ifs officers in the basement of the
dwelling of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Jackson
in Aguilar.
Colorado will be represented among
six national delegates who will speak
for American woman suffrage in the
international convention of suffrag-
lists at Madrid, Spain, during the week
beginning May .. Word of the ap-
pointment of Mrs. Helen Ring Robin
son of Denver former state senator,
as one of the group, has been re-
ceived by the Colorado Woman Suf-
frage Association at Denver.
l.. b. Crawford, predatory animal
inspector of Colorado, has completed
arrangements here for war on
Archuletn county animals that have
heretofore been preying ON livestock.
The death knell has been sounded for
the coyote, wolf, mountain lion, lynx
and bobcat The first means for
eradication will be traps and poison.
Den hunting will be extensively car
ried on later.
Forest service officers in Colorado
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