The Arvada enterprise., 1920-03-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Services.
The ore shipmsnts from Telluride
in February were no cars, three cars
moro than In the same month last
year.
Pruning il now In full swing at the
Grand Valley and In almost every
orchard men are being employed In
this necessary spring work. The trees
show little effect Of the severe winter.
Miss Dorothy Smith. 1o-year-old
daughter Of Frederick R. Smith, cash.
Ter Of the First National Bank Of Colo
rado Springs, b near death at Welles-
Icy, Mass, a. the result Of skiing &C.
cident In which she was impaled BY q
broken skiing rod. Miss Smith fell on
the fragments Of the stick and her ab-
donen was perforated In three places.
Negotiations were completed in Dem
yer for the purchase of $56,5OO worth
Of radium by the Medical and Surgical
group Of Denver. The deal was made
with the Radium Company Of Colo
RADIO. One-half gram, or seven and
three-quarters grams Of the precious
mineral ID contained IN the tube pur-
chased.
An excess Of $37,s71.01 over the
amount available for administration
and engineering purposes was spent
by the State Highway Commission In
the fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1919.
according to report by State Audi
tor Stong. The total expenditure for
these purposes was $1s2,775.98 OF
this, $45,22SSO was spent In prelim-
mary engineering for future federal
aid projects.
Edward Ives, mental defective
convict, sawed his way through steel
bars ut a window Of his cell in the
state penitentiary hospital at Canon
City and made his escape. After saw
ing through two heavy steel bars, the
ends Of which he forced outward, Ives
crawled through the opening and
gained access to low stone wall. from
which he climbed to the high wall sur
rounding the prison enclosure.
The growth Of saw timber in the
United States is believed to be only
ne-third Of the amount annually cut.
Twenty nine of our states import more
timber than 10 cut within their bound
aries, and every exporting state 10 cut
ting faster than their timber grows. "A
timber famine 10 bound to come" says
w. ]. Morrill, Of the Colorado Agricul-
tural College Indeed, locally In many
parts Of the United States 1t has ar
rived already as reflected In the high
prices Of lumber"
1t costs the state Of Colorado $4S.70
less to educate n student ut the Fort
Collins Agricultural college than at the
state university at Boulder: according
to reports on the two big institutions
submitted to Governor Sh0up by Audi
tor Of State Stons. The average Ak
pense of educating 4 student at the
Agricultural college, Stong reports, il
$1s7.51. while at the state university
it is &231.27. The Agricultural college
spent $222,O18O0 educating 1,184 stu
dents, while at the university the etiu.
cation Of 1.745 students cost &t0S..
45c.3S. The~e figures are for the year
1919.
Colorado and Wyoming naval re-
servlsts who served during the war
with Germany may obtain Victory but
tons by applying to Lieutenant Con
msndar p. 3. Thsiss Of the Dsuvss
navy recruiting station or to the petty
officer in charge Of the recruiting sta'
ttoa nearest then. Hitherto only msa
who served u the regular navy could
obtain these buttons IN Dsovss. tAe
rsssrvists being required to apply ID
tAs coomandaat OF the Twelfth Naval
district. San Francisco, Calf. All ap
plicatioas for Victory buttoas must b
accompanied BY . dischares or rslsasa
from active duty.
Petitions are new being circulated u
the territory affected for the lorna
ton Of q drainage district that will
drain q total arsa Of 5000 acres, IL
tending nerthward from the BIC
0rande to the viciaity Of Centsr. IN tha
San Luis valley. Thirty thousand acres
Of this vast tract 10 not now under cul
tivation, and this drainage district Will
convert the greater part Of this acre
age into productive farms.
Reports to the State Cooperative
Crop Reporting Service indicate thai
81 per cent Of tho 1910 Colorado corr
crop, Of ASA 900 bushels, was In tn
hands Of growers On March I. CON
pared with % per cent, or 3,02,00
bushels on March last year. The
amount Of the 1919 wheat crop on hand
March 10 estimated at ID per coat, Of
4,o47 900 bushels. compared With II
per cent, or 2.4e4.OOO bushels o.
March !, 1919. The amount Of oats on
hand 10 estimated At ~ per cent, or :,
5000 bushels, compared with - pei
cent, or 3,2s7 600 on March !, 1918. and
the amount Of barley on hnnd In esti.
mated at 30 per cent, or 1.i7O,O0O hush
ola. compared with 20 per cent. or l..
$4,000 bushels on March last year.
Prof. Alexander Enslie Of the Colo
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