The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-17
Pithy News Notes
From An Paris of
Colorado

There are more than 300 elk and
| deer in Boulder county, according To
estimates of Forest Rangers Clark
and Ulrich. They are all in fine con
| dltion, according 10 both rangers, and
are increasing rapidly.
The Ice crop for Montrose and near
by cities Is reported the best in many
years, according To +. Il. Bosler local
ice dealer. who has just finished put
ting up 1900 tons of ice for local con-
sumption during the summer of 1920.
A fortune of between $4,000 and
$50, 900 is left to the American board
of foreign missions, at Boston. Mass,
for the furtherance of its work in Ar
mena, by the will of Fl. Enfia jan,
Armenian rug dealer, who died in
Denver Dec. 30.
The correspondence of the State
Immigration Department indicates
that more than 800 people have come
to the state in the past year AS di-
rect result of the work of the depart
ment while many more have been in
directly influenced to make their
homes in Colorado.
The county commissioners Of Routt
county have selccLed the site for a
new courthouse The proposition will
he put up to the public next election,
when an $4,000 bond issue viii be
submitted The location is Oh the
principal street of Steamboat Springs
and Will be whole block.
After being bounded for four years
by authorities in all parts of the Unit
ed States. Cuba and Mexico, c. E. VIII
son. alleged bunco man sought as
SLAYER of George Turner, another CON
f.dcuce man, at Il fishing resort i'll
Platte caiion ON the night of June 23,
1916, surrendered himself at Denver
to II local detective agency.
The total circulation of books from
the Durango public library during
1919, according 10 II report filed with
the board of trustees, was 12,643,
divided as follows: Fiction, 1,2OI :;
Juvenile, 1893; class books, 2,l02. The
number of visitors at the library dur
ing the year was l5,SSO rs compared
with II. .225 in 1918.
Five men, arrested last summer on
II charge of obtaining money unde"
false pretenses, have been placed on
trial in the District Court at Brighton.
| Ii is Charged that the men sold stock
to certain residents of Adams county
at Il price far in excess. of the market
value. They are alleged to have Sc
cured $4,000 from local farmers in
| This manner.
The Longmont Stave Silo Company
has bought il factory site at La Sale
with railroad loading facilities and
will build cement Stave silo factory
there this winter. The company will
employ eighteen men and has con
tracts of 100000 in 1920 business.
The la Sale plant will be the second
stnve silo factory to be constructed in
Weld county this year.
Work has been started ut Brighton
on new theater building, to be com
pleted by May /, when it will be
opened as Il picture show by H. w.
james, local capitalist. ]. y. Counter,
retired business man, is Interested
with James in erecting the structure.
The building is modelled after the
Webber theater in Denver and VIII
cost approximately $4,000 when com
plete.
w. c. Harris is rushing work on the
erection of the proposed new hotel for
Sterling Work has been started on
razing the old buildings standing on
the site at the corner of Second and
Poplar streets, one block from the
Union station 1t is not yet deter
mined whether the new hotel will be
five or six stories high. 1t will cost
Mt least $150,000, but more likely the
figure will go much higher.
King Spud will reign supreme in
Denver from January 20 to %, inclu-
sive. A western potato exposition or
seven states will be held in the Den
yer Auditorium. The annual meeting
| of the Colorado Potato Growers AS
sociation, at which the reorganization
of the association will be perfected
and important Legislative action on
seed certification laws and shipping
point inspection service will be dis
cussed.
Reports of county assessors for
1919, as tabulated by the State Immi-
grafton Department, show that 26,-
62OO94 acres, or 4O.13 per cent of the
total area of the state, is assessed us
agricultural land. This includes a
very large area that has never been
broken and much that will never be
broken, being valuable only for graz
ing purposes. 1t includes more than
10000, 900 acres classed as dry farm
| ,r,f nf which
will be cultivated. Reports of coun-
ty assessors made to the immigration
Department in 1919 showed that there
was approximately 5500,000 acres In
| cultivation last year, the largest ever