Gilpin observer., 1920-08-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
COMING EVE

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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Hugo, Colo.-The Lincoln County Fail
will be held at Hugo. Sept. 1880
w. Z. Enfield has sold his 4O-acrt
ranch near Montrose for $4,000 tt
Frank Chase of Paxton, Neb. Thi:
is probably one of the fanciest pricei
ever paid for land in that region.
William Herndon, Santa Fe rail
road employe at La Junta, is dead, ant
four others are injured seriously as the
result of midnight race between au
tomobiles ON the road from La Junta
to Rocky Ford
Rapid progress is being made on the
new Liberal Arts building that is being
erected on the University of Colorado
campus at Boulder under the persona
direction and supervision Of members
of the engineering faculty.
National conferences to revive the
metal mining industry of the United
States will be held In Denver the weel
of Nov. 10. Two thousand producers
financiers, government officials anc
experts will participate Oil and Goa
men will also meet in national conven
| TONS
Boulder, Colo, contractor has
signed an agreement to build "teacr
| erage" at Niwot at once. The new
building will have five rooms for the
a a nj in or ntn of hf
local school. This is the fourth in tht
Boulder district.
Contracts carrying salary increase.
of 30 per cent have been insufficient
to obtain signatures of enough teach
ers for the rural schools in Boulder
county. The new figures range from
$S5 to $135, the highest amounts be
ing for the schools in the mountain
districts.
The chance passing of Clarence Nc
Loughan on little frequented roat
near Loveland saved from critical, Il
not fatal, injury Of Nal EdmOnds. Ht
was near suffocation from beni
pinned under his overturned auto, with
a great weight resting on his lungs
having been held helpless for a hal
hour.
John Brown of Golden, % years old
member of the Excelsior hose team
of volunteer firemen, dropped deaf
shortly after the team had finished /,
practice run down Washington avenue
Brown and several other members o.
the team were practicing for race Il
be demonstrated at the state fireman'i
| tournament.
Warrants amounting to 81, 400, OIL g
were issued during July by the stat,
auditor, according to a report filet
with the auditing board. The amour
is represented in 1862 warrants, tn,
| largest number ever issued in month
| The average number issued each mOntl
is about 5000, according to Audito
Arthur NJ. Stong.
Collection from twenty-four states
from July 10 to August Is, netted tn,
state S6,671.42 in inheritance ia,
money, according to the monthly repor
made by Attorney General Victor c
| Keyes. The largest estate from whicl
tax collection was made was that o
Jennie NJ. Harvey of Denver TIL,
estate was appraised at $14S,000.
There will be six big days and 81,
big nights at the 1920 Colorado Stat
Fair. Opening on Sunday, Septembe
| 10, it will close on the night of Friday
and there will not be dull momen
| during that entire time. There will b.
some good racing on the opening da.
| -Sunday-and some other appropriate
attractions beside the multitude of dis
| plays. There will be major attraction
| which it would require a whole news
paper to mention, much more to de
scribe.
Remarkable progress in the agricul
| tural development of Moffat county i
shown for the last year by the repor
of the state board of immigration. Th,
report shows there are 76l land own
ers and homesteaders and fifty-fiv
renters, with n total of 4S,37S acre
under cultivation, GIFTS acres of farn
land not yet broken, and with an In
crease of 1915 acres of land raisinl
crops.
| Compilations made by the State I'm
migration Department from preliml
nary reports received from the fedora
census bureau show that the pop
ulation of forty-nIne counties in Colo
RADIO announced up to this time 4
714,295 The same counties Shove,
population In 1910 Of 5Si.226. an,
the thirteen counties for which re
ports have not been received had
population In 1910 of 214,79S. TIL
population of the entire state in 1911
was 799O2i and the counties so fa
reported had approximately 73 pc
cent of the population that year. /