The Colorado statesman., 1920-01-10
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Denver-CoIorado Metal Mining Assoc
| citation meet Jan. 20. FL and ~. l92o'
Denver-CoIorado Editorial Associa-
tion meet Jan. 10, 20. 2l, 1920.
Denver-Live Stock Show. January IT
| TO "a, 1920.
The Holly Sugar Corporation will
spend 100000 on the Grand Junction
plant, work to start with the close OF
sugar campaign this month.
Grand county roads will be improved
with the expenditure of $4,000 fed
eral and state funds during 1920, ac-
cording to a report from the recent
highway commission meeting.
About 1900 acres of broom corn was
grown in Colorado in 1919. compared
with 10000 acres in 1913. The decrease
in acreage was due largely to dissat-
isfaction on the part ol growers with
the prices obtained for the 1918 crop.
AIloy plants and mining properties
in Colorado valued at approximately
"a, ,OOO, 900 changed hands when the
holdings of the Primos Chemical Com
pany were purchased by Charles Nj.
| Scrwab, according to officials OF the
Primos company in Denver
Another road project has been sub
mitted by the state to the federal bu-
reau of roads. 1t is known as project
No. % and calls for the construction or
six miles of sand and clay surface high
ways beween Eads and Kit Carson at
an estimated cost of S24,42O.
Over 100000 pieces of Denver and
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phlets and postcards were distributed
during 1919 through the main office
and Union station offices in Denver
and branch offices in Colorado
Springs, Chicago, Kansas City, st.
Louis and Los Angeles.
Receipts of gold and silver bullion at
the Denver mint in 1919 totaled S19,-
613,2S913, according TO announcement
by Thomas Annear, superintendent of
the mint. The bullion included SlI,-
773, ,2SSOS of gold and $1,S40,001.O5 of
silver. The receipts for 1919 are ST.
Ill 900 less than in 1918.
Colorado spent on its own account,
in round figures, S1,500,000 for good
roads during the year just closed. The
exact amount, as shown by voucher
records in the office of State Auditor
Arthur NJ. Stong, was S1,411,245.SS.
This is by far the largest expenditure
the state has ever made in single
year for highway construction.
Colorado is one of the greatest play
grounds of the nation. In 1919 more
than a million people spent their Vaca-
tions in the national forests of the
state. Automobiles to the number OF
1856 900 also toured the forest highways
during the summer season. SO vast are
these Fairgrounds to the people that IL
is impossible to go into the Rockies
without entering a national forest.
The Colorado apple crop was one oil
the largest the state has produced in
spite of the severe damage caused the
crop by the frost on and about June /
The agricultural production is estimat'
ed Mt 3,41S,000 bushels, compared with
2,511, 100 bushels in 1918 and 3,559,O91
bushels reported by the census i'll l9O0
which was one of the best fruit years
Colorado has ever enjoyed, especially
for apples.
The State Inheritance Tax Depart
ment closed the year with the remark
able record of having turned SSSo,-
O39.1O into the state treasury since
Dec. l, 1918, the beginning of the 1919
20 biennial period. This showing
breaks all previous records for the de-
partment and is more than double
what state officials had estimated ear
ly in the year would be received from
this source.
Reports of county assessors give
967 ,3S2 acres of winter wheat for the
state in 1919 and 35S,351 acres OF
spring wheat With 10 per cent added
the areas devoted to these two crops
are found to be 1O64,OOO acres and
80, 900 acres respectively. Reports oil
threshermen indicate that the average
yield of winter wheat per acre was liz
bushels, and that of spring wheat 14.a
bushels. The higher yield of spring
wheat is due to the fact that about At
per cent of spring wheat was irrigated
while somewhat less than II per cent
of the winter wheat was grown under
irrigation.
Boulder county increased its output
of silver from 157 900 ounces in 1915
to 100000 ounces in 1919 from the
Yellow Pine at Sugar Loaf, the White
Raven at Ward, and from the mines
Mt Caribou. The mines in Gilpin
county were not active, and the closing
of the Argo mill and its associated
fremont (GunnelD mine at the end
of the Argo adit, reduced the produc-
ton greatly. This county produced
$4,000 in gold and 1900 ounces OF
silver. The Becky Sharp mine pro
Guced considerable gold ore, and the
Gilpin Eureka shipped amalgam bull
lion and concentrates.