The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-03-19
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

while it has been general and rapid,
has not been so great as the increase
| for The country as a whole and not
nearly so great as it has been in some
| states. These reports indicate that
| the prices Of land in Colorado at this
| time are much lower than in states I'M
| medintely to the east, where most OF
the buyers of Colorado land come
| from. The Indicated average value of
| all plow lands in Colorado at present is
St;t an acre compared with $50 in 1916,
showing an increase of 81 per cent.
The average value of all farm lands
in Colorado at this time, with improve
ments, is estimated at SI5 an acre,
compared with $50 in 1916.
Physical specimens of Colorado's in
dustrial plants, farms and mines,
which have been featured in special
exhibit room of the Denver Manufac-
turers' Association for some time, are
to be done away with and the money
invested in showing moving pictures of
scenery industry and commercial life
of Colorado at the MONDAY concerts at
the Auditorium. The directors Of the
Manufacturers Association voted to dis
continue their exhibit room, believing
that the motion picture plan will reach
thousands of tourists who take advan-
tage of the monday organ recitals.
Coorado's road building equipment
is to be placed under fire insurance
protection at once, it has been decided
by the State Highway Commission.
Attention was called to the complete
lack Of Insurance on $250,OOO worth
of motor trucks, autos, graders and
other highway equipment belonging to
the state. when valuable state auto
mobile used by Thos. ]. Ehrhart, state
highway commissioner, was destroyed
in the blaze which recently gutted the
Tom Roberts Garage in Denver
Word has been received in Denver
of the death at his home in Omaha,
Neb., of Colonel Samuel s. Curtis
aged 50, formerly of Denver He was
a Colorado pioneer of 1857, when he
was engaged in mining in Gilpin coun-
ty. He was the first Republican post
master and the second postmaster to
be appointed in Denver, having been
named for that office in March, 1890
He was son of Gen. Samuel Curtis
of Civil war fame. for whom Curtis
street was named
Everyone in Colorado is interested
in roads. Practically all the public
service organizations are doing their
bit. The United Stutes Forest Serv-
ice is doing its bit In 1912 it built
=
four miles Of road i'll Colorado. Dur
ing the last eight years the forest
service has built 277 miles of roads In
| Colorado at total cost of SII2,OOO.
| During the same period ii has MAIN
| tanned 46S miles at cost of about
S5M06$ ---
| Three minutes after he had eaten
the evening meal, brought to him by
| Jailer John McLachlan, Jacob Baker,
alias Jacob Becker. 50, blacksmith,
held merely for investigation, com
mitted suicide at the city jail In Den
| yer, by hanging himself in the cell
which has become known as the hoo
doc CELL" following the escape there
from recently of Virgil Trjmble and
| two other prisoners.
G. A. Mclaughlin, government hunt
er, located in the vicinity of Estes
Park, has bagged his fourth mountain
| lion this winter The last one he cap
| tured was at the mouth of the Love-
| land Grand Canon. Mclaughlin, in
company with John Griffith. of the
park, tracked the lion for ten miles
before it was located in the den and
| shot
| The bodies of about $4,000 Of the
| American dead in France will be re-
turned to the United States, while be-
tween 10000 and 25,OOO will remain
permanently inferred overseas, Secre-
| tary Baker has informed Chairman
| Wadsworth of the Senate Military
| Committee.
| John D. Rockefeller, Jr., at his own
request, retired from the board OF d.
rectors of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company at the twenty-eighth annual
| stockholders meeting, held in Denver.
| John C. Mitchell, president of the Den
yer National Bank, was elected dlrec-
tor to succeed the famous millionaire.
| There are thirty-three acres of land
for every head of mature livestock
(anima unit) in the dry land district
of eastern Colorado, The average
farmer has from eight to ten acres of
crops per animal unit BY using silos
and proper crops and cropping meth
ods, few farmers have reduced this
| TO from two and three acres per animal
unit.
Recruiting for the United States
army in the Wyoming division Of the
! Denver district exceeded all other di
visions for the past month except that
of the city of Denver, according to
Capt. C. B. Cox. Captain Cox is in
Denver to make his report to the Of
ficer in charge of the Denver district
The division in which the captain has
charge is divided into eight offices
| in as many Wyoming cities. Each Of