The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-03-04
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


total farm acreage has increased sos
per cent since that year and the i'm
proved acreage so per cent. Thirty
| six and nine-tenths per cent Of the
land area Of the state Is in farms, and
BIT per cent Of the farm land Is Inn
proved. The tables show that the
value of all farm property in the state
Is $1,O76, 1884, TAO. ~ compared with
$491, Al sos in 1910. an increase OF
11e.1 per cent. Land and buildings
| have increased in value 112 per cent
with total value Of S66d 013,000; Inn
plements and machinery, 2S94 per
cent, with a total value Of $40, 1904, ,502
today; live stock, 1894 per cent. with
a total value OF s16O.e765sO There
are 5e,934 farms, with an average val
ue Of land and buildings Of $14,449
each, AZ compared with $S.S34 in 1910.
the figures show The value Of the
farm land nm acre IL 481.22, as against
$2681 ten years ago. Another inter-
esting fact given is that there are 59.-
| 301 white farmers in Colorado, of
| which 49,S46 are native born. OF the
native white farmers, S7,75O are own
ers, 8O7 managers and 1929 tenants.
| There are also 1.760 women farmers.
including 1,674 owners, four managers
and 118 tenants.
Plans, specifications and estimates
on Colorado highway projects, to be
carried out at an approximate cost Of
| $2O5, ,930, were submitted to J. S.
Bright, supervisor Of the United States
bureau of public roads in Denver by
the State Highway Commission. Fed
eral aid to the amount Of so per cent
on the work, which includes "A miles
of concrete road on the Denver-Brigh-
ton highway, is requested. Other con-
struction work contemplated, embraces
two bridges in Montrose county. one
| of seventy feet over the UncOmpah-
gre river, and one of twenty-eight feet
over Spring creek.
| The Citizens State and Savings
Bank at Boone, Pueblo county, was
robbed of $4,000 in cash and bonds by
| experienced yeggmen who took every
thing In the way Of money or securi-
| ties in the vault and safe. The rob-
bers escaped in an automobile, taking
| the so-called north road out of Boone.
| Not the slightest trace of them has
| yet been secured by Sheriff Samuel
Thomas, who with a number of depu-
| ties, is working on the case.
G. P. weyr of Holyoke was elected
president Of the Northeast Colorado
Pythlan Association at the election of
officers at Sterling. ]. A. Gilbertson,
| Brush was chosen vice president;
Charles r. Peter, Holyoke, secretary,
and C. Fl. Woodward, Sterling. treas
urer. The new directors are r. l.. Bill
lot. Brush; w. NJ Shumway, Sterling.
and w. H. ShOal, Holyoke. Holyoke
| was selected as the next meeting place.
Tar being warmed on an oil stove in
the home of ID. A. Gregg, a prominent
Redlands rancher, near Grand juno
tion, exploded and sent blazing tar
over the room. Mr.. Gregg seized the
blazing bucket of tar and carried 1t
| from the house, and in so doing sus-
tanned severe burns. Two neighbors
happened to be passing and aided Mr..
Gregg in saving the house from de-
| struction His burns were serious.
| According to reports the Interstate
| Commerce committee of the House of
Representatives at Washington has re-
ported fayorably on bill to change
| the name of the Grand river to the
| Colorado river. The State Senate has
| passed on third reading bill intro
| duced by Senator o. 4. Bannister of
| Grand Junction, making similar pro-
| posal, and the lower house is expected
81 yvxo osklx-
f. A. Black, a rancher living near
| Clifton, was buried under tons of earth
| and rock for two hours when a trench
nine feet deep in which he was laying
| tile caved in on him. A dozen men
worked to extricate him. The rescuers
| found him badly crushed and uncon-
| scious in cavity formed by clods and
| tile.
John NJ Richardson of Denver
| through his attorneys, has filed suit in
the Fremont county District Court in
| Canon City, for S5S,307 damages
| against G. v. Hodgin, J. Victor Nc
| Candless and James Belknap in their
unofficial and individual capacities for
| alleged negligence while serving as
county commissioners of Fremont
1
| county in 1920. The alleged negli-
gence, the plaintiff claims, resulted in
| the death of his wife and serious in
| jury to himself in an automobile acci-
| dent on April 30. 1920.
A plan to harness the waterpower
now going to waste in the pipeline Of
the Canon City waterworkers as 1t
descends the reservoir hill, and trans
form it into electrical energy to illu-
inmate the hills and streets and parks
adjacent to the Colorado state peniten-
tiary, is now under consideration by
the penitentiary authorities and the
city council of Canon City.
Bullet proof windshields, the first to
be used in Denver, have been ordered
from Philadelphia manufacturing
concern by Chief of Police Williams