The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-06-04
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

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laughed at such question at the i'm
plication it contained that anything i'm
portant could be produced on farms in
Colorado. Twenty years ago all the
crops grown in the state annually We're
worth less than the mineral output of
Teller county, and thirty years ago all
crops grown in the state were worth
less annually than the output of a sin
gle mine in Lake county Now the
value Of the annual output of each of
three important crops grown in the
state is greater than the combined out
put of gold and silver for the entire
state. These crops are wheat, corn
and alfalfa, while in 1920 the value of
the sugar beet crop was greater than
that of either corn or alfalfa.
Denver and surrounding territory
will have plenty of water for all pur-
poses through the summer, according
to predictions by J. NJ. Sherier, district
weather forecaster, and w. f. II. Mills,
manager of the city board of water
commissioners. In spite of the fact
that there has been Il deficiency of %
inches below the normal precipitation
in Denver since Jan. l, the heavy
SHOWS of April loaded the high peaks
and forests with snow that will supply
practically all Colorado with ample
water for irrigation and other uses
during the hot months.
Bandits robbed the State Bank of
Austin of negotiable securities and
dc, tAt hat
and $50 in cash. Tools stolen from
blacksmith shop had been used by the
intruders, who broke open the front
door of the bank, knocked off the COM
binatiOn of the first door of the vault
and blew open the second with nitro
glycerin. Safety deposit boxes in the
interior of the vault had been looted
of their contents and smashed. A steel
safe containing $4,000 in cash was un-
touched by the bandits.
w. l.. Burnett, in charge of rodent
control of the state, and his assistant,
G. L. Corkins, with the local county
agent, Waldo Kidder, have completed
check of the work done in pest eradi-
cation in Adams county. County farm
100000, Mr.. Burnett says, by the ex-
termination work thus far completed.
More than 125,OOO acres have been
baited to date, and, with the territory
now under poisoning 2OO,O will have
been treated.
Joseph Nitchen, 73 years old, pio-
neer resident of Canon City and Colo
40, to oF F%ar 81
weeks. Nitchen was pioneer railroad
builder He had charge of the gang of
men that laid the first rails for the
Denver & Rio Grande in the Royal
Gorge in the early sos, during the time
of the bitter contest for the possession
| of the Grand Canon of the Arkansas
between the Rio Grande and Santa re
Railroad companies
william A. Ketcham of Indianapolis
| commander-in-chef of the Grand Army
of the Republic, has informed the Den
yer American Legion and other organ
| izations supporting the plan the first
| definite statement that the Union vet
| Grams of the Civil war are eager to
come to Denver for the proposed joint
reunion of the G. A. r. and the United
| Confederate Veterans in American Lee
gion week. beginning Oct. "a
| Colorado and the West will have the
| greatest tourist travel in the history
| of railroad transportation this sum
| mer, according to IA statement made
by II. 7. Cornell, division passenger
agent of the American Express Com
pany travel department for the terri
tory between Denver and the Pacific
coast, with headquarters in San Fran.
cisco
Curtis Haupt, senior in the Colorado
Springs High School, was awarded u
four-year scholarship in Colorado Col
lege by the local Kiwanis Club. The
scholarship goes to Haupt as the most
proficient student in physics in a class
of 1872
Several hundred Indian arrowheads
have been stolen from the Agricultural
College museum at Fort Collins No
value has been placed on the collection
in the report to the sheriff, as the rel
les cannot be replaced, and are of
great value as a collection, but have
has as yet been found.
After dragging huge bear trap at
tached to a heavy log toggle three
miles through heavy brush and under
growth one of the largest mountain
lions ever seen in that part of the
state was captured near Montrose by
George NJ. Trickle, western slope rep
resentative of the United States bio
logical survey.
Edward Timmon, 4S years old, pro-
prletor of the Manhattan cafe of Fort
Morgan, was seriously injured while
plastering a room of a house in that
city. The scaffold broke, throwing
Timmons to the floor distance of ten
feet, bruising him severely and injur-
ing him internally.
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