Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-02-04
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

tricts has grown more rapidly than
that Of the cities Figures announced
By the federal census bureau and
complied in the office OF the State I'M
migration Department show that the
rural population OF Colorado is now
81. .T6 per cent of the total population.
compared with s9t3 per cent In 1910
In the United States the rural popu-
lation Ia now 4s-T per cent Of the total.
compared with 53.T per cent In 1910.
The rural population In Colorado In
1920 is 4s53T0. compared with 1874, ,1S4
IN 1910. the Increase being over . per
cent. The urban population in 1920
was 453.2J9. compared with 404. $40 In
1910, the Increase being slightly less
than IL per cent In the United States
as whole the Increase in urban pop
ulation in the past decade was 2S.6 per
cent, while the Increase in rural popu-
lation was only 81 per cent, These
figures show clearly that. while there
was a strong movement from the
farms to the cities in the country as
whole. the movement in the Rocky
Mountain states was from the cities to
the farms, and that this movement
was especially strong in Colorado and
Montana
The total school population Of Colo
rado is 259,s13, and on this basis Miss
Katherine L. Craig. state superinten-
dent Of public instruction, apportioned
q total OF S361. 1.14s1s to the sixty
three counties of the state. OF this
gum, Denver receives 81, ,950.S5, the
largest single amount appOrtioned.
This was the semi-annual apportion-
rnent of the state school fund. The
amount distributed represents a total
Of Sl3e for each pupil, as compared
with S1.I3 given out last July. Miss
Craig announced the sum of 81. 1873
withheld from the State Teachers col
lege by mistake last July wss allotted
this time. FL Paso and Weld counties
were the second and third largest
beneficisries from the fund, receiving
s15,Teo.4s and So, 2,396.1s, respectively.
Howard @. Wade, chairman of the
Denver branch of the Military Train
ing Association, has been advised. by
telegraphic communication from New
York that the Congressional committee
preparation of adequate funds to pro-
vide for the establishment OF eighteen
summer training camps during 1921. A
joint committee OF the Training Camps
Association and the American Legion
appeared before the Congressional
body and outlined the needs, which in
clude the establishment of two camps
in the Ninth corps area, in which Den
yer is Included. An effort is being
made to establish one Of the camps
near Denver, Fort Logan having been
suggested as a suitable location.
Upward Of 1900 shopmen and track
men living in Denver and nearly 200
others on the Colorado division of the
Union Pacific are affected by a re
duction in working hours which has
been announced. The shopmen are to
have five-day week Instead of five
and one-half day week, while trackmen
VIII work five days instead of six.
This method is taken in preference to
cutting the force.
Two thousand carloads of choice
Greeley potatoes will be ruined in the
dugouts unless unexpected relief is OBJ
tanned for the farmers. Potatoes are
now selling at less than so per cent of
the cost of the crop and apparently
available markets will take only
very small percentage of the 5000
carloads OF sound potatoes in the
hands of dealers and farmers.
Il. i. McDermott, one of the best
known country newspaper men in the
state, has bought half interest in the
Fort Lupton Booster from the present
publisher, F. NJ. Walling. and the firm
name Will be WallinH & McDermott.
Mr.. McDermott will be the editor of
the paper.
Two hundred thousand rainbow
trout eggs have been received from
Oregon at the Fort Collins fish hatch
cry, to be Matched and put into the
streams of the county. The hatchery
already has on hand 100000 fry about
thirty days old. r. C. Haviland, sup
nounces that within thirty days he will
begin the construction of fish nurs-
cry pond in front of the hatchery 200
by 30 feet, and that the fish from the
hatchery will be grown in this pond
until they are finger length before
they will be released In the streams.
Hunters and fishermen of Boulder
county are to meet in Boulder TO or-
ganize fish and game club and to dis-
cuss protective legislation now before
the State Legislature. All of the local
clubs in the county are to be affiliated
in this organization, though they will
retain their Identity.
Notices. of reductions in wages eff
fective March 1 have been filed by flf-
teen Colorado concerns with the State
Industrial Commission. Included In the