The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-06-11
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


Reports received by the State Immi-
grafton Department from county asses
| sors Indicate that the combined acre
age of spring and winter wheat planted
in Colorado for the 1921 harvest was
perhaps slightly larger than that plant
ed for the 1920 harvest, and possibly
the largest In the history Of the state.
Reports had been received ON June 1
from 24,2O5 individual farmers in AZ
counties. The total number of farm
ers reporting through county assessors
las year was 49,117, and Indications
are that the total number reporting
this year will be fully as large. The
| area of winter wheat reported up to
June l was 71O.534 acres and that of
spring wheat 1S5,642 acres, or a total
| Of so6,176 acres. County assessors re-
| ported total of 1,034, ,143 acres Of win
ter wheat and 334, ,S86 acres Of spring
wheat in 1920, or 100000 acres of
wheat.
| Charles Hayes of Mancos has re-
turned after an exploration trip into
the region north Of the Navajo noun
tains He reports the discovery of
some of the most marvellous ruins ever
seen by a white man. Where the
Navajo mountains break away into
deep canons that open into the San
Juan and Colorado rivers the ruins
were found in almost every canon,
many of them of good size and some
even better preserved than those of the
Mesa Verde National Pork. The Sec
tion where these ruins were found is
almost inaccessible except to person
on foot.
| Quo warranto proceedings in which
the election of the mayor and four Of
| the six members of the city council Of
Englewood are being contested have
been filed in the District Court at Lit
Teton. The contests are brought on
the ground that the nominating petit
tons of the successful candidates were
insufficient, in that the signers of the
petitions did not make the oath re-
quired by law.
An issue of $4,000 first mortgage
bonds was authorized at a special
meeting of the Loveland Canning Com
pany. The issue is to prepare the
|
crop expected this season. w. G. Vor-
reiter, A. V. Benson, John r. Handy,
Hugh Scilley and G. A. Benson were
named as a board of directors, and
plans were made for handling 100000
pounds of cherries alone this season.
| Colorado ranks third in a list of
| twenty-one states in the matter of bus
mess recovery, according to a survey
just completed by the National Indus
trial Council, of which the Colorado
Manufacturers Association is a unit.
Taking Feb. 1, 1920, as 100 per cent,
the production of Colorado industries
on Feb. i, 1921, is given as 80 per cent.
Only California and Texas show high
er percentages of production.
| All old AissnurIans, native born or
former residents, dre invited to a3great
birthday party in Sedalia August 10
in celebration at the Missouri State
Fair of the Tooth anniversary of the
admission of the state into the union.
ranged by the Sedalia Chamber Of
| Commerce, and Secretary M. v. Car
roll writes that every old Missourian
| Will be welcomed.
| Because the city council did not feel
financially able to make a contract
with the Loveland band for free con-
certs this year, the citizens have taken
it up and are making a collection to
provide the funds. The Rotary Club
has pledged $3.50 Of the $1,000 neces-
sary, the Lions Club has appointed
| tcI& lr
individuals have contributed from 50
to $40 each.
The police department has been de-
tailed to patrol the city diligently ev-
| cry night to locate, if possible, the
young people who have been stealing
flowers and strawberries from num-
ber of local homes at Palisade. The
early strawberries are just coming In
to bearing, and several patches have
been badly damaged by the miscreants.
Spawning crews of the State Fish
Department are busy at Electra lake,
where they expect to gather 100000
eggs before the season closes. They
are hindered by high water. The prin-
cipal spawning ground is at the mouth
of Elbert creek, where it empties into
| the lake. The creek has been very
high with the result that only 100000
eggs have been gathered, whereas the
spawners expected to be able to gather
100000.
| A class of 234 was graduated by the
University of Colorado at Boulder in
the newly completed Macky auditor
ium. The storm interfered considera-
| bly, with the attendance and kept a |
number of the graduates of the mod
ical school from attending. This was |
the largest class since 1914. 1t includ- |
ed representatives of three foreign |
countries and eighteen states other |