The Keota news., 1921-02-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
,w~.rrn Se,e.,ss uni0n Ns., s-r,c,)

stantly killed when he fell from Il pony
i,e was riding The lad was riding the
pony and drivIn: home his fathers
cows when the accident occurred.
Work at Longmont has started In
wrecking the city hall To make way
for a new 10000 municipal building.
The new hall will contain council
chambers. rest rooms. gymnasium
and office rooms for city officials.
Contracts have been signed by the
Axial Basin Development Company
for the construction Of twenty-eight
miles Of railroad connecting. Craig the
present terminus Of the Moffnt road.
with the company property nj Mount
Streeter. whore there has been devel.
aped and placed In shape for produc-
tiOn one Of the largest coal properties
In the country.
Mrs. Bertha N. Dickey. who entered
cimarr0n year ago and whom the
government has tried to dispossess up-
on the claim that the land was too
rough for cultivation and therefore
should be rc.dcsignmted US grazing
land. won In u contest case heard In
the Nontrose land office after she had
proved BY several witnesses that ,he
land was actually In cultivation, hay
Ing been plowed with tractor last
fall.
Uncle Sam paid the Colorado State
Highway Department approximately
to62.lx2. AZ the government share
Of the constructed federal aid road
work In the state during 1870. accord.
Ing to District Engineer J. :. Bright
u the United States Bureau Of Public
Roads. This money represents the
federal payments on forty.scven pro-
lscts under construction or completed
through the state" Bright said. '.Twen-
ty.two separate projects were com.
pleted during the year ut u total esti.
mated cost of 81. .O38. .S35. ~. Of whick
the federal government was requested
to pay $4lO.907.36.''
Charles T. Stockton. furniture deal.
sr Of Bristol for a number Of years, Is
lead, and four other persons are in
the hospital suffering serious injuries
40 the result Of an accident which oc-
Cured xix miles between Bristol and
Holly. The injured IRE Joseph Eel.
lars. who is suffering from a broken
Ieg: q. Il. Hite. badly bruised, and
Henry Thompson and Ernest Burke Sc
verely bruised about the face and
body. Stockton, Cellars, Thompson
md Burke, all Of Bristol, were en-
route home from Holly when the ma.
chine In which they were riding col.
Ildel with a horse and buggy being
irivsn by q. Il. Hite, who IL a well.
known Prowers county farmer. It 10
said a binding snow storm was the
cause Of the accident.
No state with the exception of Mon
tana has shown 80 rapid an increase
in the acreage Of land under cultiva.
tion In the past decade as Colorado,
and few states have shown q larger
percentage Of increase In the number
II farms. Within the past ten years
approximately 100000 acres Of gov.
ernmsnt land has been homesteaded.
while large areas Of privately owned
land have been broken and placed un-
dsr cultivation. Records Of the State
Immigration Department show that
this movement has been much stronger
10 the past five years than In the pre-
ceding five years, and that there was
an actual decrease in the population
of the state during the first two years
after tho 1910 census was compiled.
Inc Increase In subsequent years has