The Colorado statesman., 1922-12-02
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.


next year that is expected to exceed
in tonnage anything 1t has ever had
offered by the farmers. Factories at
Eaton, Greeley, Windsor, Brighton and
Lowell, Wyo, have been shut down,
and men are already at work prepar-
Ing them for the big business expected
In 1923. Plants ut Fort Collins, Love-
land, Longmont and Billings will close
in the near future. Those at Sterling,
Brush, Fort Morgan and at four points
in Nebraska will continue their opera
tions until the beets are all sliced, and
then they, too, Will be put in condi'
ton. All of the Great Western fac
tories have been run on scale of
about two-thirds of the production in
1921.
Denver.-Colorado prize Hereford
cattle won awards at Kansas City In
the judging of a number of classes,
and the ribbons won, including two
firsts and one grand championship
was considered a great triumph fol-
the Colorado breeders. The Baker
ranch took first and the grand cham
pionship in the junior yearling bull class
Of Herefords, besides several other
lesser awards. Dewitt & Lamont took
a first in the Junior calves, Baker won
second and Ken -Caryl ranch third. In
the aged bull class w. N. w. Blayney
won seventh, Dewitt ninth and Ken
Caryl ranch tenth.
Denver.-William e. Sweet, COVER
nor-elect of Colorado, when asked to
h. f,,II nj Nf IA 10 rn-
marks pertaining to the enforcement
of the Volstead act, as quoted from an
address made before the Denver OPP
timists Club, explained his position
as follows: ~ hold tenaciously to the
proposition that laws are made to be
enforced, including the prohibition
law, and / should look with favor on
the enactment of any supplementary
legislation which will help enforce
ment."
Denver.-A decrease of 40 per cent
in the annual cutting of lumber in
Colorado is revealed in the figures for
1921 given out by the United Slater
Department of Commerce. The report
shows that 64,S64,000 feet of lumber
were cut in 1919; 67,S47, 900 in 1920
and 41,076,000 Ill 1921. OF the total cut
for the last year more than 22,OOO0Oo
feet were of the yellow western pine
tree, S,6S0,000 feet of yellow spruce, g.
41S,0o0 of Lodgepole pine, and 3,343,-
900 of all other types of trees.
Denver.-The Denver & Rio Grande
Western railroad will spend $22,26S,-
900 on improvements within the next
three years. OF this sum $16,7O0O0O
will have been spent by Jan. l, 1924.
This was announced by Special Mas
ter Cass e. Harrington upon submis-
sion of his report to the United States
District Court recommending the I'M
mediate expenditure of $T,000,000 on
improvements. The expenditures will
be made under the direction of tIe
court
Trinidad.-Sherifrs officers here
are prosecuting SO far an unavailing
search for Luther J. Smith, negro
coal miner, who shot and killed
Charles Jones, another negro miner,
at Piedmont, a camp near here. Jones
body was riddled by bullets from u
pistol and rift, both of which, 1t is
alleged, were used by Smith, who is
said to have robbed the dead man of
500 in money before making his es-
cape.
Fort Collins-The largest amount
expended by any Larimer county can
didate in the recent election campaign,
as far as the reports have been re-
celved, was spent by the only Repub-
lican to be defeated at the polls. Fred
w. Harris, candidate for sheriff, re-
ports expenditures of S331.90.
Denver-Frederick Patterson John
son, widely known stockman and pub
Usher of the Record -Stockman, left an
estate valued at $4,000, according to
petition for letters of administration |
filed in the County Court by james b.
Foley, who is named in the will as ex-
ecutor.
Denver.-Colorado Is assured import |
ant rights under the seven states COM
pact, apportioning the waters of the
Colorado river, which was signed in |
Santa Fe, N. NJ. The rights guaran-
teed by the treaty include: Particlpa-
tlon with Wyoming, Utah and Nevada
in use of 7,50000 acre-feet of the riv-
er waters. Protection of all water
rights now existing in the Colorado
river and its tributaries. The right Of
removal of the water from the basin
of the Colorado river. Ample supply
of water for Denver from the river or
its tributaries. Use of water of the rlv-
er or tributaries for domestic, agricul-
tural, municipal or Industrial purposes,
but not to generate power.
Denver.-Republican are assured
control of the lower House of the
next State Assembly by majority of
one vote. Official counts, completed
In all doubtful districts, give Republi-