The Dolores star., 1922-07-21
COLORADO NEWS NoTEJ.

| This will be perhaps the most import
| ant meeting the association has held In
wears because Of the fact that the mat
Ter of a field secretary will come up
and. IL is hoped, decided. Besides, the
Pueblo Commerce Club and all Pueblo
papers have united in big program
| for the entertainment of the visitors
Publishers should make arrangements
now TO 90. Work ahead far enough to
leave the office in charge of the help
for those two days. The meeting Will
be worth your time.
Denver-The acreage under cultva-
ton in Colorado this year is the larg-
est in the history Of the state, being
slightly more than 6,OOO,o0O acres. The
acreage devoted to nearly all the
major crops grown in the state Is
greater this year than last and large
increases are shown in acreages or
such crops as potatoes, beans, canta-
loupes and certain market garden veg
etables Reports to the State Immigra-
ton Department from the county as
SCISSORS of thirty-five counties show g.
597 1856 acres devoted to all crops ex-
elusive of orchard fruits, compared
with 3,437,79S acres devoted to crops
In the same counties last year.
Colorado Springs-What is declared
the greatest gold strike of recent years
in the Cripple Creek district, once the
foremost gold camp in the world, was
revealed in two streaks of rich four
foot vein at the 2,600-foot level of the
Portland mine at Victor. The ore in
the streaks, one and four inches in
width, will run from $4,000 to 10000
ton, according to Joseph w. Ady, Jr.,
Of this city, managing director of the
mine, while that in the vein, exclusive
of the streaks, will exceed $500 ton.
Greeley-A mother, her 12-year-old
son and year-old baby were injured, but
escaped death miraculously when n
twister completely wrecked their home
near buckingham. John Biggs, the IA
ther, was in barn milking when the
whirlwind blew up. The wind became
so intense that he was prevented from
running to his family, and us he
watched, the housew as lifted from its
foundation, carried sixty feet and
dropped on the roadside.
Colorado Springs-R G m ark Il b e
presence of mind saved the life OF
Mayor John Il. Paulson of Manltou. In
crossing the Colorado Midland termin-
al tracks near Manitou, Paulson OBJ
ai
yards from him. He leaped to the cow
catcher of the engine as the train
struck his motor. Clinglng to an iron
brace Paulson saw his car knocked to
splinters and strewn along the track
He was only slightly shaken up.
Cisco.-A vein of what Is declared to
be the richest calaverite quartz discov-
cred in the Cripple Creek district was
found in the Portland mine at the q
| GOO-foot level, according to a recent
report. The vein Is thought to be a
continuation of the ore found at the O.
450-foot level, but is declared richer
and stronger. 1t Is said to be the most
important discovery that has been
made in the Cripple Creek district in a
number Of years.
Boulder.-Another mountain climber
went to his death in an effort TO scale
the treacherous third flatIron on Green
mountain. 1t is the first fatality in
three years and is one of a long list of
victims claimed by the giant monolIth
in Its history. The body of John E,
Fitzgerald, 10 years old, of Tulsa,
Oklahoma, was found crushed and
mangled at the base of the wall OF
| rock.
Estes Park.-When he was thrown
from frightened horse here. John
| Copley, years old, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Copley of Galveston. Texas.
was killed instantly. The horse threw
the poV tc the ground and dragged the
boHJ quarter of a mile before being
halted. The boys skull was fractured
Canon lty.-Arrangements have
been perfected by the Agricultural Col
lege at Fort Collins, tile Fremont
County Poultry Association, the Can
on City Chamber of Commerce and the
county commissioners of Fremont
county, whereby poultry testing and
egglaying station for the state NJ
Colorado Is to be established at Canon
City. '''
Greeley.-The office of public trus.
tee, to which Governor Shoup recently
appointed A. NJ. McClenehan as head
IS the object of stormy fight. NJ T
Walsh, present incumbent has refusod
TO relinquish the station and turn over
the records to McClenehan.
Longmont.-Howard Roberts. a state
ranger who shot and killed John Cos.
par alleged bootlegger, in probihI.
ton raid at Gaspar's home here was
eHoherated by coroner's jury. Gas.
par was resisting arrest, the verde,
said. eiuie'
Denver.-Fire which deyeloned in
the Moffat railroad shops at Utah
junction, two miles north Of Globe
Vile, destroyed a large mart y, ~,