The Lamar register., 1904-04-13
STATE CAPITAL NOTES

| county GSSeSSOTs dl ilt SldtS houoS'
the State Board of Equalization has
made arrangements to have all ran
roads operating in the state file an es-
innate on the cost of reproduction ior
the purpose of arriving. at some just
basis for assessment purposes.
The Humane Society will make
| thorough inspection of stables of Den
yer to ascertain how many unregistered
horses have been docked, and Will
prosecute all resulting cases OF tall
docking that are discovered. This ac-
/ ton is brought about by the recent de-
cision of Justice Steele declaring the
| Colorado statute prohibiting the prac-
| tice to be valid. The penalty in each
case is Imprisonment for fifteen months
| and a fine of $3.50.
The exhibit of the Colorado School
: OF Mines at the St. Louis exposition
will be a working assay and metallur-
| giccal laboratory. A space twenty-five
/ by fifty feet has been assigned in the
metal pavilion. directly opposite Lhe
mines and metallurgy building. The
| equipment will consist of one coal and
| two gasoline furnaces and the neces-
sary accessories, four desks for chem
ical work and a dust-proof balance
room inclosed in glass.
| Game COMMISSIONER d. VI. "coe
ard has just returned from trip
along the Arkansas river twenty-five
or fifty miles south of Pueblo, where
he was engaged in posting Spanish,
/ Italian and American notices regard
| ing the game laws and dates for the
| beginning of open season for hsh ana
game He reports that the rigid op-
1 servance of the laws against shooting
quail have filled that region with
great number of the game birds.
Curator w. C. Ferrill of the State
! Historical Department has a puzzle
for pioneers of Colorado, which is ex-
citing considerable interest at the
state house. J. S. Randall OF the
Georgetown Courier presented the
historical department with hundred
or more of old photographs obtained
from an album kept by James }.
White. who was a resident of Central
City in the early days. and died at
Georgetown about twenty years ago.
This set of pictures is collection OF
portraits gathered for the most part
/ before the Civil war and but rev Oh
them have been identified. Pioneers
are invited to call and see how many
portraits they can recognize.
A movement has been started among
! influential business and professional
men of Denver to bring about the re
nomination and reelection of Ben b.
Lindsey for county judAe. An organi-
zation has been formed called Ihe so
! ciety for the Preservation of the JuVe-
nile Court for the City and County OF
Denver" whose object is to seek the
denomination of the popular county
nudge for another term and insure the
perpetuation of his work among 1uve-
! nile Offenders of Denver. An efort
: will he made to have Judge Lindsey
name placed on the tickets of all the
parties making nominations. HIS goou
work among the boys has attracted the
attention of the whole country, anu
raised him above partisan considera-
tions.
The snowfall bulletins of the United
States Department of Agriculture TOT
the Colorado section. Just lssueu
through Secretary Director f. H.
| Brandenburg, indicates that the pre-
cipitation of snow has been greater
than was commonly supposed through-
out the entire state. The comparative
table showing a greater or less fall
than the average for the month OF
March includes ninety-four stations
OF these stations forty-eight Indicate
a fall above the average, twenty-seveh
less and the remaining nineteen sta-
tions show average. This indicates
that the snowfall last month was con-
siderably heavier than experienced IN
ordinary years and will greatly offset
the shortage of the preceding winter
months. During the month flores'a
station in Gunnison county leads the
list with 1O2 inches. Swandyke IN
Grand county is next with sixty lnches'
and Sargent in Gunnison county fol-
inches
est fall registered was at Villa Grove
In Rio Grande county. which has had
hut one inch of snow; several stations
had only two. but many run as high as
twenty inches.
The railroads are making a vigorous
fight on their tax assessment before
the State Board of Equalization. The
statement presented by r. NJ. Pollard.
agent of the Burlington. contained
some carefully tabulated figures going
to show the disproportion between
the taxes on that road in Colorado and
that of other states, particularly Ne
braska. In Yuma county, Colorado.
the road pays taxes at the rate oil
s375 per mile, while in Dundy. the
corresponding county in Nebraska, the
taxes are SAG. A comparison of Phil
lins county. Colorado. and Perkins
county. Nebraska. shows an excess diff
ference in Colorado on the assessed
valuation per mile of $50. table
was submitted showing that the road
in Logan county paid forty-nine per
cent. of the taxes. Adams twenty-four
per cent, Phillips twenty-five per
cent. Morgan forty-nine per cent.
Sedgwick forty per cent, Washington
fifty per cent, Weld twenty-three per
cent, Yuma forty-two per cent. and
Boulder eleven per cent. The Burling-
ton road in Colorado has an assessed
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