The Lamar register., 1904-07-13
STATE CAPITAL NOTES

jury have begun the examination OF
the books of the state treasurer and
auditor. according to law. The report
of the committee will be made when
the jury reconvenes on August 1st.
Mrs. Martha Shute has received en-
couraging news from the Worlds
Fair. 1t is said that the crates of
strawberries which she sent were the
largest received there. They were
from jefferson county and measured
five inches in circumference.
Despite the general belief that ear
lier in the season that the passenger
traffic to Colorado would fall far be-
low what 1t has been for years, the re-
port of the Colorado Railway Associa-
tion's bureau for the month of June
shows an increase over the same peri
cd of last year.
The annual report of the federal
land office at Denver has been turned
over to the federal district attorney
for approval The report compares
very closely with those of previous
wears. The total amount of business
done was s9S,351 for the year closing
June Both. There were 129 desert
land entries, timber and stone ia,
and 254 mineral applications.
Every day during the open season
there are fled in the office of the state
engineer water rights and ditch
plats that show that large
amount of ditch building is in
progress throughout the state. Many
of these are too small in themselves
to deserve mention but in the aggre-
gate they go to show the speed with
which lands of the state are being
brought under irrigation and the pro-
ductive area of the state in an agri-
cultural way is being increased.
Charles w. Prince has been appoint
ed a commissioner of Archuleta county
by Governor Peabody. He is to fill
the vacancy in the county board
caused by the discovery that E. NJ.
Briggs, who was elected to the office,
was not a resident of the county and
so could not serve. Briggs lives in
Edith. a town supposed to be on the
county line, which is also the line be-
tween the state of Colorado and the
territory of New Mexico. A recent
resurvey OF the boundry made by the
United States engineers showed the
residence of Briggs to be in New Mexi-
co and he was therefore incompetent
to serve as a commissioner of Archu-
leta county, Colorado. Price, the new
appointee, is a resident of Pagota
Springs. and was highly recommended
to the governor.
Elaborate new plats and water right
locations have been filed in the office
of the state engineer by the South
Platte Canal & Reservoir Company,
the branch Incorporation of the Denver
Unon Water Company that owns the
Cheesman dam on the South Fork of
the Platte at Goose Creek. The amount
of water the Cheesman dam will hold
at each foot of height upon the wall OF
the dam is given. This shows at its
present height l55 feet. the dam con
tains .66S. .Ssl $50 cubic feet of water.
Last winter. when the water stood but
eighty-six feet against the wall the
contents were less than one-third as
much. At PIP, the limit of the height
for the storage OF water. the dam will
hold 3,144O3s. .412 cubic feet. At pres
ent the water covers 566.22 acres and
when full will cover S74.0S acres of
land.
Four Denver fremen at the St. Lou
is Worlds Fair. with the champion fire
team of the world. exhibiting and also
doing fire duty, have been compliment
ed not only by Chief Swingley of the
st. Louis Fire Department. but also
by the Board of Managers Of the
Worlds Fair. for the magnificent work
they did the night of the burning of
the House of Hoo-Hoo. This body of
men have declared unequivocally that
had 1t not been for the Judgment and
bravery of these fremen not only
would the Kentucky and Texas state
buildings have been devoured by the
flames. but owing to the strong wind
blowing, the government and fishery
buildings would also have gone. The
men are Captain AL Graeber, Captain
Henry Sarwash of truck No. 2, Lieu
tenant Adolph Graeber of the same
company and Lieutenant Henry Schaff-
nett. They are members of the Hale
are fighting exhibit and Al. Graeber is
captain of the lifesaving crew there.
Gathered there with these men are the
picked firemen from all over the
world.
Limited indeed is the comprehen-
sion any one has had up to this time
as to the extent of tax lodging that
has been going on among the wealth
ier citizens of Denver during the last
ten years. The final report of Ralph
f. Esteb. who has in hand the work of
ferreting out the property on which no
taxes have been paid. has been sub
mitted to Assessor Alexander and the
recapitulation of his work which is
made in that report is indeed sur
prise. He shows by it that 5000 per-
sons have failed to turn in complete
lists of their tangible property. such
as notes, mortgages, stocks and bonds,
to the assessor, as they are re-
ouired to do by law. The taxes now
owing by these 5000 persons to the
city and county of Denver will amount
to somewhere between s30,000,000 and