Semi-weekly herald., 1910-05-12

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more especially those OF commission.
ers. He is after railroads.
Grand Junction is putting on men
to assist the census enumerators. That
town Is not going to lose out in popu.
lation IL possible. In the meantime
Durango is probably satisfied with the
way things are going,
The Business Mems association of
Pueblo has outlined lightning cam.
paign for the organization of a new
chamber of commerce The city was
divided into districts and It is expect.
ed 400 new members for the new
boosters organization will be secured
in a week
Rural potatoes at Greeley are brIa~-
ing As cents and Pearls are bringing 40
cents per hundred, raise of about
rs cents within the last three weeks.
This Is believed to be the highest
point in the raise and the price proba.
bly, will fluctuate about those figures
during the next few weeks.
Senator Guggenheim has re-lntro-
duced the bill permitting the Interior
department to lease lands within the
Mesa Verde national park. The bill
is identical with the one which pre-
viously passed the senate. but which
the president vetoed on account of
amendments deemed Objectionable.
added while the bill was before the
| house.
County horticultural Inspector Tay-
lor of Mesa county says that county
will produce about 60 per cent crop of
| fruit this season. This indicates the
frost did a good deal of damage In
this southwest section The apple crop
will be 100 per cent with peaches and
pears n close second The frost did
not do as much damage In La Plata.
Montezuma and San Juan county. New
Mexico. as it did on the Grand June
ton slope and this without smudging
Driven insane by his craze for dane
| ing, Flader Stasochich died at Pue-
bio Friday. Each evening for weeks
Stasocich disappeared from his home
shortly after dark and returned In
the morning Just before daylight His
mysterious absences at last caused rel.
atives to follow him and they found
him dancing on the edge of Lake Min.
nequa by moonlight. Residents of that
district said he had been coming there
for weeks and dancing until the moon
had set
The state board of equalization Fri.
| day adopted resolution inviting
special committee of assessors to meet
with the board on May 90 and confer
| with it regarding the corporation
values. The idea Of the board is to
assess at one-third the actual value of
railroads and TO have the spe-
cial committee understand that a
a one-third valuation is placed on the
corporate property in order that this
special committee of assessors can ad
vice the other assessors that the board
has valued its property at ouethird
Colorado state lands are in demand
all over the country. a fact evidenced
board Thursday in the hall of the
house of representatives. At the sale
there were 2S.043 acres sold for which
$22.704 will be received. The average
price of the land was sl1.32 an acre.
The appraised value fixed by the board
was s274.923. or $972 an acre. The
sale netted $47,7S1 above the apprais-
ed value. The highest price paid was
$50 so an acre for 100 acres in Adams
county.
Secretary Patek OF the state board
of immigration at Denver has sent
out his first list of inquiries to the
commercial bodies of the state There
were $50 names on the list. Mr.. Patek
intends to send every commercial or
| ganization in the state the name of
every man that writes to his board
for Information concerning Colorado,
and to tell the organization what each
one is inquiring about. In this way
the commercial organizations of the
state will be kept fully informed about
all inquirers from outside The state
Recently Mr.. Patek sent an invitation
to the journals and magazines of the
east inviting them to send represen-
tatives to Colorado and examine her
resources. Later he received letters
from a number of these journals ac-
cepting the invitation. The Review of
Reviews has promised to give the state
two articles. one in July and one In
August. The articles to be written by
their representatives.
Work has been resumed on small
scale in FIVE OF the thirty coal mines
in northern Colorado, and about $50
tons of coal is being mined daily.
About seventy-fiye men are working
in the Puritan mine and smaller
forces in the others. The operators
report that there Is considerable diff
Guilty in obtaining men, but that they
expect to continue their efforts until
they are able to open all their mines.
But little more coal Is being mined