The Elbert County tribune., 1917-01-12


Jan; 2o-27-Annua western Stock
FEB. 2-4-Y. NJ. C. A. Annual Conven-
uon at Colorado Springs.
The Pueblo irrigation system il to
be greatly enlarged
Roads in Denver's mountain parks
are reported in excellent condition for
travel.
Railroads operating into Pueblo
showed tremendous increase in bust
ness for 1915
A revenue of $4,000 from the sale
OF the new 1917 auto licenses was tax
en- in by the state during the first two
days OF the year.
Experiments in ofling the streets of
Denver, both asphalt and graveled, are
TO be made next summer by the de-
partment of parks and improvements.
4 An inheritance tax of s57,245.64 on
the estate of the late Thomas M. Pat
terson, who died on July 23 last, was
paid to the state on total valuation
of s1,611 ,S01.6O.
The State Public Utilities Commits
sion denied permission to the Denver
Salt Lake railroad to increase its
freight rates on lumber hauled be-
tween Tolland and Tabernash and
Denver.
Agitation to place smelters under
the supervision of the state public
utilities commission was one of the
principal issues discussed at the Colo
RADIO Metal Mining association meeting
in Denver.
The state of Colorado started suit in
the Supreme Court of New York to col
lect 100000 inheritance tax from
the estate of the late John Harbeck of
Boulder, Colo. The estate is valued at
approximately $S,OOO,OO0.
Applications for filings on approxi-
mately 100000 acres of public land
in Colorado were made in less than
week after the announcement that
President Wilson had signed the $40
acre grazing homestead law.
Secretary of State-elect James r.
Noland announced that he would re-
tain the heads of virtually all the bu-
reaus of the department, some of the
head clerks and all the stenographers,
until at least March or April
Ten thousand laborers are needed
in the intermountain territory this
spring to carry on railroad, irrigation,
industrial and other construction
work, and railway officials say they do
not know where they are to be OBJ
tanned.
Nearly 400 Democrats attended the
jackson day banquet given by the
Democratic club at Ell Jebel temple in
Denver in honor of Judge julius C.
Gunter, who Tuesday became governor
of Colorado, and other state officials
elect.
Sheep feeders In the Arkansas val
ley will send over 255,000 head of
lambs to market this month. The
lambs have been fed at the stock
farms in the valley and will be rushed
Dat this month for fear of drop in
price.
Three persons were seriously in
jured and baby in the protecting
arms of its mother escaped unscathed
when the automobile Of Thomas Clevel
of Pueblo turned over on South Santa
Fe avenue at the bridge over the Ar
kansas river.
The act adopted by the people of
the state at the general election last
November providing for the invest.
ment of public school funds, which in
cludes the right to loan school money
on unincumbered farm lands, was held
to be constitutional under an opinion
rendered by Attorney General Fred
Farrar.
The Highland Mary Mining Com
pany at Ophirs is taking out mineral
from an ore body seven feet wide be
tween walls and is putting all of 1t
through the mill for test on the val.
ue of the total product. The company
owns ten-stamp mill adjoining the
group of mines, which is equipped with
electrical power.
Colorado produced 900 barrels OF
petroleum in 1916, as compared with
20S,475 barrels, of forty-two gallons
each, in 1915, according to report
made public by the United States Geo
logical Survey. The production
q the entire country reached 292,300,
900 barrels for the year, an increase of
11195,S96 over 1915.
Power to issue or deny certificates
of public convenience and necessity,
permitting competing utilities to en-
ter given field or forbidding them
that right, should be vested by law
in the State Public Utilities Commits
sion, according to recommendations
made in the bienniel report of the
'SState Public Utilitiesc Commission
Flour jumped 10 cents again in Den
i. yer, making an advance of 40 cents