The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-01-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS

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of Colorado Assembly at Denver.
Jan 1s-27-Annual Food Show a Den
Jan. 7o-27-Annual western Stock
Show at Denver
Feb. 2-%-Y. M. c. A. Annual Conven-
tion 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 1916.
A revenue of 3ls.sO0 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 oiling the streets OF
Denver. both asphalt and graveled, are
| to be made next summer by the de
partment of parks and Improvements.
An inheritance tax of S57,245.64 on
the estate of the late Thomas NJ. Pat
terson, who died on July % last, was
paid to the state on a total valuation
of s1.6ll. .so1.60
The State Public Utilities Commis-
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 $4,000
| Applications for filings on approx.
mately 100000 acres Of public land
| in Colorado were made in less than
week after the announcement that
| President Wilson had signed the GAO
acre grazing homestead law.
| Secretary OF State-elect James r.
| holland 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
| i'll the intermountain territory this
| spring to carry on railroad. irrigation,
! industrial and other construction
work, and railway officials say they do
rot know where they are to be OBJ
! tanned.
Nearly 400 Democrats attended the
| Jackson day banquet given by the
Democratic club at FL 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 255,0O0 head OF
lambs to market this month. The
lambs have been fed at the stock
farms in the valley and will be rushed
out this month for fear of a 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
Fsrrar.
The Highland Mary Mining Com
pany at Ophir 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 a ten-stamp mill adjoining the
| group of mines, which is equipped with
electrical power
Colorado produced 10000 barrels Of
petroleum in 1916, as compared with
| 20S.475 barrels. of forty-two gallons
each, in 1915, according to a report
made public by the United States Geo
| logical Survey. The production of
the entire country reached 292,3OO,-
| 900 barrels for the year, an increase Of
| 11,195,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 nv law
in the State Public Utilities Commits
sion, according to recommendations
made in the bienniel report of the
State Public Utilitiesc Commission.
Flour Jumped 10 cents again in Dan.