The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.


Association and Banquet to Members
of Colorado Assembly at Denver.
Jan. 1S-27-Annual Food Show at Dem
Jan. 2o-27-Annual western Stock
Show at Denver
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ C. A. Annual Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
The Pueblo irrigation system is to
be greatly enlarged.
Roads in Denvers mountain parks
are reported in excellent condition for
travel.
Railroads operating into Pueblo
showed tremendous increase in bust
ness for 1916.
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 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 $57,245.64 on
the estate of the late Thomas M. Pat
terson, who died on July 23 last, was
paid to the state on a total valuation
of S1,611, ,S01.60.
The State Public Utilities Commits
sion denied permission to the Denver
& Salt Lake railroad to increase it's
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 $3,O0O,O0O.
Applications for filings on approx
mately 100000 acres of public land
in Colorado were made in less than a
week after the announcement that
President Wilson had signed the $40
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
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 255,00O 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
tot OF hn oil ln
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 Ophir is taking out mineral
from an ore body seven feet wide be
tween walls and is putting all of it
through the mill for a 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 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
the entire country reached 292,30O,
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 by law
in the State Public Utilities Commits
sion, according to recommendations
made in the bienniel report of the
State Public Utilitiesc Commission