The Dolores star., 1919-12-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

All crops III loioiuu' ""'''S
are valued at Sl91 100000. This Is lo.'
per cent more than the crops last year
and II is the most valuable ever har-
vested in the state.
All reports indicate that about l'oV"
new silos were built in Colorado this
wear and that the total number in the
state is now about 1000. The produc-
tion of corn for siluge in the state ~
increasing rapidly.
Logan county shows n larger IN
crease In acreage and in cultivation III
1919 over 1909 than any other county
in the state. The acreage cultivated III
1919 was 405,I3I acres, compared with
G3,771 acres in 1909.
TAXPAYERS Of Colorado Springs next
March will pour into the Golfers of the
county treasurer II total of S1,6li,O9l
in school, city. county and state taxes.
The total tax levy for the city in 1870
is 324l mills, an increase of ST. mills
over that of the year 1919.
Mrs. Henrietta Lindsey, wife of
Judge Ben Il. Lindsey of Denver, was
one of seven persons injured when Il
Chicago & Northwestern railroad train
was accidentally dcrailed at Mcquoin,
fifteen miles north Of Milwaukee. Mrs
LindSey's injuries We're slight. Judge
Lindsey, who was with his wife on the
train. Is on n speaking tour.
Earl Martin. - years old, was shot
by Roy Benton. member of "A sheriff &
posse, when he attempted to resist ar
rest after he and John T.. Bailey, 20,
had been caught, the Officers state, in
the act of Concenling an automobile
that had been stolen from in front of
the First Presbyterian Church nj Fort
Collins. The fight occurred at the Jack
Rigdcn ranch in Owl canon.
The Great Valleys Sugar Corpora
tion. Il recently organized company
capitalized at SG.OOo.OoO, has selected
Lafayette as the Site of one of the four
factories which will be built in north
ern Colorado. 1t is planned to have
The factory completed and ready Tor
the 1921 production. Sixty acres of
land lying onc-half mile south of La.
fayette have been purchased for the
proposed site and mill of sixty tons
daily capacity.
The Colorado Springs council of Boy
Scouts is to have II permanent camp
with mess cabin and bunk house. The
Rotary Club of that city voted to ex-
pend 81 800 for the erection of camI
buildings, and officers of the city wa.
ter department have agreed upon II
tract of lnnd on the city watershed in
Bear Greek canon which will be grant.
ed to the scouts AS a permanent camp
site
with budget of S2.3OO,OOO for road
work in 1920. the Colorado highway
commission lacks between $500, 900 and
SSOo.OOO in estimated revenues to meet
federa' aid road projects, according to
u statement made by J. +. Maloney
chir' engineer. The commission is ap
pcaling To the various counties directly
interested in federal aid projects I,
thai none Of the government improve
mcnts must be sacrificed.
The new court house in Montrose
which will be built during 1920, ac
"ordins to- the present plans of the
board of county commissioners, vii
contain one of the most fitting meinor.
i"lS to the soldiers of thar country that
could be procured. This will be tn,
picture and brief biography of every
man who went from this county to joiT
Uncle Sans colorS during the recent
war. This will include more than 600
photographs and war records and viii
be probably the largest collection of q
similar nature ever made in n county
Approximately 81 100000, represent
ing payments on the last quarterly in
Siallment of the income, war-profits
and xccssprofits taxes for 1915 has
been from Colorado people by Internal
Revenue Collector Mark A. skinner A
large number of Colorado citizens had
taken advantage of the Opportunity
given them by the government to pay
the taxes in quarterly installnents.
- '' WI Vi SullleIlIlp ana DfcSprS
ing for the state archives the records
of Colorado's men and women who
took part in the world war. in order
that true and complete history OF
co!orado's participation in the conflict
may be compiled, has been started by
the State Historical and Natural His
tory Society, under the direction OF
L. &. Carpenter, its president.
w. Il. Doyle, 60 years old, a clothing
salesman of Walsenburg, was fount
hanging by rope in his room in that
city. Mary Strock, housekeeper
discovered the body and 1t is believed
that he had been dead for severn
hours According to friends, he hat
been pondering over the matter fol
some time. He asked the postmaster
not to forward his mail, but to return
all OF 1t, as he intended going away.
Montrose citizens will play biz
tlnV.