The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1919-09-05
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

ures are given in report compiled by
Horace Ravens, mineral superintend-
ent of the State Land Board, and Is
sued by the board at the request or
State Auditor Arthur NJ. Stong. who Is
investigating the prices and profits on
coal in connection with the work OF the
governors investigating commission.
The report shows 1874 acres of state
school lands listed as coal producing
as being under lease to corporations.
or this total, 1900 acres are not being
operated. Coal production from the
state school lands to July l last has
been 2.539,14l tons, which produced in
royalties $23O,3l49O plus S31.OO5. rep
resenting minimum payments on
leases, or S261, 1880 in all. The roy
atty, which was recently 10 cents ton.
is now ~ cents ton on most lenses,
the report further showed. and all
leases are subject to revision every
five years.
Nothing in the world ever has or
ever can take the place of good
horse. Interest therefore, in the Col
orado Horse Breeders Association
meeting to take place in Pueblo, Tues
day, September 23rd at 10 O'Clock Il.
m, during the coming State Fair. Is
very great. 1t is also predicted that
this gathering of horse raisers will
greatly stimulate the raising and use
of horses throughout the West. The
maximum service of the horse with
the minimum effort or loss of energy
has become Il study which has resulted
in valuable discoveries brought about
by experiments and practical tests.
and chief of these is the multiple hitch
system so much talked about, of late,
that experts in that line are in demand
for demonstrations everyw ere
Wayne Dinsmore, of Chicago, secretary
of the Percheron Society Of America,
is an acknowledged authority on this
subject, and his services have been
secured to make demonstrations at the
Colorado State Fair, Pueblo, on Sep
TENDER 23rd.
John Tarro, peddler of ice cream
cones, who was arrested at Durango,
charged with having an unlawful
amount of intOxicants in his posses
sion, was tried in Justice Court and
found guilty and was assessed fine
of $50, plus SSt costs and ninety days
in Jail, has appealed the case to the
County Court and has put up cash
bond Of 1854 to carry the case through.
which will come up for retrial at the
September term Of court When Tarro
was first arrested. the officers say
they found a barrel of wine that testc
more than 2 per cent alcoholic con-
tent
AS result of the reports on acreage
of crops furnished this year by county
assessors and the reports on yields of
small grains furnished by threshermen,
the Colorado Cooperative Crop Re
porting Service will be able this year to
make more accurate report on the
amount Of grain grown in the state
than has ever been made before, and
will have the figures available a month
or more earlier than in the past.
More than $50 women have already
sent in their names to University of
Colorado authorities as prospective
students in the university next year.
These names are now all in the hands
of the Big Sister committee chairman
in Boulder. More than 200 women
have already sent in their credits to the
registrar, indicating the certainty of
their entering school when 1t opens
Sept 20.
Due to the large increase in the
acreage Of government land which has
been hOmeSteaded during the previous
year and the increase in mining valua-
tions, the total assessment in Montrose
county exceeds the valuation of 1918
by $1,26O,l20, according to the com
pleted compilation made by Assessor
G. w. Clarke.
The gunbarrel road on the Ocean to
Ocean highway between Monte Vista,
Center and Saguache is completed.
This piece of road, with stretch over
the north end of the Russell Springs
lake, creeks and marshes, causing an
expenditure of over 100000 in con-
structi0n work for the last three years,
| is finished.
Many wild grasses of Colorado are
| susceptible to rust and assist in spread
| ing it to the grain fields. They are
| especially pernicious when they occur
in the cities, thus aiding the rust to
spread from city barberries out into
| the country.
Perjury is charged against Joe Man
dich is an information filed in Boul-
der, in which Mandich, who is said to
be 40 years old, is alleged to have
sworn to lie in getting a marriage
license for himself and 14-year-old Me-
lita Phillips of Longmont.
Bank deposits in Colorado at the be-
ginning of 1919 amounted to S24s.
per capita. Two counties, Dolores and
Hinsdale, have no banks and hence
show no bank deposits, while the high.
est per capita deposits, $45544, are in
Denver county.
Twenty miles an hour Is the snaod