The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-30
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

this latter acreage is less than 6 per
cent of the corporation-controll
lands totaling 211,O00 acres. These fig
ures are given IN a report compiled by
Horace Havens, mineral superintend-
ent of the State Land Board, and is
sued by the board at the request of
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 5,794 acres of state
school lands listed as coal producing
as being under lease to corporations.
OF this total, 1,S00 acres are not being
operated. Coal production from the
state school lands to July l last has
been 2,539.1 .14l tons, which produced in
royalties S230,314.90 plus $31, ,005, rep
resenting minimum payments on
leases, or S261 1890 in all. The roy
atty, which was recently 10 cents ton,
is now u cents ton on most leases,
the report further showed. and all
leases are subject to revision every
five years.
Curator Junius Henderson of the
of his time this year collecting war
relics to be added to the already num-
erous Instruments of war contributed
by returned soldiers, who were form
erly students in the university. Miss
Charlotte Ball, daughter of Colonel
Ball of Boulder, recently deposited
German helmet, to have been used in
the "triumphal entry into Paris, in the
university collection.
Enough freight cars to handle eXpe-
ditiously the wheat and beet crops of
Colorado are at the disposal of the
Colorado & Southern railroad, it was
announced by officials of the com
pany. Approximately 400 cars are on
the tracks in northern Colorado ready
for shipment in about thirty days. The
crop, according to estimates made by
the railroad company, is 10 per cent
heavier than last year.
c. B. Akard and wife of Montrose
have announced the donation of a full
chime pipe organ to be installed in the
new Congregational church now under
construction in that city. The organ
will be memorial to their daughter,
Mattye Shirley Akard, deceased. The
organ, which is being constructed es-
pecially for the space in the church,
will be one of the finest in the state
Six persons narrowly escaped death
when the auto in which they were rid
ing plunged off the road in Phantom
canon, near Victor, down a fifty-foot
embankment, landing on it's right side.
The party, which was made up of Mr..
and Mrs. John Butler and four child
ren, tourists, were rushed to the dis
trict hospital by passing motorists
and all are in serious condition.
Rose Fiscus, 19-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Fiscus of Pueblo,
was instantly killed when the auto
mobile she was driving pitched over
forty-foot embankment into the St.
Charles river, nine miles east Of
Pueblo. Her mother, sister, Augusta,
IL years old, and 2-year-old brother
were with her, but escaped from the
wreck with only minor injuries.
An ak and a knife were used by
Frank Ballegos in killing Mercurio
Ballegos, his uncle, near La Posta, ac-
cording to a statement made in Du-
range, by Mrs. Bellegos, 1S-year-old
wife of the murdered man, who is in
Jail with his nephew. Ballegos' 2-year-
old son was a witness to the murder,
which took place in the Ballegos home,
according to the child's mother.
In Logan county more than $4,000
acres of land was broken this year or
last summer for cultivation in crops
this year. This is more than is under
cultivation in any one of forty-one
counties in the state.
Lee Coplen, formerly of Colorado
Springs, was shot by unknown auto
lists at Lincoln, Neb. He had left Col
orado Springs, April 1st, where he had
been employed in the Whiteview mines.
The mystery of the robbery of zinc
precipitates, valued at $1,000, from the
Independence mill of of the Portland
Gold Mining Company was solved
when Sheriff Henry Won Phul of Grip
Pile Creek, assisted by Sheriff John FL
Weir of Colorado Springs, apprehend-
ed Robert Burns of Victor, at Manitou
About 800 pounds of the precipitates
| were recovered.
Experts who have examined irriga-
ton conditions carefully in Colorado
estimate that nearly 100000 acres OF
land for which irrigation water is
available has been damaged by seep
age or over-irrigation and alkali an,
that practically all of it could be made
as productive as it ever was by proper
drainage.
A relic of their barbaric past, YET
mt Of hnf triI
that it cannot be disregarded, the an
nual snake dance of the Hopi Indians
will be held on the Hopi reservation
eighty miles north of Flagstaff, Ariz.
| some time between now and Sept 26