The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-01
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

Detectives at Ridge, Colo, and thor
oughly investigated the request for
large appropriation to increase the
facilities at the home. DR.. A. C. Bus
BY. superintendent of the home. has
asked the state Legislature for an
appropriation of 100000 for i'm
provements and expenses for the
coming biennial period DIR. Busy
said the capacity of the present in
stitution was only eighty-two and
that he had on file 315 applications
for admittance. In addition. he said.
efforts were being made to transfer
to the home 800 children now cared
for at the insane asylum at Pueblo.
Four hundred and two thousand.
five hundred and six dry tons OF
Colorado ore were treated in the
plants of the American Smelling and
Refining Company during the last
year. according to a statement from
Manager r. p. Reynolds of the local
plant at Durango. This brought 1885,
927 ounces of gold, 5,239,31S ounces
of silver. 54 ,131, ,063 pounds of lead
and 5.S50,094 pounds of copper. This
brought total of $13.055, ,5S1 to
Colorado mining men.
Summit county soldiers Vreturning
from the war are sure of employment
in the Breckenridge gold fields and
elsewhere in the county. Three large
employers of labor-the Tonopah
Placers Company. the Royal Tiger
Mines Company and the Wellington
have given notice that their former
employees who entered the war forces
OF the United States will be given
their former situations or better ones
on their return.
At large meeting of Pueblo real
estate men resolution was unani-
mously adopted requesting the city
attorney to at once apply to the state
Supreme Court for an order restrain
ing the Pueblo Gas and Fuel Com
pany from putting into effect the
new gas rate calling for an increase
of 35 cents per 1000 feet. This in
crease was granted by the State Util-
tiles Commission.
That the Colorado Development
Federation continue its Washington
bureau and other activities as pro-
tective measure to Colorado interests
was the request made by the state Or
ganization of county commissioners.
By unanimous vote, the organization
passed resolution that each county
pay at once its share of fund to car
ry on the work of the federation.
The first prosecution of alleged
bootleggers under the Webb law,
which has recently been upheld by
the United States Supreme Court,
will take place in Denver in the near
future. the offenders being two Den
yer men who were captured by the
Colorado constabulary. fifteen miles
south of the state line.
The general land office of the
Department of the Interior, with the
assistance of the federal geological
survey, during the month of Decem-
ber classified 205.415 acres of Colo
RADIO land as applicable under the
stock raising homestead law, which
provides for grazing and raising
stock on tracts of $40 acres or less
Arapahoe county's valuation has
according to figures of the county as
SCISSOR. Settlers proving up land IT,
ties and a general increase of the
county's prosperity are given as the
reasons. The 1919 valuation of the
county is s19.722.11O.
Samuel Cheesebrough, employed at
the Terrible mine. Silver Plume, was
killed when he was caught under a
rock fall. Chesebrough is survived
by six small children. His wife died
from the influenza some time ago.
Montrose needs about fifty new
homes and ten apartment buildings,
according to leading bankers state
ment, to take proper care of the
towns increasing population.
Realizing that there will be an over
supply of labor, the Board of County
Commissioners of Routt county has
reduced the pay for road overseers
and laborers on the roads. The wages
for all classes were lowered so cents
day Because of this reduction, no
applications for the position of road
overseers were accepted, giving all ap-
plicants a chance to withdraw.
Revival of the mining industry of
Colorado through unification of the
forces that represent an investment
in property running to the millions is
proposed in the Girard bill, backed
by the Colorado Metal Mining Asso-
citation and the Colorado chapter of
the American Mining Congress. The
measure is in legislative committee
A welcome arch to returned sol
diers has been established at Platte
vile between the depot and the |
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