The Raymer enterprise., 1919-05-29
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The final settlement Of the estate
Of Winfield Scott Stratton, multi-mil-
iionaire mining man who died In 1902.
Will be made In the county court Of
El Paso county.
lawrence G. Phipps has become Of
ficially senator OF Colorado. A tele-
gram to his son, Lawrence c. Phipps,
IT., announced that he had been sworn
In and taken his seat.
A widow with four children was ar
rested at her home In walsenburg,
charged with hootiegging. She was
arrested on the same charge about q
year ago and convicted.
The average county tax levy In Colo
RADIO Is 623 mills, which on an as
sessed valuation Of $l,424,Sl1 .2Ss
should produce Il county revenue from
direct taxation Of $3.50. .S5l.7l.
TO buy business and then -close II
out was the way one man managed to
get room In which to carry on his
own business at Castle Rock, there be-
Ing no vacant room available.
A mortuary to cost $4,000 is to be
built in Greeley this summer. The
building Will be Of Gothic type Of
architecture. The mortuary will be
the largest building Of its kind north
OF Denver.
The lowest county tar levy in any
county In Colorado for the year 1919
10 $50 mills In Phillips county, and
the highest is 1875 In Hinsdale coun-
ty. Seven counties have tax levies be-
low mills.
The total production Of coal in
Colorado was 12,65S,055 tons. the larg-
est annual production In the history OF
the state. This is approximately one
third Of per cent OF the total avail
able supply.
According TO A. l.. Bailey, city at
torney OF Glenwood Springs, the heav-
lest tourist traffic In the history OF
Colorado is expected TO visit or. at
least, pass through the resort during
the present season.
Owen Matteson. 22. a discharged sol.
dier. was out driving with his brother
at Fort Collins when front tire blew
out, throwing the car into the ditch.
Matteson tried to drive back on the
road, and the machine turned over.
Mattesons chest was crushed, and he
died four hours later.
Congress Is expected to act favora-
bly, on the $4,000 appropriation with
which the department OF petroleum
technology Of the United States bureau
OF mines plans to start an experiment
station for investigation Of Colorado
oil shale deposits, according to Con.
gressman Charles b. Timberlake
The hotelkeepers and business men
Of Estes Park are anticipating the big |
gest tourist business this season that |
the park has ever known. More reser-
yations than usual at this early. stage ,
are being received by all OF the hotels |
and cottage renting has already passed
previous years records by big per
cent.
Denver took $l3,947 coo In the Vic
tory loan, or more than 100000 above
the total, according to the announce
ment Of the Denver Liberty loan CON-
mIttee. In this total Is not included
a subscription from the banks, this
amount representing the actual sub
scriptions solicited by the army work.
ers In the drive.
Construction work on Brighton's
new factory for the National Beet Har-
vester Company has started under the
direction of q. G.. Leeper local capi-
talist and member of the board Of d. |
rectors OF the company. The other |
directors decided TO turn the matter !
entirely over 10 Mr.. Leeper and he is
giving the work his personal atten-
ton.
The first high.grader convicted in |
the San Miguel District Court in four
teen years was sentenced to the pen
itentiary for three years, when John |
Cataftakis was convicted of stealing
rich ore from the Smuggler mine at
Telluride.
Grover, little town With less than |
go people In northeastern Weld coun-
ty, has voted TO spend $4,000 for
waterworks and an electric light plant
this summer. Grover already has a
public school building costing $4,000
and has more money invested in pub
lie improvements per capita Of pop
ulation than any other town In north.
eastern Colorado, according to reports.
Marshall pass, Colorado, has been
made postoffice, and thereby takes
over the distinction OF being the high
est postoffice In the United States.
Marshall pass has an altitude OF TO-
$50 feet and what town is there has
been in existence thirty years OF more,
SO the designation as Il postoffice
comes to 1t late In life. Corona, on the
Moffat line, is higher up in the air
than is Parshall pass, but 1t has never
asked for an office H. Haley Is post
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