The Raymer enterprise., 1919-03-20
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

land In the state In 1918, compared
with total Of 2J.149,45i acres for
1917.
Colorado has 5,542.2 miles Of railroads.
owned by forty-one railroad com
panies. Weld county is first In length
Of railway lines within its borders,
having 401 miles.
Colorado has 285.073 miles on tele-
phone line, every county In the state
being represented. Telephone prop
erty In the state is valued for taxa
ton purposes at $12,666.340,
With new secretary and revived
interest by all members, the Sterling
Chamber Of Commerce has taken on
new lease OF life, with promise Of con
siderable activity this season.
Potash deposits believed to be Of un-
usual extent and exceptional purity
have been discovered In the vicinity
OF Stoneham and syndicate Of Ster-
ling, Grover and Stoneham capitalists
has been organized TO develop the
same.
Officers Of Las Animas county are
prosecuting search for Santiago Pa
foya, n paroled convict, and Jerry
Hart. who are alleged to have shot and
killed a coal miner at Fredunto, q
camp near Trinidad, In quarrel
growing out Of game Of cards.
More than six tons Of milk. with but.
ter fat amounting to SAB pounds, Is the
years record which won first prize at
the Boulder dairy show for Holstein.
Jersey COW belonging to II. ). An
drews Of Boulder. The exact number
OF pounds OF milk produced was T.
PAT.
An epidemic OF fake officers has
hit Colorado Springs, with the arrest
during the last week OF half dozen
men parading in uniforms that they
were not entitled to wear. The latest
of these Is Capt" G. A. Hebb, who
claimed to be Canadian captain and
that he was wounded In the fighting
OIL the Somme.
1t is discovered that practically all
the 300 or more coal miners OF Crested
Butte will be obliged to pay an income
tax this year. Wages have been splen.
did and work plentiful, SO that unless
sick or unfortunate or unwilling TO
work. there were few who did not
draw down more than $1,000 in pay
checks during 1918.
II you stepped into grocery store
to buy apples and were told that they
were Sl.i0 each. wouldn't you bs
stunned? And yet that Is an every
day occurrence In the stores Of Paris,
according to a letter received In Pu-
eblo from Miss Wave Richardson. a
Pueblo girl who Is engaged in hospi'
tai work In that city.
A deal of more than ordinary i'm.
portance TO Glenwood, deal by which
Glenwood parties secure the Hotel
Glenwood, one Of the best business
properties in the city. was consnm-
mated. T.. +. Lucas and G. X. Nc.
Carthy have secured from the B0llee
estate lease with an option to pur-
chase the property, and have ALREADY
begun to remodel the property.
The Intermountain Press and Print
er, a trade journal devoted TO the pub
fishing business, is TO be published at
Greeley by George Haubrich, newly
elected field secretary of the Colorado
Editorial Association. The first issue
will be printed in April. The Colorado
Editorial Association, according to
Haubrich, has adopted the Iowa plan
of organization, and will spent S2.10o
this year In the work of standardlzing
advertising and circulation rates
among the 400 dailies and the week.
lies of the state
Hugglng the borders Of Colorado,
within two miles OF the Utah state
line In western Montrose county, Is
the smallest school in Colorado The
building is 9x9 feet and has four pu.
pills.
Philip Blanda and Fred Maronc,
Italians. were found guilty of murder
In the second degree by jury in the
District Court at P1eblo. They were
accused of numbering Andrew Dra-
gasch for the purpose OF robbery.
All indications point TO the largest
beet acreage ever planted in Arkar-
sas Valley II is said that the A. b.
s. Company will have better than IS.
DO acres contracted for before plant.
Ing time, and that The Holly Corpor-
alton Mt Swink also will have an I'M
usually large acreage. II Is also re-
ported that the American Beet Sugar
Companys plant at Las Anlmas,
which has not been operated for the
last few years, win be In operation
during the next campaign to ncip
make into sugar the vast amount Of
oeets which will be grown. The Rocky
Ford plant. which has large capac-
| ty, will be taxed 10 its utmost 10
handle the beeis grown in that i'm.
mediate vicinity.
A high-powered electric railway is
soon to be constructed from Pueblo to
Monte Vista through the san Luis val
,ey, according to statement made