The Dolores star., 1919-01-10
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

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| Jan 2O-2i-Mtd-w winter meeting OF
Colorado Editorial Association NJ
| Denver. 80,
Jan. 2i-Meeting Colorado County Com
| missioners at Denver.
Jan. 22-Coiorado stock Growers AS
sociation meeting at Denyer ,i,nal
| Jan. 22-Mceting Farmers Educatioha'
Jan. l-23eMountain States Lumber
| Dealers Association meeting III p"
| Jan. 23-2i-Hardwarc and Implement
| Dealers meeting at Denver. ,.,,-
Jan. 23-2a-Western Shorthorn bree'
| ers Association at Denver.
| Jan. 23-24-Meeting Oldtime Cowboys
| Association at Denver.
Jan. 2i-25-Meetins Colorado Horse
| Breeders Association at Denver.
| Jan. 25-Meeting Colorado Auctioneefs
Association at Denver.
Jan. 2l26-Western stock Snow at
Jan. 2l-2S-Meeting American National
Live Stock Association at Denrer'
U. c. Conway, wanted in Denver
for burglary, has been arrested IN
/ Ogden.
| The annual intercollegiate track
and field meet will be held in Den
yer on May 81 at Union park.
Mrs. r. d. Shaw, formerly of Den
yer, died atsFort Collins after four
days illness with pneumonia.
Farmers in the Hayden district re-
ceived more money for the 1918 crops
per acre than the previous value of
the land
The influenza situation in Denver
continues to show improvement, ac-
cording to reports received by the
| city health bureau
Leadville's metal production in
| 1918 had value of s47S.925. i16-
a record of which the highest mining
town in the world" may well be
proud.
A bill has been prepared to be
introduced into the State Legisla-
ture asking that the state appropri-
ate sum with which to buy two
bronze memorial tablets for each of
the past governors.
F. J. East. brakeman on the
Colorado & Southern, whose home is
| in Denver, was killed when he fell
sixty-five feet from a railroad bridge
near Grouse. Colo. East was 80
years old and married.
The federal bank at Wichita, ac-
cording to report just issued. made
loans during November 10 eighty-five
| Colorado farmers, for total of $2O1.-
| 100. During the same period, twenty
| two Colorado loans, for a total of $73,-
| 500 were paid off
A normal traffic schedule was in
| effect again Friday, after the dis
Iturbances of Thursday night over
| the 7-cent fare and the fourhour
blockade that tied up every street
car line of the Denver Tramway
Company.
Gassed by the Germans until he
was rendered speechless and seri-
| ously injured by fall from his aero
plane, J. b. Ballinger, member of
the aeroplane force of the U. S. army
in France. whose home was in Mead
is expected to return soon.
A brilliant meteor which flashed
across the sky was supposed to have
dropped Just short way east OF
Hudson, but a party of people who
went out to hunt it failed to dis
cover any trace of the heavenly Wis
itor except two or three small pieces,
The State Highway Commission in
making up its 1919 budget has laid as
extensive foundation as it's funds
will permit for system of permanent
roads. In forming n nucleus for this
| system it has selected a dozen traffic
| concentration points for the construc-
| tion of concrete roadway. with the
idea of branching out from these cen
| ters along the main thoroughfares as
rapidly as money can be obtained for
| the purpose.
The kettle has begun to call the
| pot black in the hearings in prog
ress before the Adams county grand
jury.
Colorado still has unsold 3,113,G07
acres of land belonging mainly to the
school fund, but also the property of
other state institutions such as the
penitentiary" Agricultural College,
State University, public buildings and
internal improvements.
| Under the auspices of the agricul-
| tural and livestock bureau of the
Civic and Commercial Association,
land development men and large
farming tract owners throughout
Colorado will gather for conference at
Denver the night of Jan. IS.
There are seventeen national forests
wholly within the confines of Colo
RADIO and two partly within the state
with 13,3G7,59S acres that are inside
the borders. Within these forests pri-
vate owners have 1.510.421 acres,
making a total of 14,S7S,019 acres en-
! braced within the national forests.
The largest is the Rio Grande forest
with 1.13G,Ss4 acres. 1t is estimated
that there are $4,000. 100000 board feet
OF timber in these forests worth ap-
proximately $3G,000,00O.
That dehydrating plant will be