The Dolores star., 1919-11-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
rs'"rn Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

COMING EVENTS.
,l TOSS Christmas Seal sale will
,ake place al over the United states
rum December to 10. 1913.
me state Board of Capitol Nun
ayers have awarded the contract for
building the states new S5OO.OOO of.
nee building NJ Coifax avenue and
sherman street, Denver. The bid was
N7'',Vo, the lowest OF four received
lhe nation expects from Colorado.
Sl'o.OO of the SS,0OO,UOO to be raised
III the United States in December to
combat tuberculosis in this country,
according to statements made at the
opening dinner of the local campaig ign
committee in Denver.
The average yield Of potatoes in
Colorado this year is apparently
about ITO bushels per acre. This is
considerably below the normal aver
age, the low yields in some of the
principal producing districts being
due 10 unfavorablc weather condi-
lions
Construction OF 5.O0O.ton coal
storage reservoir AT Greeley to safe
guard the city against coal famine
and eX"rbitant prices, is urged by 10.
>eph {. Ewing, attorney ard real es-
tate operator, and his plan is APP.
proved by several of the largest fuel
dealers.
Alfalfa and other hays are more
widely distributed in Colorado than
any other crop, there being only one
county in the state, San Juan, which
reports no acreage devoted to hay in
1919. Wheat ranks second, there he.
'ug but three counties reporting no
wheat.
The estimated value of the fruit
crops of the Grand valley for this year
alone is S2,0O0,d0O, according 10 fg-
ureS available for the first time this
year. The value of the apple crop is
estimated mt 100000; peaches,
SsoO,0oo; pears, 100000, and other
fruits, S14O,OOO.
The total assessed valuation of
property in Colorado. as returned by
the state tax commission, is Sl.49j,-
2OO, so, an increase of about SIOND,-
900 over that for last year. Final re.
ports from county treasurcrs are "X-
pected to increase this to approx
mately ST ,5OO,OOO,O0O.
A 6-crnt fare has gone into effect on
all local street ear lines of the Trini-
dad Electric Transmission Railway
and Gas Company. Application for in
l,t- Ihn
RADIO public utilities commission. No
increased fare is effective on the in
terurban coal camp lines.
The body of an unknown Mexican
was founl partly concealed in Il hay
stack on the farm of c. \. Johnson,
two miles northwest of Atwood, by Mr..
Johnson, when he went TO the stack to
repair II fence. The body of the un-
known Mexican with bruises about the
head and face indicated that his death
had been Il violent one.
Residents and the town govern
ment of HaXtun, Phillips county, filed
before the State Public Utilities Com
mission IL petition which asks that
the Burlington railroad be ordered t"
erect new railroad station at llnN
iun. Growth of the town and the in
crease of business at the station make
ii new depot imperative, the petition
declared.
Final estimates by the State Coop
erative Crop Reporting Service on the
total production of potatoes in CoIo-
RADIO this year apparently Will show Il
considerable increase in the output
over the S.O9G. 900 bushels indicated by
the October estimate. Though it is YET
too early to give definite figures IT now
appears that the production Will he
above 1O.OOO,O0O bushels and perhaps
ms high as II, 100000 bushels.
Every Colorado doughboy who has
been cover there" knows it rs the Lid
erty Cross" The kaiser calls IT the
double cross. To the Knights Templal
If is n mark of their readiness to fiSh'
for the good and the true. And that Is
the reason why the double-bnrred Reh
Cross has been adopted as the elnDleh'
of the Colorado Public Health Associa-
tion which is fighting for a hundred
per cent health record in this state.
Preliminary figures on the produc-
tion of winter wheat in Colorado this
wear, now being compiled by the Stat
Co-operative Crop Reporting Service
show that Logan county leads all other
counties in the state in the production
of this crop. with total output OF
close to 100000 bushels Only three
other counties, Washington, Weld anu
Yuma, have produced more than l'oD'-
900 bushels OF winter wheat this year
and ten counties in the state, Chnffee'
Clear Creek, Denver, Gilpin, Hlnsdn'e'
Lake, Mineral, Rio Grnnde. San Juan
and Teller, report no production or TINS
crop. The total production is approx,
mately II 100000 bushels, the largest
On record.