The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-13
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS,


Or AZ per cent says State Treasurer
Harry f. Mulnix, due principally to
what he termed natural growth of the
state" and additions to the pay rolls.
Cash warrants issued last month num-
bered 1859 and were for total of
S447 ,32S9O, as compared with 1,346 for
S336, ,596S3 in August, 1918, an increase
this year of $110,732.07. Revenue, or
time warrants in August, 1918, were
TS5 in number and totaled 500, HAT.
Last month there were 1,095 of them
for total of S169,0l1.S5. This is an
increase of SOS, ,S970S.
Colorado will be adequately repre-.
sented at the annual expositions of the
International Wheat Show and the In
ternational Farm Products Exposition,
to be held at Wichita, Kan, and Kan
sas City, Mo-, respectively, according
to tentative plans of the State Board
of Immigration, which has written all
county agents and commercial execu-
tives, enlisting their cooperation in
the preparation of the exhibit. The big
international shows will be held during
the latter part of September and the
lrSt of October.
The Denver Navy Recruiting Station
figures that the minimum pay in the
navy is S12610 a month, with substan-
ial increase at each promotion. Here's
the idea: Lowest pay, even for boy
in training, S32.60; board and lodging,
$40; medical attention, So; dental
service, 80 cents; saving on clothes,
So; amount necessary to save monthly
in order to obtain permanent monthly
income without work of $50, which
each navy man may have after sixteen
years, $50 total S12810
William Wrightley, a farmer of the
Grover district, has demonstrated the
possibilities of raising fruit on nonirri-
gated land of eastern Colorado to the
satisfaction of all observers this year
Wrightley harvested $50 bushels of
fine plums from young orchard of
500 trees, which just came into the
stage of heavy bearing this year. The
fruit is fully as large and uniform in
quality as that grown in the irrigated
orchards of the Loveland and Fort
Collins districts.
Mr.. William Rathmell, deputy asses
sor of Ouray county, has completed
the assessment roll for 1919. The to-
tai valuation $4,957, ,115 as compared
with $5,645, ,764 in 1918. The differ
ence is principally made by the tax
reductions made on the Camp Bird
Limited Company, whose valuation
was S400 an acre last year and 81
Ia Z iS a
property.
Work has been started at La lara
on the main drainage ditch of the San
Luis Valley Drainage district No. l,
which includes 10000 acres south and
cast of La lara that wa sonce very fer
tile land, but, through heavy irrigation
on the higher land surrounding had
become too wet for the successful
growing of ordinary crops.
A $4,000 purificatiOn plant will be
installed next month by the Brookside
Water Company to supply the consum-
ers of Ivywild, an exclusive suburb of
Colorado Springs. The plant will be
built in North Cheyenne canon park,
portion of the playground having been
sold to the company by local park au-
thoriteS.
A two and a half inch rainfall, fol-
lowed by cloudburst and oV>flow of
two reservoirs caused the Evans and
Greeley districts to be swept with the
worst flood which has occurred there
since 1909. The total damage is es-
timated from $4,000 to $4,000.
Lightning killed seventy three sheep
and two goats that had taken shelter
under trees near timberline in the
Arapahoo national forest on the VIII
liams Fork river, fifty miles southeast
| from Kremmling.
Dan Supin was instantly killed in the
Calumet coal mine near Durango, his
skull being crushed by mass of coal
estimated to weight two tons, which
| fell when the vein was undermined.
Widows and children of the eighteen
miners killed by the explosion in the
| Oakview mine, near La Veta, have
filed compensation claims totaling $40,
600 with the State Industrial Commits
sion. The men were insured by the
Employers Mutual Insurance Com
pany by reason of the state compen-
sation insurance requirements, mem.
bers of the Industrial Board said.
Four cars of radium and vanadium
ore have been seized at Silverton by
the federal government because they
belonged to an enemy alien, Seifried
Lels of Hamburg, Germany. b. F. Cobb
of Denver, the inspector in the United
States Alien Property Custodian de-
partment, says that the ore is not high
grade, but it will give the government
| thousands of dollars.
The 1919 issue of the Colorado Year