The Elbert County tribune., 1919-03-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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ttHlutu-ln MOUNTAIN tOWIi, Seo tbc ouh
,nly fifteen minutes day now. and
I little while ago thIrty-flve minutes.
Reports OF county assessors show
total of 26.491 800 acres of patented
md In the state In 1918, compared
With a total of 25,149,454 acres for
1917.
Colorado has 5,542.2 miles of railroads,
owned by forty-one railrond com
panies. Weld county is first In length
pf railway lines within its borders,
having 401 miles.
Colorado has 2S5,O73 miles on tele-
phone line, every county In the state
being represented. Telephone prop
srty in the state is valued for taxa
tion purposes at s12,688,34O.
e. G. Grant of Denver, who is said
10 be one of five men Of that city
who are known as the big Five" in
bootlegging circles, was fined $500 and
costs on the charge of having liquor
In his possession.
Officers of Las Animas county are
prosecuting search for Santiago Pa
foya, paroled convict, and Jerry
Hart, who are alleged to have shot and
killed coal miner ut Fredunto,
camp near Trinidad, in quarrel
growing out of u game of cards.
More than six tons of milk, with but
ter fat amounting to 543 pounds, is the
years record which won first prize at
the Boulder dairy show for Holstein-
Jersey COW belonging to II. s. An
drews of Boulder. The exact number
of pounds of milk produced was 12,-
e47.
Colorado and Wyoming will pay
tax on 1918 incomes totaling between
s40,0O0,0O0 and S50.000.000 1t was esti-
mated at midnight Saturday by Mark
A. Skinner, internal revenue collector
for these two states. The income tax
payments for these two states a year
ago totaled S2S,635,000.
The farmers OF Brighton organized
cooperative elevator company with
capital of 100000, and within few
minutes subscribed for S2T,500 worth
OF stock in the concern. An elevator
will be built and be ready for business
by June L. 1t VIII have capacity of
$4,000 bushels.
1t is discovered that practically all
the 300 or more coal miners OF Crested
Butte will be obliged to pay an income
lax 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.
Incorporation papers for $3,OO0,OOO
concern to develop irrigation projects
for 10000 or more acres of land imme-
dlately east of Denver and partly with
In the city limits will be filed in a few
days, according to A. ]. SimOnson,
chairman of the executive committee
OF the consolidated interests which are
to form the new company.
If you stepped into grocery store
to buy apples and were told that they
were $l.40 each, wouldn't you be
stunned? And yet that is an every
duy occurrence In the stores of Paris,
according to letter received in Pu'
eblo from Miss Wave Richardson, c
Pueblo girl who is engaged in hosrt-
tai work In that city.
A deal of more than ordinary ins
portance to Glenwood, a deal by which
GlenwoOd parties secure the Hotel
Glenwood, one of the best business
properties in the city, was consum-
mnted T.. e. Lucas and G. II. Nc
Carthy have secured from the Bolles
estate lease with an option to pur
chase the property, and have already
begun to remodel the property.
The sum of $4,000 is being ex-
pended in Colorado by the United
Stntes bureau of plant and animal In
dustry In making survey of Colorado
forests, with view of discovering and
eradicating diseases which destroy
large quantities of lumber annually
The survey is being made by group
of government experts under the dl-
rection of Ellsworth Bethel of the
Bureau of Forest Pathology, Washing
ton.
All indications point to the largest
beet acreage ever planted in Arkan-
sas Valley. 1t is said that the A. b.
S. Company will have better than 25,-
600 acres contracted for before plant
Ing time, and that the Holly Corpor-
alton at Swink also will have an un-
usually large acreage. 1t is also re-
ported that the American Beet Sugar
Company's plant at Las Anmas
which has not been operated for the
last few years, will be in operation
d,,rIng tho npxt cnninujgn TO heir
make into sugar the vast amount OF
beets which will be grown. The Rocky
Ford plant, which hns large capac
ity, Will be taxed to its utmost to
handle the beets grown in that Inn
mediate vicinity.