Cheyenne record., 1919-09-04
= aooIsoRAlQ NEWS NOTES.

school lands in Colorado as shown by
the United States. geological survey,
state lands under lease for coal min
ing do not exceed 1854 acres, and
this latter acreage is less than 6 per
cent of the cOrporation-control
lands totaling 211, 900 acres. These fig
ures are given in a report compiled by
Horace Havens, mineral superintend
ent of the State Land Board, and is
| sued by the board at the request of
State Auditor Arthur NJ. Stong, who is
investigating the prices and profits on
| coal in connection with the work Of the
governors investigating commission.
The report shows 5,794 acres of state
school lands listed as coal producing
as being under lease to corporations.
OF this total, 1,S00 acres are not being
| operated. Coal production from the
state school lands to July / last has
| been 2,539,141 tons, which produced in
royalties $23O,314.9O plus $31 1,OO5, rep
resenting minimum payments on
| leases, or $261, 1880 in all. The roy
atty, which was recently 10 cents ton,
is now - cents a ton on most leases,
the report further showed, and all
leases are subject to revision every
five years.
Nothing in the world ever has or
ever can take the place of a good
horse. Interest therefore, in the Col
Orado Horse Breeders Association
meeting to take place in Pueblo, Tues
day, September 23rd at 10 o'clock n.
m, during the coming State Fair, is
very great. 1t is also predicted that
this gathering of horse raisers will
greatly stimulate the raising and use
of horses throughout the West. The
| maximum service of the horse with
the minimum effort or loss of energy
has become study which has resulted
in valuable discoveries brought about
by experiments and practical tests,
and chief of these is the multiple hitch
| system so much talked about, of late,
| that experts in that line are in demand
for demonstrations everyw here
Wayne DinsmOre, of Chicago, secretary
Of the Percheron Society of America,
| is an acknowledged authority on this
subject, and his services have been
secured to make demonstrations at the
Colorado State Fair, Pueblo, on Sep
tember 23rd.
John Tarro, a peddler of ice cream
cones, who was arrested at Durango,
| charged with having an unlawful
amount of intOXicants in his posses
sion, was tried in Justice Court and
| found guilty and was assessed a fine
of $50, plus $S4 costs and ninety days
| in Jail, has appealed the case to the
County Court and has put up cash
bond of 1854 to carry the case through,
which will come up for retrial at the
September term of court. When Tarro
was first arrested, the officers say
they found barrel Of wine that teste
more than per cent alcoholic con-
! tent.
AS a result of the reports on acreage
of crops furnished this year by county
| assessors and the reports on yields Of
small grains furnished by threshermen,
the Colorado Cooperative Crop Re-
porting Service will be able this year to
make more accurate report on the
amount of grain grown in the state
will have the figures available month
or more earlier than in the past.
More than $50 women have already
sent in their names to University of
| Colorado authorities as prospective
students in the university next year.
| These names are now all in the hands
| of the Big Sister committee chairman
| in Boulder. More than 200 women
have already sent in their credits to the
| registrar, Indicating the certainty of
| their entering school when it opens
| Sept %.
Due to the large increase in the
acreage of government land which has
been homesteaded during the previous
year and the increase in mining valua-
| tiOns, the total assessment in MontrOse
| county exceeds the valuation of 1918
| by $1,26O,120 according to the COM
pleted compilation made by Assessor
G. w. Clarke.
The gunbarrel road on the Ocean to
Ocean highway between Monte Vista,
| Center and Saguache is completed.
This piece of road, with a stretch over
the north end Of the Russell Springs
| lake, creeks and marshes, causing an
| expenditure of over $4,000 in con-
struction work for the last three years,
| is finished.
Many wild grasses of Colorado are
susceptible to rust and assist in spread
ing it to the grain fields. They are
| especially pernicious when they occur
| in the cities, thus aiding the rust to
| spread from city barberries out into
the country.
Perjury is charged against Joe Man.
dich is an information filed in Boul-
der, in which Mandich, who is said to
be AS years old, is alleged to have
| sworn to a lie in getting a marriage