The Dolores star., 1919-12-26
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

sl27 900 for the State Reformatory at
Buena Vista; appropriation of S3o,po
for the state hospital at Pueblo; APP
preparation of $4,000 for Il hospital
and cottages AT the State Industrial
School for Girls in Golden; establish
ment of II $4,000 fund for ore testing
and experimental work In conjunction
with the federal bureau of mines III
the Golden research station; appropri-
alton of S3O0UOO TO meet the expenses
of the Colorado National Guard during
the recent mobilization in the coal
fields provision FOR monthly allow
ances to dependents of enlisted Colo
RADIO National Guardsmen.
That the war time policy of obtain
ing officers for the United States ma
rine corps from the ranks be continued
is the recommendation made by Sccre-
tary of the Navy Daniels, according TO
II report received at the marine corps
recruiting office in Denver, Colo. Inc
secretary points 10 the work of Officers
| commissioned from the ranks during
| the war, as his reason for making tins
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that additional Officers be commits
stoned for the marine corps aviation
branch, and that special aviation
grades be created for enlisted men. y
permanent marine corps of 2,,4GI Of
ficers and men, or 20 per cent of the
naval strength, is also recommended rs
well rs the creation OF chief warrant
| rank for marines.
All general appropriations for 1870
will he pared down 'in accordance
with stricteSt economy except the
PoStOffice and Naval Departments. the
estimates of which are less than for
the present year, Majority Leader Mon
dell OF Wyoming told the House when
the first urgent deficiency hill of This
session was brought up. Greatest re-
ductions would be made in the army
| and fortification estimates, he said. the
former request totaling SDS2, ,SOO,O20.
and the latter S11T.T93.330, an increase
of more than SlOG.0OO,0OO over the
present appropriation.
The Iiolbrook valley, II farming com
| munity few miles north of la Iunia,
will probably have the first community
| house to be erected and dedicated to
the soldiers of the IIobrook valley
who served in the latc war A meeting
was held ut the town of Chcraw, at
| which steps were taken 10 complete the
building ut an early dare. The struc-
| turc will contain a gymnasium and
other modern Improvements. The au-
ditorium will have II seating capacity
of 800
Segregation or disposal of CONNER
ci8l lines not directly allied with the
meat and provision business of the five
great packing companies as agreed up
on between them and the United States
attorney general announced by the lat
| ter. will involve reorganization of Il
huge industry with assets of more than
S1,0O0.OOO,O00. The agreement was re-
garded by the packers as marking an
| epoch in industry in that for the first
time big business bows to public opin-
ion.
Building of three railroad tunnels,
under James peak. Cumbrcs pass and
Marshall pass, by means of state
bond issue authorized by an amend
ment of the state constitution TO be
voted for by the people at the general
election next yenr-this is the program
| recommended by the State Railroad
Commission, appointed by the governor
| by Legislative authority in 1918. in its
| first report to Governor Oliver II.
ShOup.
A new coal field situated east of
Greeley will be one of the outgrowths
of the coal strike. Prospecting has
been going on in the Gil district, clcv-
en- miles northeast OF Greeley, for
some time and development work will
probably be started by local capitalists
next summer
Income to the state from sales
through the board of land commission
ers is increasing approximately S1Tj,.
600 each year, n report completed by
Commissioners John +. Vivian. Ray
mond Miller and w. II. Murphy shows.
The total income for the 1919 fiscal
year, ending Nov Both last, was ST..
51G,96l.96, as compared with S1,344.
944.41 in the 1918 fiscal year and ST.
1924 II in the 1917 fiscal year
f. Il. Bauer, representing the Walsh
estate, is preparing to begin work on
the Hidden Treasure mine, at Ouray.
A small force of men will immediate.
ly begin cleaning up the property and
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work in early spring.
Plans have been completed for re-
funding and rehabiltating the Denver
Greeley valley irrigation district,
which includes $4,000 acres south and
east of Greeley under the Barr lake
and Milton reservoir canal system.
Government investigators are now
interested in sequence of events cen
terDp around the American west cno Of