The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-03-20
Pidly News Notes
Eusn An PANS Of
Colorado

Reports of county assessors show u
total Of "a 491 800 acres OF patented
land in the state in 1918, compared
With a total Of 25,149,454 acres for
1917.
Colorado has 1922 miles of railroads,
owned by forty-one railroad COM
panies. Weld county is first In length
Of railway lines within Its borders,
having AO1 miles,
Colorado has 2S5,O7S miles on tele-
phone line, every county in the state
being represented. Telephone prop
erty in the state 10 valued for taxa
tion purposes at $12,o66,340.
With a new secretary and a revived
interest by all members, the Sterling
Chamber of Commerce has taken on a
new lease of life, with promise Of con-
siderable activity this season.
Potash deposits believed to be Of un-
usual extent and exceptional purity
have been discovered in the vicinity
OF Stoneham and n syndicate of Ster-
ling, Grover and Stoneham capitalists
has been organised to develop the
same.
Officers of Las Animas county are
prosecuting a search for Santiago Pa
foyn, a paroled convict, and Jerry
Hart. who are alleged to have shot and
killed 4 coal miner at Fredunto, u
camp near Trinidad, In quarrel
growing out of game Of cards.
More than six tons Of milk. with but
ter fat amounting to 54S pounds, is the
years record which won first prize Mt
the Boulder dairy show for Holstein-
Jersey COW belonging to H. S. An
drsvs Of Boulder. The exact number
Of pounds of milk produced was 12,-
PAT.
An epidemic Of fake officers has
hit Colorado Springs, with the arrest
during the last week of a half dozen
men parading in uniforms that they
were not entitled to wear. The latest
of these is Capt" c. A. Hebb, who
claimed to be Canadian captain and
that he was wounded in the fighting
on the Somme.
1t is discovered that practically all
the 800 or more coal miners of Crested
nuttC " III DC " RAy aA hnSOAuN
tax this year. Wages have been splen-
did and work plentiful, 80 that unless
sick or unfortunate or unwilling to
work. there were few who did not
draw down more than 5000 in pay
checks during 1918
II you stepped into a grocery store
to buy apples and were told that they
were $l.4O each, wouldn't you be
stunned? And yet that is an every
dny occurrence in the stores of Paris.
according to letter received in Pu-
eblo from Miss Wave Richardson, Al
Pueblo girl who is engaged in hOspi-
tai work In that city.
A deal of more than ordinary i'm
pOrtance to Glenwood, deal by which
GlenwoOd parties secure the Hotel
Glenwood, one of the best business
properties In the city, WAS consum-
mated f. f. Lucas and c. 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 Intermountain Press and Print
er, . trade journal devoted to the pub
lishing business, is to be published at
Greeley by George Haubrich, newly
elected field secretary Of the Colorado
Editorial Association. The first issue
will be printed in April. The Colorado
Editorial Association, according to
Haubrich. has adopted the Iowa plan
of organization, and will spent $2,1OO
a. r<ll lwlv v,e
advertising and circulation rates
among the 400 dailies' and the week
lies of the state.
Hugging the borders OF Colorado,
within two miles of the Utah state
line In western Montrose county, is
the smallest school in Colorado. The
building is 9x9 feet and has four pu-
pills.
Philip Randa and Fred Marone,
Italians, were found guilty Of murder
in the second degree by q jury in the
District Court at Pueblo. They were
accused OF numbering Andrew ORA
gasch for the purpose Of robbery.
All indications point to the largest
beet acreage ever planted In Arkan.
sas Valley. 1t Is said that the A. B.
8. Company will have better than 25,-
900 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
Con,pany's plant at Las Animas,
which has not been operated for the
last few years, will be In operation
during the next campaign to help
mike into sugar the vast amount of
beets which will be grown. The Rocky
Ford plant, which has a large capac-
ity, will be taxed to its utmost to
handle the beets grown in that i'm