Gilpin observer., 1919-03-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union New. Service.

Residents of Pandora, q little
nemmed-in mountain town, see the sun
only fifteen minutes day now, and
little while ago thirty-five minutes.
Reports of county assessors show u
total of 26,491,39 acres of patented
land in the state in 1918, compared
with total of 25,149, ,454 acres for
D17.
Colorado has 5,542.2 miles of railroads,
owned by forty-one railroad COM
panies. Weld county is first in length
of railway lines within its borders,
having 4O1 miles.
Colorado has 285,O73 miles on tele-
phone line, every county in the state
being represented. Telephone prop
erty in the state is valued for taxa
tion purposes at $12,666,34O.
E. G. Grant of Denver. who is said
to be one of five men of tx 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 a. search for Santiago Pa
foya, parOled convict. and Jerry
Hart, who are alleged to have shot and
killed a coal miner at Fredunto, a
camp near Trinidad, in a quarrel
growing out of 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 Holsteln-
Jersey cow belonging to H. S. An
drews of Boulder. The exact number
Of pounds Of milk produced was 12,-
PAT.
Colorado and Wyoming will pay a
tax on 1918 incomes totaling between
&4O,OOO,OOO and $4,000, 600, it 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 SIS, 1895, ,OOO
The farmers of Brighton organized
cooperative elevator company with
capital Of 100000, and within few
minutes subscribed for $27, 800 worth
OF stock in the concern. An elevator
will be built and be ready for business
by June 1. 1t will have a capacity of
25,OOO bushels.
1t Is discovered that practically all
the 300 or more coal miners of Crested
Butte will be obliged to pay an income
tax 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 1915
Incorporation papers for $4,000, 600
concern to develop irrigation projects
Tor 10000 or more acres of land imme-
diately east Of Denver and partly with
in the city limits will be filed in a few
days, according to A. ]. Simonson,
of the consolidated interests which are
to form the new company.
If you stepped into a grocery store
to buy apples and were told that they
were $1.4O each, wouldn't you be
stunned? And yet that is an every
according to letter received in Pu-
eblo from Miss Wave Richardson, a
Pueblo girl who is engaged in hospl-
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. E. E. Lucas and c. II. Nc
Carthy have secured from the Bolles
estate a 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
States bureau of plant and animal In
dustry in making a 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 d.
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,.
900 acres contracted for before plant
Ing time, and that the Holly Corpor-
alton ut Swink also Will have an un-
usually large acreage. 1t is also re-
ported that the American Beet Sugar
company's plant nt 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 large capac-
ity, will be taxed to Its utmost to