The Colorado statesman., 1919-12-13

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Approximately S3,OO0,0O0 is the to-
| tai resources of the three banks or
| Montrose. according to the reports re-
Gently made in the government call.
\ memorial tablet in honor of the
twenty-five Routt county men who
died In the war with Germany is to
be erected in the high school building
at Steamboat Springs.
Never in the history of WalsenburG
have so many investors visited there.
Men from several states have been in
town looking for business openings and
for land which they can purchase.
The state highway commission has
included in its 1920 program of read
| improvement an item of Sl46000 f'r
| building six and one-half miles OF &C.
ment road between Brighton and For:
Lupton.
Immense cadmium deposits have
been discovered at Volcano, in Routt
county Pending the completion of II
spur track TO the extinct volcanoes
where the mineral is found. quantities
of it are being shipped to Denver.
At hearing ON estimates for gov
ernmcnt reclamation projects held be-
fore II congressional committee, $780,
900 was asked for the Grand Valley
reclamation project and $4,000 to
continue work on the Uncompahgre
project in Colorado.
Judge John Hough, for more thar
forty years the dean of mining in the
San Juan country and especially Hins
dale county, is dead. Had he lived un-
| til Christmas he would have been ~
years of age. He had been county
| Judge ut Lake City, the county seat of
| IInsdale county, for many years and
was highly esteemed and respected by
| the entire community.
Taxpayers in Denvers election voted
the Issuance of S2O00,0O0 in bonds for
Il building program for public schools
| that includes the erection of four jun
| ior high schools and tN;o elementary
| schools. The school levy will br H.
creased approximately | mill 10 take
care of the interest on bonds, as well
as to meet increases in teachers sala'
ries The regular school levy is 6.32
mills.
A urospecting course has been add
ed to the Opportunity school curricu-
hIm in Denver when class to laSi
twelve weeks was formed under the
direction of Il. A. Weaver. The Colo
| RADIO Development and Manufacturers
Association are behind the course. Mr..
| Weaver says that many business men
| are ready to grubstake proSpectors
who have sufficient technical knowI-
edge to make the expense of miner
| alog'St unnecessary.
Harry Hatters, n japanese, proprie-
tor of barber shop in Swink, Colo.,
was shot through the body and in
stnntly killed by an unknown assail-
ant, believed to he another Japanese.
The shooting occurred in building
in the rear of the Saddle Rock restau-
rant in Swink No further particulars
of the shooting have yet been obtain
ed The only suspect arrested so far
is Il japanese, who cannot speak Eng
lish, and has failed to shed any light
on the affair.
A water system adequate for many
years has been founded by city off
cials of Fleming who will submit n
100000 bond proposal next month to
taxpayers. The village has closed a
deal for half acre of ground in the
west part of the town, for $4,000 IL
is considered n record price for land
In Logan county. On this plot is To-
Gated fine well of water, and work
will commence ut once on another
well, which will give the town three
municipal wells
Federal aid for the construction OF
four stretches of road in Colorado TO
cost an aggregate of S27S,2OO is asked
by the state highway commission in
plans just submitted to the Denver
district office of the United States
bureau of roads. Chief among the
projects is the building of Il 2.76-mile
stretch over Battle mountain between
Red Cliff and Minturn at an expense
of $4,000, of which amount the fed
eral government is asked to pay 500
200 or the maximum allowed under
the law for project of that length.
Incomplete estimates made by the
State Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service show that the value of all
crops in the state this year is in ex
cess of S170,OOO,000, which is much the
largest on record. Twenty years age
the value of all crops grown in the
state, .as reported by Federal Census
Bureau, was little short of $1,000,
600, or one-tenth of the value of al
crops grown this year. Ten years age
the Federal Census Bureau found the
value of all crops grown in the state
to be little short of SOL, 100000, oil
considerably less than one-third of the
value of this years output.
Bernice Donley, years old, daugn
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles DOnley
was killed at the ranch home, twenty