The Dolores star., 1919-09-26

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The value of all farm property in
Colorado at the present time is close to
| Sl,oO0,OOO,OOO. In 1880 Ii was only
S110,35s,o40, and in 1919 it was only
SI9l, 100000
Mining in the La Plata district shows
more activity at the present time than
at any other time of the year and plans
are under way in many of the proper
ties for an all-winter operation.
A long session of a coroner's jury
failed utterly TO reveal the least clue
TO the identity of the persons who
lynched Gonzales and Ortez as the
ans at Pueblo.
The mystery that has for several
months surrounded the robberies that
have taken place in Rocky Ford and
| Crowley is thought to have been solved
by the arrest of Syrian who has IA
store in La Junta.
Prof H $. Evans has been chosen
as new dean of the school of engineer
ing, University of Colorado. to succeed
Prof Milo $. Ketchum, who has re-
signed to accept Il position with the
University of PENNSYLVANIA.
| One soldier was so injured he died
in a short time, two We're badly hurt
and thirteen others were more or less
bruised when n large army automobile
from Fort Logan, bearing members OF
the post baseball team, turned over in
Denver
Giovanna Cudacio, an underground
engineer, was instantly killed and
Joseph Petschauer, a trammer, was Sc
riously burned and blinded by the eX-
plosion of twenty-five giant caps on
the seventh level of the hex shaft at
Leadville.
President Woodrow Wilson will
| greet the people of Colorado ut the
state fair between 3 and : O'Clock on
the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. -,
| Arkansas Valley day ut the state fair,
| Thousands of returned veterans of the
world war will he the escort of the
| President.
After seven days without food or wa
ter, Fred Burns, Il years old, of Terre
Haute, Ind, was found unconscious in
u beNcar on the Burlington tracks in
| Denver When Burns regained con
| sciouSnesS. he said he entered the
freight car in Chicago about seven
days before.
j. Allard Jeancon. Colorado Spring:
archaeologiSt. who has been exploring
the cliff dwellers' ruins in northwesi-
| crn New Mexico for the last six
months, has opened mp l2T rooms and
made discoveries of great Importance.
| according TO experts who have eX-
amined his finds
That Salt Lake City business men
expect within eighteen months TO in
wade Routt and Moffat counties in
| Pullman cars over a newly built rail
road to extend from Salt Lake t,
| Craig, Colo, is the burden of an article
appearing in the bulletin of the Salt
Lake Commercial Club. Funds have
been assured and strong group of
| Utah financiers are determined to see
the road through.
There has been q sharp deterioration
in the condition of potatoes since the
| August report was issued and the in
dicated production is now 1O,59S, ,000
| bushels. The damage was most severe
in the north central and northeastern
parts of the state where irrigated po.
tatOeS suffered heavily. Non-irrigated
potatoes are almost a failure The po
tato crop last year was 13OS3. 900 bush,
els, according to lately revised figures
The oldest man in Colorado. William
Earl Van Etten, is dead at Boulder at
the age of 102.
A drive for 20,0OO.OOO members and
S15,000,0oO to carry out the peacetime
program of the Red Cross will be held
throughout the country in the period
of Nov. to II, according to announce
ment of representatives of the noun
tain division
The State Immigration Department
has had prepared a wheat Map OF
Colorado for 1919" the first map OF
the kind ever made for the state. II
shows the distribution of both winter
and spring wheat in the state, as in
dicated by the reports of county as
SCISSORS. A glance at the map will
show where wheat is grown in Colo
radO and how extensively. A small
symbol is used to represent each 1,0OC
acres of wheat grown, and the coun
ties in the northeast corner of the
state are so crowded with these sym
tols that there is hardly room left for
the names of the counties. Four coun
ties in this district have grown more
wheat this year than was grown in the
entire state in 1909, and seven coun.
ties here have about two-thirds of the
states wheat acreage
The federal census bureau reported
approximately 12,0O0 acres devoted to
grain sorghums in Colorado In 1909
County assessors report approximately
100000 acres devoted to grain sorghum
this year, and an additional 100000