The Ordway new era., 1919-09-12
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


state lands under lease for coal min
ing do not exceed 1854 acres, ana
this latter acreage is less than per
cent of the corporation-controlled
lands totaling 1000 acres. These fig
ures are given in report compiled Dy
Horace Havens, mineral superintend-
ent of the State Land Board, ana is
sued by the board at the request OF
State Auditor Arthur VI. Stong,. who Is
investigating the prices and profits on
coal in connection with the work of the
governors investigating commission.
The report shows 5,79i acres of state
school lands listed as coal producing
MS being under lease to corporations.
OF this total. l,S00 acres are not being
operated. Coal production from the
state school lands to July l last has
been 2.539,141 tons, which produced in
royalties S23O.3l4.9O plus Ssl,O05, rep
resenting minimum payments on
leases. or S261 1880 in all. The roy
atty, which was recently 10 cents ton,
is now II cents ton on most leases,
the report further showed, and all
leases are subject to revision every
fire years.
Nothing in the world ever has or
ever can take the place of good
horse. Interest therefore, in the Col
orado Horse Breeders Association
meeting to take place in Pueblo, Tues
day, September 23rd at 10 o'clock n.
m, during the coming State Fair, Is
very great. 1t is also predicted that
this gathering of horse raisers will
greatly stimulate the raising and use
of horses throughout the West. The
maximum service of the horse with
the minimum effort or loss of energy
has become II study which has resulted
in valuable discoveries brought about
by experiments and practical tests,
and chief of these is the multiple hitch
system so much talked about, of late,
that experts in that line are in demand
for demonstrations every w II re
Wayne Dlnsmore, of Chicago, secretary
of the Percheron Society of America,
is an acknowledged authority on this
subject, and his services have been
secured to make demonstrations at the
Colorado State Fair, Pueblo, on Sep
tember 23rd.
John Tarro, pedder of ice cream
cones, who was arrested at Durango,
charged with having an unlawful
amount of intoxicants in his posses
sion, was tried in Justice Court and
found guilty and was assessed fine
of $3.50, plus SSi costs and ninety days
in jail, has appealed the case to the
County Court and has put up a cash
bond of S564 to carry the case through,
which will come up for retrial ut the
September term of court. When Tarro
WAS first arrested, the officers say
they found barrel of wine that teste
more than . per cent alcoholic con-
tent.
As result of >tha.reports on acreage
of crops furnished this year by county
assessors and the reports on yields of
small grains furnished by threshermen.
the Colorado Cooperative Crop Re-
porting Service will be able this year to
make more accurate report on the
amount of grain grown in the state
than has ever been made before, and
will have the figures available n month
or more earlier than in the past.
More than $50 women have already
sent in their names to University of
Colorado authorities, as prospective
students in the university next year.
These names are now all In the hands
Of the Big Sister committee chairman
nave already sent in their credits to the
registrar, indicating the certainty of
their entering school when 1t opens
Sept. 30
Due TO the large increase in the
acreage of government land which has
been homesteaded during the previous
year and the increase in mining valua-
rions, the total assessment in MOntrose
county exceeds the valuation of 1918
pleted compilation made by Assessor
q. w. Clarke.
The gunbarrel road on the Ocean to
Ocean highway between Monte Vista,
Center and Saguache is completed.
This piece of road, with a stretch over
the north end of the Russell Springs
lake, creeks and marshes, causing an
expenditure of over $4,000 in con-
struction work for the last three years,
is finished.
Many wild grasses of Colorado are
susceptible to rust and assist in spread
ing 1t to the grain fields. They are
especially pernicious when they occur
in the cities, thus aiding the rust to
spread from city barberries out into
The country.
Perjury is charged against Joe Man.
dich is an information filed in Boul-
der, in which Mandich, who is said to
he - years old, is alleged to have
sworn to n lie in getting marriage
license for himself and 14-year-old Me-
lita Phillips of Longmont.