The Dolores star., 1919-10-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


| Mantrose for the 1919 assessment,
shows S3,2S6. $50, according to q, W.
| Clarke, Montrose county assessor, who
stated that this was considerable in
| crease over the 1918 assessment.
Twenty-nne Of the slNty-threc coun-
ties in Colorado have areas of more
thnn 100000 acres each and the aver
age size Of Colorado counties Is larger
| than the average size of counties in
any state except Arizona, New Mexico,
Nevada, Wyoming and Montana.
one of the most important silver
| strikes made in recent years was dis
covered in the famous old Champaign
mine. near Alma. in the Fairplay dis
trict when siN-inCh vein of red car
Donate ore that averages sol ounces of
silver and five ounces of gold. running
81 200 to the ton. was found.
! Edward Skoog. Rio GTaude southern
freight conductor, suffered the loss of
| his left leg in an accident when his
| train was entering the local yards at
| Durango As he was swinging off the
rear Of the cabuu>p the hand grip
| broke loose and he was thrown under
Meath a car of ore attached to the rear
| Of the CHOOSE.
The advocation Of tunnel through
| Marshall pass and the delaying of the
broad gauglng Of the line from SnIida
to Montrose until after this tunnel i
| Completed which was opened again by
\. Il. Reynolds, prominent mining "N-
pert Of the San Juan country, has
aroused interest in this Improvement,
which has been under discussion for
years
Private Hubert L. Johnson of Com
pany T.. 9Th Machine Gun battalion. L.
s Marines. who showed exceptional
courage under fire during the engage
menr mt Belleau Wood in which the
Marines lost so many men. is to b"
| presented with the CroiX De Guerre
and citation from tn" French govern
mcut. Private Johnson is II native Of
| Fort Morgan. Colorado
John A. Lohrey, farmer Of GilcreSl
| is the defendant in Il Sll.910 damage
suit filed in District Court nj Greeley
by Charlie Thomas. Thomas suit is
brought as the result of collision in
which he lost his left leg, Sept. Il.
1919. Thomas was riding a motorcycle
within the city of Greeley when he
was struck by an automobile driven by
Lohrey.
That the United States is AT last to
have the privilege Of hearing a real
Indian opera with Il real Indian girl
as principal is now an assured fact. for
Denvcr'S own Indian soprano. Tsia-
nina. has been engaged for COnSt-to-
coast tour to sing the title role In Cad
mans opera "ShanewiS," which has
had unusual success at the MetrOpoIi-
tan Opera house New York City.
The voters of Grand Junction. at the
city election Tuesday, Nov /. will de-
| eide whether or not To waive the bonus
of $1,000 for the year, beginning Jan.
II, 1921. which sum, according to its
twenty-five-yrar franchise granted by
the city July II. 1908 the Grand June
tion Street Railway & Interurban Com
pany annually must pay after the fra;!-
chise has been in operation for per
iod of twelve and half years
Colorado wealth is increasing, ac-
cordng to a report issued by Daniel
| &. Roper, commissioner of internal
revenue at Washington, based on the
income tax report for the year 1917
According to the report, Colorado had
1872 milliOnaires during the year 1917.
This report is based on the income
tax report for that year, and shows
that 40,627 persons filed income tax
returns in Colorado in 1917, compared
to I,435 in 1916.
The Colorado State Board of Immi-
grafton will make an effort during the
next few months to collect considera-
BILE statistical information for the state
as a whole and by counties on the man
ufacturing industry. This information
has never been available in Colorado
by counties and no surveys have been
available at all except those of the
census bureau every five years. The
funds appropriated to the Immigra-
cd were not sufficient to enable it to
collect this information. but it expects
to complete plans for cooperating
with commercial bodies in the larger
cities and towns for making the neces-
sary surveys. The city of Denver,
through its industrial bureau, is ut
present making survey of the manu-
featuring industry within the city lin
Its and the completion of this will
mean much toward the completion Of
survey for the state. There Is CON
slant demand for statistics of the man
ufacturing industry in the state by
counties and the immigration De
partment expects in the near future to
be able to furnish this information
each year.
The Greeley Ice and Storage Com
pany is spending $4,000 to triple the
Ice storage capacity of its plant. The