The Dolores star., 1919-03-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Residents of Pandora, g little
iemmed-in mountain town, see the sun
,nly fifteen minutes day now, and
| little while ago thirty-five minutes.
Reports OF county assessors show II
otal of 2G,i9l 800 acres of patented
and In the state in 1918, compared
With a total of 25,l49,454 acres for
1917.
Colorado has 5,5422 miles of railroads,
owned by forty-one railroad com
oanies. Weld county is first in length
IF railway lines within its borders,
having 4O1 miles.
Colorado has 2S5.O73 miles on tele
phone line, every county in the state
being represented Telephone prop
erty in the state is valued for taxa
lion purposes at S12,6G6,340.
l.. G. Grant of Denver, who is said
20 he one of five men of that city
who are known as the Big Five" in
oootlegging circles, was fined $500 and
costs on the charge of having liquor
II his possession.
Officers of Las Animas county are
prosecuting search for Santiago Pa
toya, paroled convict, and Jerry
Hart, who are alleged TO have shot and
killed coal miner ut Fredunto,
camp near Trinidad. In quarrel
growing out of game of cards.
More than six tons of milk with but
ter fat amounting to DAB pounds, is the
years record which won first prize AT
the Boulder dairy show for Holstein-
Jersey COW belonging to II. s. An
drcws of Boulder. The exact number
247.
Colorado and Wyoming will pay a
fax on 1918 incomes totalIng between
s4O,oO0OpO and S5O,0Oo,0oO, it was esti-
mated mt midnight Saturday by Mark
A. Skinner, Internal revenue collector
for these two states The income tax
payments for these two states Il year
ago totaled S2S,635, 900.
The farmers of Brighton organized
| n cooperative elevator company with
Il capital of 100000, and within few
minutes subscribed for S27, 800 worth
| Of stock in the concern. An elevator
will be built and be ready for business
| by June l. 1t will have capacity Of
| 5000 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-
| lid and work plentiful, so that unless
sick or unfortunate or unwilling to
work, there We're few who did not
draw down more than $1,000 in pay
checks during 1918.
| Incorporation papers for a $1,000 900
| concern to develop irrigation projects
| Tor 6O.OOO 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. J. Simonson,
| chairman of the executive committee
of the consolidated interests which are
to form the new company.
If you stepped into a grocery sto.e
to buy apples and were told that they
We're Sl.4O each, wouldn't you be
| stunned? And yet that is an every
day occurrence in the stores of Paris,
| according to n letter received in Pu'
chlo from Miss Wave Richardson, {.
Pueblo girl who is engaged in hosI,.
tai work in that city.
A deal of more than ordinary in.
portance to Glenwood, n deal by which
Glenwood parties secure the Hotel
Glenwood, one of the best business
too. To-. h. IT.
mated +. T.. Lucas and C. X. Nc
tarthy have secured from the Bolles
estate Il 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 survey of Colorado
forests. with view of discovering and
"radicating 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.
$. Company will have better than 25,-
600 acres contracted for before plant
Ing time, and that the Holly Corpor-
alton at Swink also will have an I'M
| usually large acreage. 1t is also re-
ported that the American Beet Sugar
Company's plant at Las Anlmas,
which has not been operated for the
last few years, will be Operation
during the next campaign to help
make into sugar the vast amount of
beets which will be grown. The Rocky
Ford plant, which has a large capac
ity, will be taxed to Its utmost to
handle the beets grown in that i'm
mediate vicinity.