The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
CENTENNIAL STATE 1r11n.

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or AZ per cent, says State Treasurer
Harry e. Mulnix. due principally to
what he termed natural growth of the
state" and additions to the pay rolls.
Cash warrants issued last month num-
bered 1850 and were for total Of
$447, 1850. as compared with ], 346 for
1896, 500. SO in August. 1918, an increase
this year of $11O,732.O7. Revenue, or
time warrants in August, 1918, were
1876 in number and totaled 500, 114.77.'
Last month there were 1,005 of them
for total of $189,O11.s5. This is an
increase of $6S,897 .O6.
Abstract of assessment Of Pueblo
county property. prepared by County
Assessor NJ. A. Carey for the state tax
commission, shows the taxable proper
] ty to total this year ST., 49, $780, an in
crease of q, O01 1888 over the valuation
facturtHg show the largest increase,
$685., 595, and automobiles come next
with an increase of 100000. Most all
forms of personal property show
| marked increase this year over last.
Detective Charles Baty was exoner-
ated by cOroner's jury sitting at
Pueblo, from the charge Of murder In
connection with the shooting and kill
| Ing Of AureillO GARLIC, the Mexican,
alleged to have been one of the two
men who shot and killed two other
Mexicans on the night of August 10th.
The shooting took place when the de-
tective went to rOoming house where
1t was learned the Mexican was in
hiding
As d result of the 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 a more accurate report on the
amount of grain grown In the state
than has ever been made before, and
will have the figures available month
or more earlier than in the past.
| Ninety-five losses Of live stock by
fire and lightning have occurred In the
farming regions of Pueblo during the
past twelve months, and 90 per cent Of
these have been caused by lightning
Wire fences, near which most of the
animals have been found dead, are
said to have been the deathbOlt car
riers, sometimes for considerable dis
tances. Losses have occurred among
cattle, hogs, sheep and horses.
Mr.. William Rathmell, deputy asses
sOr Of Ouray county. has completed
the assessment roll for 1919. The to-
tai valuation 10 1885,, 115 as compared
with &5,645,784 in 1918. The differ
ence is principally made by the tax
| reductions made on the Camp Bird
Limited Company, whose valuation
was $500 an acre last year and $21
this year because II Is a nOnproducing
property.
The largest registration in the his
tory OF Brighton In recorded In the
public schools Of that city, and 1t has
been necessary to secure the use Of two
school rooms In the Presbyterian
church to care for the children who are
attending school this year. The grade
school is crowded to capacity and will
be until this winter The high school
has One-thIrd more pupils than In any
year in Its history.
Widows and children of the eighteen
miners killed by the explosion in the
Oakview mine, near La veta. have
filed compensation claims tOtaling $780,
600 with the State Industrial Commits
sion. The men were insured by the
Employers Mutual Insurance Com
pany by reason of the state compen-
sation insurance requirements, mem.
bers of the Industrial Board said.
A $1,000 fire damaged the Mountain
Ice and Coal company's plant at
Pueblo. The fire started when sparks
from the smOkestack set fire to the up
per portion of the cold storage depart
ment. Quick work on the part of the
fire department saved the plant from
damage similar to that which COM
pletely destroyed the plant twelve
years ago.
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
in Boulder More than 200 women
have already sent in their credits to the
registrar. indicating the certainty of
their entering school when it opens
Sept. %.
Bank deposits in Colorado at the be-
ginning of 1919 amounted to $248.72
per capita. Two counties, Dolores and
Hinsdale, have no banks and hence
show no bank deposits, while the high
est per capita deposits, $455.44, are in
Denver county.
William Reynolds, 40, a clay miner,
was crushed to death by clay fall
while at work In the clay mine near
Golden, belonging to the Denver Sewer