The Elbert County tribune., 1920-03-05
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper linton News Service.


coal vein In the intermountain coun
of Duchesne. It's depth Is sixty feet
A school survey made by a citizens
committee at Rifle resulted in the re
quest that the school board call a spe
cal election for the purpose of voting
on Il $4,000 bond issue for new
school building.
A. w. Frederick has been arrested
at Hayden on charge of selling a
brand of stomach bitlers which has
been condemned, II Is said. by the
state. The case may reach the high
er courts.
The famous LIbby-Belle property OF
the Park Tunnel Company at Aspen
r. planning on shipping rich silver ore
this year. Some good ore has been
discovered This mine had not been
run since the '90s.
Two big motor trucks have been re-
ccived at Krenmling to be used by
the county road department during
the coming season. They were from
the army truck fleet allotted to Colo
RADIO for highway work.
Because the county road signs have
become targets for private rifle and
revolver practice, Rio Blanco county
leading to the conviction of any per-
son defacing the placards.
Denver is second in buildings opera
ti0ns for January In the tenth federal
reserve district with 204 permits and
ninety three for new buildings and a
value of S1,5O6,l0O This is an in
crease over January, 1910, OF 1925
per cent
The new hotel at Grand Lake, to be
built this summer, will cost 100000
The surveying Is being done now by
f. I. Huntington. and n. A. House, and
local contractor has the contract to
erect the bu dlng The building will
he erected on the National park, join
Ing the townsite.
The campaign to raise budget of
$4,000 for the support of the Canon
CITY Young Mems Christian AssocIa-
tion came to successful finish with
The full amount subscribed. A build
ing debt of $1,000 will he paid out OF
the funds raised. leaving the associa-
ton completely out of debt.
improvements to cost 100000, in
Guiding Il memorial assembly hall,
nurses home and Il vocational therapy
department are 10 be started shortly
by the Modern Women of America mt
the'r snnntorium in Colorado Springs
according 10 DIR. J. G. Page, new d.
rector. DR.. Page succeeds the late
Or. J. A. Rutledge.
Fifteen hundred people were on
hand at Hooper to witness the 'spud-
ding in" of the test we'll which is to
he DIR He'd by the Travellers OIL and
Refining Company for the purpose OF
deciding whether oil is present In this
vicinity. While no oil has been found,
tsInterous gas wells have been brought
IN, which lead the firm to believe that
oil will he located If deep well is
drilled. A standard rig has been
erected and the company Is prepared
to drill to any reasonable depth.
Investigation of the newly dIscov-
cred anthracite coal deposits on Nc
G'lure's pass makes the people of thar
section jnbilant. as 1t brings closer the
proposed standard gauge road over Nc
CIure pass MS proposed by A. Il. Carl
ton and associates. The deposit of an
thrccite coal is splendid one. 1t Is
understood that Salt Lake company
has organized to develop these anthra-
cite mines and make the Mcclure pass
coal famous throughout the state. The
vein of coal is thick and of highest
quality.
A state land atlas, showing the locn-
tlon and area of state school lands
In every county of the state, will short
ly he issued by the State Board of
Land Commissioners for the benefit Of
iandseekers. The atlas will contain
nine pIats, showing in detail the lands
open to application for purchase.
digest of the state land laws also will
he given in the atlas, which will up
pear I'm folder form.
Schedules for the annual agriculture
al survey will he sent out to county as
SCISSORS from the office of the State
Board of Immigration about March
this year, giving assessors n month to
prepare for this work, instead of the
few days that We're allowed last year.
because of the fact that the law pro-
yiding for this survey was signed only
few days before the actual assess
ment began. The blanks are In book
form this year and will be much easier
for assessors to handle than those used
in 1919 They will also call for fuller
information on crops that are not ex-
tensiyeIy grown, thus giving better rep
resentation to counties that grow gar.
den and seed crops and vegetables for
canning to considerable extent.
Several railroad lines centering in