The Delta independent., 1920-11-05
COLORADO BRIEFS.
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According to figures compiled by
the Denver police department, $50
automobiles have been stolen in that
city during the past twelve months.
Last Friday State Bank Commits
sioner Grand McFerson issued GER
tificate to the First State bank of
day. Halbeison came to this country
Colorado now has 266 state banks.
After being sentenced to thiry days
in the county jail for reckless driv-
ing in Denver, Julius Kraul obtained
his freedom by paying $50 on an ap-
peal bond in Magistrate Bray's court
last Saturday. Kraul was arrested for
driving an auto while he was blind
drunk"
Jacob Halbeison. of Denver. and
70 years old. applied for his first citi-
zenship papers at the office Of the
United States district court last Fri
day. Halbeison cacme to this country
from Switzerland in 1880, and is one
of the oldest aliens to apply for ma
turalization in Colorado.
A total of $4s, 200 has been received
by the state highway commission from
Washington, D. c., as federal aid
money in the construction OF state
highways. $30S, 900 has been awarded
Colorado and this is its first INSTALL
ment received. Between $500 and
SO 900 has been received in tthe past
two weeks by the highway depart
ment from counties owing money on
their federal aid pledges.
Classifying Of public lands by the
department of the interior for Sept
ember, Colorado now has available
for entry 159.360 acres for dry farm
ing purposes. Entry for this land
comes under the enlarged homestead
laws 226.15O acres were classified un-
der the stockraising laws, but very
little of this is free from claims. ow-
ing to the fact that most of it is in
cluded in original entries or in ap-
plications which confer a preference
right
! According to reports received by
the site immigration department, two
counties-Weld and Logan-have a
larger wheat crop this year than did
the whole state ten years ago. This
year 100000 acres was devoted to
wheat in Colorado. OF which s0.12 per
cent is non-irrigated. In 1909 the
area planted to wheat was 340.729
acres. 4S9 per cent being irrigated.
| Reports of county assessors show that
1876 per cent OF wheat grown this
| year is of the winter variety.
THE carbonization OF coal Is an
established fact" states Daniel Her
rington. head OF the Denver district
of the United States bureau Of mines.
And there now remains the problem
of compressing the residue, after the
oil and other volatile matter has been
extracted, into units of fuel" Thru the
carbonization of bituminous and lig-
mite coal 1t is possible to extract
forty gallons OF motor oil from ton.
and as Colorado has large deposits Of
this coal the state will benefit large
ly through commercial carboniZation.
| Because he was denied his final
citizenship papers. Jacob Farnik. a
homesteader. five miles south Of New
Ramer, Colorado. stands to lose his
$15 900 property. Farnik took out his
first papers five years ago. but when
he applied for his final papers at the
district court in Fort Morgan recently
II was brought out that he had offered
the court clerk a small sum in get
ting thru" and the court has construed
the act as attempted bribery. The
entry on Farnik's homestead is due to
expire within a month and the re-
ceiver at the land office at Sterling
in asked that Farnik be permitted to
make simultaneous relinqmshment
and re-entry on his land. This is the
first case of its kind on record In