The Dolores star., 1920-01-30
COLORADO.
STATE NEWS

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craig VIII have modern cr.nu.rv
manufacturing butter and ice cream If
S"ilcient cream can he secur.d :,
make me proposition a success.
NelS johnson. G2, first fire chief in
Io'"rad" Springs and organizer of the
,'rst volunteer company, is dead. He
hhu been resident of Colorado
Springs for forty years.
Beet growers of the I.onrnont dis.
irfct Will get an extra S214.O 600 from
the payment of 81 additional 81 ton -,
pee's ny the Great Western Sugar
company, according to an announce
m"nt made by y. Il. McCreery of the
LongmOnt factory,
Mrs. Nevada j. Haywood, 30 wears
old, and wife of William ID HAYWOOD
general secretary Of the |. w. w. who
WIS recently released from I.eavcn-
worth prison, died in Denver at a san
ltarlum of which she had been an in
mate since last August
Frank S. Lane, living near Grand
junction, is under arrest, charged with
having killed two deer out Of season
Inc report of the game warden, G., B.
Nichols, was that Lane was found
win the butchcrcd carcasscs of two
fine venison in his home.
William G. jenkins, one Of three sur
NiVing members of the fanous light
brigade which took part in the bloody
battle OF Balhklava, in the Crimea,
nude famous by TcnnySon's poem,
The Charge of the Light Brigade" Z"
died at Pueblo. lie was 90 years old.
Plans for building a tent CITY in
Boulder to accommodate summer
tourists have been initiated by the
Lions Club. George J. Breitenstcin
asked the club to get behind a move.
ment TO obtain army tents. A COM
mittee was appointed to look into the
mntter of obtaining tents.
Under the stOckraising homestead
act of Dec. 20. 1916, more than 3,294,-
3S3 acres of land have been taken up
in this state, according to statement
issued by NJ. d. McEniry, chief of the
b'ii'tI lItlu ulNiSloil. III aNuIllOn 10
thnt amount, he estimated that nearly
G,0OO.OW more acres are available for
homesteading under that act.
Students of the University of Colo
RADIO at Boulder will establish a 60.
operative store, if charges of profit
teering against stores on the hill' are
proved true. President George Nor
lin has issued n statement calling foI
Il probe of the alleged profitecrs.
Manager Bryant Smith of the ASso-
ciated Students has also asked for an
investigation.
Mrs. Lois Allen of Canon City, cdi-
tor of the Fremont County Leader,
was elected president of the Colorado
Editorial Association at the convention
in Denver The other officers elected
by the association are l.. l. Griffin of
the Ordway New Era, vice president
and George T. Haubrch of the Weld
County News, Greeley, secretary and
treasurer
Delta Is to have new canning plant.
4 committee of Delta business men
spent several days in Denver workin.
out the details. They are going to
deal with "A large eastern slope can
ming company The plant will be put
up on IA large scale. Delta plans many
big improvements this year, and the
outlook was never brighter for Il biz
business campaign.
Assessors from fifty-five Colorado
counties who held their annuol confer
IN the Senate chamber at the state
house, voted to assess automobiles on
the same basis as employed last year
with the exception that sccOnd-year
valuations shall be go per cent of orig
inal value instead Of being left chiefly
to the assessors discretion.
Coal production in Colorado de-
creased from 12,65S.055 tons in 1918 To
O,395, ,.63 tons in 1919, total decrease
of 2.262. 492 tons, the report for Deccm-
ber issued by State Coal Mine lnSp"r-
tor james Darymple showed, though
production in December alone was
greater than 1.O0O00O tons.
Another new discovery of ore bear
ing gold and silver and one of the
richest finds in the Silverton section
in years, is reported from the prop
crty of the Gold King Extension
Mines Company on Bonita mountain
The find was made in eighteen inches
of white quartz and values up to oeO
ounces of gold per Ton and 10 to 3o
ounces of silver are reported.
Weld county farmers Will receive
5000, 900 additional payment from the
1919 sugar beet crop as the result oil
the action of the Great Western Sugar
Company in raising the price paid Tor
the beets already ground into sugar
from $40 Il ton to S1l. Three factory
districts, Greeley, Windsor ana Eaton
raised approximately 100000 'ons OF
bcets each and more than 100000 tons
were raised by farmers in southern
and western Weld county for factories
Mt Longmont, Loveland and Brighton.