The Dolores star., 1920-04-16
sCOLORADO
STATE NEWS


so0n. A total of sI93O0 has been sub
acribed for the institution.
By n vote of 30 TO II, property own
erS at Kersey favored floating n bond
issue OF $4,000 to $4,000 to construct
MODERN watcrworks system.
Property owners, voting at Num- on
bond issue, balloting 43 to IA in
favor of floating $4,000 in bonds to
construct a waterworks system and to
string an electric power line from
Pierce to Mum.
Four hundred dollars has been
raised by twelve students at the Uni
vers1ty OF Denver to aid in providing
for the balance of the univcrsitys war
debt now aggregating $4,000, il was
ann0nnced by Chancellor Henry A.
Buchtel.
Tie Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany, through Dave Sloan of Crested
Butte. has purchased 200 town lots on
the north side of Crested Butte AS
soon as the weather permits the com
pany plans to begin the erection of
fifty new houses for its employees.
District Forester Allen $. Peck has
annOnDc"d that fiftyfour men passed
the civil service commissions eNamin-
atlOns for positions as forest rangers
and that nineteen OF the eligiblcs have
bee1 appointed Thirty-six will he as
signed to stations In the Colorado ma
ti0nnl forests.
The United States general land Of
flee has announced that 3O,634.29 acres
OF homestead land in Moffat county,
formerly in the Carey act segregation
known aS the Great Northern project,
has been opened for entry by order Of
Clay THllman. commissioner of the
general land office, under date Of
April l.
Three growing towns Of "astern
Colorado are to have municipal water
systems. The Colorado Public Utilities
Commission granted the applications
Of the towns of Scibcrt and Nona in
Kit Carson county, and Of Eads in XII
0Wa county for certificates of public
cOnvenicnce and necessity, authorizing
them to proceed with the Installation
Of plants
Four airpancs appear on the Den
YER assessment rolls this year, as
aEninst only one last year, according
tOWilian J. Hamilton, deputy county
aascssor under VI. j. Mccarthy. man
ager Of revenue. Approximately "a
900 automobiles will be found upon the
tax schedule for 1920 The tax sched-
ules are coming in at the unusually
rapid rate of more than 900 Il day.
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Grand Mesa Resort Company have an
nounced that they are going To builr
n s,inimrr hotel on the Grand Mesa at
the lakes, under the southeast rim, this
summer They plan TO put up Il pre-
fentious building. The hotel will pro
vide accommodations for hundreds Of
people who heretofore have been un-
willing TO stay at the lake over night
because of the lack of accOmmoda tions.
Charles c. Gates, president Of the
Gates Rubber Company of Denver, has
announced that The company has put
n group insurance for its employees.
( Each of the l,GOO employees will be
given Il life insurance policy. the com
papy paying the premiums, according
10 Mr.. Gates. The principal amount
Ofeach policy will he based on length
0fservice, and will he Increased ut in
tervalS of six months More than
.$5OO,OOO were required to initiate the
plan. The insurance will be written
BY the Capitol Life Insurance Com
pany of Denver The plan to adopt
group insurance was recommended by
the Industrial Congress, composed Of
employees of the plant
Delta, lacking a city park, has put
a Committee of business men at work
regarding II proposed park. The mem
befs are trying to raise money to buy
1 Altc this spring and do the blowing
and grass seed planting before it is
too late to get lawn started this
year The seven-acre tract just east
or the new high school site has been
selected as the most desirable and will
prGbably be purchased and improved.
The biological report of the United
States district forest service for 1919
hae just been completed, and will be
suhmitted to the biological survey in
Warrington by Allen S. Peck, district
forester. The estimates of the num-
bef OF game animals In the state In
1913 and 1919 are as follows: 4,911
III in 1918, 1884 in 1919; no moose in
elther 1918 or 1919; 7,123 mountain
6h4ep in 1918, 6772 in 1919; 45 ante
iope in 1918, 20 in 1919; no caribou in
ether year; 22,717 mule deer In 1918,
397 in 1919: 43 white-tailed deer in
ms, 81 in 1919; q, 1888 beavers in 1918,
M377 in 1919; 2,19O black or brown
bars In 1918, 2,859 in 1919; II silver
tip bears in 1913, 81 In 1919.
A&ter forty-nine years of married
lie and raising a family of ten chill
dnG2 Mrs Charity Enyart filed suit in