The Dolores star., 1920-04-02
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


The ore shipments from Telluride
n February were 11O cars, three cars
more than in the same month last
year.
Pruning is now in full swing at the
Grand Valley and in almost every
richard men are being employed in
his necessary spring work The trees
'how little effect of the severe winter.
Miss Dorothy Smith, 18-year-old
laughter of Frederick K Smith, cash
er of the First National Bank Of Colo
rado Springs, is near death at Welles-
ey, Mass, as the result of a skiing sc-
.ident In which she was lmpaled by a
broken skiing rod. Miss Smith fell on
he fragments OF the stick and her alb
1omen was perforated In three places.
Negotiations were completed in Den
yer for the purchase Of $685. worth
" IRIDIUM by the Medical and Surgical
group of Denver. The deal was made
ado. One-half gram, or seven and
hree-quarters grams OF the precious
mineral is contained in the tube pur-
,hased.
An excess OF $37,s71.51 over the
AMOUNT available for administration
and engineering purposes was spent
by the State Highway Commission in
the fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1919,
according to Il report by State Audi
tor Stong The total expenditure for
lhese purposes was S1S2,TT5.96 or
this, S45.22S.SO was spent in prelim-
mary engineering for future federal
aid projects.
Edward Ives, mental defective
convict, sawed his way through steel
bars at a window Of his cell in the
state penitertiary hospital at Canon
City and made his escape. After saw
ing through two heavy steel bars, the
ends of which he forced outward, Ives
crawled through the opening and
gained access to a low stone wall from
which he climbed to the high wall sur
rounding the prison enclosure.
The growth of saw timber in the
United States is believed to be only
one-third of the amount annually cut.
| Twenty-ninc of our states import more
| timber than is cut within their bound
| aries. and every exporting state Is cut
ting fmster than their timber grows. "a
| timber famine is bound to come," says
W. j. Morrill, OF the Colorado Agricul-
tural College: "indeed, locally in many
parts of the United States it has ar
rived already as reflected in the high
prices of lumber"
1t costs the state of Colorado S43. &c
less to educate II student ut the Fort
| Collins Agricultural college than at the
state university at Boulder, according
to reports on the two big institutions
submitted to Governor Shoup by Audi
;or of State Stong. The average cx-
pense of educating a student at the
| Agricultural college, St0ng reports, is
S1S7.5l, while at the state university
it is S23l.27. The Agricultural college
spent S222.O1S.0S educating 1,1S4 stu
dents, while at the university the edu.
cation of 1,745 students cost S4O3.-
452.33. These figures are for the year
1919.
Colorado and Wyoming naval re-
servists who served during the wal
with Germany may obtain Victory but.
tons by applying to Lieutenant Com
mander p. S. Thesis of the Denver
navy recruiting station or to the petty
officer in charge Of the recruiting sta
ton nearest them. Hitherto only men
who served in the regular navy could
obtain these buttons in Denver, the
reservists being required to apply to
the commandant of the Twelfth Naval
district, San Francisco, Calf. All ap.
plicatIons for Victory buttons must be
accompanied by II discharge or release
from active duty.
Petitions are now being circulated In
the territory affected for the forma.
ton of drainage district that will
drain a total area of 10000 acres, ex.
tending northward from the Rio
Grunde to the vicinity of Center, in the
San Luis valley. Thirty thousand acres
Of this vast tract Is not now under cul.
tivation, and this drainage district will
convert the greater part of this acre
age into productive farms.
Reports to the state Cooperative
Crop Reporting Service indicate that
35 per cent of the 1919 Colorado corn
crop, or 3,922,O0O bushels, was in the
hands of growers on March !, com.
pared with 80 per cent, or 3,202,O0i
bushels on March l last year. The
amount of the 1919 wheat crop on hand
March l is estimated at 10 per cent, ol
2.647 900 bushels, compared with 1t
per cent, or 2,464,OOO bushels on
March l, 1919. The amount of oats on
hand is estimated at 81 per cent, or 3
OSS, 600 bushels, compared with "a per
cent, or 3,2ST 600 on March l, 1919, and
the amount of barley on hand is esti-
mated at 30 per cent. or 10000 bush
els, compared with 30 per cent, or l.
112,OOO bushels on March last year.
Prof. Alexander Enslie Of the Colo