The Elbert County tribune., 1920-01-23
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

have them ready for distribution to
the assessors early in March. Every
effort will be made to make the work
| Of the assessors easy and simple. no
| Information being asked for which
| farmers cannot give readily without
preference to their books or accounts.
The schedule will also call for con
siderable amount of information
which was not collected last year.
principally regarding crops grown
only In restricted localities and the
number of fruit trees of bearing age
An effort will be made to distribute
samples of the schedules sometime in
February, so that farmers may be in
formed regarding what information
will be sought and will be prepared
to give assessors and their deputies
the information without delay.
Reports of county assessors for
1919, as tnbulnted by the State Iminl-
grafton Department, show tlat 26,-
62O,094 acres. or 40.13 per cent OF the
| total area of the state, is assessed as
agricultural land. This Includes ii
very large area that has never been
broken and much that will never be
broken, being valuable only for graz-
ing purposes. 1t includes more than
| 100000 acres sclassed as "dry farm
ing land, most OF. which ultimately
will be cultivated. Reports of coun-
| ty assessors made to the immigration
| Department in 1919 showed tlmt there
was approximately 100000 acres In
cultivation last year, the largest ever
cultivated In one year.
The AvondaIe prison farm is no
more. Ten substantial farmers OF Pu-
eblo county bought $40 acres OF the
| land and the improvements and the
| water rights for S14S.21S.50 at the
| sale when members of the State Land
| Board auctioned off the land in small
tracts, none less than forty acres and
none more than eighty acres. None
of the slgners of the petition previous
ly circulated asking that the state
to the pen tentiary for the prison
/ farm, was /, bidder at the sale.
The Rendle, Dow & Co. mercantile
store was completely destroyed by fire
at CRANKY. The loss. according to Of
| ficlals of the company, is estimated
between $4,000 and $4,000. part OF
which Is covered by insurance. Glen
| Dow, the manager, lives in the rear
of th9 store. and when he was
aroused at 3 o'clock In the morning the
flames, which are believed to have
started from the furnace in the base
ment, had made such headway that
nothing could be saved.
Claiming that Palmer Lake has
| failed to clear snow from certain
parts of the DenverColorado Springs
highway and that autoisis stalled
| there have been compelled to pay eX-
orbitant prices in order TO get pulled
out of the snow banks. the Colorado
Springs Auto Trades Association has
submitted to the Chamber of Com
merce a resolution asking that Pal
mer Lake he cut off the intercity road
| IL the situation is not remedied.
The rare operation of TRANSMISSION of
blood was performed upon Thomas
Weiss at local hospital in Alamosa.
His brother, Peter Weiss, mining
man of Creede, furnished the blood
| and several ounces were transferred
| to the veins of the patient. Weiss
suffered a breakdown from overwork
and his blood supply was so depleted
that physicians say 1t was only AZ per
cent of normal. The operation was
| entirely successful.
The first continuous oil shale re-
tort of commercial size ever operated
in Colorado was started last week on
the property of the Continental Oil
Shale Mining and Refining Company
on Piceance creek, about two miles
from Rio Blanco The trial run was
made and the results were quite up to
the expectations of the management
and the designing engineers who
carried it through
AT least 1,500 persons attended the
opening of the First National bank nj
Windsor The entire interior of tile
building was decorated with flowers
and officials of the bank gave out ear
nations to their women guests. Music
was furnished throughout the after
noon and evening by local orchestra.
Refreshments were served during the
day to over 1000 people.
Wireless telephones VIII be used by
the federal forest service 10 aid in
fighting fires in the woodlands this
summer. The experiment was first
tried at the time of the big fires in
Montana last year and was so sue
cessful that 1t VIII be put to the test
in Colorado forests.
1t is reported that a new town, Pc
oria, to be located six miles west of
Deer Trail. will soon be started by
persons who are Interested in that vi.
cinity, and arrangements are being
made to open general store, garage,
bank, and perhaps lumber yard and