The Raymer enterprise., 1920-03-04
Hthy News Notes
From An Parts Of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Robbers entered the Acacia Drug
Store, at Aurora, and stole merchan-
disc estimated by II. Mcdowell, propri.
etor Of the store to be worth $1,000.
The Cox Mercantile Company store
at Fruita was entered by burglars and
$50 worth Of clothing was confiscated
and some cash taken from the regis
ter.
Twenty-seyen building permits, In
yolving the expenditure Of more than
$4,000, have been issued by the city
Of Fort Collins since the first Of the
year.
A tract of 5000 acres In the Black
Forest, northeast Of Colorado Springs,
owned by Gov. q. H. Shoup and asso-
ciates, is to be cut up and sold for
farming land.
The city Of Fort Collins will spend
100000 fer street improvements, IN
cluding concrete paving and graveling,
according to projects now being pro-
NOTED by various civic organizations.
The number Of swine in Colorado at
the beginning of this year is estimated
ut $4,000, compared with 100000 last
year. and the average value per head
Is $18, compared with $22 last year.
A. w. Frederick has been arrested
at Hayden on a charge Of selling d
brand Of stomach bltters which has
been condemned, 1t Is said, by the
state. The case may reach the high
er courts.
The famous Libby-Belle property of
the Park Tunnel Company at Aspen
Is planning on shipping rich silver ore
this year. Some good ore has been
discovered. This mine had not been
run since the '90s.
Two big motor trucks have been re.
ceived at Kremmling to be used by
the county road department during
the coming season. They were from
the army truck fleet allotted to Colo
RADIO for highway work.
Denver Is second In buildings opera
tions for January In the tenth federal
reserve district with 204 permits and
ninety three for new buildings and O
value Of $1.506,100. This is an In.
crease over January, 1919, Of 1926
per cent.
The Tonopas Lumber Company ID
planning on producing 25.000 feet Of
lumber a day at Its new mill. seven
miles from Tonopas. 1t has 1850
acres of land to draw from. New
equipment Is being purchased to make
the mill as large as possible and q
lath mill is to be feature.
Que Of the largest real estate deals
completed on the western slope In sev.
eral months took place when Col. Man.
ford w. Smith sold the Golden Rod
ranch to Fred Light, ST., for $4,000
This sale includes 800 acres, all the i'm.
provements, buildings, machinery, I'M
plements and livestock near Aspen.
The number of horses on farms
January l this year Is estimated at
427, 900, compared with $4,000 on Jan.
uary /, 1919. and the average value pey
head this year Is estimated at $40
compared with SOL last year. This Is
the largest percentage Of decrease
shown in the value Of any class Of live.
stock.
Investigation Of the newly discov.
cred anthracite coal deposits on Nc.
Clure's pass. makes the people of thai
section jubilant, us 1t brings closer the
proposed standard gauge road over Mc.
Clure pass as proposed by A. Z. Carl
ton and associates The deposit Of an
thracIte coal is a splendid one. 1t Is
understood that Salt Lake company
has organized to develop these anthra
cite mines and make the Mcclure pass
coal famous throughout the state. The
vein Of coal is thick and Of highest
quality.
A state land atlas, showing the l0ca
ton and area Of state school land.
in every county Of the state, will short
ly be issued by the State Board Of
Land Commissioners for the benefit 81
L L. MI xr.in nt.atf
nine plats, showing in detail the land'
open to application for purchase. A
digest Of the state land laws also viii
be given in the atlas, which will up
pear In folder form.
Schedules for the annual agricultur
al survey will be sent out to county as
SCISSORS from the office OF the State
Board OF immigration about March
this year. giving assessors a month te
prepare for this work, instead Of the
few days that were allowed last year
because Of the fact that the law pro
viding for this survey was signed only
few days before the actual assess
ment began. The blanks are in book
form this year and will be much easier
for assessors to handle than those used
In 1910. They will also call for fuller
information on crops that are not ex
tensively grown, thus giving better rep
resentation to counties that grow gnr
den and seed crops and vegetables fol