The Dolores star., 1920-01-23
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


now revising the schedule TO he used
by county assessors in gathering agri-
cultural statistics for 1920 and will
have them ready for distribution 10
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
reference to their books or accounts.
The schedule will also call for II 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 he made to distribute
samples of the schedules sometime in
February, so that farmers may be in
formed regarding what information
will he sought and will be prepared
to give assessors and their deputies
the information without delay.
Reports Of county assessors for
1919, as tabulated by the State Imni-
grafton Department, show that 26,-
620.09I acres, or 40.13 per cent of the
total aren of the state, is assessed as
agricultural land. This includes Il
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
10. O.OOO.O 900 acres ClaSScd 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 thai there
WAS approximately 100000 acres in
cultivation last year, the largest ever
cultivated in one year.
The Avondnle prison farm is no
more Ten substantial farmers of Pu-
eblo county bought GiO acres Of tn"
land and the improvements and the
water rights for SliS,2lS.JO al 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 signerS of the petition previous
ly circulated asking that the state
Land Board refuse to renew the lease
to the penitentiary for the prison
farm was bidder at the sale.
The RendIc, Dow & Co. mercantile
store was completely destroyed by fire
at CRANKY. The loss. according To of
ficialS 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 the 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 autoists stalled
there have been compelled to pay OK
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 resolution asking that Pal
mer Lake be cut off the intercity road
If the situation is not remcdicd.
The rare operation of TRANSMISSION of
blood was performed upon Thomas
Weiss ut n local hospital in Alamosa.
His brother, Peter Weiss, mining
man Of Creede, furnished the blood
and several ounces We're transferred
to the veins of the patient Weiss
suffered Il breakdown from overwork
and his blood supply was SO depleted
that physicians say it was only Ii 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 800 persons attended the
opening of the First National bank at
Windsor. The entire interior of the
building was decorated with flowers
nations to their women guests. Music
was furnished throughout the after
noon and evening by a local orchestra
Refreshments were served during tn,
day to over 1000 people.
Wireless telephones Will be used by
the federal forest service to 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 it will 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 a general store, garage,