The Raymer enterprise., 1920-04-01
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

statistics compiled by the Colorado
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
from reports turned In by county as
SCISSORS throughout the state. The av-
erage value Of good plow lands in the
state Is placed at $145 an acre, with
other classes Of irrigated land valued
az follows: Pasture land. $50 an acre !;
meadows, $28; poor plow lands, SO;
all plow lands, not including meadows
or pastures. 1925; improved lands
$40; unimproved lands, $110.
Collections Of the state fish and
game department from fishing and
hunting licenses and minor incidental
sources set a new mark during the
fiscal year which ended November
S0th last, reaching a total Of e113,-
61260, according to figures just COM
piled by state examiners. Resident
fishing licenses brought the largest
share Of the collections, the receipts
from this source being $8s,102.90. Big
game license receipts were next with
total Of $27, 7,483
The Norwood school bond issue car
ried at the election by vote Of three
to one. The amount Of the issue voted
Is $28,000, which will be added to the
5000 issue voted last fall and used
for the building Of a new school house.
The bonds are to draw per cent In.
terest. The district valuation Of the
Norwood school is S973,830 and the
present school tax is ten mills. Two
and seven-tenths mills additional tax
will be required to pay off the extra
bonded Indebtedness.
The Colorado state treasury is facing
a deficit which can only be avoided
by a continuance Of Inheritance tax re-
ceipts at the 1919 rate. according to
state officials. The 1919 inheritance
tax total was almost $1,000,000. al
though only ST20000 as estimated for
the entire biennial period. This unex-
pected figure was due to the settle
ment Of an unexpected number Of large
estates. Receipts are now very much
slower.
A years gain In resources Of 28l
state and savings banks and trust
companies of s17,294.0 4.025.3S is shown
In an abstract report by State Bank
Examiner Grant Mcpherson. The gain
is on total resources for the close OF
business February %, 1920, compared
with March 4, 1919. Resources Of ma.
ti0nal banks are not included In the
report, which shows total resources
for the state institutions Of $120 100,
S99.78.
The beet growers of the Western
Slope won a decisive victory over the
Holly Sugar Corporation when that
company agreed to pay the growers q
minimum price Of $40 a ton for the
1920 crop. based upon 50 sugar and
Sill ton additional for each 81 ovel
80 that the seaboard prices of sugar
average during the four months Of No
yember, December, 1920. and January
and February, 1921.
Nanitou park, for years a famous
resort In the Pixies Peak region, is tc
become the site next year for sum
ner military school and camp for boys
This was virtually assured when Col
]. w. Wilson, head of the New Mexico
Military Institute at Roswell, and MAJ
4. 7. Spencer Of Denver, associated
with him, obtained an option on 3,4St
acres comprising the park from J. s
Wilson, the owner.
| The home of Sam Richie, a miner a,
Rockvale, was completely wrecked
when bomb placed by blackhanders
exploded. Sam Matore, son-in-law OF
Richie, was the only person In the
house at the time Matore had beer
sleeping, but just before the explosion
went into the kitchen to get drink Of
water. He escaped injury.
| The Red Cross official who dIscov
cred the Grand Duchess Olga hiding in
a boxcar near Odessa is no other than
Neil McGregor, husband Of Mrs. Nina
McGregor, formerly Miss Nina Coates
Of Denver. Word to this effect has
just been received In letter from Rus
sian Red Cross headquarters to Mrs
McGregor now visiting In Greeley.
! Alex Miller, the deaf mute who Is
held In the county jail at Greeley
though no information has yet beer
filed against him, will probably not be
arraIgned before the May term of the
District Court and possibly not until
the November term, according to As
sistant District Attorney +. J. Green
who said that the arraignment and
trial may occur close together without
the formality Of a preliminary hearing
7. P. Marcellus, a rancher living ten
miles west Of Grand Junction, was run
over by q switch engine In the yards
ut Mlnturn. Colo, while on the wey
to Cheyenne, Wy0, with carload OF
blooded Holstein cattle. He died al
Leadville while he was being taken to
hospital at Salida. He had just been
to a lunch counter and was run down
on bis way back to the train.
Petitions have been sent out to the