The Colorado statesman., 1920-03-06
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

What is estimated to be the largest
coal vein In the intermountain coun-
try has been located two miles north
of Duchesne Its depth is sixty feet.
A school survey made by citizens
committee at Rifle resulted in the re-
quest that the school board call spe-
cial election for the purpose of voting
on $4,000 bond issue for new
school building
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
rado for highway work.
Because the county road signs have
become targets for private rifle and
revolver practice, Rio Blanco county
Is offering a $50 reward for evidence
leading to the conviction of any per-
| son uefaclng tne placaTus.
The campaign TO raise II budget of
$4,000 for the support of the Canon
City Young Mems Christian Assocla-
ton came to n successful finish with
the full amount subscribed. A build
ing debt of $1,000 will be paid out of
the funds raised, leaving the associa-
tion completely out of debt.
improvements to cost 100000, in
| cluding II memorial assembly hall, a
| nurses home and vocational therapy
| department are to be started shorty
by the Modern Women of America at
their sanatorium in Colorado Springs,
according TO DIR. J. G. Page, new di-
rector. DIR. Page succeeds the late
Dr. J. A. Rutledge.
Several railroad lines centering in
Denver are in the market for new
equipment The Burlington is planning
for five new mikado type locomotives.
the Union Pacific contemplates pur-
chasing forty-five cabooses, 1900
freight cars, 100 locomotives and sixty
five passenger cars. The Rock Island
is bidding for number of locomotives.
III. AltEtlllluI, StOht oh'"'' -
treme coolness when he continued an
operation after the alarm of fire had
been turned in from the hospital in
which he was performing the operation
mt Delta. While the fire was not
dangerous one, DIR. Macarthur said mat
it required all the control he could
muster to continue the operation while
Il blaze was going on on the roof above
the room.
Fifteen hundred people were on
hand at Hooper to witness the "spud-
ding in of the test well which is to
be drilled by the Travellers Oil and
Refining Company for the purpose OF
deciding whether oil is present in this
vicinity. While no oil has been found,
numerous gas wells have been brought
in, which lead the firm to believe that
oil will be located If Il deep well is
drilled standard rig has been
erected and the company is prepared
to drill to any reasonable depth.
Investigation of the newly discov-
cred anthracite coal deposits on Nc
Clure's pass, makes the people of that
section jubilant, as it brings closer the
proposed standard gauge road over Nc
Clure pass as proposed by a. Il. Carl
ton and associates. The deposit of an
thracte 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 loca-
ton and area of state school lands
in every county of the state, will short
ly be issued by the State Board of
Land Commissioners for the benefit Of
landseekers. The atlas will contain
nine plats, showing in detail the lands
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 l
this year, giving assessors a month TO
prepare LOT lHlS WoTh, inSteau VI inc
few days that were allowed last year,
because of the fact that the law pro-
siding for this survey was signed only
a 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 1919. They will also call for fuller
information on crops that are not ex-
tensively grown, thus giving better rep
resentation to counties that grow gar
den and seed crops and vegetables for