The Ordway new era., 1921-04-08
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Nerspaper Union News service. ,

| lWestern Newspaper l MON news sefsee'
George A. Flannigan, for the past
four wears secretary of the Colorado
Utilities Commission. has submitted
his resignation, to become effsctive
April G.
School expenses in Colorado have in
creased about S3,5OO.OOO in the last
two years, according to figures made
public by the State Immigration De
partment. The statistics are compiled
from records of the state superintend-
ent of schools.
Although the monthly production of
oil remained unchanged in the Colo
RADIO fields during February, there was
an increase of thirty-one barrels in the
daily average output compared with
January the variance being due to the
difference in the length of the months.
The Denver stockholders protective
committee of the Denver x Rio Grande
| railroad will go into court in Denver,
Colo, prepared to deposit bonds of
100000 as good faith of their inten-
ton to purchase the road for S10,O0O.-
600. This was announced in New York
after a meeting of the committee.
1t cost the state of Colorado $3.50
month for each pupil attending public
schools during the school year ending
| June 80. 1920. according TO statistics
compiled by the State Immigration De-
| partment from the records of the SUI
perintendent of public instruction. This
figure compares with SS.T2 the pre-
vious year.
After deliberating less than two
hours II jury in the District Court at
Colorado Springs acquitted William
| Shumard of the charge of attempting
/ to destroy his home at AL East San
| Rafael street by fire on the night of
January 26. The case went 10 the
jury at 10 80 o'clock. The verdict was
returned at noon.
The League of the Southwest will
| hold a meeting in Denver April 10 and
| 16 to consider plans for urging passage
| of reclamation legislation before Con-
| gress at Washington, according TO an
| nouncement made by Governor Mabey
of Utah, following receipt of a letter
| from Governor Campbell of Arizona,
president of the league, who issued the
| call.
The federal census bureau has
placed an average of S31.22 on farm
| lands in Colorado. This is nearly
twice the figure fixed by the county
assessors, which was S16.45 in 1920. An
increase of 100000 acres of farm
| land in the state is shown by the re-
| port. The average increase in value
| has been S5.21 an acre. Nearly 2S,0O0,-
600 acres of farm land is reported by
the county assessors tax rolls.
One-ninth of all the deaths in the
United States are due to tuberculosis,
and contaminated milk of tuberculosis
cows is responsible for good share
of this terrible disease, according to
| W. II. Feldman of the Colorado Agri-
| cultural College. Especially is this
true as regards children, statistics
showing that 6 to 10 per cent of the
deaths of children from tuberculosis
| is of the bovine type.
Theodore Myers, "a, of Durango, was
| killed in No. level of the Smuggler
| Union mine at Telluride when a box
of powder exploded Fortunately a
few minutes before nearly score of
| workmen had left the mine, following
their shift. Myers, it is said, was pre-
pairing 10 leave when he was killed.
| The mine was badly wrecked for a dis
tance of 100 feet from the scene of the
explosion. According to Carl Hoppe,
| shift boss, he had seen Myers, who
was a nipper, short time before and
he said he believed Myers was smok-
ing a cigarette and this is alleged to
have caused the explosion.
Gaining an entrance through the
back door, burglars robbed the East
Lake Mercantile Company of about ST.
500 worth of silk goods. The thieves
used an automobile to get the stolen
goods away.
Compilations made by the State I'm
migration Department from the rec
ords of the State Tax Commission and
from the advance reports of the fed
eral census bureau show that the av-
| erage value of farm land in the state
as reported by county assessors in
1920 was S16.45 per acre, compared
| Win Sol,~S reporteu ny tle census Du-
reau. Assessors report nearly 2S,OO0,-
600 acres of farm land on the tax rolls
while the census bureau found the av-
erage value of farm landAnd buildings
in the state on January 1, 1920, to be
$3.50 per 0cre. Reports of county as
SCISSORS show the value of all farm
property, including land, buildings.
| livestock and farm implements, to
have averaged $2316 on the 1920 as
sessment. The census report shows an
increase of more than 1O,00O,OO0 acres
in farm land in the state in the past
decade and an increase of S5.2l per