The Ordway new era., 1921-10-14
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

nartment collected S15,is5.S2 from
twcntv.six estates in Colorado. The
largest individual amount collected
was from the estate OF Alexander v
Officer of Weld county. For thNihs
purposes this estate WAS Naiueu AZ
Sl5s.254.97 and the amount OF the TAX
wcs Ssar2 IS. Heirs of owen r Le-
F.yre of Denver paid the state ~
S761S. on a valuation ct >l'-,o-o'S-'
| Total inheritance taN collected oS III"
state since Jan. i S'Sl,il'-s''
All classes Of property in Colorado
are valued for taxing purposes at 81
5Ts. 5dS,4 ,449. This i the finai ilsure
submitted ny the Colorado Tax Com
mission to the state Board of Equal
ization in its report for 1871 Last
wears the valuation was $3.50 2b' ,bd''
so that This year there is decrease
of sIl.7a92ls In Wow ot the stump
in the values of sheep, cattle ana
farm products decrease nt less thnh
Sl2. coo. 600 is considered 4 remarkahle
good showing
The prairie dog. which has always
been looked upon ss 4 pest OF me
first order. is worth money, according
to Albert y. Froom NJ Olathe. who re
ports that he Is lie only man III the
world who has ever CaShed in on This
animal. lie actually sells them for
money. In some parts Of the world
they do not have prairie dogs and
there they are looked upon as a rarity
and are placed iu their ZOOS alongside
of the elephant and other natural Gu
riosities.
]. II. weisgerber, Pueblo telegraph
operator, while touring the country in
an automobile recently, had an eNcit-
ing experience with a blue racer snake.
The snake. which was five and half
feet long. crawled under the car after
having bitten into the tire. The car
was stopped. hut no trace Of the snake
could be found Eventually, It was dis
covered in the battery box only to be
lost again in the mechanism of the
machine. When finally located in the
dust pan It was killed
If the plans now under Cons!dera-
tion by the Beaver Park Land and
Water Company maferigllzes the Bea-
yer park district, OF which Penrose is
the larger town, VIII next spring have
under construction a dam and reser-
voir at Brush hollow that will insure
an adequate water supply for this rich
farming district and will also enable
close TO 1000 acres lying just west OF
the district to be irrigated and opened
TO settlement.
From Moab, Utah, comes word that
probably the richest shipment of car
notite ore ever mined was recently
sold to buyers at Montrose, Colo, by
Andrew Nyland Of Grand Junction.
The shipment consisted of forty tons
and brought 10000. The ore was
mined In the Gateway district and was
the last of the output OF Mr.. Nylund's
mine there.
A motorcycle accident on the Buck
horn road in the mountains near Love
land resulted in the serious injury of
C. w. McWhiuney, prominent Loveland
real estate man. McWhinney was rid
ing with W. ]. Arb when the brakes
refused to work on steep hill and
the machine went over q bank. Nc
Whitney suffered n crushed chest in
addition to cuts and bruises.
Ralph Hendrickson, II years old,
was Instantly killed at the close of the
first day of the fair at Holyoke. A
plane had just alighted from a flight
over the grounds, and the propeller
was still in motion when the boy
walked into it. He was thrown into
the air, and when he struck the ground
was dead.
The construction. of a new water
system with Little Horse creek fifty
four miles north of Rocky Ford, as the
source Of supply, was discussed at a
special meeting of the city council of
that city. The work would cost $780,
600, 1t is estimated, and 100000 gal
Ions OF water would be furnished.
The De Beque Chamber of Com
merce has asked the cooperation of
the Chamber of Commerce of Grand
Junction in making an exhibit of oil
shale at the World Mining Congress
TO be held in Chicago Oct. IT, 1921.
Word has been received at Boulder
that the college of pharmacy, Univer-
sity of Colorado, has been unanimous
ly elected to membership In the Amer.
lean Conference of Pharmaceutical
Faculties. The society Is working for
the advancement Of pharmaceutical
education and practice.
AS n result of the passage of House
BIZ No. 81, Arizona has become the
guardian of every dependent, aban-
doned and neglected child In the state
under the age of 18 years, and the
newly created child welfare board, at
Ira recent rnaafjno odoDtod ~. p,