The Dolores star., 1921-03-04
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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recently organized ut Center. The bus
mess men will contribute to bis sal
AIRY each month.
The Arkansas Valley Railway. Light
and Power Company Is considering
plans to expcnd approximately $4,000
reconstructing and improving the elec-
tric power lines between Pueblo and
Rocky Ford.
Notice of 20 per cent reduction in
wages OF all crafts employed in the
building industry in Denver, TO become
effective on March II. was filed by the
Denver Master Builders Association
with the State Industrial Commission.
Advance reports from the federal
census bureau, compiled by the State
Board of immigration. show the pro-
duction of wheat in all the important
wheat growing counties of Colorado in
1919 TO have been 1S,2I3. 10 bushels.
The production of wheat in these same
counties in 1909 was 22222 $50 bushels.
Persons who say that mountain lions
Will not attack human being cannot.
convince Joe Fessler of Grand Junction
that the report is true. Fessler who
killed n 16O-pound lion can testify that
IL took five shots 10 down the lion,
which was making for him at rapid
clip when the last shot tumbled him
over
The business section of Pagosa
Springs has been destroyed by fire
with an estimated loss of between
100000 and 100000. Among the
buildings destroyed was that of the
Citizens State Bank, which probably
is the heaviest loser. In all, fourteen
business structures and their contents
were burned.
Members of the Legislature We're
given the producers viewpoint of the
cost of mining coal in Colorado at
dinner given by the Coorndo-New-M"N-
leo Coal Operators Association ut the
Brown Palace hotel in Denver, which
afforded evidence that there is Il close
margin between cost of production and
the price realized for the product.
Senator Richard c. Callen's bill to
require railroads to maintain n speed
of ten miles an hour between shipping
point and destination for all livestock
and perishablc products was passed on
second reading The measure gives
shippers power to collect punitive
damages from $1,000 to $1,000, besides
actual damages, for failure TO ship
within the time fixed
The body of n man whom the police
have identified as Carlo Balance. an
Italian laborer, 50 years old. was found
in the bottoms" of the southern part
of Pueblo. The man had evidently
been murdered and his body hauled to
the bottoms in an automobile by his
slayer or sayers. His throat had been
cut, his left arm broken in two places
and the body rlddled with bullets.
Coal production in Colorado during
the month of January showed a de-
crease of 10000 tons for the same
period in 1920, and more than 20O,0OO
tons under the total for December of
last year. The total output for last
month was 1.054, ,436 tons. Only four
counties in thes tate showed increases
over last year. They were: Las AMI
mas. Montezuma, Pitkin and Weld
counties
A statement Of the operations of the
postal savings system for 1920 just re-
ceived by Postmaster L. +. StnpletOn
Of Denver, shows total of lO2 postal
savings offices in Colorado, represent
ing 5,19j depositors. The total de-
posits amounted to Sl,Gl7 ,322 Mr..
StapletOn said that postal savings ac-
counts in Colorado now equal the
record held by the state before the
world war.
Fred NJ Myers, $40 South Logan
street Denver. was killed when he was
thrown from motorcycle side car
driven by Il. n. Wood of Longmont,
when the latter attempted to prevent
crashing into an automobile truck at
point five miles west of Fort Lupton.
Myers died of a fractured skull. Wood
escaped unlnjured.
An expenditure of approximately
s225.O00 within the next few months
for rebuilding the ArGo mill, providing
additional equipment and carrying on
development work at the properties of
the Gem Mining Company, near Idaho
Springs, which recently purchaser the
mill and the famous Newhouse tunnel
the greatest mine transportation
tunnel in the wOrld-was announced
by the company.
United States Marshal Samuel J.
Burris at Pueblo destroyed 1900
pounds of English walnuts which,
when inspected by the consignee were
found to be of inferior quality. In ac-
cordance with the United States pure
food law, shipments of any such com
modify when found not to be up to
standard are destroyed, Marshal Bur
ris complying with this act by dumping
the nuts into the Arkansas river.
Robert G. Thompson. 90 years old,
the Oldest resident at the Union Print
ers' home and In membership, is dead
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