The Dolores star., 1921-03-11
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

total farm acreage has increased SOB
per cent since that year and the i'm
proved acreage 80 per cent Thirty
six and nine.tenths per cent of the
land area of the state is In farms. and
BIZ per cent Of the farm land is i'm
proved. The tables show that the
value of all farm property in the state
is S1O7679i,749, as compared with
S49l All ,S06 in 1910. an increase of
119.1 per cent. Land and buildings
have increased in value 112 per cent
with total value OF $500, 6,013 800; i'm
plements and machinery, 2S9.4 per
cent, with a total value of $40 S04, 500
today; live stock, 1894 per cent, with
total value of s16O,9765sO. There
are 59,934 farms, with an average val
lie Of land and buildings of S14,449
each, as compared with SS. .S34 in 1910,
the figures show. The value of the
farm land an acre is $S1.22, as against
S26.S1 ten years ago. Another inter
esting fact given is that there are 59,-
3Sl white farmers in Colorado, OF
which 1886 are native born. OF the
native white farmers, 37,75O are own
ers, S07 managers and 11,2S9 tenants.
There are also 1.769 women farmers,
including 1914 owners, four mana gers
and 11S tenants.
Plans, specifications and estimates
on Colorado highway projects, to be
| carried out at an approximate cost of
| S2O5,9.0, were submitted to j. s.
Bright, supervisor of the United States
| hu of Ia, l,r
| the State Highway Commission. Fed
eral aid to the amount of 80 per cent
| on the work, which includes "A miles
| of concrete road Oh the Denver Brigh-
| ton highway is requested. Other con-
| structiOn work contemplated, embraces
two bridges in MOntrose county, one
Of seventy feet over the UncOmpah-
gre river. and one OF twenty-eight feet
over Spring creek.
The Citizens State and Savings
Bank at Boone, Pueblo county, was
robbed of $1,000 in cash and bonds by
experienced yeggmen who took every
thing in the way Of money or securi
ties in the vault and safe. The rob
| berS escaped in an automobile, taking
| the SO-called north road out of Boone.
| Not the slightest trace of them has
yet been secured by Sheriff Samuel
Thomas, who with number of depu-
ties, is working on the case.
G.. z. Weyr of Holyoke was elected
president of the Northeast Colorado
| Pythian Association at the election of
| officers at Sterling. ]. A. Gilbertson,
Brush, was chosen vice president
Charles X. Peter, Holyoke, secretary,
and c. Fl. Woodward, Sterling, treas
urer. The new directors are f. l.. Bill
lot, Brush; w. NJ. Shumway, Sterling,
and w. II. Shoal, Holyoke. Holyoke
was selected US the next meeting place.
Tar being warmed on an Oil stove in
the home Of d. A. Gregg, a prominent
Redlands rancher, near Grand juno
tion, exploded and sent blazing tar
over the room. Mr.. Gregg seized the
blazing bucket Of tar and carried it
from the house, and In so doing sus-
tanned severe burns. Two neighbors
happened to be passing and aided Mr..
Gregg in saving the house from de-
struction. His burns were serious.
According to reports the Interstate
Commerce committee of the House Of
Representatives at Washington has re-
ported favOrably on bill to change
the name of the Grand river to the
Colorado river. The State Senate has
passed on third reading bill intro
duced by Senator o. f. Bannister of
Grand Junction, making similar pro-
posal, and the lower house is expected
to give it final approval shortly.
E. A. Black, a rancher living near
| Clifton was buried under tons of earth
and rock for two hours when a trench
nine feet deep in which he was laying
tile caved in on him. A dozen men
worked to eXtricate him. The rescuers
found him badly crushed and uncOn-
scious in cavity formed by clods and
tile
John NJ Richardson of Denver
through his attorneys, has filed suit in
| the Fremont county District Court in
Canon City, for S5S,3O7 damages
against G. V. HOdgin, J. Victor Nc
Cnndless and james Belknap in their
unofficial and individual capacities for
alleged negligence while serving as
county commissioners of Fremont
county in 1920. The alleged negli-
gence, the plaintiff claims, resulted in
the death of his wife and serious in
| jury to himself in an automobile acci-
dent on April 80, 1920.
| A plan to harness the waterpower
now going to waste in the pipeline Of
the Canon City waterworkers as it
descends the reservoir hill, and trans
form it into electrical energy to illu
inmate the hills and streets and parks
| adjacent to the Colorado state peniten-
| tiary, is now under consideration by
the penitentiary authorities and the
city council of Canon City.
Bullet proof windshields, the first to
be used in Denver, have been ordered
| from Philadelphia manufacturing
concern by Chief of Police Williams