The Dolores star., 1921-08-26
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

lion Department show hDoNe '-'''
farms ON which land Is being cultivated
in Colorado this year, compared VIII"
io.llT farms reported by county AS
SCISSORS last wear. While there is ap
parentIy a large area In cultivation III
the state this year than last, the ap'
parent increase in number OF farms u
perhaps due to more complete returns
being made by county assessors 'his
wear than previous years. me IN" re-
oulriny county assessors to collect ng
riculturaI statistics annually became
effective in 1919, and this is the thiru
wear such statistics have been COT
lected. Assessors are improving their
reports this year, due largely TO the
demands OF local business men hhn
commercial organizations for complete
and accurate reports
Excavations now being made OF
ruins on the San Juan National forest
AT Chimney Rocks, near Pngosn
Springs, Colorado, are proving or great
interest. The ruins are doubtless the
oldest in the United States and show
more pflWltlNt WI hhi""'''p ''
those in other localities. permit
covering the San Juan forest was
granted the Colorado State Historical
and Natural History Society and J. A.
Jeancon, director and curator OF the
department of archaeology and ethnol-
ogy Is in charge OF the work.
Three iron bridges which were sent
to the forestry bureau for erection in
Larimer county by the government
during the war, and which have never
been put into service. are to be taken
over by the State Highway Depart
ment and will be used on the South
Platte river not far from Denver.
They were Intended for use on the
Poudre river, but are only eleven feet
wide. and for this reason were never
erected. 1t is thought probable that
the bridges will be widened when they
are put up.
The state OF Colorado was enriched
by SOL ,S47.T7 when the administrators
of the estate of .Iudson NJ. Bcmis,
Colorado Springs millionaire, who died
man, state Inheritance tax collector. u
check for that amount This sum rep.
resents the state Inheritance tax on n
net estate OF Sl.394. 1919. Bemis was
heavily interested in the Bemis Bag
Company Of Boston.
With the completion of tha half
mile track and the gigantic grand
stand and corrals, everything is now in
readiness for the opening of the Ride
'em rough roundup at Colorado
Springs, Aug.2 ., 23 and "a. Already
more than 200 head of horses, incidd.
ing some of the most famous buck
ers" in the West, are housed in the
corrals alongside the track
Four hundred and fifty vocational
students are to receive instruction Dt
the University of Colorado this fall.
according to W. ]. Shirley, co.ordin-
ator for the government. who has
charge of the students sent to Boulder
There are $50 men in training now,
twenty-five of whom will be trans
ferred to other schools.
bhh' 'itN'ihi'l, bDNl'tI VI.
has a badly broken right leg as re-
suit of a jump of six feet from lad
der in the rear of the fire station at
Boulder. He was practicing fire fight
ing with other members of the depart
ment when the ladder on which he was
standing started to slip. To save him
self from n fall he jumped.
William Mahar and J. Z. Henthorne
of Pueblo escaped death on the Sky
Line drive at Canon City by jumping
from their automobile just before it
backed off the road and plunged 400
rect below. Mahar attempted 10 shift
from high gear to low while ascending
the drive but the clutch and brakes re-
fused to work.
The long bridge over the Fountain
river was completely swept away on
the night Of June 3, at Pueblo. IT is to
ne replaced at once. AS soon as ac-
ceptnble plans are made the contract
Will be let by the city commissioners
and the structure started
Fewer people in Larimer county will
pc ueiInuueHl WIN Iilelr taxes This
year than for many years previous,
according to County Treasurer VIII
liam j. Ralph, who says - per cent
of the taxes were paid on time. With
those who will pay before the list is
published, and after it appears in the
paper, 1t is thought that the sale of
property for taxes this year will he
quite small.
Weld county Is being deluged with
Hoboes as the result of the action of
The Union Pacific railroad in emplov.
ing special agents to rid its trains of
the non-paying travellers. SpecIsI
Agent Tom Cole, with posse of as
sistants, cleaned" two extra freight
trains at Pierce, station twenty
miles north of Greeley, of sixty hoboes
many OF whom We're negroes.
Glenn Hubbard of upper Caljfornia
mesa, about six miles west of Olatha
was instantly killed by flash of light.
ning, while the horse he was riding
pSrunDi Lit.