The Dolores star., 1921-01-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Nes,papgr unlon News service }

Inc BOuluet 'lly 'oulltil lidis "
expend S25O0O0 on paving and storm
sewers.
The Western Products Company
plans to erect n concrete manufactur-
ing plant in Delta costing approximate
ly 100000
Tie citizens OF Weldon Consolidated
School District No. 81 have voted fa-
vorably on the bond issue of $4,000
for the erection of school building.
The State Highway Commission
plans to build three concrete bridges
in Montrose county at n cost of Si5,-
coo
County commissioners of Gunnison
expect to spend 5000 on the Black Me-
81 road and about $4,000 on the road
from Gunnison TO Somerset.
The Great Valleys Sugar Company
plans to start work on its factory in
Ault very soon. The new structure at
Lafayette is rapidly nearing compile
ton.
The Pitkin fish hatchery at Gunnison
purchased by the state from the Nc
Knight estate, will be improved and
enlarged so that quadruple the fish
may be handled yearly.
High grade ore in small quantities
has been encountered ut the Rose Nicol
mine of the Reva Mining Company at
Cripple Creek. The ore is valued at
s25 to $40 per ton.
Thieves entering an army goods store
at, r,hhnl thn 81 hl - Ia mont
of about $500 worth of merchandise,
including Sheep-lined overcoats, sever
al blankets, shoes, shirts and other ar
ticles of army clothing.
Complete arrangements have been
made for the twenty-first annual con-
vention of the Retail Merchants As
sociation of Colorado, which is to be
held at Colorado Springs January II,
IS and 10.
Mistaking strychnine pills for Christ
mas candy, Marguerite Schneider, 3
years old, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Schneider, living on a ranch
east of Colorado Springs, died after
she had swallowed Il quantity of the
poison.
Weld county commissioners have
asked the Colorado highway commits
sion to spend S2S5,42 on the 3lT miles
of state road in the county during 1921.
The county agrees to put S139,39J with
this budget, making total expenditure
of S413,725.
Assurance that the Fall River road
to Estes Park will be ready for the
summer tourist travel was given when
the state highway commission ap-
proved the appropriation of $4,000 to
cover the cost of improvements to be
made in the early spring.
Nine wildcats in two days is the
record kill made by Raymond Zinky,
D. Decker, S. II. Blethem and w. K.
Parnham, who returned TO Colorado
Springs with their trophies. The wild
cats were killed at Decker Springs, on
ly short distance from that city.
Nearly 100 entries were made at the
ANNUAL poultry show of the Colorado
Poultry Fanciers' Association in Den.
YER Chickens, geese and pigeons from
Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas and Colo.
RADIO We're on display at the show. ID.
n. Heimlich, noted poultry expert from
Jacksonville, ILL.,, judged the entries.
A company has been orgenized com.
posed of DeBeque business men, stock
growers and oil shale operators in
western Colorado to construct mod
ern hotel at DeBeque at 4 cost of S75,,
600. The proposed hotel is to have
fifty rooms, all of which will be fur
nished in the most up-to-date manner.
A site for the building has already
been secured and it Is expected to start
building operations early in the spring.
Two thousand dollars in travellers
checks which were being transported
from the Continental Bank and Trust
Company of Chicago to the Farmers
State Bank at Sedgwick. and other val
liable mail to nm undetermined amount
were stolen by unidentified thieves
from the station platform at Sedgwick,
Colo.
The frozen body of Severance Ben
ton, 60 years old, owner of a non-irri-
gated homestead fifteen miles south
west Of Virgins, was found in his
sllack ny HelphborS WHO visited tne
| place. Benton had been dead for sew.
eral days and is presumed to have died
from exposure and lack of medical at.
| tention.
A unique plan to relieve the strn.
| gency in money matters which is be-
Ing felt by farmers has been proposed
and will likely be put into effect at
Seibert. 1t is proposed by local mer.
chants and other business people to
allow farmers credit on their wheat
| and corn on hand to the extent of 81
bushel on the former and % cents
| on the latter. A mortgage and bond TO
/ guarantee delivery of this grain in
| May will be taken.
Approximately $4,000 has been
raised in Denver since December 10Th