The Dolores star., 1921-04-01
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| gated farm property in the STATE III
| 1870 was SGT ,S55.992, compared with
| S59S. 429 l64 last year. The tolnl as
sessed valuation of property TINS year
| is 81, 800 26I .661, compared win 81
| 49,, ,2l3G59 The figures given above
| do not include automobiles, carriages
and other vehicles, furniture ana some
| other items of farm property, Which
| can not be accurately segregated, IL
| will be seen that the assessed Nhine o'
| farm property for 1920 was approx
mately II per cent of the assess'"
value of all property. compared WIN
| about 40 per cent in 1919. If the Items
| that cannot be included in this calCn-
| lntion could be accurately segregated
| il would. be found that the assessed
! value OF all farm property Is about y
per cent of the total assessed Nhlua-
| lion. The percentage has been incrcas-
| ing steadily for several years, keeping
pace with the states agricultural de-
| yelopment The items included in the
| totals given above are farm land, i'm
! provements on farm land, livestock,
poultry and bees, equities in state
| lana, improvements oIi pubAi' i'h''
and agricultural implements.
Figures compiled by the State lmm''
grafton Department frcm the records
| OF the State Tax Commission show
| that the people of Colorado paid S35.44
per capita taxes for all municipal, dis
trict, county and state purposes III
! 1920 The total revenue collected. ac-
cording to these compilations. was
| little more than S33,OOO,0OO The
largest single item of expense Is
| schools. approximately 80 per cent OF
all taxes collected being used for
school purposes The highest per capi-
ia taxes are paid by people in Park
| county, being $6S.1I, while the lowest
| are paid in Baca county, S2l.92. The
average levy for all purposes is 22.21
mills. Teller county shows the high
est average levy, 39.23 mills, and Chey-
enne county the lowest, ll.4S mills.
| The highest average school levy Is for
Crowley county, 11.I3 mills, and the
lowest is for jackson county, 1.33 mills.
A bulletin from J. Russell, general
manager of the Denver X Rio Grande
| railroad, has been posted in the local
shops and offices at AlamoSa sum
moning the lrainmen and enginemen
OF the Fourth division to conference
TO be held soon to revise the wage
scales of these two branches of the
service. The local members of the
brotherhoods express their willingness
to Il reasonable revision of wage down
ward, but will resist any attempt to
reduce the pay in these branches Of
the service unless corresponding de-
creases are also made in other wages
and expenditures.
The Union Pacific railroad office in
Byers was broken into by thieves and
$50 railroad tickets, requiring only Il
date and Il stamp to enable the holder
to travel practically any point on the
Union Pacific system, We're stolen. A
complete check of the missing tickets
has been made and the number wired
TO all conductors. The thieves gained
entrance to the depot through Il win
dow in the rear of the building.
Senator Phpps has requested the
missioner of the General Land Office To
open Colorado lands Immediately to
settlers under the Carey act and IA re
cent departmental order, which opened
the lands, but did NOT specify date
The Taxpayers of Fort Collins have
voted unanimously in favor of S196
900 bond issue for the improvements
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to several of the schools, new equip
ment added and sites for new build
ings will be purchased.
The Nucla Chamber of Commerce
at recent meeting elected officers
and considered plans for civic i'm.
provements. The officers elected
were: a. l.. Bolen, president, and w
A. Hopkins, secretary and treasurer.
Following two days hearing the
coroner's jury inquiring into the dis
aster in which five persons lost their
lives by the burning of Pullman car
Corona, attached TO the Denver x Rio
Grande passenger train No. 1JJ al
Roof, returned verdict containing nc
finding revealing the cause of the fire
expressing the opinion that the acci
dent was an avOidable one in the lacl;
OF rules requiring the Pullman porter
to be on duty
After divulging the information on
which the defendant was arrested in
California and brought back to Logan
county for trial, John Calvert, Il pris
oner In the county Jail in Sterling
failed on the witness stand and as II
result Elmer f. Week, well.to- do farm.
er, charged with burning four stacks
OF wheat in the east part of the couu.
ty last September, was acquitted by a
jury in the District Court
Guy Wayne Leibel, prominent Fort
Collins real estate dealer is dead from
peritonitis. following an operation for
appendicitis. He was stricken with an
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