The Dolores star., 1921-02-04
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

the population OF the cities, in Colo
RADIO the population OF the farming dis
tricts has grown more rapidly thap
that Of the cities. Figures announced
by the federal census bureau and
compiled in the office of the State I'm
migration Department show that the
rural population of Colorado is now
e51.76 per cent of the total population,
compared with 49.3 per cent in 1910.
In the United States the rural popu-
lation is now 4S.T per cent of the total,
compared with 53.7 per cent in 1910.
The rural population in Colorado In
1920 is 4S6,370, compared with 39i,1Si
in 1910, the increase being over 23 per
cent. The urban population in 1920
was 453,259, compared with I04.S4O in
1910, the increase being slightly less
than II per cent. In the United States
as whole the increase in urban pop
ulation in the past decade was 2S.6 per
cent, while the increase in rural popu-
lation was only 81 per cent. These
figures show clearly that, while there
was strong movement from the
farms to the cities in the country as Il
whole, the movement In the Rocky
Mountain states was from the cities to
the farms, and that this movement
was especially strong In Colorado and
Montana.
Colorado as a coal-producing state
is leaping to the fore. a report rem
dered by James Dalrymple, state coal
mine inspector, shows that the ton
mage for 1920 from twenty-one coun-
ties was the greatest in the history of
the state-12, ,509,044, a net gain of 2
l02,50l tons over 1919. Las Animas
county was the greatest producer, with
i,342,8i7 tons, an increase of 1,02o,-
775 tons over the previous year. Huer-
fano county. with 2,44S, T49 tons, an in
crease of 51O,179 tons over 1919. was
second largest producer. Boulder
county, with a production of 1,23O,3i1
tons, increased its output 79,Gi1 tons.
Gunnison made the third largest in
crease in tonnage-149,064 tons, or
total of 81, ,T99 tons. During the year,
according to Inspector Dalrymple's
statement, there were, on an average,
1891 men employed. Routt county
registered decrease in tonnage, its
output being 985,110, falling off of
2O3, f99 tons as compared with 1919.
Company NJ, Olathe State Militia,
has disbanded and the equipment
placed in storage in the state armory
at MOntrose, due to the failure Of the
movement recently to secure the en-
listment Of only small part of the
membership. When only thirty of the
former militiamen signed for another
''hitch," and it seemed impossible to
get the required strength of siXty-five
men. the company was ordered dis.
banded.
Congressman Edward T. Taylor sent
word 10 minisg men in Denver that he
believes he will be able to have the
nine assessment work year now end
ing on Dec. 30 changed so that it cor
responds with the fiscal year ending
on June 80, If Colorado mining men
80 desire. If the state does not want
| such change, lie said, he believes he
can prevent its being made. The con-
gresham asked the mining men of the
| state to notify him of their wishes.
All but forty-nine school children in
Rio Grande county, Colorado, are en-
| joying the privileges and convenences
| of consolidated schools. These forty
nine are getting their elementary edu-
cation in four small one-room schools
while the remaining 97.4 per cent of
| the children in the county are attend
ing one of three consolidated schools
in that county or the one at Center in
the adjoining county.
The biggest radium ore deal ever
made in MOntrose was completed when
| Andrew Nylund of the Gateway sec
tion sold carload of carnotite ore to
G. Barlow Wilmarth of the Montrose
radium sampler which. will run CON
siderably in excess of $4,000. This
is the richest ore that has ever passed
through the Montrose sampler.
| Mortality from all causes among
sheep in the Rocky Mountain district
is estimated at $15,OOO,OOO to S2O,O0O,-
600 annually, which represents more
than s per cent of the total value of
the flocks, according to DR.. George w.
Stiles, bacteriologist of the United
States Bureau of Animal Industry, in
| an address De1Ore the state Neterina-
rians' Association, which met in Den
| yer.
All Colorado taxpayers must pay in
come tax on profits made from the
sale of stocks, bonds and other secu-
rites, under the government interpre-
tation that such profits are "income.'' ~
This warning followed the publica-
tion Of statement calling attention to
a recent decision by the United States
District Court of Connecticut. This de-
cisiOn held that income from the sale
of stocks and bonds is capital in
crease" and therefore not taxable by
the government by virtue of consti-
tutional provision. "The decision af-
fects the state of Connecticut only"
says Collector McCauly of Colorado.