The Ordway new era., 1921-04-01
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

1920 was $647 .955,992, compared with
S59S, 400, 164 last year. The toial as
sessed valuation of property tins year
is 81 800, ,267 ,667, compared win 81
4p5.213,659. The figures gwen apoNe
do not include automobiles, Carriages
and other vehicles. furniture and some
other items of farm property which
can not be accurately segregated. IL
will be seen that the assessed value of
farm property for 1920 was approx
mately IL per cent of the assesse"
value f all property, compared Win
about 40 per cent in 1919. If the items
that cannot be included in TINS calcn-
lation could be accurately segregated
it would be found that tile assessed
value of all farm property is about l.
per cent of the total asSessed Naluh-
ton. The percentage has been increas-
ing steadily for several years, keeping
mace with the states agricultural de-
yelopment. The items included IN the
totals given above are farm land, i'm
proycments on farm land, livestock,
poultry and bees, equities in state
land. improvements on public lands
and agricultural implements.
Figures compiled by the State lmm''
grafton Department from the records
of the State Tax Commission show
thnt the people of Colorado paid S35.44
per capita taxes for sll municipal, dis
trict, county and state purposes in
1920. The total revenue collected, ac-
cording to these compilations, was Il
little more than S33,OOO,OOO. 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 S6S1T, while the lowest
are paid in Baca county, S2l.92. The
average levy for all purposes is 222l
mills. Teller county shows the high
est average levy, 1928 mills, and Chey-
enne county the lowest, 1l.4S mills.
The highest average school levy is for
Crowley county, ll.T3 mills, and the
lowest is for Jackson county, l.33 mills.
A bulletin from ]. Russell, general
manager of the Denver * Rio Grande
railroad, has been posted in the local
shops and offices mt AlamOsa sum
moning the trainmen and enginemen
of the Fourth division to n conference
to be held soon to revise the wage
scales of these two branches of the
service. The local members of the
br.t 40 aynrnsS tbair ,yi1linunasS
to a 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 n
date and 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 win
dow in the rear of the building.
Senator Phipps has requested the
secretary of the interior and the com
missioner of the General Land Office tc
open Colorado lands Immediately tc
settlers under the Carey act and re
cent departmental order, which opened
the lands, but did not specify a date
The taxpayers of Fort Collins have
voted unanimously in favor of a $196,
600 bond issue for the Improvement,
of the schools. Additions will be bull
to several of the schools, new equip
ment added and sites for new build
ings will be purchased.
The Nucla Chamber of Commerc,
at a recent meeting elected officer.
and considered plans for civic i'm
provements. The officers electe,
were: A. L. Bolen, president, and w
A. Hopkins, secretary and treasurer.
Following a two days hearing TIN
coroners jury inquiring into the dis
aster in which five persons lost thei
lives by the burning of Pullman ca
Corona, attached to the Denver & Ri
Grande passenger train No. 155 a
Roof, returned verdict containing n
finding revealing the cause of the fire
expressing the opinion that the acc
dent was an avoidable one in the lac
of rules requiring the Pullman porte
to be on duty.
After divulging the information O
which the defendant was arrested 4
California and brought back to Loga
county for trial, John Calvert, u pris
oner in the county Jail in Sterlin,
Jailed on the witness stand and as
result Elmer +. Week, well-to-do farm
er, charged with burning four stack
Of wheat in the east part of the cou1
ty last September, was acquitted by
jury in the District Court.
Guy Wayne Leibel, prominent Fo,
Collins real estate dealer, is dead fror