The Raymer enterprise., 1922-01-19
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

| bu9 Notot0 VI LIZ VI 0Auukos WIN uicu
q resident Of Denver, leaving q per-
sonal estate Of $110,5l4 with 331, $40
In securities taxable In New York. His
sons, Burton w. Nudge and Charles
II. Nudge Of Chicago. George P. Nudge
Of Kansas City and Hugh N. Nudge Of
Denver receive 81 each. The will gives
no reason for the dollar legacy. His
wife. Arwilda Morris Nudge of Dem
yer receives the residue Of the real and
personal estate.
Denyer.-Denyer spent $S.57 per CAP
ita for maintenance and operation Of
Its public schools during the fiscal
year ending June 30. 1920. according
to the official report Of the United
States Bureau Of Census at Washing
ton, D. G. The total cost Of school op-
GRAFTON for that year was 81 2.215,962.
For the fiscal year ending June 80.
1917, the total cost was 41.873,817, and
the per capita cost was $6.s2. Before
the war, for the fiscal year Of 1914,
the total cost was q. $50, ,70l, and per
per capita cost $3.50.
Boulder.-At the cooperative oil
shale laboratory where oil shale In
yestigations are being conducted by
the United States Bureau Of Mines and
the state Of Colorado, . number Of
runs have been made with the large
horizontal retort under different con-
trolled conditions. All products are
being examined, and as the work goes
on, the belief that the oil yielded By q
horizontal retort is not Of as high
quality az that from retorts of a ver-
teal type, Is confirmed.
Denyer.-That Colorado farmers
have planted about the usual acreage
Of winter wheat ID shown In the CO.
operative federal-state crop report, just
issued BY W. W. Putnam, agricultural
statistician Of the United States Bu-
reau Of Markets and Crop Estimates.
The preliminary estimate Of winter
wheat sown In the autumn of 1921 Is
placed at 1,466,000 acres, compared
with 1,408.0O0 acres sown In the fall
Of 1920, and about 1.073. 900 acres sown
In the autumn Of 1919.
Denvsr.-The first actual settlement
Of Colorado was In Denver In 1855, and
the following year, 1859. marked the
first real gold discovery that led to the
greatest rush Of people into Z wilder
ness ever known In these United
States. The growth as given by the
United States census Of the state fol.
lows: 1850. 34,277; 1870, 39.064; 1880.
194.827; 1890, 1920; 1900, $50, TOO; ;
1910. 7oo.024; 1920. 9s9,62o.
Hot Sulphur Spring., Colo.-Brucs
Wallace, the 6-ysar-old son Of Lew
Wallace, Grand county editor, Ii dead
after being run over BY an automobile.
The child was sliding down hill on a
sled which went directly Into the path
way of the automobile driven BY Ed
ward Chatfield. A fractured skull
caused death. Bruce was the only boy
Of Mr.. Wallace's five children.
Pueblo.-Pusblo. one Of the cities In
the United States most vitality con-
cerned with the administration and
development of the national forests, is
rising In Indignation against the pro.
posed transfer Of the United States
forest service from the Department Of
Agriculture to the Department Of the
Interior, members Of the Pueblo Com.
msrce Club declare.
Greeley, Colo.-Clarence Day, 10
years old, was killed when an automo-
bile, driven by an unknown person,
ran over a sled on which he was rid.
ing. Days sled was attached to an
automobile and as 1t passed another
car the other machine dropped back
behind, running over the sled. The
driver, becoming aware of what had
happened, sped away.
Denver.-Colorado vast ranges pro-
duced $Sl,s120O worth Of live stock
during 1921, besides which the Denver
Union Stockyards Company handled
$26,S07, 100 worth Of cattle, sheep and
hogs during the year. thus giving the
live stock industry Of the state grand
total Of sos, 119, 100 business for the
year.
Durango.-The Durango plant of the
American Smelling and Refining Com
pany during eleven months Of 1921,
treated daily on an average 118 dry
tons Of San Juan basin ore for q total
Of 39.O4S dry tons, according to q re-
port recently made public by Manager
R. p. Reynolds. This ore returned g..
070,68o57. II d estimated that these
figures represent 66 per cent or less Of
the total production Of basin mines.
Colorado Springs.-A large igloo
built Of concrete without doors or win.
dows Is to be built Ia Colorado Springs
by DR.. Fred NJ. Spiers Of Ochotzgaca-
gamute, Alaska, to test out his theory
Of curing tuberculosis. He plans to
have his patients live In furs without
any heat In the room whatever, fol.
lowing a plan hs found successful In
Alaska, where he says he cured 150
men.
Evergreen.-Taxpayers Of this school
district will decide Jan. 25 at the polls
whether bond issue for $4,000 shall
be noated for the erection Of new
school house, one-half mile from here
ON Cub creek. The election was au.