Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-03-30
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

Denyer.-State school lands to the
amount Of approximately five thousand
acres will be included in the next sale
Of state school lands, to be held At
the state capitol in Denver, April l2th.
These lands are located In twelve
counties of the state: Alamosa. Chey-
enne, Custer, Kit Carson, Larimer, Las
Animas, Logan, Montezuma. Otero. Rio
Grande, Washington and Weld. The
minimum prices at which these LANDS
will be offered at public auction vary
from $3.50 per acre for raw mountain
land to $75 for irrigated farming land.
Tho State Board of Land Commission
ers considers the demand for lands
that has made this sale necessary us
strongly Indicative Of the changing fl
nnncial conditions Of the farming anu
stock growing communities In the
state.
Denver.-Accordlng to preliminary
report that has Just been issued by
the Department of Commerce ut Wash
ington, through the bureau of census.
the total mortgage debt on owned
homes and farms In the state Of Colo
RADIO In 1920 was $1O1, ,87O,549 and the
total value Of these mOrtgnged homes
and farms was 500, $50, ,445, the mort
gage debt thus representing 1873 per
cent OF the total value. Rented homes,
tenant farms, and farms that are part
ly owned and partly rented, 1t should
be noted, are not included In this re-
port. On owned farms as reported In
the census Of agriculture the total
mortgage debt was $62 ,623, 1898, while
the total value Of these mOrtgnged
farms was s211. 500, the ratio Of
debt to value being 29.6 per cent.
Canon City.-LitigatiOn of far
reaching character growing out OF the
floods of last June hns been institu-
ted in the courts of Fremont and Tel
Ter counties involving both the Arknn-
sas Valley Railway, Light and Power
Company and Beaver Water and 1r-
rigatiOn Company in suits for heavy
damages on account Of losses result
ing from the bursting Of dams and
reservoirs along Beaver creek on June
5, 1921. Dispatches have told Of the
filing Of suits for damages aggregat-
ing $45O,OOO by the Beaver Water and
Irrigation Company against the Ar
kansas Valley Railway, Light and
Power Company for the destruction Of
the Schaeffer dam and reservoir.
Colorado Springs.-Although every
effort is being made to find Mary
Louise Cleary, she has neither been
seen nor heard of In Colorado Springs,
and therefore does not know that a
legacy Of $4,000 has fallen to her.
The will of Adolph NOrden, who died
In New York city, gave the sum Of
$4,000 to Mary LOuise 'Cleary of
Camp Stratton near Colorado Springs.
who was described In the document
us my faithful nurse and friend"
Grand Junction-A posse of sheriffs.
citizens and rangers have been gone
thirty-six hours on man hunt through
the wilds of Paradox Valley. They
are after Roy Stevens, cow-puncher
and alleged gunman, who is said to
have murdered two men, whose names
have not yet been learned. at ranch
two miles from Monticello, Utah, just
over the Colorado-Utah boundary.
Sheriff Dorsey of Montrose Is in
charge Of the posse.
Fort Collins.-Eleven recent burg
laries Of Colorado & Southern depOts
and freight cars in Fort Collins, Wind
sor. Berthoud and Loveland are
charged to Earl Anderson, day tele-
graph operator, and Cecil B. Read,
cashier, at the Fort Collins freight
depot, who were arrested by Sheriff
Frank Smith and his deputies after
investigations extending over a Pc
riod Of several weeks.
Fort Collins.-The Hoof and Horn
Club has just been formed at the Col
orado Agricultural college for the pur-
pose Of financing the trip to the In
ternational Stock Show at Chicago
next fall for the Aggie stock-judging
team. Prof. George E. Morton, head
Of the college animal husbandry de-
partment, is sponsoring the club.
Colorado oil shales contain
twice as much oil as has been pro-
duced In the U. s. to date. This was
the statement of p. G. Worcester. of
the University of Colorado In an ad-
dress here recently. "There are 80
100000 barrels of oil lin Colorado
shales to be recovered" he sdid. "Tlfe
state has fifty-foot bed Of ,shale COW
ering 1900 square miles. The recent
development of coal, carnotite. shale,
molybdenum, uranium and other non
metallic resources have more than ac-
counted for the loss in copper, silver,
lead and gold"
PueblO.-Two men are dead, a third
probably will die and the police are
looking for two others said to have
been slightly wounded, although they
escaped, as a result of n shooting af-
fray in an alleged bOotlegger's joint
here. The dead are: Jesus Santana
and Juan Saragoza. Basilio Alaaraz
is believed mortally wounded