The Colorado statesman., 1922-04-01
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

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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 S75 for irrigated farming land.
! The State Board of Land Commission
| ers considers the demand for lands
| that has made this sale necessary as
strongly indicative of the changing fl
nancial conditions of the farming and
stock growing communities in the
| state.
Denver.-According to a preliminary
| report that has just been issued by
the Department of Commerce at Wash
lngton, through the bureau of census,
the total mortgage debt on owned
homes and farms in the state of Colo
RADIO in 1920 was $1O1, ,670,549 and the
total value of these mortgaged homes
and farms was $305 1852, ,445, the mort
gage debt thus representing 1873 per
cent of the total value. Rented homes,
tenant farms, and farms that are part
Iy owned and partly rented, it should
oe noted, are not included in this re-
port. On owned farms as reported in
the census of agriculture the total
mortgage debt was $50 ,623,33S, while
the total value of these mortgaged
farms was $211, 1,T0o,699, the ratio of
debt to value being 29.6 per cent.
Grand Junction-A posse of sheriffs,
citizens and rangers have been gone
thirty-six hours on Il man hunt through
the wilds of Paradox Valley. They
are after Roy evens, cow-puncher
and alleged gumnan, 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
aries 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 pc
rlod of several weeks.
Pueblo.-Two meu are dead, 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 Il shooting af-
fray in an alleged bootlegger's joint
here. The dead are: Jesus Santana
and Juan Saragoza. Basllio Alaaraz
is believed mortally wounded
Fort Collns.-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.
Monte Vista.-A regular army
'chow line" free coffee and kanga-
roo court session were among the
main features at the big show and en-
tertainment under the auspices of the
Monte Vista Club and troop A, Colo
RADIO National Guard at the opening of
the new armory at Monte Vista.
Colorado Springs.-Plans for build
ing new railroad between Colorado
Springs and Ordway were explained
to the local Chamber of Commerce by
members of the promoting company
from Denver. The proposed road is
to be known as the Denver, Colorado
Springs & Southeastern railway.
Denver.-Congressm William n.
Vale, in letter to G. ]. Hyland who
asked his opinion on proposed
amendment to the Volstead act, as
serts that he cannot support any such
amendment.
Denver.-Colorado oil shales contain
twice as much oil as has been pro-
luced in the U. S. to date. This was
the statement of p. c. Worcester of
the University of Colorado in an ad-
dress here recently. There are 90
100000 barrels of oil in Colorado
shales to be recovered" he said. THE
state has a fifty-foot bed of shale COW
ering 1000 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"
Fort Morgan.-Approxima $1,000
acres of land in two districts near
Fort Morgan and Sterling, Colo, and
worth less than $275,0O0 fifteen years
ago, have jumped in price to $S,00U,-
900, since federal reclamation, accord
ing to a report filed with NJ. d. Nc
Entry, chief of the field division of the
United States general land office at
Denver. The area embraced is known
as the North Sterling district, near
Sterling. Colo. and the Riverside dis