The Dolores star., 1922-04-07
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

amount of approximately five thousand
ncres 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: Alsmosa, Chey-
enne, Custer, Kit Carson. Larimsr, Las
Animas, Logan. Montesuna, otero, Rio
Grande, Washington and Weld. Ihs
minimum prices ut which these lands
will be offered at public auction vary
from 81 50 per acre for raw mountain
land to SIS for irrigated farming land
The State Board of Land Commission
ers considers the demand for lands
that has made this sale necessary Us
strongly Indicative of the changing fl
nanciaT conditions of the farming ana
stock growing communities in the
state.
Denver.-According to preliminary
report that has just been issued by
the Department OF Commerce at 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 S101 ,67O,oI9 and the
total value of these mortgaged homes
and farms was $3O5 $50, ,445, the mort
gage debt thus representing 1913 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 S62 1923, 1888, while
the total value OF these mortgaged
farms was s211, 700 800, the ratio of
debt to value being 29.8 per cent.
Fort neutrality-suspicious. $1,000
acres of land in two districts near
Fort Morgan and Sterling, Colo, and
worth less than S275,0O0 fifteen years
900, since federal reclamation, accord
ing to 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
trict, north of Fort Morgan. This land
ernment and private enterprise during
the last fifteen years.
Boulder.-Two thousand invitations
have been issued to hign schools west
of the Mississippi river to compete in
the third annual all-western track
meet to be staged here May 13. Elab-
crate plans are being made for hold
ing the big tournament here, and it il
expected that there will be representa-
tives from hundreds OF schools in the
competition. In conjunction with the
big meet state high school tourney
will be held to determine the all Colo
RADIO championships.
observation-disclosures from the Rocky
Mountain Parks Transportation Com
pany and all the eastern railroads are
to the effect that the tourist season
this year will be heavier than ever be-
fore known in the history of Estes
Park. The transportation company
says it has more advance bookings
for reservations than ever before, and
that the season will start sooner than
usual this year, while railroads saw in
Quiries are more numerous than since
before the war
Notwithstanding to the February
report of the Colorado Cow Testing
Association, issued by f. e. Ball, field
man for the State Dairy Commission,
Colorado dairy cows are continuing to
outrank those in neighboring states.
In the nine western states, Colorado
ranks third in the average fat pro-
duced by the cows. In the herds OF
fifteen cows and under, Marcus Har-
per, Boulder, holds first place and L.
]. Lindquist, Denver, ranks third.
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 Il result of shooting af-
fray in an alleged bootleggers Joint
here. The dead are: Jesus Santana
and Juan Saragoza. Basilio Alaaraz
is believed mortally wounded.
Grand Junction-A posse of sheriffs
citizens and rangers have been gone
thirty-slx hours on Il 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 u rancl,
two miles from Monticello, Utah, Just
over the Colorado Utah boundary
Sheriff Dorsey of Montrose is in
charge of the posse.
Denver.-Under the proposed Mof-
rat tunnel bill, approved by Governor
Shop recently, the following counties
VIII compose the tunnel Improvement
district and will bond themselves for
not more than 8,72O,OOO to build the
tunnel through James peak: Denver,
Grand, Moffat, Routt and parts of Rio
bianco, Eagle, Gilpin, Boulder, Adams
and Jefferson.