The Dolores star., 1922-03-17
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| ion, a contract for cherries has been
,ffered on a sliding scale. based on the
pelling price OF the canned products.
This contract is now being offered by
The Loveland Packing Company to
cherry growers. II provides for cents
4 pound for cherries when the selling
price OF cherries at wholesale Is $40
per dozen for No. 10 cans. For each
rariation OF 80 cents n dozen In the
selling price of the finished product,
an additional one-half cent is added or
subtracted from the original 5-cent
price This means that II canned cher
ries sold for S1l per dozen the grower
would be paid 5h cents per pound, and
cherries sell for 50 per dozen canned,
he grower would get but An cents per
pound.
Fort Collins-One boy from each of
thirteen Colorado counties will receive
free scholarship to either the Colo
ado Agricultural College of the Colo
-ado School of Agriculture next fall as
4 reward for excellence in corn, wheat,
potato. beet. calf or pig club work.
The scholarship will be worth SI5 and
will include transportation from the
students home to and from Fort Col
,ins. The counties included In the Of
Ter are Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder.
Cheyenne, Denver, Elbert, Larimer,
Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Sedgwick.
Washington and Weld. The offer is
being made by the Union Pacific rail-
road, through its president, c. Il. Gray.
Greeley.-From the Atlantic to the
Pacific Colorado State Teachers Col
lege has gone to get the best men
available in the educational world to
serve on the special faculty for the
summer school, DIR. Frederick L.
Pierce, professor of English literature
at Yale, is coming from New Haven.
noted psychologist and professor of
education ut Leland Stanford Junior
University, Is coming from California.
DR.. Emanuel Sternheim. lecturer at
New York State University and resi-
dent Of Boston, will come from the
Bay state.
Pueblo, Colo.-Fire which destroyed
the Grand Opera House, one of the
handsomest buildings In the West, sew.
eral days ago, was not extingulshed
for three days. The estimated loss Is
S750,OOO, partially covered by insur.
ance. Loss on building is about $500.
900, while the Pueblo store, dry goods
lost about S250.0OO. The Rocky Noun.
tain Theater Company, many lawyers
and doctors, and cigar store were
among the other losers.
Alamosa.-Legislatio by the Unit
of branch of the Federal District
Court at Alamosa to relieve the pres
sure of court business at Pueblo, was
predicted when it became known that
the Senate judiciary committee had
reported favorably on the proposal
Federal Courts terms are regularly
held at Denver Pueblo. Grand juno
ton, MontrOse and Durango.
Colorado ngs.-Announcement of
The payment on April 10 of dividends
Df cents regular and 5 cents extra to
stockholders of the Cresson Consoli
dated Gold Mining ana Milling Com
pany Is considered by local mining men
as one Of the best evidences of re-
turned prosperity to the Cripple Creek
gold camp. The payment will total
$1,000 and will be made to stockhold-
ers of record on March 81.
Alamosa.-Andrew McLaren, former
United States soldier, has been ab-
solved of any connection with the re-
cent Denver & Rio Grande train hold.
up at Alamosa. Although he was held
by authorities at Alamosa, his innO-
cence was established and police say
he has aided materially in the investi-
cation.
Pueblo.-The Grand Opera House
fire in Pueblo on March l destroyed
the city office of the Colorado State
Fair Commission. All their records, in.
Guiding the list of 1922 exhibitors and
prize winners, some of which have not
been paid, were lost in the fire.
Denver.-The cost of grade schools
and high schools in Colorado last year
was $1S,G77,3iO, or almost half the
which property owners are paying in
taxes this year. With the S2,SS4, ,42S re-
quired by state educational institutions
added, the total cost of education in
Colorado was sd ,561, ,78s, more than
half the states total revenue Since
1915, the first year that separate esti-
mates on school revenues were COM
piled by the State Tax Commission,
taxation for grade schools and high
schools has increased 16O per cent. In
the same period school attendance has
Increased "a per cent.
Grand Junction, Colo.-Four men
were injured when an automobile
stage in which they We're riding was
struck by IL Denver & Rio Grande
Western light engine between Grand
Junction and Gateway, Colo, recently
The stage was reduced almost to splin