The Dolores star., 1922-01-27
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


state land. and the remainder, being
1867 per cent, was unclassified as 10
ownership. This unclassified land Is
chiefly homestead land that has been
filed on but not proved up and govern
ment land temporarily Withdrawn from
homestead entry for various reasons
There has been steady Increase in
the area of patented land in the state
in recent years. due chiefly to the pat
enting of homestead and state land. In
1920, 44.4l per cent of the area of the
state was patented, and in 1919 it was
1921 per cent The area of homestead
and is decreasing rapidly, and the
area of state land is decreasing stead
| lily but more slowly. At the present
| Increase in area of patented land half
the area of the state will be on the tax
rolls sometime in 1924. The area of
homestead land In the state now is
Dnly a little more than S,OOO,OO acres.
compared with nearly 15,OO0,00O acres
IN 1915. Costilla county has larger
percentage of its area on the tax rolls
han any other county-99.6 per cent.
Colorado Springs.-Fire, started by
| trespassers, did hundreds of dollars of
| damage to the Halfway house, his
| toric structure on the slope of Pixies
Peak. Caretakers of the Colorado
| Springs water system who saw the
| blaze from distance, succeeded in
saving part of the building. Hikers
who had broken in Sunday night had
| kindled fire in one of the huge fire
! M and thiS hnI SnrnnI IN rho
woodwork The Halfway house. which
! is the property of the city, will not be
| rebuilt, officials said.
Denver.-George +. Collins of Den
YER was reelected governor of the
\ Colorado chapter of the American Min
! ing Congress at its annual election of
| Officers. Other officers reelected by
| that body, which met here Jointly with
the Colorado Metal Mining Association,
were J. f. Welborn. first vice presi-
dent; Charles a. Chase, second vice
president, and George A. Stahl, third
vice president A. NJ. Collins was re-
elected treasurer, and NJ b. Tomblin,
secretary.
Denver-From life Of luxury
among the nobility of Greece to sui
eide in the sordid surroundings of
Larimer street rooming house may
have been the fate Of George Marros,
45 years old who sent bullet through
his heart. Mnrros had declared to 9TH
er rooIners in the place that he had
seen better days, that he was an exile
from his native land through political
Vaccinations, that he was cousin of
former Premier Venezelos Of Greece.
Denver.-Colorado Is seventh in size
OF the forty-eight states in the Union
with an area OF G6,341 ,120 acres. 1t is
more than twelve times the size of
Iowa, and approximately the size of
New York. Ohio, Connecticut and New
Hampshire combined. East and west
its extreme length is 3S7 miles, and
north and south 276 miles. There are
forty-two peaks that are 1900 feet
in elevation, or more.
Eads.-Kiowa county was the scene
of the greatest Indian battle ever
fought in what is now the state of
Colorado. 1t was in territorial days
Nov. 90, 1864, that Col. John n. Chiv-
ington led 1000 men against a Chey-
enne Indian village on Big Sandy
creek. The redskins were led by their
noted chief, Black Kettle, and in the
battle 800 Indians were killed. 1t
caused, however, numerous other In
dian wars.
Denver.-The first actual settlement
Of Colorado was in Denver in 1855 and
| the fal1nWinp 1870 81.
first real gold discovery that led to the
greatest rush Of people into a wilder
ness ever known in these United
States. The growth as given by the
United States census of the state fol-
lows: 1900, 34,277; 1870, 39,S64; 1880,
1927; 1890, 1929; 1900, $50, 700
1910, 799,O24; 1920, 939,s29.
Denver.-ColoradO has been for SO
many years known as a mining state
that few people know the extent of ag-
riculture in the state. There are 59,-
99l farms in Colorado, and in number
| Colorado is ahead of eighteen states.
being Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware,
! Florida, Idaho, Maine, Maryland, Mas
sachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New
Mexico, New Jersey, New Hampshire,
| Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont
and Wyoming. Weld county leads in
numberswith 5,765; Las Animas second,
with 2,2S6, and Yuma third, with 2.lT9.
Clear Creek has the fewest, 27 Lake
next, with 30, and Mineral third, with
S4. San Juan county is the only one
without farm. Denver, n city and
county in itself, has "a farms, which
is probably surprise even to the old
est inhabitant.
La Junta, Colo.-Mrs. Bessie Nc
Connell, mother Of six, who conducts
clothes cleaning establishment in the
basement of local furnishing com
pany, will cease to toll. She hns re.
ceived word that through the death of
relative in 1ndianola, Iowa, she in
herits 100000. AS soon as she can