The Dolores star., 1923-12-07
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS

Denver.-There are 1,169 stockhold-
er members in the Colorado Dairy
mems Cooperative Association, which
has been organized during the last
year, at an expenditure OF approx
imately $4,000. it was reported at the
annual meeting of the association, by
Stewart Wallace, secretary of the or
ganization at FIT. Lupton, Colo.
Denver.-Three persons were In.
jured and sixty others. all passengers
on the Denver-bound Mofat road pas
senger train, narrowly escaped inju-
ries or death a few days ago when the
smoker and combination diner and OBJ
servation car OF the train were de-
rallied one mile above Plainview. A
broken rail caused the accident, It is
said.
Eaton.-Nrs. Cora Clemmons Neale
of Eaton did not die of leprosy as was
first feared. according to n report
rendered by DIR. w. c. Mitchell, bac-
teriologist OF the state board OF
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the board. According TO Dr. Mitchell
there were no evidences of leprosy,
and the woman had died of gan
grenous infection.
Colorado Springs.-A coroner's Jury
eSonerated Dorothy Chambers, society
girl and daughter of Attorney X. l..
Chambers, Of any blame in the death
here of Herbert Steffa, 12-year-old
crippled newsboy. Miss Chambers
backed her car from the curb near
the federal building and the boy was
behind 1t at the time. He was crushed
under the heavy machine.
Boulder.-The county commissioners
have appropriated $4,000 to secure
the completion of proposed glacier
road into the Rainbow lake territory.
The United States forestry service
two years ago appropriated $4,000
for the road. OF this amount $4,000
was spent in surveys. The road is to
begin at Glacier lake, and will follow
a southwest course through the water
shed of the city of Boulder into the
Rainbow Lake country.
Pueblo.-The rail mill at the Mime
qua steel works, closed since July
will be opened again on Dec. II. Open
ing of the mill will mean operation
Df another blast furnace, increased
activity in the open hearth department
and doubling of the present output of
the coke plant. Between 500 and 700
men will be put to work on single
shift. A double shift will probably be
put on shortly after Christmas, ac-
cording to Superintendent F. Z. Parks
Denver.-State institutions have in
creased expenditures from S2,9O7 .227. :
u in 1911 to S20,462, ,ST6.27 in 1922,
according to a report issued few
days ago by State Auditor Arthur NJ
Stong and State Budget and Efficen-
cy Commissioner Harry Casaday. The
report, the two men declare. Is one
Of the most important regarding state
expenditures which has been compiled
for number of years. The amounts
spent by these institutions include
money realized by mill levy revenue,
legislative appropriation and miscel-
laneous means.
Denver.-Thirty-tw billion cubic
feet of gas-enough to supply all Den
ver's needs for the next seventeen
years-are lying in the gas and oil
structures north of Fort Collins, Car
roll II. Wegemann, chief geologist for
the Midwest Refining Company, told
Denver engineers at n recent luncheon
here. To drill wells to free this gas
and to pipe 1t to Denver will cost
S5,000,00O, Mr. Wegemann estimated,
this sum would include the drilling of
twenty-five wells on the Wellington
structure and eighteen wells on the
Fort Collins structure
Wellington.-Test wells on the Wei.
.ington dome, which has already pro-
duced the S2,OOOOOO cubic foot gas
well, and on the Fort Collins dome,
three miles northeast of Fort Collins,
will be started within the next few
month by the Union Oil Co.
Fort Morgan With production of
rurn estimated at 1,S72,OOO bushels by
w. w. Putnam OF the Denver office of
the department of agriculture, and
with record production Of other crops,
Morgan county's farm income this
year will total more than $1O,OOO,OOO
Pinto beans are bringing big returns
in the county this year-in some in.
stances the crop for the year is pay.
ing for the land.
Boulder.-Two hundred and twenty.
five of the 336 freshman co-eds at the
University of Colorado have some foo,
defects; 225 have poor posture; 4t
have flat feet; 4! have diseased. ton
sils; 35 are anemic; 33 have poor eye
sight; II have erratic heart action; IL
have nose troubles and 8 have weak
or diseased lungs, according to re
port published by Miss Glare Small