The Dolores star., 1924-07-11
COLORADO NEWS NOTES

,,.aoI,b and may result in the estap-
| usbrnent of several new factories mere
If was announced few days ago
| Assurance of permit for MIL 10
he erected on South Bannock street,
opposite overland Park, which VIII
cost onproximately $4,000, but which,
~ nIuns mature. will be but the nu-
cleus Of larger plant, brought ou'
| the story. II. ]. Arnold, former mayor
of Denver and until recently owner OF
the Altitude Oil Company, secured the
hermit The mill will be used 10 re-
fine products of IA 1.GOo-acre grant IN
the Silver Cliff mining district, in Gus
ter county, about thlrty-five miles
south of Canon City.
Denver.-The Colorado inheritance
tax department collected a total OF
S22, .O6 in taxes and fees during the
last fifteen days Of June, 1t was re-
porred here by George Hetherington'
inheritance tax commissioner for the
state. Thirty estates were listed IN
the report. the largest tax being paid
by the estate Of Everett 5. jackson
| of Colorado Springs, whose heirs paid
sl7, ,55l into the state treasury. Also
Included in the report was the finat
| report Of the SS29.9OO estate of the
late Crawford Hill of Denver. The
Dart Of the tax paid in the fiftecn-day
period on this estate was Sill. The
total amount Of taxes and fees col
lected by the department so far in the
biennial period is Sl,3G3, 1929, the re
port showed.
Canon Clty.-A White Leghorn,
owned by J. d. Atterbury Of Canon
City. has done herself proud this year
by laying 1856 eggs over period of
six months. Ten White LcghOrn hens,
owned by the Gorls brothers Of Canon
City, rank fourth in the United States
with joint production of 95S eggs
during the six months contest period.
The cgg-laying contest conducted at
Canon City under the direction Of the
State Agricultural College at Fort Col
lins, is Il novel innovation. Paul c.
Jameson, poultry expert, who has
compiled records Of international con
tests during the current contest year.
places Colorado third for best indi-
vidual pen and fourth place in high
pen.
LongmOnt-Drowned in an irrigation
ditch containing but three inches Of
water, the body of the year and one
half old child of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Carnahan, living five miles west of
Longmont, was found by Mrs. Carna-
han a short time after the child had
wandered away from two sisters at
their home The body was found face
down in the ditch, the nose and mouth
barely covered by the shallow water.
The child, it is believed, stumbled and
fell while playing at the side of the
ditch. AT the time Mrs. Carnahan was
in an adjoining field where she had
gone to join her husband, who was
at work. She left the baby In charge
of her two girls, 8 and years old.
Boulder.-Three fires, all declared
by Sheriff Robert Blum to have been
of incendiary origin, were extingushed
on Flagstaff mountain. west of Boul-
der. before they could get headway
Sheriff Blum declared that in his opin-
ion the fires, as well as the dlsas-
trous blaze near RollinsvIlle, Colo,
were set by mysterious gang of
trouble-makers who have been fire.
quenting the vicinity of Chamberlain's
gulCh recently
La Junta.-The annual meeting Of
the Southern Colorado Kansas Old
Trails Association had its annual
meeting in La Junta last week, when
representatives We're present from
Canon City, Florence, Pueblo, Fowler.
Rocky Ford, Las AniInas, Lamar and
La Junta. 1t was decided to make
this organization, which was formed
Il year ago, permanent, and TO take in
more territory than was originally in
tended.
Rollinsville.-A shift or the wind
saved this town, thirty-fiye miles west
of Denver from possible destruction
by fire that is raging in the Black
lililS Secliun OF lue COLORADO National
forest and that seemed about to sweep
over three miles of thickly wooded
land and engulf Rollinsville. The for
est fire broke out near Tolland,
Famed by twenty-five mile wind, the
flames swept toward Rollinsvile at the
rate of one mile an hour. Local forces
were unable to cope with the blaze
and it steadily gained headway until
at one time nearly one hundred acres
Of timber were blazing.
Notwithstanding features of
the Colorado Year Book for 1924, now
being distributed by the State Board
OF Immigration, are the inclusion for
the first time Of complete gazetteer
OF the towns and cities of the state
and comparative valuation tables
showing the assessed value placed
upon the different classes Of land
since 1913 and the relative acreage
from year to year-the latter indicat-