The Dolores star., 1924-02-08
COLORADO NEWS NOTES

s1.00O0OO capital now available, the
Rocky Mountain Smelling and Refin-
ing Company will commence work on
It's Golden plant between the first and
tenth OF next month, and, II no unfore-
seen delay is encountered, will be
ready to blow In two OF Its furnaces
by the first of May. In the meantime
the needed ores of the gold-copper, sill
yer-lead md silver-lead-zinc varieties
are TO be obtained by agents in the
Boulder, Gilpin, Clear Creek and
Park county camps, all reached by the
Colorado & Southern Railroad lines.
Near the tracks of this company, at
the eastern edge of Golden. and with
plenty Of room for enlargements and
dumps, the smelling company controls
fifteen acres of land between the rail-
road right-of-way and Clear Creek.
Denvcr.-Rentals and fees on state
school lands for the last half of the
states fiscal year. which ended Nov.
81, 1923, amounting to 1858 3,905.T4, will
be distributed among the sixty-three
counties, II was announced by Mrs.
Mary G. C. Bradford, state superin-
tendent of public instruction. Denver
county will receive S65.0S2. Twelve
counties which are unable to pay the
minimum salaries allotted teachers by
county levy will receive SI2, ,i4S for ap-
portionment to make up the deficit.
Counties which will receive some Of
the larger apportionments are: Adams,
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SIS; FL Paso. Sl2. 1876; jefferson, ST.
32S; Larimer, S9.O97; Las Animas,
S13,562; Pueblo. Sl7,s75. and Weld,
$15,509.
Denver.-All records for the num-
Der of head of live stock sold and the
gross amount of money changing hands
were broken during the 1924 National
Western Stock Show, according to fig
ures complied and announced by JOS
eph Shoemaker. manager of the Den
yer Union Stockyards Company. Cat
tie sales were the largest ever record
ed during stock show in Denver"
said Shoemaker. Thirty thousand
cattle changed hands during Stock
Show week. The average price paid,
including prize winning stock, the or
dinary run of stock and the culls, was
$4S head.
Pueblo.-The Pueblo Commerce
Club issued statement to the effect
that while during the next three years
approximately three and half mil
lions of dollars will be expended for
cOnservancy district improvements
here, there are enough men within
forty or fifty miles of Pueblo to do
all the work required and that en-
ployment agencies In other cities were
doing an Injustice to other men in urg
ing them to come TO Pueblo for en-
ployment at this time.
Greeley-The eighty-acre ranch be-
longing to John Steinhoff in Pleasant
valley, north of Greeley, has been pur-
chased for the United States potato
station for SlS,O00, It was announced
recently. The new station will be
moved from the present location on
forty acres situated one and one-half
miles east of the new site and will
be conducted on the acreage just pur-
chased. An additional 81. 400 will be
used in providing additional water for
the new station.
Las ADMINISTRATORS crop may be
added to the southeastern part of
Colorado If experiments in cotton to be
made this season prove profitable.
Baca county farmers are going to put
in fifty acres of cotton this season, ac-
cording to reports. But this spring
will see the first actual planting of
cotton in the Arkansas valley in this
state. c. II. Briggs, homesteader on
the dry lands twenty-five miles south
from Las Animas, will put in ten acres
of cotton.
Colorado Springs.-"The prohibition
movement is "A complete failure de-
clared Jim Goodheart. minister of the
gospel and director of public welfare
of the city of Denver, in an interview
here. Goodheart, who is sole trustee
of the Sunshine Mission, declared that
"a man will fall for a brIbe or whisky
much more quickly than he will for n
bribe of money"
Denver.-The highest value on Colo
RADIO farm land, both dry and irrigated,
was reached in 1920, according to rec
ords compiled by the State Tax Com
mission from Information furnished by
the county assessors, just published in
a report by the State Board of Immi-
grafton. According to the report, the
average value of dry farm land in the
state in 1914 was SS.9l an acre. This
figure rose to S16.16 an acre in 1920,
and has since dropped until last year
the records show an average of SI414
an acre. On irrigated land in 1914 the
average was $62.11, and In 1923 $3.50
an acre. In 1920 the highest figure,
$33.52 an acre, was reached.
Loveland.-Stockhold in the Dry
Creek Oil Company here believe that
the drill IT, their test well, eight miles
west, has tapped the oll-bearing sand.
At depth of 1,4O0 feet the bit In
some manner stuck ut the bottom of
the well and thp rome was hrnkpn in