The Colorado statesman., 1924-02-09
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

pIiOOO,OOO Culllul now uNuliuDle' inc
Rocky Mountain Smelling and Refln-
Ing Company will commence work on
Its Golden plant between the first and
tenth of next month, and, If 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
ver-lead and sllver-lead-Zlnc 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 rlght-of-way and Clear Creek.
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
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 $S.91 an acre. This
figure rose to $16.16 an acre in 1920,
and has since dropped until last year
the records show an average of S14.14
an acre. On irrigated land in 1914 the
average was S6211, and in 1923 $3.50
an acre. In 1920 the highest figure,
S33.52 an acre, was reached.
Boulder.-Chief of Police Claude f.
Head of Boulder was arrested in his
office by Deputy Sheriff Miles McPhil-
lips on charges of first degree murder
in connection with the killing of Pa
trOlman Elmer Il. Cobb early on the
morning of Nov. 10 last. The arrest
of Chief Head followed the filing of
direct information by District Attorney
Louis b. Reed Greeley, of the Eighth
Judicial District, charging Head and
Norman Drake with the murder of the
patrOlman. Drake was arrested last
week and is being held in the Greeley
Jail. Chief Head had been waiting in
his office for the arrest.
Denver-Reports now being re-
celved by the State immigration De
partment from the various counties of
the state Indicate that bond issues for
educational purposes against the sew
eral school districts have increased
fully 500 per cent since 1918. There
is now scarcely a county in which
some school district has not an out
standing bond issS:e and some of the
larger counties have as many as fifty
districts or more having bonds out
standing.
Colorado Springs-Plans of two men
to duplicate the New York Schoeli
kopf jewel robbery were frustrated
here when one of the pair "got cold
feet and tipped the plot off to the
police and to the two women who
were the intended victims. The haul,
had it been successful, would have
netted about $4,000 worth of dia-
monds and other gems, the property
of two Chicago women, guests at a
local hotel.
Pueblo.-The first move in a plan to
change the cattle business on San lsa-
bel forest lands and those adjacent to
1t, from beef cattle industry to that
of dual purpose animals, has been TAX
en- by ranchers in the Florence Wet
more district, who have formed the
Mountain View Dairy Association, with
fifteen members.
Fort Morgan.-Of the 43S children
in the first, second and third grades
of the Fort Morgan schools, ~ per
cent are Z per cent or more under
weight, according to the school health
report issued last week, which in
cludes an examination of 1,49S chill
dren.
Denver.-The McMurty Manufactur-
ing Company celebrated the thirty
fifth anniversary of its founding by
paying 100000 cash for the building
it occupies mt 1888 Arapahoe street.
The company was Incorporated Feb
ruary ., 1889.
Fort Morgan.-Charged with com
plicity in the embezzlement of 100000
from the First National Bank of
Watts, Calf, and with the falsifica-
ton of bank records to cover up defal-
cations, Mrs. C. y. Hendricks, former
ly Ethel Shadowen of Fort Morgan,
daughter of l.. f. Shadowen of Fort
Morgan, is under indictment in Cali
fornia together with her husband, c.
II. Hendricks, formerly of Sterling,
Colo, according to word received here.
Fort Collins.-The Union Oil Com
pany of Colorado is making prepara-
tions to drill n well on the Nelson p.
Warren ranch, in the northeast quar-
ter of section S-9-6S, four miles north
and one miles west of Wellington, and
will be ready for actual operations
within the next few days, according
to Paul F. Work, field manager for
the company.