The Dolores star., 1924-04-04
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS

Fort Morgan district who are anxious
to get their ground in proper shape for
the 1924 crop have been held up by un-
favorable weather conditions.
Greeley-Grecley High school won
the championship of the intermounrain
basketball tournament at Salt Lake City
by defeating Latter Day Saints High
school, Salt Lake City, 20 10 IL.
Boulder-The Ohio Oil Company
spudded in their first well in the Hay
stack structure. eight miles north of
here, last week, without ceremony.
Two hundred persons witnessed the
operation.
Denver.-C. T. Strong has been made
| president of the Continental Oil Com
pany to take the place of f. L. VIII
son. who has become chairman of the
board of directors of the Mutual Oil
Company, 1t was announced here.
Canon City.-Arrangements are be
ing made by the local branches of the
Colorado Parent-Teacher Association
for the entertainment of the State Pa
rent Teucher Association convention,
which will be held in Canon City April
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Colorado Springs.-Colorado Springs
will become the headquarters for re-
search work in tuberculosis in Amer
lea, with the establishment here of the
Colorado Society for Research in Tu-
berculosis, articles of incorporation for
which were filed with the secretary OF
| state
Fort CoIlins.-The debating team of
the Colorado Agricultural College, TAX
ing the affirmative on the subject,
Resolved, That the United States
Should Enter the League Of Nations.
| Immediately" won an unanimous deci-
sion here over Michigan Agricultural
College.
Fowler.-The local high school build
ing was destroyed by fire of unknown
origin. a pumper apparatus was
rushed here from Rocky Ford, making
the twenty-five mile run in thirty-five
minutes, when the blaze reached such
proportions that the local department
was unable to check 1t. The loss is es-
timated at $4,000.
Greeley.-Greeley High School bas-
ketball team, winner of the intermoun-
tain title by defeat of the Latter Day
Saints in Salt Lake City, will not 20 to
Chicago to compete in the national
tournament to start in that city April
| l. Decision was made because Wind
cor High School team, winners of the
state high school championship, al
ready was in the Windy City to repre-
sent this state.
BOuldcr-Not to be outdone by the
Little Jonny" $13O,OOO gold vug or the
$1,000 per ton ore strike in the Golden
Fleece, the Golden Consolidated Mines
Company-leascd to the Pherson bro
thers-which owns n very promising
group in the tellurium belt of the Gold
| Hill district, Boulder county. an
nounces the discovery of ore which
Denver assays value at $4,000 to the
ton, mainly in gold, the other value be.
ing silver. This ore is presumably OF
the much sought petite class.
| Denver.-DepOsits in the banks OF
| Colorado ut the beginning of 1924 were
5000, ,Ol4.22, compared with S3O4,-
5S5,99G.oI at the beginning of 1923, ac-
cording to compilations made by the
state board of immigration. The de,
crease is but 1.6 per cent which is re.
Sardcd rs an excellent showing in view
of the financial depression that has af-
fected the agricultural districts of the
West and Northwest for the last two
years. These figures indicate that loss
of deposits in Colorado has been lower
in the past twelve months than in any
other state in this section of the coun-
try.
Craig-With the view of installing
a 1OOmile oil pipeline from the Craig
fields to the plant of the Producers
and RefinerS' Corporation at Parse,
Wyo., the Texas Company announced
the purchase of several 50,000-barrel
storage tanks which will be erected
shortly and test run conducted to de-
termine the feasibility of the plan.
Canon City-Mayor A. ]. Turner,
Special City Engineer Glenn l. Izett,
Alderman G. II. Smith, Frank Emmer-
son, Orris w. Rowe and II. G. Nell
vany recently made tour by automo-
bile inspecting the types of paving
used on the streets of Colorado cities
with Il view of selecting type for the
new paving district recently organized
and authorized by Canon City.
Fort COllins.-William Ross of Love
land, who is now serving Il years SEN
tcnce in the state penitentiary for
manslaughter in connection with the
death of Mrs. Anna Lapp, also of Love
land, who was killed Feb. 4, 1921, by
an automobile said to have been driven
by Ross, was found not guilty by a
jury in District Court here on charge
of perjury which resulted from his tes-
tlmony at the time OF the manslaugh-
ter trial.
Denver.-An unsuccessful attempt to
blow up the west portal of the Mof-
fat tunnel was made few days ago,