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

counties, 1t was announced by Mrs.
Mary @. @. Bradford, state superin-
tendent of public instruction. Denver
county will receive $65,0S2. Twelve
counties which are unable to pay the
minimum salaries allotted teachers by
county levy will receive S72,44S for ap-
portlonment to make up the deficit
Counties which will receive some of
the larger apportionments are: Adams,
$4,O4S; Arapahoe, S4097; Boulder, SS,-
S7S; El Paso, $12, 2,136 jefferson, S4,
32S; Larlmer, $9,097; Las Animas
$13,562; Pueblo, $17,S75, and Weld,
$15,509.
Loveland-Stockhold in the Dry
Greek Oil Company here believe that
the drill in their test well, eight miles
west, has tapped the oil-bearing sand
At depth of 1,400 feet the bit in
some manner stuck at the bottom of
the well, and the rope was broken in
an attempt to dislodge the drill. The
rope, when taken from the well, looked
like 1t had been soaked in oil, and
drillers at the well said that there was
little question but that the hole is
stonding full of oil to a level within
500 feet of the surface.
Las Animas.-Another 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. G. II. Briggs, a homesteader on
the dry lands twenty-five miles south
from Las Animas, will put in ten acres
of cotton.
Pueblo.-The Pueblo Commerce
Club issued n statement to the effect
that while during the next three years
approximately three and a 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.
made to entertain the national conven-
tion of Delta Gamma, college sorority,
heXt June. Between 400 and 800 mem
bers of the organization from all parts
of the United States are expected to
attend. Mrs. Nan Brown Woollett of
Evanston, ILL.,, graduate of the Uni
versity of Colorado, is national presi-
dent of the organization. The Colorado
chapter of the sorority, including the
alumnae of Denver, are to be host
esSes.
Cripple Creek.-An ore find giving
indications of being the richest dis
covery made in the Cresson mine in
several years was uncovered on the
eighteenth, or bottom, level of the
mine last week. Grab samples of the
ore taken out run from S2S to $50 to
the ton gold, with indications that the
value will steadily increase as drifting
continues. The face of the breast in
the present drift is well streaked with
sylvanite and runs rich in values.
Trinidad.-Recognitio as the oldest
resident in the United States might
have rightfully belonged to Mrs. Ro-
beta, Pineda Marez, it was announced
upon her death at her home at Segun-
do, Colo, last week. Her household
records indicated that she was 135
years old The same data states that
she was born in Mexico in 1889 and
that she removed to what is now the
state of New Mexico in 1881, coming
to Colorado in 1911.
Colorado Springs.-"The prohibition
movement is 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 brIDe or whisky
much more quickly than he will for a
bribe of money"
Denver-All records for the num-
ber of head of live stock sold and the
gross amount of money changing hands
were broken during thA 1924 National
Western Stock Show, according to fig
ures compiled 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
binary run of stock and the culls, was
S4S head.
Greeley.-A group of Denver and
northern Colorado attorneys have vol
unteered their services in a legal bat
tie to restore the sugar beet factory at
Fort Morgan, now operated as the In
dependent Sugar Company, to the
stockholders of the Industrial COM
pany. If the plan to wrest the sugar
company fails, an attempt will be made
to buy the Independent company at a
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