The crew under direction of Jack Cotton, of Gallup, which has been working at the Glade oil well for the past few weeks trying to pull the casing, has about given the job up as a bad one, according to information received in Dolores. The crew came out last week, driving out by way of Burnt Snag Spring and Disappointment, and some of the men report eighteen inches of snow at the well. It is stated that they were able to lift 600 feet of the casing but the hole has caved so badly that the remaining pipe is covered with about 600 feet of mud and it is doubtful that it ever will be recovered.

J. J. Harris & Company, Bankers and Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Lilly received the high awards in the Christmas lighting contest conducted by the Dolores Civic Club. Other places, too, were beautifully decorated and lighted and were given honorable mention. They are: Mrs. S. H. Phlegar, Mrs. Merton Taylor and Eleanor Lynton of the residences, and Tucker's Koffee Kup and Bozman-Owens garage among the business houses.

Stockmen interested in grazing privileges in southwestern Colorado are asked to be present at a meeting to be held at Montrose this Saturday when officials of the grazing administration for the department of the interior will be present and explain details of the Taylor grazing act.

Tuesday of this week, Sheriff Allred received word by telephone from Blanding that an Indian had come into town with information that two white men were selling or attempting to sell booze in an Indian camp about one and a half miles west of Blanding. The sheriff immediately ordered two deputies, Vern Rowley and another Blanding man, to go to the camp and investigate. Accordingly, the deputies went to the camp where they took into custody Bud Vinger and Mr. Adair. They are said to have confiscated 35 pints of liquor alleged to have belonged to Vinger and Adair.

A dance will be given at Memorial Hall this Saturday night by the Dolores volunteer firemen, proceeds to be used in buying the boys much needed equipment. Everyone will be expected to buy a ticket or as many as you can stand.

Three and one-half million dollars have been paid for almost a quarter of a million head of cattle in Colorado between July 5 and December 7 by the federal drought relief administration.

The mining industry in Colorado is faced with one of the most serious situations in history as a result of the Colorado supreme court's ruling prohibiting the dumping of mine tailings into streams, Charles W. Henderson, supervising engineer of the U.S. Bureau of mines, said Friday. The Colorado supreme court Monday upheld an injunction obtained by Jefferson County farmers in district to the stream. Ranchers contended court, preventing mines of the Clear Creek Valley from dumping tailings in that the tailings polluted the creek and made its water useless for irrigation.

Mr. and Mrs. Forest White and Mrs. White's mother, Mrs. Mattie Moore, came over from Ridgway Wednesday and yesterday the two ladies left for Arizona where they will spend the next few weeks. The White automobile was brought over from Ridgway on one of the RGS motor trucks.

Mrs. M. A. Meenan, whom this paper reported last week as seriously ill at her home near Lockerby, Utah, has been brought to Johnson hospital where she is in a very critical condition.

Dorothy Swenk sustained a broken arm Christmas morning when one of her roller skates broke, throwing her to the pavement. Dorothy had just recently recovered from a break to this same arm.