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According to County Treasurer William Curtis, the tax collections during the year 1933 showed improvement during the previous year as a whole, a total of 73 percent of the 1932 taxes being collected in 1933. Since Jan. 1, the collection of 1932 taxes has been good. Also during 1933, the treasurer collected 10 percent of the 1931 taxes, bringing the total of the 1931 taxes collected by Jan. 1 to 80 percent.

The financial condition of Routt County has improved greatly in the past year, notwithstanding the depression. The consistent work of William Curtis and his staff has resulted in the collection of a large portion of delinquent taxes.

Farm loans and home loans are rather slow in getting started, but as soon as they are worked out, they should bring quite an amount of back taxes, Curtis said.

District gas retailers are getting organized

At a meeting in the courthouse Monday night, a local organization was formed that will work in conjunction with the Colorado State Marketing Committee under the code of fair competition for the petroleum industry.

Claude Luekens was elected chairman of the local committee, which takes in all retail petroleum stations in Routt County, excepting Hayden and including McCoy in Eagle County.

These organizations, working under the national NRA code and also the state code, will work for better trade practices, which will bring a degree of recovery to the small retailer of gasoline and petroleum products.

George Douglas, of Denver, stated that unfair competition and trade practices were rapidly disappearing in Colorado because of the efforts of the various organizations working under this code. He also stated that actual recovery was being felt because of these changes in marketing.