The National Main Street Center, Inc., has announced that three Colorado towns have been selected as demonstration sites to implement its revamped approach to comprehensive community revitalization and preservation-based economic development:  Brush, Lake City, and Steamboat Springs.  As a sponsoring partner, the Department of Local Affairs’ Colorado Main Street program will use the pilot to help integrate the new approach into existing and future Main Street communities across the state.

“Colorado will serve as an ideal place to test out our enhanced strategy and outcome-focused revitalization approach.  Each of these towns has so much to offer, and we look forward to partnering with the Colorado Main Street on the initiative,” said Patrice Frey, president and CEO of the National Main Street Center.  “Our updated methodology incorporates lessons we’ve learned in our decades of working with communities of all sizes and we are confident these pilot projects will demonstrate that our approach continues to be highly effective in breathing new life in our country’s historic downtowns and commercial districts.”

The three selected towns are top performers in Colorado’s Main Street program, recognized for success in energizing their local economies, empowering community residents, and celebrating their distinctive character and local historyy.  As participants in the demonstration project, they will benefit from recent strategic improvements to the Main Street Center’s revitalization methodology that for 35 years has helped transform historic downtowns and urban neighborhoods nationwide.

Local leaders will receive 12 to 18 months of organizational capacity building and hands-on technical assistance from national experts on how to best involve the community in revitalization effors, plan and executive long-term strategic action, and effectively measure the impact of those efforts.

Originally launched as a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1980, the National Main Street Center pioneered an incremental, volunteer-driven strategy to help flagging downtowns countereract booming suburban growth.  This novel approach was in stark contrast to the urban renewal projects that were destroying commercial districts and neighborhoods all over the country.  By tapping two important community resources, citizen participation and its older and historic buildings, the Main Street Approach has helped reinvigorate America’s historic downtowns and commercial districts in cities and towns across the country

Posted November 17, 2015 on the National Trust for Historic Preservation website.

In the Silver World Newspaper dated September 11, 2015, there is an article with regard to the “dramatic drop in the local fire rating classification from 6 to 4 effective July 1, 2015.”

Hall Realty would like to encourage all home and business owners in the Lake City and immediate area to contact your insurance company and inquire as to a possible reduction in your current policy premium.

We hope this Thanksgiving finds you and your families well.  As always, Hall Realty appreciates your continued business support.

The award-winning Lake City Community School is rated as one of the top public schools in the State of Colorado, by the Colorado Department of Education.  There are 178 school districts in the state.

The Lake City Community School has consistently scored very highly in the areas of academic achiemvement on state exams, academic growth on state exams, and post-secondary and workforce readiness, as determined by performance on the Colorado ACT, dropout rate, and graduation rate.

The Lake City Community School has been recognized as a John Irwin School of Excellence (https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeawards/johnirwin) several times, and is a District Accredited With Distinction  (https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeawards/districtsaccreditedwithdistinction) by the Colorado Department of Education.

In addition, the school has a low student to teacher ratio, a modern building with new additions, and broad community support for the students, teachers, and administration.  There are approximately 100 students in pre-school through grade 12 enrolled in school.

Please visit www.lakecityschool.org for more information about the school’s mission, values, educator effectiveness, special education and more.  We invite you to contact us with your questions, and discuss enrolling your child or children in the Lake City Community School.

(This information was taken from www.lakecityschool.org)

PATENTED MINING CLAIM:

A patented mining claim is one for which the Federal Government has passed its title to the claimant, making it private land.  A person may mine and remove minerals from a mining claim without a mineral patent.  However, a mineral patent gives the owner exclusive title to the locatable minerals.  It also gives the owner title to the surface and other resources.  This means:  You own the Land as well as the minerals. (Hall Realty Mining Claim Listings are all Patented Mining Claims.)

UNPATENTED MINING CLAIM:

An Unpatented mining claim is a particular parcel of Federal land, valuable for a specific mineral deposit or deposits.  It is a parcel for which an individual has asserted a right of possession.  The right is restricted to the extraction and development of a mineral deposit.  The rights granted by a mining claim are valid against a challenge by the United States and other claimants only after the discovery of a valuable mineral deposit.  This means:  You are leasing, from the governmnet, the right to extract minerals.  No land ownership is conveyed.

TWO TYPES OF MINING CLAIMS:

1. LODE CLAIMS: Deposits subject to lode claims include classic veins or lodes having well defined boundaries.  They also include other rock in-place bearing valuable minerals and may be broad zones of mineralized rock.  Examples include quartz or other veins bearing gold or other metallic minerals and large volume but low-grade disseminated metallic deposits.  Lode claims are usually described as parallelograms with the longer side lines parallel to the vein or lode.  Descriptions are by metes and bounds surveys (giving length and direction of each boundary line).  Federal statute limits their size to a maximum of 1,500 feet in length along the vein or lode.  Their width is a maximum of 600 feet, 300 feet on either side of the centerline of the vein or lode.  The end lines of the lode claim must be parallel to qualify for underground extralateral rights.  Extralateral rights involve the rights to minerals that extend at depth beyond the vertical boundaries of the claim.
2. PLACER CLAIMS: Mineral deposits subject to placer claims include all those deposits not subject to lode claims.  Originally, these included only deposits of unconsolidated materials, such as sand and gravel, containing free gold or other minerals.  By Congressional acts and judicial interpretations, many nonmetallic bedded or layered deposits, such as gypsum and high calcium limestone, are also considered placer deposits.  Placer claims, where practicable, are located by legal subdivision of land (for example:  the E 1/2 NE 1/3 NE 1/4, Section 2, Township 10 South, Range 21 East, Mount Diablo Meridian).  The maximum size of a placer claim is 20 acres per locator.

TWO TYPES OF MINERAL ENTRIES:

1. MILL SITES: A mill site must be located on nonmineral land.  Its purpose is to either (a) support a lode or placer mining claim operation or (b) support itself independent of any particular claim.  A mill site must include the erection of a mill or reduction works and/or may include other uses reasonable incident to the support of a mining operation.  Descriptions of mill sites are by metes and bounds surveys or legal subdivision.  The maximum size of a mill site is 5 acres.
2. TUNNEL SITES: A tunnel site is where a tunnel is run to develop a vein or lode.  It may also be used for the discovery of unknown veins or lodes.  To stake a tunnel site, two stakes are placed up to 3,000 feet apart on the line of the proposed tunnel.  Recordation is the same as a lode claim.  Some States require additional centerline stakes (for example, in Nevada, centerline stakes must be placed at 300-foot intervals).  An individual may locate lode claims to cover any or all blind (not known to exist) veins or lodes intersected by the tunnel.  The maximum distance these lode claims may exist is 1,500 feet on either side of the centerline of the tunnel.  This, in essence, gives the mining claimant the right to prospect an area 3,000 feet wide and 3,000 feet long.  Any mining claim located for a blind lode discovered while driving a tunnel relates back in time to the date of the location of the tunnel site.

The above Mining Claim information is from http://www.1881.com Investments.

Good news for Colorado, Good Economy has yet to filter over to the Western Slope

Colorado’s Economy is ranked second best among the nation’s 50 state economies and Washington, D.C., according to Business Insider.  Colorado’s housing market had the most improvement in the country, with house prices rising 11.2 percent between Q1 2014 and Q1 2015.  The state’s 2014 gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 4.7 percent also was very strong, and was the fifth best among the states.  Business Insider ranked the economies of the states and D.C. on seven measures:  unemployment rates, gross domestic product per capita, average weekly wages, and recent growth rates for nonfarm payroll jobs, GDP, house prices, and wages.  While not factored into the ranking, the study looked at Fortune 1000 companies headquartered in each sate, as well as the industries that had a disproportionately large share of employment in each state according to their location quotients.  This provided a little more insight into what makes each state economy tick.  Dish Network, Western Union, and Chipotle are three of the 23 Fortune 1000 companies headquartered in Colorado.