Gilpin observer., 1919-09-18
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

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rounding district and prepare report
on all feasible methods Of guarding
the city against flood danger The city
was damaged to an extent of over $780,.
900 by the flood of Sept. this year.
In 1909 much more disastrous flood
swept through the business district and
every year heavy rains do much dam
age to streets and lawns
More than 10000 acres of beets will
be harvested in the Iaveand section
of the sugar district during the next
month. Digging of the crop will be
started about the first of October, and
the campaign will be one of the longest
in late years. The sugar content of
the beets is better than usual on ac-
count of the dry weather, but the ton.
mage will be equally as good as last
year when the average was fourteen
tons per acre, with some of the crops
going as high as twenty-five tons per
acre.
| William Wrightley, farmer of the
Grover district, has demonstrated the
possibilities of raising fruit on nOnirri-
gated land Of eastern Colorado to the
satisfaction Of all observers this year
| Wrightley harvested $50 bushels of
| fine plums from young orchard of
500 trees, which just came into the
stage of heavy bearing this year. The
fruit is fully as large and uniform in
quality as that grown in the irrigated
orchards Of the Loveland and Fort
Collins districts.
Two hundred representative citizens
Of Boulder indorsed city bond issue
for 100000 to build municipal swim
ming pool and a city park with play
ground and equipment at meeting in
Boulder. The matter was proposed by
returned service men, who said they
prefer ID that a memorial of some
practicable good be erected to them in
stead of a marble shaft. The prOpos;-
tion will be voted on at the election i'm
November.
Revenue from automobile licenses
will reach $50O,OO this year, 1t is esti
mated by Secretary of State Noland.
Up to Sept. 1, collections in Denver
alone amounted to $127 7,565.75, while in
the remaining counties of the state col
lectiOns totaling $311 ,25134 had been
reported, making reported collections
of S43S, SIT 90.
An oil rig is now being shipped to
Fountain from Wichita, Kan, and will
be set up as soon as it arrives, so that
drilling operations can be begun at
once. The undertaking is looked upon
rs an important test of the Oil-prOduc
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lures said to exist in the vicinity OF
Fountain.
The State School for the Deaf and
Blind at Colorado Springs will receive
legacy of Approximately $1,000 from
the estate of Miss Maggie ]. Williams
of Fort Collins, who died in July, At
torney General Victor E. Keyes said
after returning from Fort Collins,
where Miss Williams will was filed for
probate.
Dean Milo S. Ketchum of the college
of engineering and instructor in civil
engineering at the University of Colo
RADIO, resigned his position to accept
the chair of civil engineering at the
University of Pennsylvania. Dean
university at Boulder for about sixteen
years.
Russell Gregg, member of the team
of "The Peerless Greggs," auto "loOp-
the-lOOp" exhibitors appearing at the
county fair at Brighton, was seriously
injured when his automobile failed to
make the second loop, and he fell to
the ground, distance of about fifty
feet.
An amusement park costing at least
100000 is to be built at Prospect lake
on the southeastern outskirts of Colo.
RADIO Springs, according to an an.
nouncement made by trio of Colo.
RADIO Springs men interested in the pro
ject.
A meeting of the pioneers of north
western Colorado will be held in
Steamboat on October 0 at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. James ii. Crawford,
the founder of Steamboat Springs,
and among the first settlers In north
western Colorado. Pioneers, altho
their number is growing fewer every
year, will come from all over the
county to talk over the old days
when this country was but wilder
ness.
The Rocky Mountain Lumber Com
| pany, of which number of influential
| Weld county business men are the
principal officers have closed trans
rction with the government for the
purchase of 2S,0OO,0OO feet of standing
timber on the upper forks of Elk river
This company already has employed a
large number of men and expects to
cut 100000 feet this winter.
Colorado Springs eighty-seven post.
al employees will receive an increase OF
S13,O5O annually in their pay If the
new pay bill recently passed by the