The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-09-12
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

employ an engineer to make a COM
plete survey of Greeley and the sur
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,
700 by the flood of Sept 8 this year.
In 1909 much more disastrous flood
swept through the business district and
every year heavy rains dc much dam
age to streets and lawns.
| More than 10000 acres of beets will
be harvested in the Loveland 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.
| The Denver Navy Recruiting Station
figures that the minimum pay in the
navy is 2610 a month, with substan-
tial increase at each promotion. Here's
the idea: Lowest pay, even for a boy
in training, 2.60 board and lodging,
$40; medical attention, SO; dental
service, so cents; saving on clothes,
So; amount necessary to save monthly
in order to obtain permanent monthly
| income without work of $50, which
each navy man may have after sixteen
years, $50 total $1261O.
| William Wrightley, a 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 a 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.
Four cars of radium and vanadium
ore have been seized at Silverton by
the federal government because they
belonged to an enemy alien, Seifried
Lels of Hamburg, Germany. b. f. Cobb
of Denver, the inspector in the United
States Alien Property Custodian de-
partment, says that the ore is not high
grade, but it will give the government
thousands of dollars.
The horribly mutilated bodies of
three unknown men were discovered
along the right of way of the Missouri
Pacific railroad, two miles from Olney
Springs. Sheriff Worker of Crowley
county believes the men were Mexi-
cans, but it has not been determined
whether they were accidentally struck
by a train or the men murdered and
the bodies placed on the tracks.
The 1919 issue of the Colorado Year
Book, prepared and published by the
State Immigration Bureau. is complet,
ell and lis now being distributed. 1t is
the second book of its kind published
by the state Of Colorado and is con-
ceded to be the most complete volume
of general information regarding state
resources and development published
by any state.
Work has been started at La Jara
on the main drainage ditch of the San
Luis Valley Drainage district No. /,
which includes 10000 acres south and
cast of La Jara that wa sonce very fer
tile land, but, through heavy irrigation
on the higher land surrounding, had
become too wet for the successful
growing of ordinary crops.
Colorado Springs eighty-seven post
al employees will receive an increase of
S13,050 annually in their pay If the
new pay bill recently passed by the
House is adopted by the Senate and
signed by the President. The measure
makes the increase retroactive TO july
1, 1919, and payable at the rate of
$3.50 month.
Dan Supin was instantly killed in the
Calumet coal mine near Durango his
skull being crushed by mass of coal
estimated to weight two tons, which
fell when the vein was undermined.
The big dairy barn on the George
Keifer ranch, near Wattenburg was de-
stroyed by fire which was caused by
the back firing of a gasoline engine
which was being used to supply power
for the machine mixers. Two tons OF
oats and two large stacks of hay were
also burned, and it was with difficulty
that twenty-five fine milch cows were
saved from cremation. The loss VIII
reach $1,000.
Colorado will be adequately repre-
sented at the annual expositions of the
international Wheat Show and the In
ternational Farm Products Exposition,
to be held at Wichita, Kan, and han-
sas City, Mo, respectively, according
to tentative plans of the State Board
of Immigration, which has written all
county agents and commercial eXecu-
tives, enIisting their cooperation in
the preparation of the exhibit. The big
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