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The Lamar register., 1919-06-25
IT'S SHURE DRY
State C0nstabulary and Weatherman
Working Together.

Since Sherman Bell has been made
head of the state constabulary, he and
the weatherman seem to have gone
into ''cahoots" to make Colorado the
driest place outdoors, and what is
worse they seem to be succeeding
u half dozen counties in the northern
part of the state that have been rails
ing crops for number of years and
is gradually spreading his work over
tunate, however, for the latter that
many of the dry land crops in these
sections are already made. Down in
the Arkansas valley here the crops
were most of them fairly well along
before the dry weather set in, but the
weather of the past two weeks if
long continued will materially injure
the later crops. In the irrigated sec
tions of the valley this weather has
really been needed as the long con
tinued wet spell was beginning to
threaten damage to both grain and al
falfa crops.
AS for Sherman Bell II he keeps
up his present lick very long Denver
is going to dry up and blow away. II
is poor day when he doesn't capture
from 800 to 500 gallons of booze-and
if that boy just has some place where
he can safely store the stuff he will
have u valuable line of assets when
his term of office expires.
The Lamar register., 1919-06-25
AMITY CANAL. SUIT
4. V. $. B. & !. l.. Co. Accepts Tenn
pOrary Injunction in Big Case
Involving Further Sale of
Water Rights.

The ease of the water right owners
and users under the Amity canal
against the A. V. S. b. n |. l.. Co.,
which was tried before Judge Hollen-
beck in the district court last week
occupying several days time, was fin
ished Thursday afternoon. The farm
ers through their attorneys, Judge
CRANKY Hillyer and d. b. Kinkaid,
finished presenting their case at that
time and the defendant company, after
hearing the testimony, announced its
willingness to agree to stipulation
whereby temporary injunction
against the further sale of water rights
would be granted by the court and the
entire controversy be tried in full at
n later date. This controversy has been
fomenting for several years but this is
the first occasion when it has actual
ly got into court, and the farmers are
much elated that they have won first
blood. There were some fifty farm
ers present during the trial and it
promises to be the hardest fought legal
battle in the history of the county.
The Lamar register., 1919-06-25
EXPERIMENT STATION
ESTABLISHES PLANT TO
TEST ROAD MATERIALS
win Test Free, Rock. Stone, Stag.
Gravel. Sand, Dirt to Determine
Availability for Road
Building

The Experiment Station of the Colo
RADIO Agricultural College at Fort Col
Inns has just completed the installation
of the machinery for a new laboratory
for the testing Of road materials and
is now fully equipped to make all the
standard mechanical tests on rock.
broken stone, Stag. gravel, sand, and
top sail
The laboratory has been installed for
the purpose Of aiding the people Of
the state in their road building prob
lens. No charge is made for the test
ing of any material; the sample must,
however be Of sufficient size to enable
complete Investigations to be made.
The first systematic attempts to de-
termine the value Of rock for road
building purposes by means Of labora-
tory tests were made in France in
1873, and the excellence of the French
roads can no doubt be partly attribut-
ed to the selection Of the best available
materials for their construction road
materials.
In 1893, a road material testing
laboratory was established by the Mas.
sachusetts Highway Commission with
the late Logan Wallis Page in charge.
This work has developed until today
there are many such laboratories thru
out the United States, and road en-
gineers are more and more coming to
realize the value of such tests and to
specify that material used in road con-
struction shall measure up to certain
established standard requirements
o. V. Adams, Colorado Agricultural
College. Fort Collins, Colorado.
The Lamar register., 1919-06-25
Colorado Notes.

Some interesting information re-
garding the extent to which tractor
farming is being followed in Colorado
has been collected by the county as
SCISSORS Of the state in connection with
the agricultural statistics being gath
cred for the State Immigration Depart
ment. Though these reports are not
yet complete the tabulations have been
carried far enough to show that Colo
RADIO farmers own in the neighborhood
of 5000 farm tractors, and that the
number owned is being increased very
rapidly. Logan county farmers appear
to be in the lead in this respect, hav-
ing a larger number of farm tractors
in operation to the total number OF
farms than any other county. Eastern
Colorado is far ahead Of any other
section of the state in the number Of
farm tractors owned, and apparently
the dry farmers are somewhat more
The Lamar register., 1919-06-25

The first enumeration of silos in
Colorado is now being made by the
State Board Of Immigration through
the several county assessors, who are
gathering this information along with
i wide range of agricultural data that
has not heretofore been available in the
tate. Though the reports are not yet
complete they indicate that there are
m excess of 1000 silos in the state,
Boulder county perhaps having larg-
er number in proportion to the number
of farmers than any other county. The
Arkansas valley makes an excellent
showing on silos, every county in the
valley having very substantial num-
ber. Weld county leads in the total
number of silos, while only few coun-
ties, in the mountain districts, report
none.
The Lamar register., 1919-06-25
OIL BOOM GROWING
Petroleum City To Be Built in the
Shadow of the Famous Two
Buttes Mountains.

The oil boom which has been threat
ening Prowers county for some years
new seems about to center at Petrole-
um City, which will spring Jovelike
from the face of the prairies in the
south part of the county, facing the
celebrated Two Buttes mountains
which cast their frowning barrier
across its southern horizion and with
eight hundred miles of level prairie
stretching invitingly to the north, it
burnett with oil derricks to the east.
oil derricks to the west, oil derricks
to the south and more oil derricks to
the north of it, all spouting and gush-
ing.
Where once the gentle locator of the
SOS induced the tcnderfoot to part with
their cash to secure the opportunity
to decorate 160 acres of Uncle Sans
domain with trees, and the later real
estate agents of the second boom per-
iod have used their persuasive powers
to separate him from his cash in order
that he might utilize that same 100
acres to supply the same Uncle Sam
with beans for his soldiers, the willy
oil man will now for the aforesaid
reason induce him to plant oil der
ricks where oil derricks never grew
before.
Maybe this is all imagination but at
least several of the big oil companies
of the country have been making pur-
chases OF large tracts of lands in that
section for several months and just
recently that forerunner of all towns
and booms of all kinds--a printing
press-was unloaded on what is sup
posed TO be the site of the new city.
Bob McGrath. who is out to secure
the mayorship of the new city. accuses
the Prowers County newspaper mag
nate, Connolly, of being the owner of
the press. but others insist that Bob
himself is responsible and it is to be
his organ, to boost his political aspir-
atoms. Word has just been received
that as soon as the rumor of the new
city reached Denver, DIR. Spicer went
around to the state capitol and filed
a charter for cog-road up the noun
tain. We hope they will at least post
pone striking any spouting wells until
the heated season is over for we are
afraid that with oil all over the prairie
and the present temperature the whole
dang thing might take fire.
The Lamar register., 1919-06-25
BERSAGLIERE BAND
COMING wFOM ITALY
Artists in This Band Are Picked Musi-
clans Of Italy. They Served at
the Front With Faa,ous Ber-
sagliere Sharpshooters.

The Italian Bersagliere Band, which
is big musical attraction Of the
Chautauqua this year, is composed Of
veterans of the Italian Army who saw
active service in the big war. In select
ing this band, Mr.. Horner kept in mind
the high standard established by big
musical organizations which have pre-
ceded them on the Chautauqua.
These men are picked musicians Of
Italy-every one soloist-and their
program is so varied in ensembles
auartette and solos, both vocal and
instrumental, that they will be remem-
bered as one of the biggest musical
features ever in this vicinity.
Bersagliere is a corps of infantry
in the Italian army. They were orig
inally formed and organized as a corps
of riflemen of sharpshooters by King
Victor Emanuel in 1850. Their first
active service was with the Allies
against the Russians in the Crimean
War. In the Battle of Tehernayh,
August l6, 1855. the Russian attack
was successfully and brilliontly repel-
led, largely by the gallantry Of the
Bersagliere.
At the naval battle of Lissa, 1866,
where the Austrians under Tegetthoff
defeated the Italians under Pesiano, a
detachment of these riflement was
serving on one Of the latter's ships,
the Re d1talia, which eventually was
sunk. 1t is recorded that the Bersag-
liere kept up an effective fire on the
enemy until actually engulfed with
their ship beneath the water.
Their uniform is a dark green with
"a felt hat on which is displayed a
small plume of cock feathers. Their
number in 1912 was given as twelve
Regiments, each regiment consisting
of three battalions of four companies
each, making total of 14.072 under
arms; 36,2S5 on unlimited leave; 49,
764 mobile militia and 1891 territor-
ial militia.-New International Ency-
clopedia.
The Bersagliere Regiments are not
ed for fast and substantial marching,
excelling in this respect, all other in
fantry in the world. The members
of this band appear in the Chautau-
qua in dress uniform and the big fea-
ture of the program will be the Fan
fare and the Bersagliere and the Ber-
sagliere trumpeters. which have tlways
been so popular with their music-lov-
ing countrymen.
The Lamar register., 1919-06-25
LESS EXPENSIVE
ROAD SERVICE II
PROPERLY REPAIRED
Improper Maintenance Methods Hay.
Placed Economical Types in
Disrepute.

Prof. f. Il. House, of the Colorado
Agricultural College, is firm believer
in the importance Of maintaining
road after it is built. He supplies the
following. taken from The Engineer
ing News Record" and says of it ait
is so true and hits the nail so squarely
that | quote it direct"
''The tendency in road improvement
is to select types Of roads which re
quire very little annual maintenance.
The general feeling among laymen
seems to be that when a road surface
requires some annual maintenance 10
keep ii in good shape it is an expensive
type and should be avoided Yet. IT
the interest on Investment and the re
pairs are taken into consideration. the
cheaper wearing surface may in many
cases prove 10 be the more satisfactory
and economical.
cit is not uncommon to see roads Of
Il good type constructed and then. after
they begin to show signs of wear. to
see them neglected entirely or some
method Of repair or maintenance i'm
posed which has been found by long
practice TO be defective. When we See
mud holes in earth roads filled with
riprap, crushed stone or cinderH. It is
not the engineer fault that an enorin
Gus price is paid for the repair mater
ial; the road engineer knows that prop
'er drainage. and repairing with earth
from the side Of the road. are the
economical methods of maintenance
cold gravel and macadam roads are
often repaired by filling ruts and de
pressions with inferior material that is
readily displaced by traffic or ground
to dust Bituminous surfaces are often
patched, if patched at all, with loose
stone or gravel, and in some cases with
concrete. In a number of streets and
roads recently inspected. brick was
used to patch concrete surfaces. and
concrete used to patch brick surfaces
"When careless methods of this kind
are applied to the maintenance OF pub
lie highways, the result is that good
type of road is made to appear un-
satisfactory and uneeonomical, and
road improvement is discouraged
particularly the cheaper types of i'm
provement, which in most localities are
the best if properly maintained 1t
is the utter neglect OF maintenance and
the many improper methods Of repair
that have nodded public sentiment
against types of roads requiring annual
maintenance. and have led road pro-
moters and officials to disregard many
economical types"
The Lamar register., 1919-06-25

Colorado produced more than twice
as much molybdenum in 1918 as was
produced in the world in 1915, and is
now prepared, under favorable market
conditions, to produce more than twice
IS much annually as it produced in
1918. The uses of this rare metal are
being rapidly enlarged and when n
market is established that will make
its production uniformly profitable this
state should be the source of perhaps
one half of the worlds supply.
The Lamar register., 1919-06-25

given to power farming than are the
growers in the irrigated districts. The
census of farm tractors now being tax
IN by the immigration department is
he first ever made in the state, and
though it will not be quite complete
1T will furnish much valuable informa-
tion regarding new phase of agricul-
tural development in the west.
The Lamar register., 1919-06-25

of the nation, among them the Cham
Der of Commerce of the United States.
Shall the D-C-D become a part of the
National system? 1t largely depends
ON YOU! Let us not deceive ourselves
in thinking that things will come our
way anyhow. We must be wide awake
and continue our cooperation"
The Lamar register., 1919-06-25
VALE ID. & G. r. r.
The Curtain Drops on the Last Scene
at Lamar's Greatest Effort and
Only Faihre

This. week the curtain rang down ON
the. last act Of Lamar's famous humid
red thousapd dollar attempt to finance
q Cross railroad Probably no town
the SIZE that Lamar was in 1910 ever
attempted to raise such big fund in
railroad, and yet our people came
through with their accustomed liberal
ity and energy, and in weeks cam
paign raised the required 100000 and
lad the cash in the banks of the town,
and in addition certain rights of W.!
and division shop grounds.
c. A. Umstead, the promoter, said
to be the original of the now famous
character of j. Rufus Wallingford,
called big meeting to celebrate his
act of turning the first shovelful Of
dirt on the depot site, and there was
q celebration that day n Lamar that
was one humdinger, bands, parades,
bon fires, etcetera. The town had just
gone 'dry," but it was forgotten for
the day and the etcetera included the
last act of the wild west days, Us
well as what was supposed to be the
opening act of the new railway age
Of Lamar.
The work went merrily on for sixty
days and that high-piled stretch OF
graded dust which can still be seen
winding its tortuous way through the
nd nd
hills until it emerges on the high
prairies south of Lamar was the re-
suit. These sixty days represented the
high tide of excitement in Lamar, and
the drop only came when the contract
ors on the grading work announced
that the company failed to cause the
ghost to walk on the second pay day.
Mr. Umstcad had been trying vainly
TO get hold of some Of the 100000
trust fund, but the trustees, c. C.
Goodale, C. NJ. Lee, ID. B. Novels, b.
B. Brown and A. f. Bent, had go care
fully safeguarded it that J. Rufus for
once failed Of his prey; and the col
lapse found the promoter hotfooting it
for the east to save himself from the
wrath of some of his victims on the
south end of the line in Texas. Vic
tins of previous similar episodes grab
bed him, however, and he landed in an
Indiana jail. He afterwards went
through bankruptcy in Chicago where
he showed up liabilities of 100000
and assets totalling % cents. The
Chicago Tribune said he was the most
cheerful man in the court ROOM
In the meantime the trustees of the
Lamar fund paid an immediate divi-
dend of 80 per cent. The balance was
used in paying claims against the right
of way SO il could be used as a draw
ing card in case any real railroad men
should decide to build the north and
south road. Recently this tract was
sold and the proceeds enabled them to
nay a final dividend of 20 per cent Of
the I per cent retained on the original
subscription.
They then called meeting of the
corporation organized to hold the prop
erty and decided to dissolve and end
the story, and accordingly the notice
was. published and this week the final
chapter of the railroad scenario was
completed and the Denver & Gulf Rail
way is now only memory. Let 1t
rest in peacei
The Lamar register., 1919-06-25
About Completed

The contractors, who have for six
weeks been building a large addition
to the rear end of the Lamar Motor
Sales Co. building, have about COM
pleted the work and the building is
now being occupied.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-12-05
RULE
 THIS YEAR IN
 SPORT REALM
BY FRED ruRRYVlLLE

When Kid Gleason said ''the best team lost' he probably meant what looked like the best team lost. It nss been thus throughout the sport season Of 1919 and continues on up through the eleventh hour. The win of Jack Dempsey over Will lard; the triumph of White Sox over Cleveland, New York and Detroit; the triumph of Reds over Giants; the triumph of Reds over White Sox, and the triumph of minor college football teams over the big fellows-all might be classed as upsects since major ity of observers in the sport world had expected just the opposite in re- suits.
 And now that the football season is OCT the upsets have been taken over as a part of the boxing game, that probably accounting for the unusual interest being taken in all ring shows.
 First comes Johnny Noye of St. Paul and scores an unexpected win over the sensational Lew Tender of Philadelphia. The upset took placelin Denver. where the critics credited Noye with giving the customer hard drubbing.
 So when Noye started east the fans sat up and looked interested. Noye stopped off in Cleveland to loosen up against Cal Delaney who was not con- sidered real topnotcher. And Noye took beating. He said he had an off night and continued on to Philadel- phia to meet Tender in his home town. Tender knocked him out in two rounds
 Consider the case of Frank Moran and Homer Smith. Homer is native of Mihigan and had been winning in every start. It was believed he was headed straight for match with Dempsey. Moran, veteran, took his measure in the third round.
 And then the sensational Martin Burke of New Orleans-he had to quit to George Chip in the tenth round round at New Orleans. He claimed broken rib caused him such pain he could not continue.
 The old fellows like Moran and Chip are dangerous if they are in any kind Of shape and it seems that both veter- ans are as fit as the proverbial fiddle Moran appeared to be in the pink when he polished Smith off at De troit. The old time cunning was there and he hit hard with straight and hook. Chip, though not a real heavy weight, is little lighter than Burke, and he probably knew too much for the younster. %
 The fast travelling Noye, Smith and Burke must now start all over if they hope to prosper in the fight game A knockout defeat is a hard thing to live down, but you've got to give these three fellows credit for trying and their willingness to meet really tough opponents.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-12-05
,OCAL---lN THE REALM OF SPORT--- WORLD
OVER THE STATE
 SPORT CIRCUIT
BOBBY WAUGH IN DlsFAvoR

As far as Bobby Waugh, the Texas fighter is concerned, Globe and Mi ami have ceased to exist, profession ally speaking, says the Globe Record. Determined that the sporting public shall be protected in the future against such fiascos as the Robinson Waugh bout proved to be Saturday night, the management of the Pas time Athletic club, which sponsored the last fight, announced yesterday that Waugh never would appear again in this district under the auspices of this organization.
 For Willie Robinson, the manage ment, as in the case with the major ity of the fans, entertains only the kindest sentiment
 to Waugh's disbarment. the manage ment of the athletic club shed an illu- initiative light upon the poor showing made by the Texan. Waugh, accord ing to the matchmaker, utilized the preparatory period largely to sympa- thize with Robinson and to admitting to admiring friends that Leonard's S days were numbered.
 Then, it is said, Bobby had peculiar training ideas. He is said to have substituted cigarettes for sparring and booze for road work.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-12-05
cHAMsERsAusE roNIeHr

Two sectional titles will be at stake when Russell Chambers of Ft. Worth, border state champion welterweight, meets Eddie Huse. welterweight champion of the Pacific coast, in a ten round bout before the Phoenix A. c. in Arcadia lhalml Friday evening. The Chabers-Huse bout will be the main event of four card program, says the Phoenix Republican.
 Both performers have agreed to put their titles as additional stakes for the bout. The winner. therefore, will be the undisputed welterweight champion of the southwest, giving tn bout an importance second to none ever held in this city.
 Chambers arrived in Phoenix We'd nesday evening fit and ready for a
Bisbee daily review., 1919-12-05

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 T tried treatment after treatment. but l kept getting worse all the time until I read about Tanlac and com meneed taking it. I am actually as- tonished at the wonderful change that has come over me, and Pm so happy I just feel like shouting for joy. My stomach is in perfect condi- tion and l can eat just anything 1 please and never have any indiges- tion or pains at all, and my nerves, too, are in fine condition. My cir culation is good now, and Pm not constipated, and when night comes it is a pleasure for me to go to bed, because I can get full nights sleep and rest and get up feeling just fine. 1 l have already gained back twenty bounds of my lost weight and haven't felt so well in seven long years. am a happy woman and every word I've said is the truth, and I just think so much of Tanlac that I'm going to tell everybody what a fine medicine it is"
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