Gunnison news-champion., 1919-06-13
Twenty Years Ago
Gunnison, June Is. 1899

oAsons Soic Aos AoSS
Dear Mary
No Stree haven't the smallpox and
the doctors say ~there amt no such
animal in town. We are going to
have our play-"The Deacon" Monday
night. You had better come down.
What shall we chat about? l am
indulging in the pleasant pastlme Of
waiting for that fool man Of mine to
come home with the bread told him
to get at the Boston Bakery. They
have n new advertising stunt on at
the store. Every week they put .
silver dollar in . loaf and the lucky
buyer Of the loaf can get 80 bread
tickets with the dollar. Maybe Jack
is sitting on the curb digging into the
loaf to see II he is the lucky a&y. II
he does get the dollar, very likely he
would spend it or bet il on the big
prize fight staged in New York today.
It is between Bob Fitximmons and
Jim Jeffries.
Mrs. C. E. Adams took her husband
to the hospital in Denver tonight, to
secure medical treatment for him.
He is suffering from inflamatory rheu-
matism. DR.. Jay accompanied them.
Jack says that twenty years from
now. Mr.. Adams won't be able to
read a newspaper, let alone edit one.
John Buckley also went to the hos
pital this week. He took his little
girl, May, over for an operation.
Had bad storm here this week and
lightning hit VIM. Grafflin's house,
knocking of o lot of plaster and q
part Of the shingles on the roof.
Quite a crowd of Gunnison folks
went off this week. Owen F. Cady
and Frank Cuthbert went to Salida to
join the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen; Aunt Susan Bryan went
to Grand Junction this morning to
take care of little May Gavette, who
is quite i'll there; John Mccormick has
gone out to Cross Mountain to work
his mining property out there this
summer. John expects to be rich
some day.
Jack still has the mining bug in
his head. There were two carloads
of machinery came in this morning
for the Forest Hill mine at Tin Cup,
and he is talking of going up there.
Say, what will we do for coal this
winter? The mine at Baldwin shut
down this week. There was some
kind of disagreement between the
men and the owners.
The town council met Tuesday night
as usual, but there was not much busi-
ness to transact. Mayor Rogers was
in the chair and the trustees-Mueller,
Ferguson, Harper, and Potter were all
present. The citizens who live OF
Tomichi avenue petitioned that the
South Park crossing be opened.
Mrs. James o. Davis died at their
ranch on Quartz creek this week.
Miss Emily Rainbow is to ceach at
the Estes district school this summer,
She won't have any trouble goin. out
there, since her father has plenty OF
bicycles and she can ride back and
forth. Wish l had q wheel. You can
go any place then-if it does not rain
Charles Eastman claims he broke the
record going to lola Sunday.
Not much news around town lately
/ hear that the Steve Metroz family
have new boy. Also that John Dow
ney Is going to erect q two -storJ
house opposite the livery barn Of Dun
can & Keefer.
Fred Mckee and Jim ShacklefOrd
came home yesterday from the agri-
cultural college at Fl. Collins. Now
watch the girls smile.
Oh, yes, and l also saw Prof. ]. b
Kensgy and family getting off the
train Monday morning. They have
been attending the Epworth League
convention in Pueblo. They had q
EA4 a. Il
week to visit during vacation.
George Garrett came near beirg
killed the other day. He and John
Adrian were on their way to thcil
mining property, when one of their
horses got scared and threw Mr.. Gar.
rett over his head and down the pre-
cipitious snow. He was badly cut
around the head and face and had to
have q doctor.
Saw Elmer Deering and Jack Demp-
sey driving by a little while ago. ]
hear they are going out to Copper
Mountain to work their mining prop,
erty in that district.
Jack says he is going fishing Sun.
day. II he ever falls in, I'll be wild
ow sure. No danger Of water fam.
inc in this neck of the woods. They
say the river is very high juse now
II sounds 80 funny to think of any
cne being able to measure the watci
in river, but A. L. Fellows, hydro
grapher, has just issued report Civ
ing lot Of facts and figures concern
ing the Grand and Gunnison rivers
Would you believe it, but he says he
found by measurement on May Is OF
this year, that there were 23,280 cubic
feet Of water flowing into the Grand
river, and 1920 cubic feet flowing in
to the Gunnison river on the same day
The report says that the Grand livei
would irrigate 1,768,815 acres, and
the Gunnison would irrigate 1,096, ,705
The two rivers together would cover
the entire surface Of the Grand val
ley, counting its extent of 100OUG
acres, just one inch deep. in three
hours, or twenty-five feet deep in
30 days. ! am glad l live on high
ground. If the flow from both these
rivers WAS to be piled on one square
mile Of land, the water would be 11t
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