The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-18

asked the mayor and city council to
employ an engineer to make a com
plete survey of Greeley and the sur
rounding district and prepare a report
on all feasible methods of guarding
the city against flood danger The city
was damaged to an extent Of over $780,
600 by the flood Of Sept. 8 this year.
In 1909 a much more disastrous flood
swept through the business district and
every year heavy rains do much dam
age to streets and lawns
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
600 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.
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 us last
year when the average was fourteen
tons per acre, with some of the crops
going as high as twenty-five tons pee
acre.
The Denver Navy Recruiting Station
figures that the minimum pay in the
navy Is $126.10 month, with substan-
tial Increase at each promotion. Here's
the idea Lowest pay, even for boy
in training, $500; 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 $126.1O.
Colorado Springs eighty-seven post
al employees will receive an increase OF
| $1S,05O annually in their pay II 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 a month.
Revenue from automobile licenses
will reach 100000 this year, 1t is esti-
mated by Secretary Of State holland.
Up to Sept. l, collections In Denver
alone amounted to 1927 ,58h75 while in
the remaining counties OF the state col
lections totaiing 1911 .251.34 had been
reported. making reported collections
of $43S, s17O0
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
Ketchum has been connected with the
university at Boulder for about sixteen
years.
A f0rty-fOOt masonry smOkestack at
the rear of the Greeley Elks building
crashed to the earth filling alleys be-
tween the Weld county court house
and the Elks building with debris. Sew
eral people narrowly escaped being
| struck by the falling column OF brick
and mortar.
| Seventy-five hundred bushels of
wheat, valued at $4,000, have been
stolen from fields near Brighton with
In the last few weeks, according to
complaints made to Sheriff T. A.
| t,,s 10. t,o
made to date.
An amusement park costing at least
100000 is to be built at Prospect lake
on the southeastern outskirts of Colo
rndo Springs, according to an an
nouncement made by trio OF Colo
RADIO Springs men interested In the pro-
ject.
The big dairy barn on the. George
Keifer ranch, near Wattenburg was de-
stroyed by fire which was caused by
the back firing of n 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 mich cows were
saved from cremation. The loss will
reach 5000.
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 1t has not been determined
whether thew were accidentally struck
by a train or the men murdered and
the bodies placed on the tracks.
| Work has heen started at la Jara