The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-03-29
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

soon forget The company had car
of gasoline to unload and In making
the connection with the pipe line the
car valve did not work and 1900 gal
Ions of gasoline were lost before the
connection could he made. Mr.. Mills
and a car repairer for the burlington
were nearly drowned in the gasoline
while frantically trying to make the
connection. The gas flooded the tracks
and ran down the alley. Bystanders
cautioned everybody in the vicinity as
to the danger of fire, which, had the
gasoline become ignited, would have
caused Il serious disaster. About 3 500
gallons of gasoline We're saved, but the
loss of 5000 worth of the liquid was
suffered by the company.
An infestation by the bark beetle,
more serious than any found since
that in the Black Hills in 1901, has
appeared in the Durango National for.
est. Thousands of acres are infested
and immediate action is to be taken
by officials of the Forestry Depart
ment to check its spread. The infes
tation is said to- be similar to that
which once appeared in the South Da'
kota forest Although the pest has
been found in Colorado before, no ex.
tensive infestation has appeared. Al
least $4,000 acres of timber in the
Durango forest is more or less in
tested by the beetle.
Beet growers have contracted &c
plant more than $1,000 acres of sugar
beets in the Brighton district. The
contracted acreage last year was
about 10000. Some of the acreage
this year is over in the Hudson coun
try, twelve miles northeast of Brigh-
ton. OF this there are about Loo
acres that cannot be handled unless
new railroad spurs are built, and that
natter is now being worked out by
the sugar people and the railroad.
Tons upon tons of potatoes raised
in the dry farm districts around Gro
yer are being fed TO hogs and cattle
because farmers refuse to haul them
ten or twelve miles to railroad ship
ping point when they are selling at
only 90 cents per 100. This condition
has brought about a renewal of the
agitation for more railroads and
committee is now actively at work en-
deavoring to induce the Union Pa
cific to extend its Briggsdale branch.
With but one dissenting vote, a
drainage district embracing 1,2O0
acres of valuable land adjoining the
town of Windsor was created at spe-
cial election. This is the first district
of its kind to be created in northern
Colorado and only the second one in
the state since the passage of the law
permitting formation of such districts.
w. Fl. Teller, Charles Sorrels and G.
w. Helps were elected directors o.
the district.
The annual report of the Buck Air
craft and Munitions Company of Pu-
eblo has been cancelled by Secretary
of State James II. holland for alleged
failure of company officials to meet
the financial obligation covering cor
poration taxes. The company owed
SAC for taxes and for the filing OF
the report, and according to the state
officials, this amount was met In part
by check which was refused by the
bank
A baggage and mail express car on
a west-bound Santa Fe passenger train
caught fire while in motion east of
Baxter, and. with Its contents, was de-
stroyed. The touring car was switched
onto siding at Baxter and an engine
summoned from Pueblo to bring it to
Pueblo. The fire continued to burn
until the car reached Pueblo, by which
time it was practically consumed.
The feed situation for stock in the
San Juan basin is critical. Many Of
the stockmen are out of feed now and
practically all the hay will be gone
in week or ten days. What hay 10
available is selling at $40 per ton. al
though some is being shipped in from
the Grand valley section that costs ap-
proximately $50 per ton laid down.
In spite of severe injuries hopes are
held for the recovery of Miss Doris
Heller, who fell from a ledge of the
twentieth floor of the Daniels & Fish
err tower to the balcony of the seven
teenth floor, forty feet below, miracul-
ously escaping instant death in Den
yer. Miss Heller lay on the balcony
calling for help from Saturday until
Monday, when she was discovered by
Joseph Taylor, an electrician X-ray
examinations revealed a severe frac
ture of the spine and fractures in both
feet DIR. Haskell Cohen, who at
tended the girl at Mercy hospital, de-
clared that in spite of these develop
ments she had chance to recover.
The way of the fake bootlegger" IL
destined to become harder and harder
In this vicinity James Martin, of col
or, of Atlanta, Ga, charged with sell
ing water colored with coffee, and III