The Ordway new era., 1919-09-19
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


employ an engineer TO make ii 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 S5O,-
600 by the flood of Sept. 3 this year.
In 1909 much more disastrous flood
swept through the business district and
every year heavy rains do much dam
age to streets and lawns.
More than 10000 acres of beets will
he 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 he 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 he 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
iiShitN lHdt ilt pay III lht
navy is s126.1 10 II month, with substan-
tial increase at each promotion. Here's
the idea Lowest pay, even for boy
in training, SS2.60; board and lodging,
$40; medical attention, SO: dental
service, 80 cents: saving on clothes,
81; 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 $12610.
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
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. Il. f. Cobb
of Denver, the inspector in the United
States Alien Property Custodian de-
partment, says that the ore is not high
grade, hut 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 1t has not been determined
whether they were accidentally struck
by train or the men murdered and
the bodies placed-on the tracks.
The 1910 issue of the Colorado Year
Book, prepared and published by the
State immigration Bureau, is complet
ed and is 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 lara
on the main drainage ditch of the San
Luis Valley Drainage district No. 1,
which includes 10000 acres south and
east of La lara 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
nj employees will receive an increase of
S13,O5O annually in their pay IL 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
l, 1919, and payable at the rate of
$3.50 n 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 n gasoline engine
which was being used to supply power
for the machine mixers. Two tons of
oats and two large stacks of hay We're
also burned, and 1t was with difficulty
that twenty-five fine milch cows We're
saved from cremation. The loss will
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 Kan
sas City, Mo-, respectively, according
to tentative plans of the State Board
of Immigration. which has written all