The Dolores star., 1920-03-12
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

turhi. industrial ana mining pursuits,
through the agency of greater rail
road facilities, reflected in the pro
posed construction of three railroad
tunnels through the Rockies was dis
russed In Denver ut the Auditorium in
conference attended by 125 dele
gates, including mayors and other Of
iicials representing forty towns of
colorado. No formal action was tax
IN, the object being to present in de-
TAIL the advantages of the proposed
series of tunnels. Expressions of
visiting mayors after the conference
brought assurances that the projects.
which entail construction cost of
S1o,OOO.OOO, will be approved by the
voters in the November election.
The outlook for the coming summer
season in the Breckenridge gold belt
was never so good as ut present The
district is affording steady employ
nent for all of its miners at good
wages. In a few weeks at most the
.hree gold dredging boats Of the Tono-
)ah Placers Company and the drcdge
'odl VI lllt puItn
Company will again be at work on the
rich bedrock plncers of the district.
The gold dredging boat of the Blue
River Dredging Company has contin-
ued to operate steadily during the win
ter so far on the rich river bed de-
posits in the blue river valley, about
two and half miles north of Breck-
anridge.
Archie Hogue. a prominent railroad
contractor living in Summit county
has just escaped miraculOusly from II
Snowslide death. He had been leading
his horse down Il deep such when he
beard terrible road. He tried 10 run
up short incline to get out of the
path but slipped and fell and before
he could move the slide hit him He
was entirely buried. He found he
| could wiggle one arm and kept digging
until he got a little room TO breathe and
| then worked nightly for an hour oI
more and finally, bleeding, exhausted
and nearly suffocated, he dragged
| himself out of his snow prison ana
found his way home.
Monarch pass will he open for tr:f
| fic the latter part of July or the first
of August. according to the pred ctior
of United States Engineer Lnfferty
who is in charge of the work. All the
rough grading has been done between
| Maysvile and Monarch. Hills were
blasted away and many ravincs filled
There remains nothing to he done OF
this side practically except the sur
facing of the road and the filling OF
some of the ravines This will not be
attempted until the earth thaws
A contract for repairs Oh six of the
buildings of the old Teller Indian
school has been let by State Engineer
A. J. McCune. The total cost of the
improvements is $4,000 and when fin
isbed on July l the famous old Crane
Junction institution will be converted
into n new state home and training
school for mental detectives Gov
Oliver II. Shoup has approved the con
tract.
| VictOr's postal carrier system is nc
more The government permanently
discontinued mail deliveries, making
The order effective at once, because ot
the dwindling population of the town
Two carriers had handled the work in
late years Nictor's population is now
estimated to be 800 The Postal De
partment did not consider this number
| L., I.rI, n instify furthnr daily
cries.
No opposition has been encountered
| by the solicitors now raising funds fol
building COllbran's new community
house. plans for which are now occu
pying the attention of everybody. Som,
subscribers have offered to doubl,
their subscriptions in case of need.
Mrs. Con Gillespie was seriously
burned ut Delta when the heat of hel
kitchen stove caused kerosene car
to explode and set her clothing afire
| Other members of the family rescued
her and saved the house from burning
| While Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G. Nash, botl
dcaf-mutes residing at Pueblo, wer,
eating their breakfast fircmen were
busy pouring water on the roof of thu
house to put out blaze that neigh
hors had discovered. Mr.. and Mrs
Nash were ignorant of the fact tla
their house was on fire and it was no
until Mr.. Nash started for work tina
he discovered three firefighters on tn,
outside throwing II stream Of water OF
the roof.
Two hundred and fifty courses, con
Quoted by more than eighty professors
will be offered at the summer schoo
of the University of Colorado thi:
year The courses, as announced b,
Prof. Milo G. Derham, director of thu
summer quarter, include, In addition
to those given last year, classes ir
AmericnniZation and in commercial
Spanish.
| While father and mother lay at the
| uoint of dpoth at La ,Junta the fOul