Gilpin observer., 1920-09-30
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

s250,OOO. The first provides for the
grading, drainage and gravel surfac-
ing Of little more than three miles
on the Burlington highway between
Wray and Schramm in Yuma county.
The work will reduce grades and elm
mate 4 bad sandy stretch at an esti-
mated cost Of $4,000. Nearly five
miles of the old Florence Cripple Creek
railroad grade between Victor and
Cripple Creek is to be improved by
putting wagon decks on the railroad
bridges and widening the grade at an
estimated cost Of $4,000. Four miles
of road between Norwood and Natu-
rita, In Montrose county, Is to be con-
structed at an estimated cost of $780,
900. Grading and surfacing on a re-
located road between Kremmling and
Muddy Pass, in Grand. county-six
is estimated that $4,000 will be ex-
pended to grade, drain and surface
nearly four miles between Craig and
Maybell in Moffat county. Grading
and paving of mile and quarter Of
the Denver-Arvada concrete road, be-
ginning at the Jefferson county line,
will require an expenditure of $59, 500
A mile and one-eighth of the Rifle
Meekef road in Rio Blanco county is
to be drained and covered with ten
inches Of shale surfacinE at an esti-
mated cost of $17,842.
Fred Smith, IS, q healthseeker from
Des Moines, Iowa, who has lived In
Colorado Springs several years, died Of
heart disease following a near colli-
| sion between two automobiles three
miles north of Palmer Lake on the
Colorado Springs-Denver road. The
automobile in which Smith was riding
turned into q ditch to avoid hitting a
racing car which skidded into a ditch
on the opposite side of the road and
was wrecked. The near collision is be-
lieved to have brought on the stroke of
heart disease which killed Smith.
A picnic and celebration is being
planned for Oct. II, Columbus day,
up the Poudre canon, when it Is
hoped the road will have been COM
pleted as far as Rustic. The Fort
Collins Commercial Club is making
the picnic arrangements, feature of
which will be a barbecue. The road,
it is stated, will be completed within
two weeks, as there is only one more
place to blast out before the road will
be opened as far as Rustic.
La Junta is soon to be ranked as
one Of Colorado's best improved cities
At a recent meeting of the city coun-
Gil a resolution creating paving dis
trict, which includes all the down town
district, was passed. Work on the
actual paving will start early next
spring, while great deal of the pre-
liminary work will be started right
away. A new white way is planned
on the main streets when the paving
is put In place.
The total value of the 1920 Colo
RADIO wheat crop will be approximately
$52, 100000. according to figures COM
piled by Howard Sullivan, deputy state
immigration inspector The production
is estimated at 26,OOO,OO0 bushels,
which will make the wheat crop the
states leading crop If there is no ap.
preciable change in thep rice of wheat
by November /, which is the date that
the crop values are generally esti-
mated.
The problem Of the teacher shortage
has been solved at Oak Creek by en-
listing the services of the citizens of
! the community Half of the faculty
of the public school Is composed of
| local married women who are ex-
teachers and possess first-grade GER
tificates. The experiment promises to
be very successful, due to the fact
that 1t also solves the boarding house
problem and insures a permanent sys-
TEN.
Estes Park school has a larger at
tendance this year than ever before.
There are seventeen pupils in the high
school and sixty In the grades.
Railroad men at Montrose declare
there never has been time In the
history OF railroadlng on the third d.
vision Of the Denver & Rio Grande
that there has been such n business
as is now flowing out of Montrose,
Delta, Hotchkiss, Olathe and other
western slope towns. 1t is almost i'm
possible now to procure sufficient
train crews to man the loaded trains
that are standing on the sidetracks.
Owen b. Hughes, driver of Chalmers
car No. IS in The Denver Times
Pueblo Star-Journal 1920 road classic
for automobiles, died OF injuries re-
ceived when his car turned over six
miles south Of Englcwood. The acci-
dent cost Hughes a broken hip and
internal injuries, which, 1t was be-
Meved at first, would not prove criti-
cal. Clarence Miller, his mechanician,
escaped without serious injury.
The sum of $9,O7e.ss was paid to DIR.
w. K. ArgO, superintendent Of the
! ColOrado Schnol for the Deaf and