The Colorado statesman., 1920-10-02
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

open DluS OCt. IL TOT lno CoubtfuClioh
OF seven federal road projects, which,
Il is estimated, will cost more than
s250,000. 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 bad sandy stretch at an esti-
mated cost OF $4,000. Nearly five
miles of the old Florence-Crlpple 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 surfaclng on a re-
located road between Kremmling and
Muddy Pass, in Grand cOunty-six
miles in length-will cost $24,S0O. II
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 a mile and quarter of
the Denver-Arvada concrete road, be-
ginning at the Jefferson county line,
will require an expenditure of S59,5OO.
A mile and one-eighth of the Rifle
Meeker road in Rio Blanco county is
to be drained and covered with ten
inches of shale surfacing at an esti-
mated cost of S17,342.
Fred Smith, 55, healthseeker from
Des Moines, Iowa, who has lived In
Colorado Springs several years, died of
heart disease following a near COLI
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 a 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.
\ picnic and celebration is being
planned for Oct. II, Columbus day,
up the Poudre cafion, 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, n feature OF
which will be n barbecue. The road,
1t 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 Juntn is soon to be ranked as
one of Colorado's best improved cities.
At recent meeting of the city coun-
Gil n resolution creating a paving dis
trict. which includes all the down town
district, was passed. Work on the
actual paving will start early next
spring. while a great deal of the pre-
limlnary 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
S52,0O0,0O0, according to figures COM
piled by Howard Sullivan, deputy state
immigration inspector. The production
is estimated at 28,OQO.000 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 l, 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 it also solves the boarding house
problem and insures a permanent sys-
tenn.
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 railroading on the third d.
vision of the Denver & Rio Grande
that there has been such a 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. 1S 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 Englewood The acci-
dent cost Hughes broken hip and
internal injuries, which, 1t was be-
lieved at first, would not prove criti-
cal. Clarence Miller, his mechaniclan,
escaped without serious injury.