The Dolores star., 1920-03-19
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

The Grand valley of western Colo
ado, said by experts to be underlaid
win oil sand, is to be probed this year
oy at least two companies. B. +. Kie-
Ter ana others of Fruita are planning
to put down well near Fruita. Inter-
asts controlling the Werner u, Reed
estate are reported to be contemplat-
ing an oil well to be drilled near Iona.
Colo, on the Reed lands. Gas and oil
seeps in various parts OF the western
slope contiguous to Grand Junction
nave caused experts to believe that the
center of the supply is under the
Grand valley.
The Lions Club of Longmont has
been organized with charter member
ship of sixty-seven. All lines Of bust
ness and professions of the city are
represented. The club holds a weekly
luncheon every Thursday noon. The
members are enthusiastic over the out
look for the future. ]. S. Schey is
president of the club, DR.. W. r. Ben
son, vice president; Charles Norris.
second vice president; DIR. S. B. Nc
Farland, third vice president; II. L.
Hudson, secretary, and G. e. Young,
treasurer.
report has just been received of
deal under way i'll Pueblo, backed
ny several business men, which, if sue
cessfully carried out, will give Pueblo
one or the largest and most complete
athletic fields west of the Mississippi
river. The site for the field has al
ready been selected and leases have
been secured on all the land under con
sideration. The deal will he pushed at
once in order to have the field finished
by summer so it can be used by the
ball clubs of Pueblo for their big
games.
Col0rado's road building equipment
is to be placed under fire insurance
protection at once, it has been decided
by the State Highway Commission
Attention was called to the complete
lack of insurance on S250000 worth
or motor trucks, autos, graders and
other highway equipment belonging to
mobile used by Thos ]. Ehrhart. state
highway commissioner. was destroyed
in the blaze which recently gutted the
Tom Roberts Garage in Denver.
Word has been received in Denver
of the death ut his home in Omaha,
Neb., of Colonel Samuel S. Curtis,
aged 50, formerly of Denver He was
II Colorado pioneer of 1857. when he
was engaged i'll mining in Gilpin coun.
~. He was the first Republican post
master and the second postmaster Ia
he appointed in Denver, having been
named for that office in March, 1860
He was son of Gen. Samuel Curtis
of Civil war fame, for whom Curtis
street was named.
Everyone in Colorado is interested
| in roads. Practically all the public
service organizations are dong theil
Bit. 'fhe United Stutes Forest Serv
| ice is doing its bit. In 1912 it bull
one mile of road; in 1919 it built sixty
| four miles of ADad in Colorado Dur
ing the last eight years the fores
service has built 2T7 miles of roads il
Colorado at IL total cost of S772,00O
During the same period it has main
tanned 46S miles at cost of abou
| $4,000.
Three minutes after he had eater
| the evening meal, brought to him b,
Jailer John McLachlan. Jacob Baker
alias Jacob Becker, 80. blacksmith
held merely for investigation. com
mitted suicide ut the city Jail in Den
yer, by hanging himself in the eel
which has become known us tile hoo
doc CELL" following the escape there
from recently of Virgil Trimble ant
two other prisoners.
G. A. Mclaughlin, government hunt
er. located in the vicinity of Este
Park, has hagged his fourth mountain
| lion this winter. The last one he cap
tured was at the mouth of the Love
land Grand Canon. Mclaughlin, IL
company with John Griffith, of tn
park, tracked the lion for ten mile
| before 1t was located in the den ant
shot.
Recruiting for the United State
army in the Wyoming division Of tn
Denver district exceeded all other di
visions for the past month except tina
of the city of Denver, according t.
Capt. c. b. Cox. Captain Cox is il
Denver to make his report to the of
ficer in charge of the Denver district
The division in which the captain ha
charge is divided into eight office
in as many Wyoming cities. Each o
the offices is in charge of recruit
ing sergeant, who reports weekly t.
Captain Cox.
Stanley NJ. Wight, until recently al
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