The Ordway new era., 1920-03-12
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

through the agency OF greater raii-
road facilities, reflected in the pro-
posed construction of three railroad
tunnels through the Rockies, was dis
cussed in Denver at the Auditorium In
conference attended by lbs dele
gates. including mayors and other Of
ficiaIs representing forty towns of
Colorado. No formal action was tax
en-. 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
$15.OOO.OOO, will he approved by the
voters In the November election.
Three more new sugar factories will
be built in northern Colorado this
year, according to announcements
made by two different companies. Of
fIcers of the Mountain States Beet
Growers Association and officials or
the Midwest Sugar Co. OF Cali
fornia plan to erect $1,5OO,OOO
plant at Fort Collins. The Great Val
ley Sugar Corporation also announces
that they will build plant at Lone
Tree, two miles from Gill, Colo, at n
cost of $9OO,OOO. Another plant is
planned between the towns Of Johns
town and Milliken that will cost about
n million dollars.
Monarch pass will be open for traf-
fic the latter part of July or the first
of August. according to the prediction
of United States Engineer Lafferty.
who is In charge of the work. All the
rough grading has been done between
Maysville and Monarch. Hills were
blasted away and many ravinex filled.
There remains nothing to he done on
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.
Colorado will be represented among
six national delegates who will speak
for American woman suffrage in the
international convention of suffrag-
lists at Madrid, Spain, during the week
beginning May .. Word of the APP
pointment of Mrs. Helen Ring Robin
son of Denver, former state senator,
AS one of the group. has been re-
ceived by the Colorado Woman Suf
frage Association at Denver.
l.. b. Crawford, predatory animal
inspector of Colorado, has completed
arrangements here for war on
Archuleta county animals that have
heretofore been preying on livestock.
The death knell has been sounded for
the coyote, wolf, mountain lion, lynx
and bObcat The first means for
eradication will be traps and poison.
Den hunting will be extensively car
rled on later.
Colorado Springs has obtained
another convention. for next August.
The Association of Chief Special
Agents of the United States Railroad
Administration, which recently has
been in session at Omaha, has voted
to meet there next summer, according
to Charles S. Railsback, special agent
for the Santa Fe, who attended the
conference.
Murdoch Nelson, one of Fort Col
Inns most prominent residents, is dead
of heart disease. Mr.. Nelson was CASH
Ter of the First National Bank at Fort
Collins. At the time of his death he
was a candidate for delegate to the
Republican national convention to be
held in Chicago. He left widow and
two children.
Berne II. Hopkins, millionaire oil
operator of Colorado Springs, and his
escaped death near Prlng. fifteen
miles north of Colorado Springs, on
the Denver-C Colorado Springs road,
when an automobile In which they
were riding skidded and plunged down
fifteen-foot embankment.
The Orchard Mesa Irrigation flums
was badly damaged and the autOmo-
bile road Leading to the Plateau val
ley was completely. blocked when a
huge mudslide, carrying thousands Of
tons OF rocks and earth, crashed into
the road canon east of this city.
victor's postal carrier system is no
more. The government permanently
discontinued mail deliveries, making
the order effective at once, because of
the dwindling population of the town.
Two carriers had handled the work in
late years. vlctor's population Is now
estimated to be 1900. The Postal De-
partment did not consider this number
large enough to justify further deliv-
cries.
The population has grown to such
an extent that the $4,000 school
building, erected three years ago ut
Craig, now requires $4,000 annex.
which will be built In the spring. The
present high school has Il four-year
course with special instructors in
music, domestic science and manual
training and is accredited by colleges
and universities of the west.
The county commissioners of Doug
las have engaged the services of Ray
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