The Raymer enterprise., 1920-03-18
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.
The outlook for the coming summer
season in the Breckenridge gold belt
was never 20 good as at present. The
district is affording steady employ
ment for all Of its miners at good
wages In few weeks at most the
three gold dredging boats of the Tono-
pah Placers Company and the dredge
boat of the French Gulch Dredging
Company will again be at work on the
rich bedrock placers 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-
enridge.
The Lions Club Of Longmont has
been organized with charter member
ship Of sixty-seyen. All lines OF busl-
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. J. s. Schey Is
president Of the club, DIR. w. Il. Ben.
son, vice president; Charles Norris
second vice president; DIR. s. B. Nc
Farland, third vice president; X. L.
Hudson. secretary, and G. L. Young,
treasurer.
A report has just been received Of
deal under way In Pueblo, backed
by several business men, which, II sue
cessfully carried out, will give Pueblo
one of 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 be 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.
Colorado's road building equipment
10 to be placed under fire insurance
protection at once, 1t has been decided
by the State Highway Commission.
Attention was called to the complete
lack of Insurance on S250,0O0 worth
OF motor trucks, autos, graders and
other highway equipment belonging to
the state, when valuable state auto
mobile used by Thos. J. Ehrhart, state
highway commissioner, was destroyed
In the blaze which recently gutted the
Tom Roberts Garage in Denver.
Everyone In Colorado is interested
In roads. Practically all the public
service organizations are doing their
bit. The United States Forest Serv.
Ice Is doing lis bit. In 1912 1t built
one mile Of road; in 1919 1t built sixty.
four miles Of road In Colorado. Dur
ing the last eight years the forest
service has built 277 miles Of roads In
Colorado at total cost Of $772,0O0.
During the same period 1t has main.
tained 408 miles at q cost Of about
$4,000.
Three minutes after he had eaten
the evening meal, brought to him BY
Jailer John McLachlan, Jacob Baker,
alias Jacob Becker, so, a blacksmith,
held merely for investigation, COM
mitted suicide at the city jail In Den
yer, by hanging himself In the cell
which has become known as "the hoo.
doc CELL" following the escape there
from recently Of Virgil TrImble and
two other prisoners.
c. A. Mclaughlin, government hunt
er, located In the vicinity Of Estes
Park, has bagged his fourth mountain
lion this winter. The last one he cap
tured was at the mouth of the Love-
land Grand Cahon. Mclaughlin, In
company with John Griffith, OF the
park, tracked the lion for ten miles
before 1t was located In the den and
shot.
Stanley N. Wright, until recently an
employe Of the Colorado National
Bank In Denver, has been appointed
deputy state bank commissioner by
Commissioner Grant McFerson. He
succeeds Deputy Commissioner Frank
Stnnsfleld, who resigned recently be.
cause Of Ill health.
The Grand valley Of western Colo
RADIO, said by experts to be underlaid
with oil sand, Is to be probed this year
by at least two companies. b. Y. Kie-
| fer and others of Fruita are planning
to put down well near Fruita. Inter.
ests controlling the Werner z. 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
have caused experts to believe that the
center Of the supply is under the
Grand valley.
The Salida Granite Corporation has
recently purchased the assets of the
Salida Granite Company, whose quar-.