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Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-13

lines, the patrolmen, rangers and
watch tower men keep in practice.
They use what is known as the
Bowlden code, invented by Gus
Bowlden, supervisor Of the .Cleve-
land forest.
Ray Mclard spoke to his brother
across 25 miles of peaks and canyons
for our benefit one sunny morning.
Dash dot, dash dot dot dot dot dot
dot" he flashed across the sky.
"Any fires?" said his message in
the forest code.
NO." came the answer from the
lookout man, who surveys the world
That ended the business talk. Then
came Il question about their sister,
Goldye, and other personal messages
1t was for demonstration and practise
purposes only.
The public's one hope, apparently,
for a free camping ground, lies with
the forest service.
A tract of about 10 acres near the
ridge road and within a short walk of
the peerles view has been offered to
by the forest supervisor some of the
communities of the northern part of
the county. None is at present fnan-
cially abl6 to accept the offer, for it
involves the outlay Of a few hundred
dollars in development Of a perma-
nent water supply.
Forest Supervisor Bowlden now
favors making the camping ground
a sort Of county park. His men
will even go so far as to do the work
of fitting up the place if the county
will furnish the money. The forest
service cannot pay the cost.
Later even this ten-acre tract may
not be available for public use If not
taken now.
And then campers would be COM
PEELED to heed the mo tresspass"
signs and leave the mountain Oh
patronize the pay-as- -you-leave places.
This is worth considering.
The county is spending thousands
of dollars building, in a leisurely but
most effective way, wondrous road
up the east end of Palomar. 1t is
nearly half done. The west end road,
which is in better shape for travel,
taking it from end to end. is access
able to any make of auto. 1t is a
stiff climb but very much worth
while
Eventually, some few years hence.
there will be fine lhountain boule,
ward from end to end of Palomar, and
motorists, will come for hundreds of
miles to get the thrill of a view
along Rainbow drive.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-13
BY Rodney Brink

Ever been up Palomar mountain?
No? Then, as Irv Cobb's delirium
Temens feller said to the fellar who d
never had EN-, you amt been no.
where and you amt seen nothin'."
Palomar is one of California's sew
en- scenic wonders, though, strange to
say, people from all parts of Califor-
MIA and from other states admit it
more readily than do residents of San
Diego county.
It's Yosemite inverted
It's the forest primeval.
It's more than mile high.
It's inconceivable from any point ex-
cept on its own mammoth and gorge
ously beautiful summit
Its far from being an impossible
climb for any healthy automobile of
any make. Use west end road up,
Ipreforred.
San Diegans who not wisely to sig
nifty familiarity with the subject
when San Diego's back country is
mentioned and who have never been
to Palomar's crest, ought to be very
tmuch ashamed.
was one of these and | am duly
penitent.
| had even been around the base of
the great mountain from Warmers to
Rincon, but even that gave no hint of
the wonders that lay above the cloud
line on the giant crest.
1t is a solemn fact that the heart
of the Slerras has little if any to sur
pass the short vistas that grace the
peaks of Palomar.
And it is 8, solemn fact that the
view south and east from the Rim
drive is one of the most inspiring
in the entire Golden State.
All of Palomar mountain is situat-
ed within the Cleveland national
forest and is protected by the rangers
of the forest service.
Some day some chap with an ath-
letic typewriter is going to write a
real he man tale Of that service and
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-10
AMITY, SEVEN MILES WEST OF HOLLY,
REPORTED WIPED OUT BY
RIVER FLOOD.
DAMAGED
ROCKY FORD, MANZANOLA, PROWERS, LAS
ANIMAS, GRANADA, SWINK N
LAMAR ARD HIT.

walton Army, Fitzsimons Hospital,
Fort Logan and many others put forth
every effort to supply necessaries for
the thousands of homeless.
Forty-one undertakers from Denver
took special train for Pueblo Sunday
morning to assist in caring for the
dead. Trinidad SEM "A carload of pro
visions, Victor, Colorado Springs and
other towns responded nobly to the call
of the distressed city.
Governor ShOup took up his resi-
dence at Colorado Springs in order Ia
be as near the scene of disaster as pos
sihle. First hand reports to him by
Representative Iver daley and State
Pure Food Inspector W. +. Cannon on
Sunday morning shows that the total
number of dead would never be known,
that scores of bodies will he
found, either because they are buried
under tons Of sand or destroyed in
some Of the fires that ragged, and
caused this statement to be issued by
the governor:
"The Pueblo flood is much worse
than the disaster attending the earth
quake and fire in san Francisco. The
exact number Of dead may never be
known. Scores Of bodies may never
be recovered
Every possible assistance has been
rushed To Pueblo in an effort Ia relieve
The situation rs much as possible.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-10
Pueblo Menaced by Filth.

Colorado Springs.-A special dis
patch from Pueblo says: ~"Shrouded
in inky blackness, only relieved by an
occasional flicker of a blazing build.
ing, Pueblo people have gathered foi
the fight to overcome the disaster
which nearly overwhelmed ii Friday
night with a loss TO property conserva'
lively estimated AT between $1,000,
600 and Sll,0o0.000 and a casualty list
set now AZ not less than 800.
The most serious problem facing
the smelter city is that of sanitation.
according to Robert Cast, chief of the
sanitation commission Of the Pueblo
chapter Of the Red Cross. who has is.
sued an urgent appeal for aid.
"Puehlo's Sl.0O0,000 courthouse
houses 600 homeless. The schools.
churches, public buildings and hun.
dreds of private homes are housing
countless others left destitute by the
flood. The destitute are being fed AT
the rate of 600 an hour by the Red
Cross, which has nobly responded t.
the tremendous demands for assist
ance. But despite the well-organized
efforts To take care of its unfotunates.
the city must have outside aid and al
once
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-10
Platte River Goes over Banks.

The flood gates of Bergen and Har-
riman lakes above Denver were raised
ia allow the flood waters to escape
down the Platte river, that the dams
could take care of the extra water let
loose by the breaking of the Beaver
dam. This caused the river to over
flow it's banks in Denver and a neal
panic ensued when the police ent out
warning to people living along the low
land next to the river. No loss of life
was reported and all danger was soon
yer The police of the city used ev.
cry precaution to see that no was
allowed to cross any of the bridges
which the raising water was threaten
ing. The water In some instances run.
ming within two feet of the floors OF
the bridges.
Nearly 100 families around Jerome
Park and In the Nalverde districts
were compelled to seek higher ground.
Two to four feet of water standing In
the houses in hat district.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-10
U. S. Asked for SIS, ooo, 900 Aid.

Colorado Springs.-Governor Shoup
is asked to appeal to the federal gov
eminent for an appropriation of So
100000 of which S2.Oo0,OO0 may be I'M
mediately available, in a telegram re-
ceived at his home from James l..
Lovern, president of the city council
of Pueblo, Frank S. Hoag. chairman
levee repair committee +. +, Withers,
president Pueblo waterworks: G. X.
McHarg, president Arkansas Valley
Ditch Association.
The text of the message follows:
Hon. Oliver ii. Shoup, governor,
Colorado Springs:
Late estimates Of total property and
state line, is from fifteen TO twenty
million dollars. Damage In Pueblo
city and county alone Will total six TO
eight million dollars. Federal govern.
ment expends millions of dollars to
improve and repair levees in all see.
lions of the country. We now ask for
government to appropriate sum of So,
O0O,oo0, of which the sum of S2,GoO,-
o may be Immediately available for
purpose of repairing and improving
Arkansas river and Fountain river
levecs and removing debris from cities
damaged, of which Pueblo should have
at least and one-half million dol.
lars Immediately. Impossible 10 ascer-
tain loss of life, owing Ia impossibility
of removing debris without great f.
%nancial assistance. but Pueblo alone
will show several hundred people
drowned when debris is removed"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-10
Las Animas Flooded.

Las Animas, Colo.-Four Mexicans
are reported drowned, houses in the
lower section of the city swept from
their foundations and the entire city
vas surrounded by waters ranging in
depth from n to six feet. Residents
fleeing from the residential districts
of the city to the hills. Owing &c
flooding of the lighting plant the
city was in darkness, adding to the
terror of the people. The sugar fac
tory here has been flooded out and
water reached a depth of six feet
in the company offices and through
out the plant. The bridge over the
Arkansas river here was washed
out. All telephone lines were car.
ried away. The river is swollen and
has o~verflowed its banks. The -four
Mexicans reported drowned are sugar
factory employees who were in the
company houses near the plant. They
did not heed warnings of the oncom.
ing flood. 1t is feared others may
have persisted in the wall of water
which struck the city late in the
evening.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-10
EYE WITNESS
TELLS OF HORROR
HOUSES TOPPLE OVER FILLED
WITH WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
Devastation Wrought by Fire n
Water at Pueblo Beyond
Description.

Colorado Springs.-The devastation
wrought by fire and flood at Pueblo is
beyond description, according TO c. s.
R%ailsback, formerly of this city, now
special agent of the Santa Fe at Pu-
eblo.
Mr.. Railsback made his way to Colo
RADIO Springs by special Santa Ft mo-
tor car in an effort to get into COM
munication with La Junta over the
Union Pacific wires TO order q special
relief train to the scene of the disas-
ter.
Hundreds of lives were lost and
millions Of dollars in property were de-
s~troyed,' said Railshack. The main
business district of the city Quilted by
fire and water, and il probably never
will be known how many hundreds of
people persisted,
The entire residence districts in
several of the lowlands were complete
ly wiped out. l spent the entire night,
with hundreds of others, rescuing wom-
en and little children from the flood,
and my mind is So befuddled that l
can badly talk about the thing, II
was horrible beyond description.
Il saw several frame rooming houses
topple over, plunge into the raging tor
rent, each filled with screaming wom-
en- and children. The scene was sick
ening.'
Mr.. Railsback said at m time there
was fifteen feet of water running
through the Santa Fe yards, In fact,
the yards We're completely destroyed.
To add to the horror of the flood,
fires broke out all over the city, not
only in the business district, but in
many residence sections.
The largest business houses of the
city. including the big banks. Crews
Beggs, White & Davis, Straub's trunk
factory, the King lumber yard and
many others were wrecked by water or
completely destroyed 10y fire, accord
ing to Railshack.
The river broke over its banks near
the state insane asylum, and soon
there was Il raging torrent from the
high cliffs to the west of the union
depot to Seventh street.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-10
DENVER I'VE STOCK.
Cattle.


All classes of beef steers moved
slowly. Quotations on best heavy
weight stock ranged from s7;25 TO
$3.50. Good types sold at " ana STl5,
down. One load of desirable light
weight mixed yearling steers ana helf-
ers sold for s7.S5. the top sale OF the
day. Another string of mixed year
lings brought s7.75.
Cows and heifers moved but little
better than Def steers. The best fe-
males in the offering, one load OF
lightweight mixed cows and helfers.
sold for s6.65. A small string OF light
weight cows found an outlet at $3.50.
Good grades of heavy cows We're
quoted from Sc to $685., one load of
1,232-pound stock selling at the latter
price.
Fair kinds of females brought quota
common types at si.75 and down.
Little business was transacted on
the stocker department. Inquiry was
slightly stronger than on Wednesday,
but. with little desirable fresh stock
on hand. trading was almost at a
standstili. Quotations on stock cows
and heifers ranged from 81 to 50, with
steers from IS to s6.25.
Hogs.
Top hogs sold at S7.75, one drove OF
ten head Of strictly choice light weight
stock selling at this level. Another
lOH0 SOFA LOT ef.hDs WHICH was n l'"'
top. Others found an outlet at $3.50,
s7.55, and $3.50. Bulk sales ranged
from $500 to $40. Extreme heavy
and cutout hogs were quoted around
the Sc mark.
Few pigs were offered. Inquiry was
fair. but in sympathy with the recent
declines in hog values, the undertone
was weak. Quotations ranged up to
$500.
sheep.
The offering of the sheep market
consisted of ten carloads of California
spring lambs.
The best springs in the offering,
three carloads of choice light stock.
averaging between 20 and ~ pounds,
sold for s11.75. the highest price
reached since the first slump of the
recent decline. More common grades
were quoted at corresponding levels.
Values on other classes of lambs
were uncertain.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-10
PUEBLO BATTLES BACK TO LIFE
30 DEAD in ARKANSAS VALLEY
List Of Destroyed Business Houses.

Pleblo.-Thirty Pueblo business
firms have been totally destroyed by
the flood. Many of them lie in
ruins. Others have been swept
away altogether. But two are COW
ered by flood insurance. The list OF
businesses considered a total loss fol
lows: Watkins Hat and Clothing
Shop; Griffin Style Shop; Gross and
Wildin; Barnheim Outfitters; Dean
Creel Furniture Company; Rosen's
Clothes Shop; Palace Drug Store;
Mccarthy Embalming Parlors; Prior
Furniture Co.; Western National
Bank; Hawkins-White Furniture
Co; Kress 10-cent Store; United CT
gar Store; Dixon and Miller; Sellers
Confectionery; Knibel Sporting
Goods Company; Penter Cigar Com
pany; White-Davis Clothing Com
pany; F. w. Woolworth 10-cent
Store; Ellington Cafe; Rushmer
~Jewelry Store; Hosman Drug Com
IdHN II. l.. TldZtl oduultl. JULIE
Brothers Furniture Store; West
Bros, Jr.. Furniture Store; Dixon
Stump Bottling Company; Kniebel
Bottling Company; Jack Gray, bar
her; II. Il. King Commission Com
pany; Hinckle-Duke Mercantile Com
pany; Colorado Bedding Company;
Brinkley-Douglas Fruit Company;
Forbush Ice Company; Straub Trunk
Company, destroyed by fire; King
Investment Company, burned; offices
of the Arkansas Valley Railroad,
Light and Power Company; Pueblo
Savings Bank; Crews-Beggs Dry
Goods Company; Taub Brothers
Haberdashery; Winch-Slayden Sta
tioncry Company; Tom Brown Shoe
Store; Churchill Jewelry Company;
Pueblo Carriage Company; Pueblo
Auto Company; Newton Lumber
Company. One entire city block, be-
tween First and Second streets on
Santa F6 vas entirely destroyed
every building being demolished,
Between Third and Union streets on
Santa Fe, Main and Court streets,
buildings were completely destroyed,
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-10
Rich Pueblo Man Killed.

Pueblo, Colo.-Emost f.. WitherS,
one of the most prominent men of
Pueblo, was Killed 10y an unidentified
guard nj Grand avenu and Eighth
street. Capt. Arthur Talbot in
charge of that district, has American
Legion men, National Guardsmen and
others searching for the slayer. Mr..
Wilhers ana his son, Granville, We're
in AN automobile driving out Grand
avenue, according to Granville. At
Eighth avenue a man ON guard called
Halt :" and, said Granville, he shot
Immediately, although Mr.. Wirhcrs
was obeying the order. Mr.. Withers
was shot through the head and crum-
Piled dead at the wheel.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-10
Train Turned Over.

The overturning Of a Denver 4 Rio
Grands passenger train with 80 pas
sengers on board In the railroad yards
at Pueblo is the outstanding disaster
Of the storm as far as railroad traf.
fic is concerned. The passengers were
removed to the Nuckolls Packing plant,
where physicians hastily summond at
tended to the injured. The train left
Denver carrying $50 passengers. large
ly excursionists to the Pacific coast.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-10
Enormous Property Damages.

Millions Of dollars of farm property
was lost in the flood of the Arkansas
river. From Pueblo east to the Kan.
sas line on both sides of the river, en-
fencing. machinery and stock all swept
on by the raging waters, II is thought
that many people may have persisted
on the farms and the lowlands Of the
valley along the river. hut the exact
number will not be known for some
time. Nearly yer own in the Ar
kansas valley suffered more or less
damage and loss to property and life.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-10
Germans Get Light Sentence.

Paris-The allies are dissatisfied
with the lightness of the sentences
which are being imposed upon convict
ed German officers in the war Grimm
ais trials at Leipzig. Conversations
are being exchanged between London
and Paris, il has been learned. with a
view to the possible reopening Of the
whole question of war criminals. Two
Germans have been tried and convict
ed. The first was sentenced TO ten
months for brutal treatment Of British
var prisoners
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-10
Home FIoated Half a Mile.

Loveland, Colo.-One of the freaks
attendant upon the flood in this sec
zion occurred when the home of ].
Ament, six miles from here. was
washed from its foundations and car
ried down the swollen river for al
most a half mile. There were ten
persons in the house at the time
Ament, his wife and eight children.
None was injured and all. apparent
", are no worse for their experience.
The house stopped floating when II
damned against a grove Of trees.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-10
Pueblo Flooded In 1894.

Pueblo was swept by a flood on May
81, 1894. when Fountain river was
swollen TO a torrent by a downfall Of
rain and series of cloudbursts all along
the eastern slope of the Continental
divide. According to the newspaper
reports printed on June 2, 1894, the
flood of twenty-seven years ago was
similar to that which has just taken
place. The 1894 flood in Pueblo was at
least fifteen feet deep and remained
at high level for several hours.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-10
HAY AND GRAIN PRICES.
Hay.
American Mining Man Killed.

Nogales, Ariz.AThe body of Christie
pher r. Larsen, an American mining
man. was found near a mine of the FL
Tigre Mining Company in Sonora, ac-
cording TO a report received by the
American consul at Nogales, Sonora,
across the border from here. The re-
port to the consul said Larsen appar-
emily had been murdered and that in
dications were that his body had been
dragged quite a distance after his
death.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-10
MARKETS
- Furnished by -
u. s, BUREAU OF MARKETS
Washington, D. c.

Fruits and Vegetables.
Sacked round white potatoes down
1og2tc per 100 pounds at Min m e sns
Chicago car-iot market down zoe at
so q CSC. South Carolina Irish cobblers
continued to decline in eastern mar
p psis; S StS:inf ;l. 81 New New Y ok At tn ss'1sS
400 per cloth top Stat barrel.
est price of the season, on the 3lst, fol-
lowing declining prices due to GOOD
rains In Southwest n reports OF
wheat shipped to Chicago to deliver on
contracts. Trading oil the 3lst was OF
an evening up character with price
changes uncertain n wild at times.
Bullish reports on winter wheat py
private experts and removal OF un,
an active market on the first and July
advanced to a new high level. Senti-
ment more bullish. Government weekly
crop and weather report shows aes
advanced readily. Cash market firm;
country offerings rather small on ac-
count of bad condition of country
roads and press of farm work, In M
wheat, s1.57; No. 2 hard. 1857; No. .
mixed corn, Csc; No. 3 yellow corn,
Csc; No. 8 white oats. Ale. For the
week Chicago July wheat up 44sc at
lot II u .'f'
Minneapolis July wheat down sac al
S1.32lk; Kansas City July up &c at
s1.3Oh; Winnipeg July up 3&s al
s1.72s.
Demand very quiet. Eastern markets
dull. Some accumulation in central
western markets during holiday caused
declines of 50cQsl. Country loading
very light. No. l timothy quoted New
York s29, Chicago s22,. Minneapolis
s19. Cincinnati s20.50,. Atlanta s2s. No.
l alfalfa, Memphis s26, Atlanta sSS.
No. ] prairie, Kansas City $l4.
Market fairly steady. Wheat feeds
down about 81. Linseed meal up bOc
in many markets. Cottonseed meal dis
plays an easier tendency. Corn feeos.
alfalfa meal and other feed prices well
maintained demand light; stocks and
receipts good. Minneapolis report
market weak on freer offerings or
wheat feeds and linseed meal. Kansas
City and st. Louis market draggy.
Live stock and Meats.
Chicago hog prices declined rs q 35c
net per 100 pounds the past week; Beef
steers and butcher cows generally 25c
higher. Feeder steers steady; Fat
lambs up csc. Fat ewes down 500 75c.
June / Chicago prices; Hogs, bulk OF
sales. S7.75QS.10; medium and good
and heifers. $4,000 SIS; feeder steers,
S7.OOQS.25; light and edium weight
veal calves, $500 $50; fat lambs, 1919
M12.25; yearlings, S6.75q1O.5O; lat
ewes, 49, 90 Q4.75..
Stocker and feeder shipments from
IL important markets for the week
ending May 27th were: Cattle and
calves, 32,737; hogs, S,074; sheep, 1918.
Dairy Products.
Butter markets steady during tho
week under fairly active storing demand
but prices practically unchanged. CLOS
ing prices, 92 score: New York 29c,
chicago 2Shc, Philadelphia and Boston
soc.
Cotton.
Spot cotton prices declined points
the past week, closing ll.5lc per
pound. New York futures down ID
points at 12.14c.