The Ordway new era., 1921-09-09
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


izens of that county possessing o'o''
motor vehicles of various sorts III '"''
time. Denver county, whlel s'"''',s
first on the list, has 3l,5iS; Elfhso Is
third with 6.4l5: Pueblo is fourth win
5.4so. and Larimer fifth with o'u'-'
Yuma county, which has the I""e9'
number of passenger cars leads the
state in trucks. with 406 Adams couh-
~ has 2,26T cars and 2i7 trucks 10,
gan county less than 1000 cars ana -"
trucks and Larimsr county mas ~
trucks. The total registration for me
state is 117.2o4 passenger ears ''+o-
trucks and S23 motorcycles.
The finest state urnmy in the West
is at Pueblo. II will house two Splen,
did units of the Colorado National
Guard. Battery y and Troop c. Troop
e has already received about forty
finely trained cavalry horses from the
War Department. and sixty more are
expected soon. Battery A Is to be
p0uipned with the very best field ar
tilIery. also from the uation'S war pe-
partment. Both of these army uhitS
lid splendid service during the great
Pueblo flood. and their usefulness To-
rally and for the state is sure 10 be up
to the highest military standard. me
armory is TO be fashioned after the
armory at Philadelphia, and will cost
100000 or more.
A new cave of vast proportions has
been discovered about five miles
southwest of Victor, in Fremont coun-
ty. 1t is believed by persons who nave
explored it partially that the cave
probably extends a mile or more The
cavern is in the carboniferous lime for
nation and not far from the juncture
of Wilson and High creeks, Spacious
halls, with beautiful stalactite and sta
lagmite formations pillaring their walls
run far off into the eChoing and uneX-
plored distance Abrupt cliffs in the
floors make exploring extremely diff
cult \ rock thrown over one of these
dark abysses did not reach bottom
for eight seconds
The Loveland Rotary Club has taken
the boy question ln hand Deciding
that the Boy Scout movement is one
of the best builders OF manly charac-
ter, the Rotarians are preparing to
establish scout camp In the canon
along the Thompson river A com
mittee of four members of the club
and Scoutmaster Armstrong went to
the hills to look over sites and de-
cided on the location. Construction of
the camp will be started at once, and
will be completed for occupancy next
summer.
The LOvelund Chamber of Commerce
has started an advertising campaign
for the city. Five thousand folders OF
the free camping ground are being is
sued, and 10000 small booklets with
scenes of Loveland and Estes Park
will be issued this winter More signs
will be posted along the roads leading
to Loveland, and special news feature
articles will be sent TO various trad,
publications of the country.
Work of rebuilding dikes on tn,
South Side reservoir, near Berthoud
that went out during the flood of June
tract calls for the rebuilding of 1T,00t
cubic yards of earth embankment witt
cement filling. Ii is planned 10 fmisl
the dikes in time to catch water from
the fall rains this year.
Denver employees of the Colorado s
Southern railroad will hold their elev
enth annual picnic on Sunday. Sept
at Idaho Springs. More than 200 em
ployee and members of their familie
are expected to attend.
Many new and novel exhibits iron
far eastern and southern states are an
nounced as coming TO this years Colo
RADIO State Fair at Pueblo while ther
will be entertaining features never be
fore seen in the West.
The Greeley factory of the Empso
| Packing Company broke all record
when 1t received 140 tons of gree
beans for canning from Greeley grow
ers.
Revenue collections from Colorad d
for the 1921 fiscal year We're S33, $50
S6l.21 in comparison with S35,727
9JI.26 for 1920 This is a decrease q
per cent compared with the 10 pc
cent decrease for the entire countr,
| The Colorado collections were divide
between SO 5,0S i,574.17 from incom
and profits taxes, and SS,S76,2ST. O
from miscellaneous taxes. Only thi
| teen states showed increased collie
tions, 21 per cent in West vi
sinia being the largest.
one Of the largest real estate deal
in eastern Colorado was closed whe
George Waters of Kit Carson trade
ms 2,3I'-acre ranch, 2,300 head of ca
tie and all personal property to III
| Siemens brothers of Colorado Spring
for income property in that city. TIL
| city property was put in at $500,
while the land was valued at $50 a