The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1921-11-05

twenty-one years has reached Its pres
ent enormous dimensions.
Construction Of seibert's $4,000 wa
terworks system has been started by
the Beeson Machinery Company of
Kansas City. Work on the $4,000
light system also started, current to be
brought by heavy transmission lines
from Flagler, twelve miles to the west.
The $25, 600 addition to the high school
building was recently completed and
the consolidated district now brings
pupils from the most distant parts in
four big school buses, the largest in
this part of the state.
There are 272,OOO dairy cattle in
Colorado and the dairy products ag
gregate 1927. 756967 in value annually.
These products are butter, ice cream,
cheese, condensed milk, milk, cream.
matted milk and other manufactured
products. If you make it point to
buy Colorado dairy products you are
doing your bit in the upbuilding of one
of the states most promising indus
tries.
A $250,000 bond issue has been au-
thorized by the stockholders of the
Beaver Land and Water Company for
the construction OF new dam south
the Shaeffer dam washed out by the
flood last June. The now dam will
make possible the irrigation of 1000
additional acres in the Beaver Park
country.
Adams county tax collections for the
month Of September this year were
more than SO per cent in excess of the
collections for September, 1920, &C
cordinE to the county treasurer. The
1921 figure was $4,000, as against
$4,000 for 1920. This indicates an i'm
prOvement in general conditions.
There are 59,934 farms with 24,462,-
Ola acres in Colorado, and the value
of farm property is $1,O76,794, 749, and
the average size Of the farms is 4O8
acres. Now the question: Are you do
ing your share in buying the products
of these farms to make them prosper
Gus? That's real home industry.
Mrs J. l.. Leroy, 81 years old, was
killed instantly at Florence when run
over by n freight train. The engineer
standing by the side of the track near
some bushes as his engine approached
the place. When 1t was almost at the
point she either fell or threw herself
before the engine. There was no indi-
cation Of any purpose on her part, he
said. previous to the act, but the train
was 30 close to her that no action was
possible on his part.
Sight of mans hand sticking out
of the ground led to frantic, though
unsuccessful attempt to save the life
of ]. c. Grain. go, a teamster, who was
buried beneath a sand slide in a gray
el pit near Colorado Springs. Police
officers and street department en-
ployes dug Grains body out of the pit,
but his pulse, which had been flutter-
ing feebly in his hand when he was
discovered. had stopped.
Colorado is one of the leading pro-
ducing states in alfalfa meal, there
being several large mills scattered in
the agricultural districts OF the state.
Those familiar with this product de-
clare that Colorado alfalfa makes the
finest meal OF any alfalfa grown in
the country.
Colorado has contributed more gold
to The world than any other state in
the Union, and there are many gold
producing countries that have not con-
tributed as much. Up to Jan. /, 1921,
the total value Of the gold output of
Colorado was 1851 .330.6o6. 1t was gold
that created the West and this gold
came from Colorado.
Mrs Adrianna HungerfOrd of Den
yer was elected president OF the Colo
RADIO w. C. T. U. at the annual con-
vention at Colorado Springs. This is
the eighteenth successive time she has
been chosen.