The Raymer enterprise., 1921-08-11
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEM.

Of the San Luis valley drainage dis
trict No. / work OF laying tile In the
covered drains will soon be resumed.
In this district, which lies just south
Of La lara, Is some 10000 acres Of
land which was once very productive,
but which became seeped through the
irrigation Of the higher surrounding
land. The open drainage canal, about
eleven miles In length, was completed
last year and several Of the covered
lateral drains were put In. Then the
work was stopped until more funds
were available. Now arrangements
are being completed for carrying on
the work.
The Colorado Fuel 4 Iron Company
is letting a contract to the c. s. Lam
bic Construction Company Of Pueblo
for the building Of fifty houses, which
are to be sold at cost and on easy
payments to employees Of the company
who lost their homes In the flood. The
total sum to be expended will be close
to $4,000, and the houses will be Of
three. four. five and SIX rooms, all
thoroughly modern. They will be
built near the old G. r. 4 I. hospital,
work to begin ut once.
Hereafter MontrOse nremen will not
be In danger Of being run over by auto.
lists following them to fire. The
City Council has passed an ordinance
forbidding any automobile to be with
in 200 feet of fire apparatus going to
fire. Complaint has been filed frs-
quently with the council that when
ever the companies turn out they are
followed by stream Of autos racing
after them, and when the men spring
to make coupling they are In danger
Of being run down.
Two bandits with ropes let a third
down the side Of a Pullman car on
Denver 4 Rio Grande train No. 2 be-
tween Grand Valley and Rifle, and he
cut the screens In the windows and
robbed three hammocks In the berths.
One woman reported the loss Of 500
in travellers checks and $40 In cash.
and two other passengers reported
losses, but the amount was not made
public. So far as Is known only the
three hammocks were robbed.
Despite the fact that he drove his
closed automobile off the side Of a
bridge between Colorado Springs and
Manitou, pinning himself In the wreck.
age on his head, H. C. Reynolds Of
Oklahoma City, Okla, escaped injury.
The machine landed upside down In
creek bed. Campers In the vicinity
witnessed the accident and rushed to
the scene and extricated Reynolds
from the wreckage.
The body of Daniel Cook, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Cook, will be
brought to Loveland from France for
burial early in August, according to
word received from the War Depart
ment He was wounded In action In
France and died of his wounds In a
hospits, The American Legion will
have chaEIe of the funeral and give
the body ,fililary burial
Announcement mss been made that
the state firemen's meeting to be held
in Loveland. September 5, 4 I and s.
will be opened each day by prayer.
A Catholic priest will pronounce the
invocation on the first day and min
listers of different Protestant denom-
nations will follow on succeeding
days.
C. S. Mills Of Las Anlmas, Colo,
suffered possibly fractured skull and
his son, Leo Mills, Is suffering from
internal injuries as the result Of a
collision between their automobile and
another machine on a curve near
KellOg, Idaho. The Mills car left the
road and rolled down a 100foot EN-.
bankment.
An increase In attendance is re-
ported by the university summer
school at Boulder. The total for the
second term is 1.2i6 as against S74 a
year ago. During the first term the
registration was 1851 compared with
1907 In 1920 The total for the sum-
mer is 3,197 as against 2,lSl In 1920.
| Richard Hart, % years old, son of
a prominent mining man Of Red Cliff,
was killed and five others narrowly
escaped death when an automobile In
which the party was returning to Red
Cliff from Leadville, plunged down a
thirty.fOot embankment four miles
west of Tennessee pass.
| According to the coroner's jury,
faulty construction Sof the cable line
was responsible for the Grand Valley
accident when seven men were killed.
The breaking Of three-eighths-lnch
steel cable which was lowering the car
was given In a report to the coroner
az the cause Of the accident.
At the closing session Of the annual
convention of the Colorado Bar Asso.
citation, held at Colorado Springs, the
following officers were elected: Geo.
G. Manly Of Denver, president; r. s,