The Raymer enterprise., 1922-03-30
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

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struction Of the Moffat tunnel, Gov.
ernor Shoup announced at luncheon
Of the members council Of the Denver
Civic and Commercial Association. ITO
save the people Of our state the Not.
fat railroad and TO build for the fu-
ture, we must build the Moffat tun.
nel,' he said. "The creation Of the Pu-
ebo flood control district and the
building Of the tunnel will distribute
more than sl0,O00,00O In Colorado In
wages and In pay for supplies. All
the money will be spent in the state.
Colorado labor and Colorado supplies
will be used.
CnGon City.-Litigation of q far.
reaching character growing out Of the
floods Of last June has been institu-
ted In the courts Of Fremont and Tel
Ter counties involving both the Arkan-
sas Valley Railway, Light and Power
Company and Beaver Water and Ir.
rigation Company In suits for heavy
damages on account Of losses result
Ing from the bursting Of dams and
reservoirs along Beaver creek on June
., 1921. Dispatches have told Of the
filing Of suits for damages agsregat-
Ing $4,000 by the Beaver Water and
Irrigation Company against the Ar
kansas Valley Railway, Light and
Power Company for the destruction Of
the Schaeffer dam and reservoir.
Colorado oil shales contain
twice MS much oil rs has been pro.
duced In the U. s. to date. This was
the statement Of p. g. Worcester Of
the University Of Colorado In an ad-
dress here recently. There are Co..
100000 barrels Of oil In Colorado
shales to be recovered" he said. "The
state hns fifty-foot bed OF shale GOV.
ering 1900 square miles. The recent
development Of coal, carnotlte, shale,
molybdenum. uranium and other non.
metallic resources have more than nc-
counted for the loss In copper, silver,
lead and gold"
Colorado Springs.--Although every
effort Is being made to find Mary
Louise Cleary, she has neither been
seen nor heard Of In Colorado Springs,
and therefore does not know that
legacy Of $4,000 has fallen to her.
The will Of Adolph Norden, who died
In New York city, gave the sum OF
$4,000 to Mary Louise Cleary OF
Camp Stratton near Colorado Springs.
who was described In the document
as my faithful nurse and friend"
Grand Junctlon-A posse Of sherlffs,
citizens and rangers have been gone
thlrty.six hours On man hunt through
the wilds Of Paradox Valley. They
are after Roy Stevens. cow-puncher
and alleged gunman. who Is said to
have murdered two men, whose names
have not yet been learned, at q ranch
two miles from Monticello, Utah, Just
over the Col0rado.Utah boundary.
Sheriff Dorsey Of Montrose is in
charge Of the posse.
Fort Collins.-Eleven recent burg.
laries Of Colorado & Southern depots
and freight cars In Fort Collins, Wind.
sor. Berthoud and Loveland are
charged to Earl Anderson. day tele-
graph operator, and Cecil B. Read,
cashier, at the Fort Collins freight
depot, who were arrested by Sheriff
Frank Smith and his deputies after
investigations extending over a Pc
riod OF several weeks.
Denver.-Notices Of the dissolution
and discontinuance Of business Of two
state banks were filed with Secretary
Of State Carl S. Milllkcn. Business
operators of the two banks, the lift
State Bank at Tiff and the Wellington
State Bank at Wellington, were sus-
pended by agreement Of the stockhold-
ers. All debts were fully paid.
Colorado Springs.-Plans for build.
Ing new railroad between Colorado
Springs and Ordway were explained
to the local Chamber Of Commerce by
members Of the promoting company
from Denver. The proposed road Is
to be known as the Denver, Colorado
Springs 4 Southeastern railway.
Fort Collins.-The Hoof and Horn
Club has just been formed at the Col.
orado Agricultural college for the pur.
pose Of financing the trip to the In.
ternatlonal Stock Show at Chicago
next full for the Aggie stock. Judging
team. Prof. George E. Morton, head
Of the college animal husbandry de-
partment, is sponsoring the club.
Denver.-One thousand acres Of vir-
tually barren land on the eastern
slope Of Pixies Peak will be reforested
this spring with 850O00 Engelmann
spruce and Douglas Fir trees by the
local United States forest service. &C
cording to an announcement by Allen
8. Peck, district forester.
Delta, Colo.-Reuben Fluke, a Grip
pie rs years old, shot and killed Ar
thur McConville, 40 years old, at the
Fluke ranch at Crawford, forty miles
from here. The shooting climaxed a
quarrel In which McConville is said to
have attacked Fluke.
Colorado Springs.-The Methodist
Episcopal church In America has noti.
fled the Chamber of Commerce Of the