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Gunnison news-champion., 1922-08-25

ed. Go out in the back room, un-
pack them and fit yourself"
A very conservative estimate OF
last years tourist business in Colo
RADIO is $35, 900 900, which places the
tourist business on q par with any
other single industry in the state.
In California in 1920, the tourist ch6p
yielded $3.50, 900 900, which exceeded
the total income from the orange,
lemon and nut crops in that state. A
prominent Buena Vista merchant
kept q check on what he absolutely
knew to be pure tourist business In
his store for one week last summer,
and was amazed to find it totalline
$500. Several Canon City business
men in 1920 variously estimated their
tourist business at from 5000 to
S35, 900 and upon keeping careful
check in 1921 they found that the
years tourist business amounted to
$4,000, with another $4,000 which
a tourist permanently invested In tn
community. Which explains in .
large measure why Canon City 4
now going after the tourist trade -
strong.
Mr. Carhart went on to state TIT
the average man on his vacation wa
disguised with transplanted city con-
ditions and wanted a touch Of rough
ing it" Too many auto campeEu
plan long transcontinental vacation
trip, with so much scenery at -
many miles per hour. Three ye6xs
ago the fashionable Hotel Colorado
at Glenwood Springs had practically
no demand for saddle horses, but thiH
year they could not begin to supply
the demand.
The speaker pointed out two Hnee
of development along the tourist ~
Continued on page fousl
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-08-25
TOURIST BUSINESS ONE OF
GREAT STATE INDUSTRIES

1.-THE Dude Wrangling' industry is
equal in magnitude to any other in
dustry in the state of Colorado, and
should be placed on businesslike in
dustrial footing" was the purport Of
an address delivered before the
Chamber Of Commerce Wednesday
night by Arthur Carhart, recreation-
engineer for the U. s. Forest Ser
vice.
Mr.. Carhart stands alone in his
profession as recreation engineer,
and has charge Of development
along recreational lines within the
26 National Forests. He has been
looking over the Gunnison Forest
this week and making q survey Of
the recreational possibilities Of this
section.
Mr.. Carhart stated that far too
little Importance has been attached
to the business side Of recreation,
and that many people failed to realize
the amount Of money involved in the
annual pilgrimage Of tourists to such
recreational centers as Colorado.
The people as a whole have been slow
in recognizing the basic soundness OF
the recreation business. Every hu-
man being must have relief from
routine and a chance to rebuild his
mental and physical being. And the
outdoors is the greatest recreational
factor of all.
In handling the tourist proposition,
far too many communities have been
content with putting on an advertise
ing campaign with no provision to
properly serve such tourists as might
respond to the advertising. He likcn-
ed this advertising to the case Of a
man who advertises overais for sale
and when a purchaser comes to buy q
pair, tells him: They're not unpack-
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-08-25
REV. JONES WILL HOLD SER
VICES AT SARGENTS q lola

Pastor VIM. /. Jones of the Com
munity Church will conduct services
and preach Sunday morning At IL
o'clock at the Sargents school house.
He will take with him n party Of
musicians to furnish the special
music. and help conduct the services.
Those who went with Mr.. Jones last
Sunday to Pitkin and Doyleville were
Chester Cochran. Mrs, Bowers, Mrs.
Hickson and Miss Jarrett
Rev. Jones will conduct services
and preach ut the school house at
lola Sunday evening at 8 o'clock
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-08-25
R. S. HA|N DIES MONDAY
AFTER LONG ILLNESS

The death of Robert S. Balm oc-
Cured at the family home in Gunni-
son on Monday, August 21st, death
being due to prolonged case OF
miners consumption. Deceased was
well known throughout this section
of the county, having grown to man
hood In this vicinity, and was highly
esteemed by all who knew him.
He had been practically an invalid
for the past three years, and altho
everything possible was done for
him, he continued to fail until the
end.
Robert Sutton Balm, Oldest son Of
c. w. and Mary Sutton Balm was
born in Seward, Nebraska, thirty-six
years ago. He came to Gunnison
county with his parents and has re-
sided in this vicinity ever since. Be
fore he was taken with his fatal ILL
ness he was. engaged in mining near
Ohio City for number of years.
On June 5th, 1915 Mr.. Balm was
married to Miss Margaret McLaugh-.
I'm, dahght4f 6f Mrs. Minnie Nc
Mclaughlin, who survives him. Three
little daughters We're born to thems
Mary, Grace and Alice, the eldest be-
ing six years old.
DeSlueS. Hlb Wue tAftu CiuiuACn 0E-
ceased is survived by his father, and
three brothers, Roscoe, Charles w.
and Walter L. Balm; and four sisters,
Mrs. Alice McWilliams of Fort Lup-
ton; Mrs. Linda Morris of Cherokee,
Iowa; Mrs. Lotta Short, of Brandon,
Iowa and Mrs. Gertrude Vader Of
Parlin. His mother died several
years ago at Parlin.
EuneraI seryices were held Thurs.
day morning from the Community
church at Gunnison, where largo
number Of sorrowing friends from
this city and the surrounding country
gathered to pay their last respects to
their friend. Rev. VIM. I. Jones con-
Quoted the services and preached .
comforting sermon, while Mrs. B. H.
J0rgensen sang.
Sincere sympathy is extended the
bereaved relatives in their hour Of
sorrow, particularly the wife and lit
tie daughters thus deprived Of q low
ing husband and father.
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-08-25

James F. Hutchinson, well known
Western Slope stockman. last week
filed four suits against various of
ficials and ex-officials of Gunnison
county, amounting in the aggregate
to Sl5,5l5.00, alleging that amount
of damages to his cattle thru the fact
that he was assessed taxes in Gunni-
son from 1916 to 1920.
The suits are dated from Montrose
August 13, and were filed in district
court last week by Hutchinson's at
torneys, Fairiamb & Hotchkiss Of
Delta
The largest of the four suits is
directed against A. NJ. Thomas, who
was assessor for Gunnison county in
1920. This suit demands sl2,735,
which Hutchinson alleges is the sum
he lost last year thru the Interrupt
ton to his roundup, caused by the
distraint warrant gotten out against
his stock and horses by county Of
ficials in an effort TO collect taxes
from Hutchinson.
An additional amount of 1928 is
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-08-25
OF COMMERCE RE-
SUMES REGULAR MEETINGS

had paid all or part Of their 1922
dues.
E. M. Nourse, member Of the COM
mittee on head lettuce read the re-
port of Chairman A. e. Winslow on
the activities Of the COMMITTEES and
at the conclusion Of the report, COM
plimented Mr.. Winslow very highly
for his untiring efforts toward max
ing the lettuce experiment in Gunni-
son practical success, which he has
done. There being no representative
Of the Buena Vista Head Lettuce As
sociation in Gunnison, Mr.. Winslow,
the chairman Of this committee, has
devoted . considerable part of his
time toward cooperating and manag-
ing the affairs Of the Gunnison grow
ers, and has overcome innumerable
obstacles in securing the prompt
movement Of the lettuce.
The contents Of the report are COW
cred elsewhere on this page in an
interview with Mr.. Window. He
stated in the report that he had re-
ceived the unfailing and courteous
cooperation Of local railroad officials,
Agent Besls and Yardmast;er ; VIM WInt.
ers, in getting the ears Of lettuce
loaded out. The reason Mr.. Winslow
was not present himself, to deliver
his report was because he was down
in the yards experimenting the ship
ment Of another car Of lettuce.
The final event Of the evening was
an excellent talk by Arthur H. Car
hart, United States Forest Service
recreational engineer, who talked on
the tourist proposition in the light Of
a permanent and steadily growing
industry Of the West. His talk q
covered more thoroly in another
article ON this page.
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-08-25
CRESTED BUTTE Somerset ROAD
IS GREAT FACTOR IN DEvEL-
OPMENT OE THE COUNTY

district, went to Denver and secured
from "John d" himself, $4,000 relief
money, to be used while the mines
were being cleaned ana opened just
after the settlement of the strike.
This $4,000 was used Immediately out
of Crested Butte, starting modern
road toward Irwin. Two years later
the state made an appropriation and
first surveys we've made for q thru
route on what before had been only
vision. 1t was a long stretch of
country, largely uninhabited, but by
assistance of good people of Paonia
and the earnest personal efforts Of
citizens of Crested Butte and Somer-
set, Mr.. Whaken was enabled to Sc
cure funds to keep the wheels NOV
ing. Two years ago the first cars
went thru; last year as high as fifty
autos a day making the trip. In
1922, the season just closing, the con-
dition Of this beautiful road has
been improved fifty per cent, with
everything set to still further widen
the grade and make 1t standard
state highway. Indeed both state
and federal governments have now
become convinced that this highway,
No. So, as joined to No. 81, the Bar
dine Redstone road over Mcclure
pass to Marble and Glenwood, is des-
tined to become q very important
link in the system Of Colorado high
ways and must be very shortly made
standard thruout.
Mr.. Whalen tells US that $4,000
will cover the money SO far spent on
this development project that has
meant 80 much to the people Of
Crested Butte, Somerset and the
Upper North Fork. OF this, practic-
ally all was state, forest and federal
funds, with the exception of last year,
when $4,000 of county money was
spent in widening the grade and
making q real highway Of what was
before that just passable road, on
good grade, but too narrow. 1t is a
fact that most of the funds for this
project have come from outside the
county, and instead Of being burden
on the taxpayers, it has, thru the
efforts Of Mr.. Whalen, been con-
structed with very little cost to them,
and in such manner as to give en-
ployment to nearly two hundred OF
the different miners at times when
they were not working underground.
This season the state appropriated
SIC. 10000 on Highway No. So, from
"Gunnison to Somerset" Part of
this has already been spent on Com
stock hill and other portions OF the
Crested Butte road SO much used by
people from the county seat. The
rest is being employed in cleaning
and widening the grade of the North
Fork road, something that will require
in the future many more thousand
dollars Of state aid. An appropria-
tion Of $500 state funds for the
road up the Muddy over Mcclure
pass to Marble is also being used,
and here the State Highway Board,
convinced at last that this road has
a great future, is ordering an 1S
foot highway from the start. Elmer
Wiley, road foreman on this end, is
building from the forks Of the Mud
Idy toward Lee Creek, and has two
miles sof the most difficult construc-
ton completed. From this on, the
road will enter more open country,
CONTINUED from First Pagc)
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-08-25
.GuBERNATOR|AL CAND|-
DATE VISITS GuNh|s0N

Fred L. Sabin Of La Junta, one of
the three Democratic candidates for
governor, was in our city last night.
Accompanied by Senator Wesley Sta
ley of Arvada, candidate for state
treasurer, and Charley Ginsberg Of
Denver, he is making tour Of West
ern Colorado, coming here from Sag
uache during the afternoon and leay-
ing for Montrose early this morning.
Mr.. Sabin is prominent lawyer Of
Colorado, but is new in the political
field and enjoys an advantage from
that standpoint, since he has no
enemies to placate or sorv spots to
heal. He has very clear and definite
ideas on the leading issues of the
campaign, on industrial peace, free
speech, economy of administration
looping of the useless boards that
cucumber state government, support
of our schools, and the lesser topics
that make up the campaign Of 1922.
News Champion was glad 70 meet
him and find that as a broad minded
Coloradoan, he has this definite pro-
gram, which fulfill not only Demo-
cratic Ideals, but meets very practi-
cal need after four years Of republ-
lean extravaganza and nisrule.
As the campaign stands today, Mr..
'Sabin is unquestionably in the. lead
for the nomination. We have natur-
ally favored DIR. jefferson as West
Slope man and an old friend, but
whatever the issues Of the primary
either of these excellent Democrats
can lead the party to victory. It is
not apparent now whether William
Sweet has look-in for the nominA-
ton. Even his ardent friends are
beginning to wonder why he was
nominated. It will be either Sabin
or jefferson.
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-08-25
HEAD LETTUCE SHIPMENTS
CONTINUE STRONG THIS week

earlier, it is a dangerous business.
There are only about two days
from the time head gets solid
enough to ship until it ''blows up"
by the seed stalk bursting right thru
the lead. Mr.. Causey saw one field
near Buena Vista where sixty acres
were total loss. Irrigation was
done before hot dry spell that made
it impossible to save the crop.
People are hauling by truck
from twenty miles around Salida-
Altho Buena Vista is 200 feet higher
in altitude than the town of Gunni-
son, our climate has cooler nights.
There is no doubt, however, that our
best growing land is from Almont up
East and Taylor rivers, at Baldwin
and the Upper Tomichi. The Sar-
Continued on Fourth Page)
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-08-25

Returning Saturday from Busnn
Vista o. S. Causey declares that he
is really enthusiastic over the head
lettuce industry future for this re-
gion. From many personal inter-
view and examination of fields of
lettuce in the Arkansas valley he is
certain the business is here to stay
and quite as certain that Gunnison
soil and climate are superior to any
thing he saw while away.
While the shipping Of head lettuce
is just getting under way, Mr..
Causey states that there was one
packing crew at Buena Vista with Is
men and another at Salida handling
the narrow gage shipments with sew
en- men. So far the crop has been
soft and quite unsatisfactory in the
Arkansas valley but is getting on
better. Leading experts in the busi-
ness told him that Gunnison undoubt-
edly was the coming region, since
this year had demonstrated beyond
question that attitudes from $500
feet up are superior for lettuce cul-
ture. At the higher attitudes one
gets cool nights and perhaps enough
rain to hold cool days, while at low
attitudes, while the crop comes on
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-08-25
J.F. HUTCHINSON FILES SUITS
AGAINST COUNTY OFFICIALS

asked in this suit for damage TO the
95 head of stock held under the dis
traint warrants last August
Another suit is filed against Mr..
Thomas as assessor in 1917 for the
sum of $ils.60, and q third against
W. 7. Hartman, as assessor in 1916
for $500.
The fourth suit is against Sheriff
Pat Hanlon, demanding $500 TO COW
er the pasture used by the county Of
ficials last August to feed the dis
trained stock seized for taxes.
The Hutchinson cattle case has
been very much In the public eye for
the last year and the outcome is of
very great importance to both tax
payers and tax officials thruout the
state.
Last August Gunnison county Of
ficiaIs issued distraint warrants
against Hutchinson and seized 95
head of cattle and horses for taxes.
Hutchinson had paid no taxes in
Gunnison County, or in any other
county apparently, since 1914, al
though he had been running several
thousand head of cattle on the ranges
of several counties. Hutchinson en-
joined the seizure, and in the hear
ing in the district court, the county
officials were sustained as being
within their rights under the law of
1909, as amended in 1911, governing
the taxation of migrating stock.
Attorneys on both sides agreed to
put the case before the Supreme
court for deciion as to the validity
of this statute, which was done. The
supreme court sidestepped ruling
Of the constitutionality of the statute
and made a decision favoring Hutch
inson on the circumstances of the
particular case in question, and on the
bold assumption that this was double
taxation, which it most certainly was
not. As q consequence Of this deci-
sion Hutchinson got his stock back
and escaped the payment Of any
taxes.
Now he steps forth with a surpris-
ing array of suits against the ex-
assessors from 1916 to 1920, main
tanning that because they assessed
him with taxes, the county officials
last year distrained his stock for the
/ payment Of these taxes. BY dis
training his horses they SO seriously
interrupted the gathering Of his main
bunch Of cattle that he sustained a
loss of $4,000 in not getting them
marketed in time. As matter of
fact, the officials concerned in the
distraining proceedings very oblig-
ingly permitted Hutchinson to use
his horses for the very purpose Of
gathering these cattle.
In 1916 Hutchinson filed his stock
slip personally, and in succeeding
years it was filed by his agent, de-
monstrating his desire to take ad-
vantage Of the very statute he has
endeavored to prove unconstitutional.
Records in the various counties in
which Hutchinson has run his stock,
on good authority are alleged to
fail to show that he has ever paid
a red cent in taxes, and his present
attempt to collect $4,000 from Gun
nison county as reward for his
favoring the Gunnison county range
for several years with his cattle
has all the earmarks Of q piece Of
misplaced Napoleonic genius that
might possibly contain few boone
rang elements.
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-08-25
TOGO RESTAURANT HERE
CHANGES HANDS THIS WEEK

The Togo restaurant on Main St
which has been conducted for several
years by Mr.. and Mrs. R Ito, was
sold this week to Robert Reages.
Mr.. Reages has been chef for super
intendent Leyerich Of the Rio Grande
for some time., and will undoubtedly
handle the large patronage of this
successful eating establishment very
efficiently. He will be assisted by q
cousin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ito left yesterday for
St. Paul, where they will open n JAP
arese novelty shop.
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-08-25

The Crested Butte Somerset road
is the best piece Of internal develop
ment which Gunnison County has
completed during recent years. The
truth of this is impressed on one who
is privileged to make the trip over
this new but excellent highway con-
Meeting the two larger coal camps Of
the county, as was the writer few
days ago.
The great Rainbow Route from
Monarch and Cochctopa passes west
to Montrose is q development project
1t is true, as well as q scenic and
tourist route, but it does not unlock
the totally roadless territory, nor
serve the same population Of th0us-
ands Of citizens in their daily work
and travel.
: From Crested Butte to Somerset
a distance OF 37.3 miles, was ten
years ago a wilderness, in which only
an occasional miner or hunter pene-
trated. Here and there was q saw
mill, or q branding corral. On the
Muddy and Anthracite few ranch
men had settled, lured by the luxuri-
ant vegetation which bespoke q rich
soil underneath. From Somerset to
Delta county line even, there was
only q horse trail, and the ranch
machinery was brought to Somerset
by train and in the winter season
freighted up the ice on the North
Fork. A thousand residents Of the
county had no access to the outside
world by anything better than q
tangled foot path.
Now, all this is changed. There
lis q population Of 1900 in this north
western quarter Of Gunnison county
two-fifths Of them on developed
ranches whose products will soon be
finding the markets in quantity and
whose prosperous homes will mean q
substantial addition to the wealth OF
our, community. At Crested Butte
are q thousand people, whose buSi-
ness and pleasure calls them often
upon this road. The county seat it.
self feels the impetus Of opening a
new rich section and giving it COM
munication by two or three hours
auto ride, where formerly it took a
day by train to do business in Gunni-
son.
On Tuesday Of this week, the etli-
tor of the News-C Champion, in comp
any with Theo. Krueg0r, supervisor
Of the Gunnison Forest, Ray R.Clark,
assistant supervisor, and Arthur H.
Carhart, recreation engineer of the
service, made trip by auto to
Paonia and greatly enjoyed the
scenic beauties of the road as well
as took great pleasure in estimating
the material benefits, small proper
ton Of which are enumerated in this
article.
1t was slightly over = decade ago
in the fall Of 1911 that the writer
took horseback tour Of this section,
detailing some Of its possibilities and
advocating very strongly the building
of what was then called "the Irwin
road" or the Lost Road, ," and of car
rying it thru to Paonia. While ar
ticles and pictures printed at that
time by the News-C Champion excited
much comment, conditions were not
ripe for actual commencement Of
operations until 1914. Following the
long coal mihers' strike Of that year,
W. H. Whalen, then recently appoint
ed county Commissioners for the third
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-08-25

This weeks shipments from Gunni-
son will bring the total up to eleven
cars of prime head lettuce. Prsctic-
ally all Of the lettuce growers in the
vicinity have started shipping this
week and another week or ten days
will see the balance Of the Gunnison
lettuce cut and shipped.
expected about the end Of the week.
Chairman A. Z. Winslow of the
Chamber of Commerce Lettuce COM
mittee, states that from 20 to 20
days ordinarily elapse after shipment
before returns are made.
MIR. Winslow states that regardless
of the fact that the Gunnison lettuce
was handled from Gunnison to Salida
in ordinary narrow gage boxcars, it
reached the Association packing
plant in first class condition and was
forwarded as first grade lettuce. The
Gunnison lettuce has been the subject
of great deal of favorable comment
throughout the state, which, consider
ing the difficulties in handling and
the experimental stage, seems to de-
finitely assure the future of the head
lettuce industry in our valleys.
Difficulty has been encountered in
the supply of crates for shipment Of
the lettuce. The Association people
at Buena Vista sent over 1900 crates
some time ago, and these have been
exhausted this week. Buena Vista
is painfully short of crates and asked
for the return of some of the Gunni-
son crates, which indicates no hopes
of local growers getting any more
crates from that source. The Gunni-
son growers have placed ah order
for q thousand crates from each of
the two Gunnison lumber companies,
and have been given a price that only
amounts to about two cents more
per crate than the factory price,
which is quite reasonable considering
the apparent impossibility of secur-
| ing crates at once from outside
sources. The factory which has been
supplying crates, maintains that it
shipped eleven carloads of crates to
Buena Vista, but these have sunk
without trace"
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-08-25

DR.. H. T. Manuel left early in the
week for Greencastle, Indiana to
spend a couple Of weeks visiting biz
mother.