The Ordway new era., 1922-05-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Ordway.-A cloudburst broke over
olney Springs, near here. The down
pour lasted for forty minutes, flooding
and destroying hay fields, irrigation
bitches, creeks and farm lands and
sending the flood of water down upon
Ordway.
Delta.-Delta's million and half
dollar sugar factory will operate this
wear. The Delta factory was erected
in 1920 and ran flfts days, but last
yenr stood idle on account of insufh-
Client acreage being promised by
growers.
Fort ColIins-Optimism for the fu-
ture of the cattle industry In Colorado
aad the West was expressed here at
meeting of over three hundred stock
men from northern Colorado gathered
at the Agricultural College for the an
nuaI feeders day.
Colorado Springs. - Announcement
has been made that the regular sum
mer season at Eldorado Springs, Colo,
will open May IA. and beginning on
that day Denver 4 Interurban railroad
cars will make regular bi-hourly runs
to the summer resort from Denver.
Flagler-Dr. NJ. {. Traw was elected
secretary of the school board for Con
solldated District No. 80 III the recent
election. C. NJ. Smith. present incum-
bent, lost by eleven votes The ballot
was the heaviest recorded at school
election in years.
Colorado Springs. s.-Manitou is clean
ing house. Following the removal last
winter of its town marshal through
| grand jury action for falling to enforce
the prohibition laws, campaign TO put
an end 10 drinking at the dance halls
| OF the town has been lnaugurated.
| Canon City-The residents of what
/ is known as Little Webster Park, q
farming section. lying some fifteen to
/ twenty miles north of Canon City, are
engaged in volunteer road-building
project which when completed will
bring them With. easy reach of
Cafion City and open up a section said
to rival in scenic grandeur the vistas
of the Royal Gorge and the Red
Cafons.
Boulder.-The Caribou hill ore body,
reported last week after over sixteen
feet of drifting, has widened to over
four feet of solid mineral, increasing
in size md in value every round. Mug
gets Of high-grade silver ore are COM
ing in the breast. 1t is expected that
the body, according TO the present in
dications, will continue at least an
other twenty or thirty feet, and will
make one of the biggest ore shutes
in 10 fcfr M
Colorado Springs.-Four colleges
have signified their intention of enter
ing the intercollegiate golf tournament
to be held at the Broadmoor. May q.
Three. Colorado College, the Univer-
sity of Colorado and the School of
Mines, entered teams in the tourney
last year, while the Aggies will be rep
resented for the first time. Efforts are
being made to draw Denver Univer-
sity into the meet, but there seem few
likely candidates from whom to choose
a team.
Yuma.-Colorado's rain belt sec
tion," comprising e0O,00O acres of
wheat land, Is soaked. A twenty-four-
hour rainfall has drenched the section
and put thousands of dollars into the
farmers pockets. So heavy has the
rain been TINT roads are flooded,
bridges washed out and the Easements
of many homes filled with water. But
these difficulties are being met with
smiles. Dry winds have prevailed for
the past few weeks and the wheat
crop, IT was feared, would be loss.
Denyer.-The o'Malley-Kelley Oh
and Auto Supply Company is being
sued in the District Court by the state
Of Colorado for $5,047 .04, alleged to be
due as 1-cent tax on each gallon Of
gasoline sold by the firm. The tax was
imposed by the Legislature in 1919.
Denver.-Land in Colorado, includ-
ing city and town lots, pays about A
per cent Of the general property ta1
assessed in the state, though only 46.N
| per cent Of the land in the state IL
on the tax rolls, according to compila-
| tions made by the State immigration
Department for the Colorado year
| book.
Pueblo.-Ths first petition for crsA-
tion of a flood conservancy district
made possible by the flood conservancy
law just passed by the State Legisia-
ture has been filed by the residents of
East Pueblo. Two hundred property
owners in that section Of the city have
pstitioned forsa flood district to be
known as the Fountain River Conssrv-
ancy District. for the purpose of pre-
vention Of floods, regulation of the riv-
er channel. regulation of the flow of
streams, deviating and controlling
them in whole or in part and eliminat-
ing Of water courses.
Steamboat Springs.-Several promi-
nent business men of Steamboat