The Raymer enterprise., 1923-01-25
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

| WIN WV Nuh'ooAo "a
weighing LAO pounds each, which
sold Cor S9.4O hundredweight. These
steers were mountain-bred Herefords,
the first out Of some four hundred
head Mr.. Baker Is feeding on corn and
alfalfa hay on his Colorado ranch.
One never needs be surprised to learn
that good, fat Hereford cattle haze
reached the market from the most un-
expected places. Only few years
ago eastern Colorado was the home Of
the prairie dog and the owl, and no
feeding of live stock was attempted
This past year Kit Carson county
raised big grain and hay crops, and
at the present time there Is corn,
wheat and alfalfa piled up along the
railroads at shipping points waiting
cars to haul 1t to market. Several
large punches OF good Herefords are
on full feed In the county. Eastern
| Colorado is rapidly taking on the as.
pect Of prosperous farming and live
stock section, and the successful farm.
| ers and stockMen there are feeding
Herefords.
Denver.-Advice is at hand at the
Denver office Of the Burlington route
that the opening and closing dates OF
the tourist season in national parks
will be us follows: Rocky Mountain
National park, open June 10, close
Oct. /. Yellowstone National park,
open June 70. close Sept. 20 Glacier
National park, open June 10. close
Sept. 10. Mount Rainier National
park, open June 10, close Sept. 10.
Crater Lake National park, open July
/, close Sept. 80. Mesa Verde Nation
al park, open May Is, close Nov. ].
Sequoia National park, open May "A,
close Oct. ~. General Grant National
park, open May "a, close Oct. ~. Wind
Cave National park, open June !, close
Sept 80. Zion National park, open
May 10, close Oct lJ. Lassen Vol.
canic National park. open June l, close
Sept.l5. Yosemite, Grand Canon, Hot
Springs, Plat, Lafayette and Hawaii
National parks are open the year
round.
Pueblo.-Thousands Of dollars
worth OF first-class mall, parcel post
packages and express matter were de-
stroyed in an explosion aboard an
American Railway express car at Bea-
yer creek, near here. The car was at.
tached to Denver L Rio Grande
Western train. Among other mercnan-
disc the car was carrying cargo OF
acetylene tanks from Denver. Some Of
these tanks exploded In some mysteri-
Gus manner, according to train off
claIs. and blew out the side Of the
modern all-steel express coach.
Denver.-The daring bandit who
stood up on the running board Of an
automobile us the men who robbed u
| Federal Reserve Bank truck Of $780,
900 In front Of the Denver mint on
Dec. Is last, sped away amid rain Of
bullets from guards, paid with his life.
Deserted by his pals the body Of the
dead robber-believed to be the leader
Of the band-was found In private
garage near Seventeenth and Gilpin
streets, in the fashionable Capitol Hill
residence district, where It had been
nearly month.
Boulder.-A new electrical power
| plant, the lrrt st ever constructed on
IN artificial lake, will be erected at
once at Il cost Of S4,0O0,OO0 at Boulder
lake, four miles from this city, by the
Western Light and Power Company.
In addition, S6,0O0,000 more will be
spent by the same company for high
| power voltage lines into Denver, B0u-
der, Greeley and Cheyenne and for
other improvements.
Denver.-A highway project for the
concrete paving Of AZ miles Of road,
between Atwood and Merino, Colo,
completing a stretch of nearly thirteen
| miles between Merino and Sterling,
was submitted Monday by the State
Highway Department to the federal
roads bureau. The cost will be $685.
O3999, of which the government will
pay SO per cent and the state the bal
| ance.
Erie.-Charles Nowlln, mine work.
er, was shot and killed while strug-
| Cling with one Of three masked ban
dts who held up Nowlin and five COM
panions In boxcar mine shack at the
camp Of the Boulder Valley Coal Com
pany, near here The bandits, said to
be Mexicans, escaped with approx
mately $500.
| Boulder.-SiXty members Of faculties
Of other institutions have been select
| ed to assist the professors OF the Uni
versity Of Colorado at the summer ses.
sion Of 1923. This Is an increase Of
| eighteen over the nonresident list Of
| last year and was made necessary by
the great increase that Is expected in
| students.
| Denver.-At the January meeting Of
directors OF the Denver Young Mems
Christian Association, Gov. William L.
Sweet was reelected president for the
.wenty-fourth consecutive year; Frank
McDonough, Sr, and II. 4. johnson,
vice presidents; F. W. Birney, secre-
tary, and John Evans, treasurer.
Meeker.-The White River dome, on
the White river near Meeker, has been
| ,,auI1potod nc n nrndurinp gas fipld hy