The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-01
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mems Cooperative Association. which
has been organized during the last
year at an expenditure of approx
lmately $4,000, 1t was reported at the
annual meeting of the association, by
Stewart Wallace, secretary of the or
ganization at FIT. Lupton, Colo.
Denver.-Three persons were In
iured and sixty others, all passengers
on the Denver-bound Mofat road pas
senger train, narrowly escaped inju-
rles or death few days ago when the.
smoker and combination diner and OBJ
servation car of the train were de-
rallied one mile above Plainvlew. A
broken rail caused the accident, 1t is
said.
Eaton.-Mrs. Cora Clemmons Neale
of Eaton did not die of leprosy as was
first feared, according to report
rendered by DIR. w. C. Mitchell, bac-
teriologist of the state board of
health, to Tracy Z. Love, secretary of
the board. According to DIR. Mitchell
there were no evidences of leprosy,
and the woman had died of a gan,
grenous infection.
Colorado Springs.-A coroners jury
eXonerated Dorothy Chambers, society
girl and daughter of Attorney r. l..
Chambers, of any blame in the death
here of Herbert Steffa, 12-year-old
crippled newsboy. Miss Chambers
backed her car from the curb near
the federal building and the boy was
behind it at the time. He was crushed
under the heavy machine.
Boulder.-The county commissioners
have appropriated $4,000 to secure
the completion of Il proposed glacier
road into the Rainbow lake territory.
The United States forestry service
two years ago appropriated $4,000
for the road. OF this amount $4,000
was spent in surveys The road is to
begin at Glacier lake, and will follow
southwest course through the water
shed of the city of Boulder into the
Rainbow Lake country.
Pueblo.-The rail mill at the Mime
qua steel works, closed since July.
will be opened again on Dec. II. Open
ing of the mill will mean operation
of another blast furnace, increased
activity in the open hearth department
and doubling of the present output of
the coke plant. Between 800 and 700
men will be put to work on single
shift a double shift will probably be
put on shortly after Christmas, ac-
cording to Superintendent f. f. Parks.
Denver-State institutions have in
creased expenditures from S2,90T ,22T.-
21 in 1911 to $50, ,462, ,S76.27 in 1922,
| according to report issued few
days ago by State Auditor Arthur NJ.
Stong and State Budget and Efficien-
cy Commissioner Harry Casaday. The
report, the two men declare. is one
of the most important regarding state
expenditures which has been compiled
for Il number of years. The amounts
spent by these institutions include
money realized by mill levy revenue,
legislative appropriation and miscel-
laneous means.
Denver.-T -Thirty-two billion cubic
feet of gas-enough to supply all Den
ver's needs for the next seventeen
years-are lying in the gas and oil
structures north of Fort Collins, Car
roll H. Wegeinann, chief geologist for
the Midwest Refining Company, told
| Denver engineers at n recent luncheon
| here To drill wells to free this gas
and to pipe it to Denver will cost
S5OOO,OOO, Mr.. Wegemann estimated
this sum would include the drilling of
| al TAIl f,srt.,
structure and eighteen wells on the
Fort Collins structure.
Wellington.-Test wells on the We'll
1ington dome, which has already pro
duced the 100000 cubic foot gas
well. and on the Fort Collins dome
three miles northeast of Fort Collins,
will be started within the next few
month by the Union Oil Co.
Fort Morgan.-With a production of
corn estimated mt 1,S72,000 bushels by
| w. w. Putnam of the Denver office of
the department of agriculture, and
with record production of other crops,
Morgan countys farm income this
year will total more than $10000,OO0.
Pinto beans are bringing big returns
in the county this year-in some in
stances the crop for the year is pay
ing for the land.
Boulder-Two hundred and twenty
five of the 1886 freshman goods at the
University of Colorado have some foot
defects; 225 have poor posture; 46
have flat feet; Al have diseased ton
sils; 80 are anemlc; 33 have poor eye
sight; II have erratic heart action; 13
have nose troubles and have weak
or diseased lungs, according to a re-
port published by Miss Glare Small,
director of physical education for wo-
men at the university.