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Show ! AXTELL SOON A B10 TOWN- Damage By Flood to Canals and Crops. Special correspondence. There is good authority to state that Axtell village before long will assume shape for becoming a town of some importance among the places dotting Gunnison valley. Once the crops are gathered from the farms covering the area of survey necessary to locate, it is contemplated laying out a new townsite centering in the vicinity of the present station on the D. &. R. G. Ry., and will embrace em-brace a large part of the farm formerly former-ly owned by the late Axel Einarsen. It is said the erection of a large hotel will start the building movement move-ment as an inducement to new comers,' An expert in the manufacture of brick will be prooured to carry on that business for the many new buildiug3 it will take to supply homes in addi tion to the hotel. The Spaldiugstou-Livingston company, com-pany, which has a wide land interest in this section of Gunnison valley, is leading out the movement at heavy cost. An orchard of 300 acres in the vicinity of the proposed townsite has recently been sat out by the company aud is being cared for with a view of disposing to o.ew settlers in connection with a large area of its farm lands adjacent. A flood arising in tho bills east of Axtell last Monday did no little damage to cauals and crops. Charles Bjeregard incurs the heaviest loss to .erops, several stands of bees and four acres of raked hay being swept com pletely away besides a stand of wheat literally buried in mud. Over 100 of the fruit trees on the Spalding-Livingston Spalding-Livingston farm wero washed out. The Highland canal sustained damage dam-age by the washicg out of a culvert that will cost $1,000 to replace. The oldest settlers here have no recollection recollec-tion of ever witnessing such a storm torrent in this part, The several canal laterals wyre completely- obstructed ob-structed and will take a lot of lsbor to clean out. |