Show it wont bo be long until the trees on the mountain sides begin to turn heralding the nearness of autumn already the early mornings mo are at a nippy and the air so sharp and clear that one can smell the delicate perfume of petunia blossoms at least we can at our house I 1 you know how tile the weatherman bathe in always refers to fraser fruie colo 7 as I 1 the he coldest town in the nation 28 degrees one day last week well I 1 was ceilous cut bolls lolls about it and so BO started to find the dope on this town well it took a little doing but I 1 finally located it on a map its on highway 40 a few miles from where tile the tunnel emerges on the western side of the continental divide it has a population of and like a lot of 0 other western towns youre through it before you know you have arrived my excuse for being so ignorant of a town through which I 1 have travelled many times it may be too early to make a prediction of this type but I 1 think I 1 have emancipated that Is I 1 think my days as a printer are over for we now have in our employ a fellow who uses all his fingers at the linotype machine and did you know that the Ep persons are now the publishers of the summit county dee bee it has taken seven years and a lot of around by a lot of people to discover the ONE UIG DIG REASON why the papers in these two counties must be published by one outfit we drove through summit county friday and just as we made the turn at manship wanship toward kamas we met a farmer towing one of those lound bound metal grain storage houses and al presumed that it was a farmer moving from his ranch which will soon be covered by waters of the wanship manship dam and as we journeyed further we saw evidence of the big job ahead the state Is already building a road higher on the mountain side there are many big earth movers steam shovels and other mammoth equipment around and we could also see whet where e the people had begun to move out al Is 13 probably la Is a better position than I 1 to appreciate what this exodus from rockport rockfort Rock port means to its inhabitants as the ranch on oil which lie he was rai raised sedIs Is completely covered by a reservoir one ot of the principal water supplies tor for denver on one of our visits to col colorado we drove all around the reservoir and at al could not find even one fence post to t remind him of the ranch where rehe lie had played as a youngster all I 1 lope hope Is that the people in the lower vall valleys Ys appreciate I 1 the hi e B sacrifice theaople the people of 0 rockport rockfort Rock port are making tor for its 11 bite a tiling thing to ask people to amov move from homes that have been in the family for generations |