The old dump ground, near the stock loading pens in Lost Cañon, south of town has been thoroughly cleaned up within the past few days. The county tractor was employed to gather the trash in two long windrows, a trench was dug to the side of each, and just now workmen are burying the remains. The work was done at the instigation of the Dolores Chamber of Commerce and the Dolores Civic Club. The next problem is to find a suitable dump ground in a place which is not quite so conspicuous.
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The camp of the citizens conservation corps, located at the Carlisle old cow camp, 15 miles north of Dolores, near the McPhee coal mine, received its last increment of men Tuesday and is now on an actual working basis. The first work in the forest will be that of beetle eradication, after which there will be building of roads, fences and reservoirs on the cow range in that section of the Montezuma National Forest.
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Editorial Comment: For three years now, people have been saying optimistically that prosperity is "just around the corner." We have turned so many corners looking for it that most of us have found ourselves right back where we started from. For no sooner were economic conditions safely out of one tight corner than something new occurred to send businesses into another corner. This time, however, it seems increasingly clear that there are no more serious corners in sight. We have passed beyond the region of hope into the realm of faith, faith in the future, generally shared by everyone. It won't be long now.
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"Some written laws need unwriting," says an editorial squib in the Durango Herald-Democrat. Surely Harry didn't mean the 18th amendment. But that is just what is happening to that shining piece of foolishness - it's being rubbed out, three-to-one as in Illinois Monday.
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The Durango News and the Dolores Star are about the only papers in this section not receiving Ford advertising. Rod and the Star editor were a little too critical of Henry's admonition to the nation last fall to "vote for Hoover." Henry can keep his coin, and if necessary, we'll get us a jassack.
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Stoner Items: Norris Roubidoux, Mrs. Gould and Dale Williams went to Dolores Saturday. They took down a sack of wool for Mr. Gould.
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German Settlement: As the river has dropped, they have discontinued having a night watchman at the tunnel.
