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Steamboat Springs — From the Friday, Sept. 28, 1934, edition of The Steamboat Pilot:

Campaign for modernizing homes gets results

If you have been reading the joint advertisement of the Steamboat Lumber Co., the Colorado Utilities Corp., F.E. Daugherty, E.O. Furlong, the Routt County State Bank, Webber Radio & Electric Shop, and A.E. Gumprecht appearing for the past several weeks in the Pilot, you have learned something about the splendid plan for the government to provide comfortable homes for the people.

America modernizes. Old homes that were too ugly, inside and out, for women to even consider as homes are being rehabilitated throughout the land. Dingy interiors, drab walls, poorly arranged rooms, fixtures as out of date as the horse and buggy - all these ailments are being cured.

Such is the conclusion of Mr. Harold Hawkins, one of the editors of the Ladies Home Journal, which is taking a leading part in the movement to make new homes from old ones. The United States Building and Loan League, the federal home loan bank system and the national housing administration sponsor the campaign.

Manufacturers of building materials, equipment and fixtures are advertising their wares, with much emphasis on the new low cost of financing plans now available for homeowners.

The real estate market, responding to the awakening interest in up-to-date homes, in showing activity for the first time in years. Everywhere, real estate values are well ahead of a year ago.

With the new low cost of financing now available, many of the nation's 12 million homes that need repair are going to get repaired. Of the 2 million men who want real homes for themselves and their families, thousands are going to have them. Many, let us hope all, of the 2.5 million unemployed workers in the building trades, again will have jobs.

Routt County spent $900 to fight fires

The loss of property involved in forest fires is not the only expense attached to the disaster. There is always an expense in fighting fires. Routt County has paid $930.85 during the present season as its share of fighting the cost of fires in the vicinity.

Modern filling station to be built on Lincoln Avenue

Ira D. Horton, of Fort Lupton, purchased the two lots at Lincoln Avenue and Seventh Street adjoining the Daugherty Plumbing Shop and extending to Butcherknife Creek.

Horton plans to erect and operate a modern garage and filling station in connection with a chain of independent stations in Colorado in which he is interested.

Extensive improvements will be made on the property, and the new plant will be modern in every respect. Much of the cement work will be done this fall. The improvement will add greatly to the appearance of Lincoln Avenue.