The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-11-10
LITTLE coLonADo ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Tsiilno.

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rado Milk Producers Association.
Clarke A. Coffin has been appointed
postmaster at Hillrose. Morgan coun-
ty. Colorado. vice D. D. Monroe. re-
signed.
G. w. Rodeffer OF Johnstown netted
$1,000 from III acres of. sugar beets.
| T. F. Larson's 12O acres brought the
same amount.
Weld county may have turkeyless
Thanksgiving this year IL the flocks
continue to be attacked by black
head" which il killing off hundreds
The annual conference of the Colo
RADIO Student Volunteer movement will
be held at Colorado College. Colorado
| Springs, next Friday, Saturday and
| Sunday.
The Colorado Springs end Of the
state road being built to Canon City.
will be completed by the end OF this
month. The convicts will then work
on the Fremont county end.
Efforts are being made to organize
Y. NJ. C. A. branch in Fruita. The
suggestion was Enthusiastically re-
ceived at z meeting of Fruita citizens
and the matter will be taken up
A representative of the Wright
brothers has been at Colorado Springs
several days trying to arrange for an
aeroplane flight, but the guarantee he
insists on Is considered too high
The Forestry Service has Just COM
pleted building fifteen miles Of wirn
fence on the Routt reserve on the top
of the Continental divide. between
Routt county and Jackson county.
The committee appointed by bust
ness men Of Colorado Springs to In
quire into the feasibility Of building
an auditorium favors 100000 build
ing. the funds to be raised by q bond
issue.
Milton Patterson Of Leadville. aged
IA years. accidentally shot himself In
the abdomen while attempting to load
revolver. The wound 10 not con-
sidered fatal. as the bullet In some
mysterious manner only entered =
short distance.
Farmers OF the Johnstown district
are still purchasing cows to supply the
new condenser, which will soon be In
operation under the management O.
Gilbert Landell Nine hundred cows
have been secured and this number
will be raised to 200.
The first l9O-foot section Of the big
concrete dam for the Palisades and
Mesa county irrigation districts has
been completed and accepted by the
on Dt "a hss
completed within a month. The cost
OF the work will be $4,000.
That shower OF meteors recently
fell on Coal ridge. about 25 miles east
OF Greeley. is the opinion OF parties
who visited the section few days
ago and report that hundreds OF me-
teoric stones mark q site which .
month ago was a sandy knoll.
Canning crops at Fort Lupton have
brought growers close to 100000 this
year. as the season has been an excel
lent one for all varieties. and big
yields OF garden crops. Tomatoes.
pumpkins. beans. cucumbers and cab
bage have given large returns.
Greeley beet growers are harvest
ing their crop made easily and salts
factorily than ever before and the
crop is nearly all in factory bins. With
10000 acres grown in the Greeley. Eat
on and Windsor districts. the yield is
estimated at 300 .O00'tons and the crop
will easily represent $1.7O5.0O0.
The last state fair was by far the
most prosperous of any ever held
iv1ra hA ion nf
$1,000 is shown after all expenses have
been paid. This sure puts the Colo
RADIO state fair on a sound basis for
future expositions, and will pay off
much OF the debt outstanding for three
years.
Already there has been noticed
stimulating effect on business in Weld
county because Of the exhibit at the
Pittsburg land show. Letters are
coming to the state and Weld county
from people who have seen what can
be done with farming In Colorado.
These letters inquire regarding laAd
values. water, climate. etc.
Holyoke's building boom continues.
The new Philips County Bank build
ing Is nearly ready for occupancy. the
Holyoke Realty Company have their
building almost finished. @. L. King
10 putting IN a building for the Red
Cross pharmacy. and the First Ma
tional bank will start to veneer their
block soon This makes four new
brick buildings with five new store
rooms.
The records Of the Colorado col
lege weather bureau show that Octo-
ber was the dryest October in thirty
five years. the warmest in thirty
years. and had the coldest day for