The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-04-13
JEftRIES TO
SUPERVISE
FREMONT'S
RANCHING
INDUSTRY
GRADUATE OF STATE AeRIcULTU-
RAJ COLLEGE NAMED BY coUN-
TY COMMISSIONERS AS THIS
DISTRICTS AGRIcULTURiST.
IS A NEWLY CREATED OFFICE

adopted December 10th. 1915. setting
aside the sum of $4,000 from the
contingent expense fund for the en-
Iloyment of a county agricultural
agent the board of county commission
'ers on Tuesday of this week appoint
ed Ralph X. JeTries of Fort Collins
10 the position. There were numer-
Dus applicants for the place, all of
Them recommended as experts in that
particular line of work. and it was
a more or less difficult matter to
agree up-n the best man for the posi-
tion.
Mr.. Jeffries is a native of Colorado
and is graduated from the state agri-
cultural college at Fort Collins with
Hhe class of 1910, but since that time
has been engaged as assistant horti-
culturist at the University of Ohio
at 'umbus and in West Virginia.
He is TWEEN y-nine years of age and is
married; his wife being a western
girl. He is reported to he thoroughly
Familiar with the renching and fruit
growing interests of Colorado: mat
atl W Nlltiih ne iidS SlNtH
able study and investigation. He de-
voted some time to special agricultu-
ral work on the western slope before
going east and is conversant with such
conditions in the Arkansas valley. He
was heartily endorsed for the position
state agricultural college at Fort
Collins: by Prof. Paddock. formerly
"a member of the teaching faculty of
1hat institution, and other college
men who knew him as a student. Mr..
Jeffries work in the east has been of
a praiseworthy character.
The office of county agricultural
agent is a new one here and its du-
ties are to encourage and promote a
more scientific. successful and numer-
-erative agriculture and horticulture
among people engaged in those indus.
tries He WILL in addition to his 9TH
aer duties. which Will lie of a super
-visory nature. take over the work
heretofore done by the county horti-
cultural inspector; which office has
been abolished.
MIR. Jeffries is expected to arrive
here shortly to enter upon his
work, which will be similar in all
respects to that done by county agri-
culturists elsewhere and which are
prescribed to some extent by the De-
partment Of Agriculture of the Unit
ed States government.
Mr. Jeffries' salary, it is understood
win be $500 per annum: the re-
manning 5000 OF the appropriation
made by the board of county commits
sioners will be used for contingent
expenses and experimental work. In
addition to the amount set apart by
the county the United States govern
ment VIII provide 81 900 for the work
to be done by Mr.. Jeffries; making a
total of $4,000 available annually
Tor the promotion of scientific agri-
culture, fruit growing. ranching and
gardening in this county. MIR. Jeffries
will open an office in Canon City and
WIN become a citizen of the communi-
terests and those of the county at
large.
The resolution adopted by the coun.
ty commissioners authorizing the EN-.
ployment of a county agriculturist
provides, among other things, that
the sum of at least $1,000 per year
from the appropriation for agricultu.
raj agents made by the United States
government be set aside and assured
10 the support and use of such agri.
cultural aeent in Fremont county for
ii reriod Of two years The resolu.
tioD continues with the statement
ahat this board is DESTROYS of EN-.
ploying such an agent for that period
beginning en-, or about, February l.
1915, at an aggregate expense of not
more than $4,000. over and above the
$1,000 10 be given by the United Sta
aes government. That upon the nomi
nation of such an agent the moneys
heretofore paid by the county for q
horticultural Inspector ba used foi
abe purpose Of paying the county ag
ricmmral agent to be appointed. and
phe additional funds necessary. moi
exceeding. with the said horticulture
INSPECTION fund the sum OF $4,000. bs
peid out OF the contingency expens,
1und OF the county for the ensulni
s,urrnnt year and, thereafter, for ths
SECOND year. from such fund as NJ
Dropriation for that purpose may b,