The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1919-11-13
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts OF
Colorado
Wsstsrn Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
The Red Cross Christmas Seal sale wi
take place all over the United State
from December ! to 10, 1919.

from December to 10. 1919.
The drainage work for the relief
Of that portion Of South Delta was
begun and is making satisfactory pro
gress.
The 100000 bond issue for q me.
mortal park for returned service men
carried by a small margin In the Boul'
der election. The Issue carried by
seventeen votes. Eight hundred and
two were east
The State Board OF Land Commits.
sioners sold AT public auction In the
state house lo,S5ip9 acres of land,
distributed over seventeen counties,
for S3i9,U79l2 The average price
paid per acre was Soil. The record
price realized from the sale was SIG
an acre, paid by Mary J. liauek of
La Junta for n parcel of land In Otero
county, containing i057 acres.
The first stretch Of government.
state concrete h ghway to he built In
Pueblo county Is completed and will
be seasoned for travel not later than
December lsl II is known as the
first leg on the Santa Fe trail. is
1900 feet long, and extends from San.
ia Re avenue. 10 the main gateway Of
the Roselawn Burial park. Cost Of
one and three-fourths miles is approx
lmalcly Sii.DoD.
Records at the postoffice show that
during the first eighteen days Of 0c-
,ober fifty-scyen tons Of parcels post
matter was mailed through the Grand
Junction office, this exceeding all pre-
vious records. The growth Of Grand
Junction rs wholesaling center Is re-
suIting In the heavy increase In par
GELS post shipments Parcels post ship
mcnts Of fruit from the smaller cities
surrounding Grand Junction have also
Eeen exceptionally heavy this fall.
The largest acreage ever devoted 10
corn in Colorado was planted for this
years crop and the State co-opeFa-
tive Crop Reporting Service is making
a special effort To determine just what
proportion Of IL have been harvested
for the various purposes for which
corn Is used III this state. Advance
crop reports Indicate that about 6G per
cent Of the crop has been harvested
for grain, the remainder being cut for
silage or for dry forage, fed TO stock
In the fields without harvesting.
Final compilation of returns made
by county assessors, with reports from
three counties still Incomplete. show
4,,s3s.aGD acres under cultivation in
Colorado this year, compared with 2.
2i3, 1i5 acres harvested in 1909. No
figures are available at this time to
show what percentage ~ the acreage
planted for this years crops was not
harvested. but the percentage In some
sections Of the state was rather high
because Of the continued dry weather
early In the season The census report
OF 1909 does not show what acreage
was planted for that years crops, but
only what was harvested.
The Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service began on November LIST, the
calculation Of the total production Of
all principal crops IN the various coun.
ties In Colorado and will complete the
necessary fluctuations for publication
in the December number of the Crop
Bulletin In these calculations the
acreage reports furnished by county
assessors will he used. which are very
complete for most counties in the
state, and which give much larger total
acreage for the state than have been
furnished before from any source.
There are some counties however. In
which the acreage reports are incom-
plete. and such counties will be given
credit for smaller production than they
have made.
For the first time since the Great
Western Sugar Company established
n factory nj Brighton. cattle will he
fed al the company farm. Already
several hundred head Of cattle have
been placed on the farm and VIII be
fed the beet pulp The pulp has al.
ways been dried in the past and
shipped To other points for feeding.
II the present plans of the United
States Department of Agriculture are
carried out there will he available, he.
ginning with next year. much more
complete and detailed Information re.
sarding the livestock industry IN all
states than is available at the present
time. These plans provide for fire.
quent reports showing the number OF
livestock of different kinds oil hand
In the various counties Of each
state, the number OF animals born, the
number marketed, the number sIaught
cred and other important information
not now available. In Colorado this
new program If furnishing the public
information regarding the livestock in
dustry will be handled largely by the
Colorado Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service, in which the United States
Bureau Of Crop Estimates and the
Colorado Immigration Department are
represented.
Walter :. Clark. one of the found.
ers Of Aspen, and prominent in min
ing circles for nearly n half century,
died at his home there after pro.