Cheyenne record., 1919-08-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

COMING EVENTS.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
L:5ipsr rims County Fair Loveland' Aug
| Boulder County Fair, Longmont. Sept.
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford.
MerEan County Fair, Fort Morgan.
Routt County Fair Hayden. Sept. a-5.
Logan County Fair. Sterling. Sept. 8
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept. 3
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. g.
Moffat County Fair. Maybell. Sept. IL
Plateau Valley State Fair. colbran.
naca County Fair. Springfield. Sept.
rrinidad-Las Animas County Fair.
conejns County Fair. Manassa. Sept
Western Slope Fair. Montrose. Sept.
"rIntral Community Fair Greeley. Sept
Yuma County Fair. Yuma. Sept. 1920
Phillips County Fair. Holyoke. Sept
saSuaehe County Fair saguache. Sept
c0!orsdo,Nsw son, s5Sss Mexico Fair. Durango.
Colorado State Fair Pueblo, Sept. 22-
Grand County Fair. Kremmling. Sept
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
Inter -Si Mountain Live Stock and Fair.
Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct. 3.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock.
Oct. -.
The Lamar Elks Home Association
has commenced an active campaign for
selling stock in the new home to be
erected at Lamar. The lodge at thai
place is planning on having one of the
finest homes in the state.
Restoration of the pinto bean indus
try in eastern Colorado by placing an
import duty on Japanese beans, which
have demoralized the market for pin
tos. is to be asked Of Congress by bean
growers of Weld county.
Having sold 1,295 acres of irrigated
land west of the Platte river for more
than S13O,OOO, the Lupton Coal Ridge
Land. Company will put a large part of
his money back into the work Of de-
veloping 1000 more acres of raw land.
That the war on prairie dogs, innug-
uratcd in La Plata county last spring
and which still is being waged, has
been fruitful in results, is the an
nounccment Of G. w. Boyd, field fore
man of the Bureau of biological Sur
vey.
Construction work on an irrigation
project lying five to fifteen miles
south of Las Animus, which will make
aI immense tract of land productive,
will begin Immediately, Will Il. Muir
ply of the state land board announced
after the land commissioners ap-
proved IL $25O.OOO contract and bond
| prSied by w. A. Colt & Son of Las
.\ninas for building the irrigation sys-
tenn for the Mutual Carey Act Irriga-
lion Company.
There is not IL case of contagious
disease in the city Of Pueblo or in the
county Immediately adjoining it, ac-
| cording to the announcement of DR..
w. T. Buck, city physician. This Is
the first time in years that such con-
| 'litinn has been noted in that city. DIR.
| Buck attributes this to the fact that
the Influenza epidemic taught the cit
liens of Pueblo the necessity of eXer-
cising greater sanitary precautions.
The Midland Cereal Products Com
pany have signed n contract with the
Farmers and Merchants Association
| which calls for the erection of Il fac
tory building in Brighton to cost $780,
| 900. The company will manufacture n
| breakfast food to be known as
''Wholc Wheat Nuggets" The Brigh-
| ton factory is one of three owned by
| the company The others are at
SIOUX Falls, s. d., and Omaha. Neh.
Tho factory will use all the wheat
| Brighton and will pay the market
rr'cr
according to advices by W. =. Ella,
| secretary of the Chamber of Com
mrrcc. the United States Dehytlration
| Company of Denver will establish Il
nranch dehydration plant at Grand
| Junction.
Durango will shortly possess IL new
athletic club which is designed to pro-
ARE training and other athletic pur-
suits w. w. McEwen, Jr., Rod S.
Day and J. II. McDevitt, Jr.. all sons
of prominent Durango families, filed
articles of incorporation in the secre-
lury of states office for the Durango
| Athletic Club announcing these activ-
| tiles as the object of the organization.
Fifteen cars of potatoes will be
shipped daily from the MontrOse,
Olathe and Delta spud district, when
| the busiest part Of the season will
start. This is the early potato harvest
and will continue ut this rate for sew
eral weeks. The spuds are being
moved to the markets in refrigerator
cars, which, however, will not inter-
fere with the regular shipments Of
fruit from the western slope, about
which the growers were alarmed re-
| cpnt1v when n car shortage seemed