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take place all over the United States
from December to 10. 1919.
]. NJ. Sellers and party of Florence.
while coming down through Phantom
caiYon recently, ran into two mountain
sheep Just below the second tunnel.
The night service of the express
company at Florence will he discontin-
Close the office at night until the fruit
season opens up next year Express
from the East will be taken through to
Canon City and returned on Rio
Grande train No. 4.
At an election held at Haxtun the is
finishing of the grade school buildin'
was adopted by unanimous vote. The
previous bond issue was for 100000.
but the amount proved Inadequate.
Haxtun's grade school attendance has
increased in the last year from 100 to
257.
The Rev. ]. NJ. Barnett, recently re
turned from service overseas, where
he served as n private in the ranks, en-
listed in the same capacity in the
Grand Junction company of the Colo
RADIO National Guard when that unit
was called for service. He is rector
of St Matthews Episcopal church of
that city.
Great encouragement is being met
by the committees who are soliciting
stock subscriptions for the new muni-
cipal sanitarium. which will be con-
structed in Paonia in the spring, If
present plans materialize. The com
mittee on building has already severa,
proposed sites under consideration,
and ut meeting in the near future
one of these will be chosen for the new
hospital, which will be one of the best
on the Western slope.
Records Mt the postoffice show that
during the first eighteen days of Oc-
tober fifty-seven tons of parcels post
matter was mailed through the Grand
Junction office, this exceeding all pre-
vious records. The growth of Grand
Junction as n wholesaling center Is re-
sulting in the heavy increase in par
GELS post shipments. Parcels post ship
ments of fruit from the smaller cities
surrounding Grand Junction have also
been exceptionally heavy this fall.
Final compilation of returns made
by county assessors, with reports from
three counties still incomplete, show
4,53S, 800 acres under cultivation in
Colorado this year, compared with 2
253, acres harvested in 1909. No
figures are available at this time to
show what percentage of 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 1st, the
calculation of the total production of
all principal crops in the various coun-
lies in Colorado and will complete the
necessary tabulations for publication
in the December number of the Crop
Bulletin. In these calculations the
acreage reports furnished by county
assessors will be 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.
Claude Thomas, 81 years old, min
er in the Russell mine near Greeley,
| was instantly killed by fall of rock
| Thomas was placing timber props in
| the mine when the timbers slipped
| The body was extricated with great diff
| ficulty. Thomas was a widower with
out children.
If the present plans of the United
States Department Of Agriculture are
| carried out there Will be available, be-
ginning with next year, much more
complete and detailed information re-
| garding 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 on hand
in the various counties of each
state, the number of animals born, the
number marketed, the number slaught-
| cred and other important information
| not now available. In Colorado this
new program of 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.
Reports of field men for the Holly
Sugar Corporation show that the sugar
beet crop over the western slope is moi