The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-08-02
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

COMING EVENTS.
Larimer County Fair, Loveland, Aug.
1929.
Boulder County Fair. Longmont, Sept
Arkansas Valley Fair, Rocky Ford
Morgan County Fair. Fort Morgan.
Routt County Fair, Hayden. Sept. s-5.
Logan County Fair, Sterling, Sept. g.
Delta County Fair, Hotchl<iss. Sept g.
Adams County Fair, Brighton. Sept. g.
Moffat County Fair. Maybell, Sept IL
Plateau Valley State Fair, Cochran.
Baca County Fair, Springfield. Sept.
Trinidad-Las Animas County Fair,
Trinidad, Sept. 1919.
Conejos County Fair, Manassa, Sept.
western Slope Fair, Montrose. Sept.
Central Community Fair. Greeley. Sept.
Yuma County Fair. Yuma Sept. 1920.
Phillips County Fair, Holyoke. Sept,
saguaehe County Fair, saguache, Sept.
Colorado.New Mexico Fair, Durango,
COLORADO State Fair. Pueblo. Sept. 22-
Grand County Fair. Kremmling. Sept.
Crowley County Fair, Sugar City. Aug.
er-Mountain Live Stock and Fair,
Grand Junction, Sept. 80 to Oct. g.
Douglas County Fair, Castle Rock,
Oct. 10.
Placerville, which has been practi-
cally destroyed twice by fire, is being
rebuilt on plan that will insure both
beauty and permanency.
Charles Place of Sawpit was instant
ly killed when an auto plunged over
Hairpin Tour curve and dropped thirty
feet to the bottom of the canon. The
rear wheel rim broke and the sharp
spokes pierced Places head and stom-
ach.
The state land office has just made
a preliminary summary of the amount
of money received for oil leases on
state land The total received so far
is $4,000. There still remain a num-
Der of applications for leases to be
approved.
Mrs. Eldin, her son, Henry, age IL,
and daughter, Opal, years old, were
instantly killed and four other chill
dren were seriously injured at Lakin,
east of La Junta, in wagon grade
crossing, when wagon in which they
were riding was struck by Santa
Fe train.
The first car of cabbage to be
shipped from Brighton was sent to
Texas. Farmers of that district are
bringing in cabbage daily and the buy
erS are loading cars on the tracks
ready for shipment. Practically all of
the produce men are ready for the big
crop which is to be harvested next
month and have many orders for cab
bage.
The greatest wheat crop in the his
tory of Phillips county is being hauled
to the elevators and the harvest is
just about done. The total iA safely
placed at 100000 busS4,S of wheat
and the yield is ruhning from twenty
to forty-two bushels an acre, the aver
age being twenty-siX. The grain is
testing sixty pounds to the bushel and
is selling at the local elevators for
$50. 1t is placing it conservatively
to say that Phillips county farmers
will be richer by S3,600,000 this fall.
The south wing of the museum of
natural history in City Park in Den
yer is to be erected as memorial to
William ii. James, active in the early
mining development in Colorado, and
for years a resident of Denver. The
gift to the city is from Mrs. Elsie J.
Lemen and Harry C. James, the daugh-
ter and son of the pioneer, who until
few days ago We're unknown donors
of the addition to the museum. Mr..
Harry James is vice president of the
Denver National Bank, and is treas
urer of the Museum Commission.
Monte Vista will stake big three
day Frontier roundup and stampede
on the occasion of the meeting of the
Spanish. Trail-Mesa Verde Highway
Association, August 18th, 10Th and
18th. California Jack and his Wild
West riders and outlaw horses have
been engaged for the event.
Advance reports from threshermen
received by the Cooperative Crop Re
porting Service indicate that the yields
of wheat will be close to normal this
year, except the north central part of
the state and in restricted areas in
the eastern part In parts of Weld,
Morgan, Larimer, Boulder, Adams,
jefferson and Arapahoe the crop was
seriously damaged by drought and will
in many districts average as low as 30
per cent of the normal production.
Since this district produces Il very
large percentage of the wheat grown
in the state the result will be marked
reduction in total production from
preliminary estimates The acreage
devoted to the crop, however, is some
what greater than advance reports in
dicated, so that total production will
be fully 100000 bushels greater than
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