The Elbert County tribune., 1919-08-01
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper linton News Service
COMING EVENTS.

Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford
Morssn County Fair. Fort Morgan,
Rouit County Fair. Hayden. Sept. s-5.
Logan County Fair. Sterling Sept y
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept 3
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. o.
MeffAt County Fair. M.ybeii. Sept. IL
pi.te.u Valley State Fair. coibran.
Becs County Fair. Springfield. Sept.
Trinided-Las Anlm.. County Fair.
r TrinidAd, o,s Sept rs,l ls,ls u.n.... s.r,
wcstern Slope Fair. Montrose. Sept.
Central Community Fair. Greeley. Sept
Phillip County Fair, Holyoke. Sept
saxuecha County Fair. sasuache. Sept
CoIorado-New Mexico Fair. Durango.
cciorado State Fair Pueblo. Sept. sa-
Grand County Fair. KremmIing. Sept.
crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
Inter-Mountain Live Stock and Fair.
Douglas County Fair Castle Rock.
Oct 7-9.
PIacervllle, which has been practi-
caIly destroyed twice by fire, Is being
rebuilt on a plan that will insure both
beauty and permanency.
Appropriations of $4,000 for the
Rocky Mountain National park and
f11 100 for the Mesa Verde, for ex-
psnses during the coming year. are in
cluded In the sundry civil bill signed
by President Wilson.
Charles Place of Sawpit was instant
~ killed when an auto plunged over
IIairp!D Tour curve and dropped thirty
feet 10 the bottom OF the canon. The
rear wheel rim broke and the sharp
rpokes pierced Places head and stom-
ach.
Monte Vista Will stake big three
day Frontier roundup and stampede
on the occasion of the meeting of the
Spanish Trail-Mcsa Verde Highway
Association, August 11th, 18th and
18th. California Jack and his Wild
West riders and outlaw horses have
been engaged for the event
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
10 the elevators and the harvest is
Just about done. The total is safely
pinced at 100000 bushels of wheat
and the yield is running from twenty
10 forty-twO bushels an acre. the aver
Gge being twenty-six. The grain is
testing sixty pounds to the bushel and
Is selling at the local elevators for
$1.9O. 1t is placing 1t conservatively
10 say that Phillips county farmers
VIII be richer by S3.600000 this fall.
Except in the southwestern part of
the state, range pastures have suf-
fered very severely from the contin-
ued drought and the condition of live
stock generally has deprecated as
result in the past ten days. The north
central section continues to be the
most afflicted district and considerable
numbers of cattle have been shipped
out for feeding in other sections of
the state or in other states. On the
Western Slope the rainfall has been
generally ample until very recently
and ranges are only beginning to be
damaged.
The federal bureau of public roads
approved the plans submitted by the
state highway department and Costilla
county for building 5S miles of road
between Fort Garland and San Luis
under federal aid. The new road sec
tion. beginning with the San Luis end,
will cost approximately $4,000.
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. Larmer, 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 very
large percentage of the wheat grown
IN the state the result will be n 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
the largest crop previously grown.
The school directors of district No.
! OF Summit county have advertised II
special school election, for the purpose
or ltafr b1Ata Ia -