The Raymer enterprise., 1919-10-09
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

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Stephen 7. Mather. director Of the ma
tIonal park service. According 20 sta
tistics taken at the park. I6l, 900 have
teen visitors during the past summer,
while last year only 10000 visitors
we're recorded. Last year 20.5SS motor
ears passed through the park. while
during the past season this number has
been nearly doubled with t0'al Of
i0.s11.
Decrease In the amount OF land
available for homesieadDg In Colo
RADIO has reduced the number Of appIi-
cations this year by one-thfd. as com
rared with 1915 records, according 10
State Immigration Commissioner Ed
ward Foster, the Inquiries are rs many
this fall ms three years ago. There IL
still total OF 9,!O0.0O0 acres open 10
entry. records of the department show.
hut this total Is 100000 acres less than
that available a year ago and 5.0O0,CcD
acres less than on July I, 1916
Application from the Grover. Colo,
high school for rifles for drill purposes
and similar applications from other
schools Of Colorado led Col ID. +. Me-
CunnIff. federal inspector.lnstructo
with the Colorado National Guard. TO
call these schools attention TO the pro-
visions OF the army regulations under
which any school with uniformed ca
det corps ~ not less than forty mem
bers can obtain both rifles and ammu-
milton from the War Department.
c. Y. Burke OF Pueblo was elected
seeretary-tfeasurer Of the Colorado
Duroc Jersey Hog Association al u
meeting held In Pueblo. Professor
Morton Of the Colorado State Agricul-
tural College. Fort Collins, was elected
president. J. W. Brewer OF Colorado
Springs was chosen vice president. The
association members plan on taking a
large number OF head OF fancy Duroc
Jerseys. possibly thirty, to the Denver
stock show this winter
The reported dynamiting OF fish In
the Rio Grande has been amply veri-
fled. Hundreds Of dead fish have been
found floating and lodged along the
liver banks all the way from Deep
creek to Wagon Wheel gap, and all
those who have examined them de-
dared that they had been killed by
hast Of dynamite or other explosive,
us the bones were broken and pulled
loose from the backbone. I=
The manufacturing industry In Colo
RADIO had developed rather rapidly In
the past twenty years. During that
Period the number Of manufacturing
establishments has nearly doubled, the
capital invested has increased about
225 per cent, the number Of persons en-
gagged has more than doubled. and the
value Of manufactured goods produced
annually has increased approximately
ll0 per cent.
As result OF the excellent work
done by county assessors In Colorado
| this year In the collection Of statistics
showing the acreage OF the various
crops grown In the severa! counties,
the State Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service will be able this year for the
first time TO determine with reasonable
accuracy the production Of all crops by
counties. instead Of only for the state
as a whole.
approximately S3.500,000 will be ex.
Tended in Colorado this year on new
school buildings, it Is estimated by
Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford. state super
intendent OF public instruction, on the
basis Of reports now received from
two-thirds OF the sixty-three counties
In the state. Buildings costing 5000
900 are actually in course of construc-
tion, and others viii be building soon.
James Rithey, IA years old. son of o.
Rithey. rancher west Of Monte Vista. Is
dead OF injuries received when he was
hooked by n COW. Young Rithey was
herding cattle into feed lot when he
was thrown from his horse and a COW
came along and hooked her horns into
Rlthey's head. The horns penetrated
his right eye and punctured his brain
He died few minutes later.
There has been rains In most sec
lions of Colorado in the past two
weeks which have put the soil in ex-
eellent shape for fall plowlng. and this
work is farther advanced than II usu-
ally is at this season OF the year. Re
ports received by the Colorado Coop
erative Crop Reporting Service indi-
cate that the amount OF winter wheat
planted this fall will be somewhat less
than that planted In 1918, which was
the largest crop of winter wheat ever
planted in the state. The season was
unfavorable for winter wheat in most
sections of the state this year and
many farmers who were dissatisfied
with the Yields obtained will grow less
wheat this year. while certain
amount OF uncertainty as 10 what the
price of wheat may be next year Is ap-
rarently influencing a few farmers to
decrease their acreage.
The shipping season for pinto beans
is just opening in this state, and Colo
RADIO Is facing n very serious situation
in this indusvy. Bigger marketing
problems are confronting the pinto
lean producers than last year. because