The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-08-21
Pitty News Notes
From An Parts Of
Colorado


Larimer County Fair. Loveland. Aug
Boulder County Fair. Longmont. Sept
Alksns.s Valley Fair. Rocky Ford
AeIs:n County Fair. Fort Morgan
fsss; COUNTY Fail Fair ss SEPT
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept >.
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. 3
Mefi.t County Fair. M.ybsil. Sept. IL
Pist..u valley State Fair. Cochran
Beea County Fair. Springfield. Sept
rrin,d.d-L.: An,m.. County Fair
co assits County Fair A.nA''a' sept
western Slope Fair. Montrose. Sept.
Central Community Fair. Greeley. Sept.
Yume County Fair. Yuma. Sept. 1910.
Ph s.lYa. County Fair H0l'0ks' Sept
saxu:she County Fair. s.suachs. Sept.
colo..dcsNss- Mexico Fair. Durango.
cc|orsdo State Fair. Pueblo. Sept. a.
Grand County Fair. KremmlinE. Sept
cre~iey County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
Inter-Hountain Live Stock and Fair.
Grand Junction. Sept. 30 to Oct. ).
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock.
The annual COW punchers' reunion
at Fruita will be held this year on
Sept. Is and 20. according to dates de-
termined on at this time.
According to advices by w. P. Ella,
secretary of the Chamber Of Com
merce, the United States Dehydration
Company of Denver will establish
branch dehydration plant at Grand
Junction.
Practically 100000 acres of land has
been broken for this years crops and
added to the cultivated area. Few
states in the Union have showed
large an increase in the raw land re-
claimed in one year.
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 that
place 10 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 demoralixed the market for pin
tes, IL to be asked of Congress by bean
growers Of Weld county.
Having sold 1926 acres Of irrigated
land west Of the Platte river for more
than $4,000. the Lupton Coal Ridge
Land Company will put large part of
~ t-e ~ OT 10
velopinE 1900 more acres Of raw land.
That the war on prairie dogs, inaug-
urnted In La Plata county last spring
and which still IL being waged, has
been fruitful in results, is the an
nouncement Of G. w. Boyd, field fore
man Of the Bureau Of Biological Sur
vey.
A. w. Engie, IS, OF Colorado
Springs, an oil company official and
promoter at Electra, Texas, was killed.
and two women, Mrs. Joe Alter and
Josephine Chavez OF Delagua, Colo.
escaped without injury, when an auto
mobile driven by Engle plunged
through the railing of wooden bridge
near Hastings, coal mining camp,
near Trinidad, into an arroyo.
There is not case OF contagious
disease in the city of Pueblo or in the
county Immediately adjoining 1t, ac-
cording to the announcement Of DIR.
w. +. Buck, city physician. This Is
the first time in years that such con-
tiition has been noted In that city. Dr.
Buck attributes this to the fact that
the Influenza epidemic taught the cit
liens of Pueblo the necessity Of exer-
cising greater sanitary precautions.
In Baca county, which not many
years ago was regarded as worth
less waste, the acreage OF land In cul-
tivation has increased more than 400
per cent in the past ten years and 1t
now ranks about twentieth among the
counties in total cultivated area.
Durango will shortly possess q new
athletic club which is designed to pro-
mote boxing exhibitions, physical Gull
ture training and other athletic pur-
suits. w. w. NcEwen, Jr., Rod s.
Day and J. H. McDevitt, Jr., all sons
of prominent Durango families, filed
articles of Incorporation in the secre-
tary Of states office for the Durango
Athletic Club, announcing these activ,
tiles as the object of the organization
BY a bank certificate issued by
State Bank Examiner Grant McPher'
son to the Farmers State Bank OF
Gill, the twenty-second state bank
IL added to Weld County's total, and
the first bank along the railroad
between Greeley and Briggsdale IL
established. The new banks capital
is $4,000 and its surplus $2,215. The
addition Of this bank makes 246 state
banks In Colorado. Besides these there
are 175 national banks, the examin
ers records Indicate.
James Kramer, aged IA, wa,