The Elbert County tribune., 1919-09-26

Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct. 3.
Oct IS.
The value of all farm property in
Colorado at the present time is close to
81. 900, 900, 900. In 1890 IT was only
Sl10,35S,040, and in 1919 1t was only
SI9i, 100000.
Mining In the La Plata district shows
more activity at the present time tlian
at any other time of the year and plans
are under way in many of the proper
ties for an all-winter operation.
long session of a coroner's jury
failed utterly to reveal the least clue
to the Identity OF the persons who
lynched Gonzales and Ortez as the
murderers of Police Officer Jeff Ev-
ans at Pueblo.
The mystery that has for several
months surrounded the robberies that
have taken place In Rocky Ford and
Crowley Is thought to have been solved
by the arrest of Syrian who has a
store IN La Junta.
Prof. II. S. Evans has been chosen
MS new dean of the school of engineer
ing. University of Colorado, to succeed
Prof. Milo S. Ketchum, who has re-
signed TO accept position with the
University of Pennsylvania
One soldier was so injured he died
In short time, two were badly hurt
and thirteen others were more or less
bruised when large army automobile
from Fort Logan, bearing members Of
the post baseball team, turned over in
Denver
Giovannia Cudacio, an underground
engineer. was instantly killed and
Joseph Petschaucr. a trnmmer. was se
riously burned and blinded by the ex-
plosion of twenty-five giant caps on
the seventh level OF the hex shaft at
I.eadville.
President Woodrow Wilson will
greet the people of Colorado ut the
state fair between 3 and ) O'Clock on
fhe afternoon Of Thursday, Sept. %,
Arkansas Valley day at the state fair
Thousands of returned veterans of the
world war will be the escort of the
President
After seven days without food or wa
ter, Fred Burns, II years old, of Terre
Hnute, Ind. was found unconscious in
boxcar on the Burlington tracks in
Denver When Burns regained con-
sciousness he said he entered the
freight car in Chicago about seven
days before.
J. Allard Jeancon. Colorado Sprin &,
archaeol0glst, who has been exploring
the cliff dwellers' ruins in northwest
crn New Mexico for the last six
months. has opened up 127 rooms and
made discoveries of great Importance,
according TO experts who have eN-
amined his finds.
That Salt Lake City business men
expect within eighteen months to in
rade Routt and Moffat counties in
Pullman cars over n newly built rail
rond to extend from Salt Lake
Craig, Colo is the burden of an article
appearing in the bulletin of the Salt
Lake Commercial Club. Funds have
been assured and a strong group of
Utah finnnciers are determined to see
the road through.
There has been a sharp deterioration
In the condition of potatoes since the
August report was issued and the in
dicated production is now 10,59S.00o
bushels. The damage was most severe
in the north-central and northeastern
parts of the state where irrigated po-
tatoes suffered heavily Non-irrigated
potatoes are almost a failure. The po-
iato crop last year was 13,0S3.0 900 bush
chs, according to lately revised figures
The oldest man in Colorado, William
Earl Van Etten, is dead at Boulder at
the age of 102.
drive for 20.000,0O0 members and
S15,000,000 to carry out the pencetime
program of the Red Cross will be held
throughout the country in the period
of Nov. . to II, according to announce
ment of representatives of the noun
tain division.
The State immigration Department
has had prepared a "Wheat Map of
Colorado for 1919" the first map of
the kind ever made for the state. II
shows the distribution of both winter
aud spring wheat in the state, as in
dicated by the reports of county as
SCISSORS. A glance at the map will
show where wheat is grown In Colo
RADIO and how extensively. A small
symbol is used to represent ench 1,00O
acres of wheat grown, and the coun-
ties In the northeast corner of the
state are SO crowded with these sym
tolls that there is hardly room left for
the names of the counties. Four coun.
ties in this district have grown more
wheat this year than was grown in the
ties here have about two-thirds of the
states wheat acreage.
The federal census bureau reported
approximately 1900 acres devoted to
grain sorghums in Colorado In 1909.