The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-27

CROWLEY County Fair Sugar city, Aug
Grand Junction. Sept 80 to Oct. 3.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock.
Oct. rs.
The oldest man in Colorado, William
Earl Van Etten, is dead at Boulder IN
the age of 102.
Two Arkansas valley counties,
Crowley and Otero, produce 30 per
cent of the cantaloupes grown in Colo
RADIO, and this state ranks among the
leaders in the production of canta-
loupes.
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
as new dean of the school of engineer
ing, University of Colorado, to succeed
Prof. Milo S. Ketchum, who has re-
signed to accept a 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 n large army automobile
from Fort Logan, bearing members oil
the post baseball team, turned over In
Denver
Mrs. Cora Sulsar, about 3S years old,
one of a party of tourists from Gilpin
CITY, Mo, was instantly killed when Il
runaway team of mules. drawing a
load of hay crashed into the automo-
bile in which she, her husband, two
children and an 1Syear-old nephew
were riding on the Lincoln highway.
Colorado held $9,736, ,992.o3 in its
treasury on Aug. 81, according to the
report for the quarter ending on that
date, submitted to Gov. Oliver IL.
Shoup by State Treasurer Harry f..
Mulnix; the receipts during the quar-
ter were S2,S1T ,153.49. and disburse-
ments were S2,130,67224.
Fort Collins industries will receive
one new unit shortly thru the filing in
the secretary of states office of arti-
cles of incorporation for the Fort Col
Iins Pressed Brick and Tile Company.
The organizers are II. G.. Finley, G. III.
Dixon and ii. A. Myer, residents of
Larimer county.
The federal census bureau reported
approximately 1900 acres devotedsto
grain sorghums in Colorado in 1909.
County assessors report approximately
o5O,OOO acres devoted to grain sorghum
this year, and an additional 100000
acres to sweet sorghums, grown prin-
cipally for stock feed.
That Salt Lake City business men
expect within eighteen months to in
wade Routt and Moffat counties in
Pullman cars over newly built rail-
road to extend from Salt Lake to
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 financiers 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 1O,59S,0OO
bushels. The damage was most severe
| I'm the north-central and northeastern
parts of the state where irrigated pO-
tatoes suffered heavily. Non-irrigated
potatoes are almost failure. The po-
tato crop last year was 1908, 900 bush
els, according TO lately revised figures.
More than 1900 people, the largest
number in the history of the associa-
tion, attended the third day of the an
nulal Montrose county fair.
The value of all farm property in
Colorado at the present time is close to
| 81. .OOO, 100000. In 1890 it was only
$40, ,35S,O4O, and in 1919 1t was only
| S491, 100000.
The State Immigration Department
las had prepared wheat Map of
Colorado for 1919" the first map of
the kind ever made for the state. 1t
shows the distribution of both winter
and 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 each 1,0Ou
acres of wheat grown, and the coun-
| ties in the northeast corner of the
state are so crowded with these SYM
| tols 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
entire state in 1909, and seven coun-
| ties here have about two-thirds of the