The Dolores star., 1919-11-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New, Service,
COMING EVENTS.
The Red Cross Christmas Seal sale will
take place all over the United States
from December l to 10, 1919

The drainage work for the relief
begun and is making satisfactory pro
gress.
| The 100000 bond issue for me-
mortal park for returned service men
carried by Il small margin in the Boul-
| der election. The issue carried by
seventeen votes. Eight hundred and
two We're cast.
Walter $. Clark. one of the found
ers Of Aspen. and prominent in mn
ing circles for nearly II half century,
| died at his home there after II pro-
lunged Illness. He WIS stricken with
| paralysis thirteen wears ago and has
been confined to his bed since
For the first time since the Great
| Western Sugar Company established
a factory III Brighton. cattle will be
fed at the company farm. Already
several hundred head of cattle have
been placed ON the farm Ipd will be
fed the beet pulp. The pulp has al
ways been dried in the past and
shipped to other points for feeding.
|
sioners sold AT public auction in the
state house 10,S5i.09 acres Of land
| distributed over seventeen counties
for S219.O19ly. The average price
| paid per acre was SOIL. The record
| price realized from the sale was Sl26
| an acre, paid by Mary J. Ilauck of
| La lunta for a parcel Of land in Otcro
| county, containing l0.aT acres
The first stretch of government
state concret" h h'ghway to he built in
| Pueblo county is completed and will
| he seasoned for travel not later than
| December LIST. 1t is known as the
| first leg on the SANTA Fe trail. is
| 5000 feet long. and extends from San
| In Fe avenue, to the main gateway of
| The RoseIawn Burial park. Cost Of
| one and three-fourthS miles is approx
| imatcly $4,000
Records ut the postoffice show that
| during the first eighteen days of Oc-
| tober fifty-seven tons of parcels post
mattcr>w was mailed through the Grand
| Junction office, this exceeding all pre-
| vious records. The growth of Grand
Junction as Il wlolesnling center is re-
| >uting in the heavy increase in par
| GELS post shipments. Parcels post ship
| mcntS of fruit from the smaller cities
surrounding Grand Junction have also
| been exceptionally heavy this fall.
The largest acreage ever devoted to
| corn in Colorado was planted for this
| years crop and the State Co-opcra
| tive Crop Reporting Service is making
| n special effort to determine just what
proportion of il have been harvested
| for the various purposes for which
| corn is used in this state. Advance
crop reports indicate that about G6 per
| cent of the crop has been harvested
| for grain. the remainder being cut for
siIage or for dry forage, fed TO stock
in the fields without harvesting
The Cooperative Crop Reporting
| Service began on November lst, the
| calculation Of the total production of
all principal crops in the various coun-
| lies in Colorado and will complete the
| necessary tabulations for publication
| in the December number of the Crop
| Bulletin. In these calculations the
acreage reports furnished by county
assessors will be used. which are very
complete for most counties in the
state and which give much larger total
| acreage for the state than have been
| furnished before from any source
There are some counties, however. in
| which the acreage reports are incOm
| plete, and such counties will he given
credit for smaller production than they
| have made.
The oil shale industry in Colorado
| is about to come into It's own, with the
erection of two S2,000,OOO refining
plants in Grand valley. according to
| NJ. Fl. Callahan of De Beque, Colo,
| pioneer in the oil shale industry il
this state, and the original locator of
| the Callahan Oh Shule Company hold
ings in Grand valley.
| If the present plans of the United
States Department of Agriculture are
| carried out there will be available, be-
ginning with next year. much more
complete and detailed information re
| garding the livestock industry in all
states than is available at the present
time. These plans provide for fre
quent reports showing the number of
livestock of different kinds on hand
| in the various counties of each
state, the number of animals born, the
number marketed, the number saught
cred and other important Information
| not now available. In Colorado this
| new program of furnishing the public
| information regarding the livestock in
| dustry will be handled largely by the
Colorado Cooperative Crop Reporting
| Service, in which the United States
| Bureau of Crop Estimates and the
| Colorado immigration Department are
represented.
Three scenic routes from the East
| to the Pacific will touch MOntrOse
when the new scenic route between
| Silverton and Durango is completed,
| placing that city on the direct route