The Elbert County tribune., 1919-08-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
.w.papsr Union Nsws servIce-
CoMING EyENrs.

Boulder County Fair. Lonsmons' Sept
Arkans.. Valley Fair. Rocky Ford.
Morssn County Fair. Fort Morgan.
Rouff County Fair. Hayden. Sept. s-s.
Logan County Fair Sterling. Sept =
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept >
Adams County Fair. Brighton Sept O.
MofiA4 County Fair, Maybell. Sept IL
Pistssa valley state Fair coibran.
Hars County Fair. Springfield. Sept.
rrtnld.d-La. Anim.s County Fair.
Cone1ns County Fair. Manassa. Sept
wessern slope ysir Montrose. Sept
c.:..!ss, Community Fair. cre.ley. Sept
PhlIflgs County Fair. Hoiyoke. Sept.
sssu..she County Fair. sasuachs. Sept.
color:de.Nssw Mexico Fair. Durango.
cciersdo State Fair. Pueblo. Sept az
Grand County Fair. KremmlIns. Sept
croStsy County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
Inter Mountain Live Stock ard Fair.
Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct. g.
Dougias County Fair. Castle Rock.
q. w. Badger. for four years a
scoutmnster in Denver and for one
year assistant executive of the Denver
Boy Scouts, has been elected executive
of the Boulder troops
In Logan county more than $4,000
acres of land was broken this year or
tast summer for cultivation in crops
this year. This is more than is under
cultivation in any one Of forty-one
counties in the state.
The death toll OF the explosion at
Oakyiew mine OF Oakdale Coal com
Qany IL eighteen, and all the bodies ex-
cept kbree OF the miners whose lives
were snuffed out when the blast
caught them 1000 feet in the work
Ings. have been recovered by rescue
crews.
Rolling down the hillside with the
velocity of cannon ball. huge boul-
der. which weighed at least two tons,
crashed through the two walls of n
barn at the rear of the residence of
r. r. Boies at Telluride, and then
crashed through the walls Of the
Kitchen.
The total country revenue raised by
taxation through tax levies for county
purposes this year would be, If all
raxes were paid, $S.SS6.S51.71. This
,nua1unts to an average county tax levy
OF 6.23 mills. The actual levies range
from $50 mills in Phillips county to
1850 In Pitkin county.
The Sunnyside mill of the Sunnyside
Mining and Milling Company ut Eu-
reka Is under operation after forced
cloAedoxu by the S250,00O fire that de-
StrOycd the bunk and boarding houses
nt the mine several months ago. This
siiHs is one of the largest and best
: equipped in the state.
The total acreage of rye planted In
Colorado for the 1919 harvest was ap-
pr0ximateIy 165,0OO acres, compared
with little more than 1900 acres In
1909. Yuma county is Colorados ban
Der rye growing county, with 29.051
acres. or nearly twice as much as was
grown In the state In 1909
Costly and Atkins. leasing ON the
Southern Boy mine in the La Plata
streak of high-grade ore that assays
$3.50 per pound. The ore carries AIS
ounces gold and sixty ounces silver 20
the ton. and was discovered in the
shaft that Is being sunk in an open
cut where some good ore was mined
two or three years ago. The South
ern Boy is located one mile above the
camp of Mayday, and the high grade
Is In a monzanite-porphyry formation.
"Outdoor Life in the National For
csts of Colorado" will be the title of
two reels of film to be shown through
out the United States within the near
future. The taking of these pictures
has Just been completed by w. L.
Hutchinson, in charge of the publicity
department of the forest service.
Mrs. Marie Reynolds of Pine Bluffs,
Wyo.. was held up and robbed of $50
In cash and travelling bag containing
II considerable amount of clothing, one
mile south of Greeley, by two armed
bighwaymen. The Greeley police
have arrected Greeley farmers son,
who. Mrs Reynolds believes, was one
of the two men who robbed her.
Frank Gable, director of the Du-
range roundup. to be held from Sept.
% TO 26 inclusive, is arranging one of
the classiest wild west programs ever
offered. There will be bull riding.
coweLrls' races, running races, goat
roping contests, trick roping contests,
steer bulldogging. Indian races, cow
boys relay races, bareback riding,
cowboys buclSing contest. trick riding,
farmers wagon races, in all twenty
events day and $1,000 to be distrib-
ufed to the winning contestants during
the four-day celebration.