The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-11-13
Pithy News Notes
From An Pans Of
Colorado
,..r. N.vp.p.r u.,e. Now servtee.
CosING EVENTS.


The Red Cross Christmas Seal sale will
take place Ali over the United States
from December to 10. 1913
The drainage work for the relief
Of that portion Of South Delta was
begun and is making satisfactory pro-
gress.
The 100000 bond issue for me-
mortal park for returned service men
carried by small margin In the Boul-
der election The issue carried by
seventeen votes. Eight hundred and
two were cast.
The State Board Of Land Commits
xioners sold at public auction In the
state house lO,S54.O0 acres OF land.
distributed over seventeen counties,
for x210,O1012 The average price
paid per acre was $20.11. The record
price realized from the sale was $126
an acre, paid by Mary J. Hauck of
La Junta for parcel of land In Otero
county, containing 4O57 acres
The first stretch OF government
state concrete highway to be built in
Pueblo county Is completed and will
be seasoned for travel not later than
December LIST. Ii Is known as the
first leg on the Santa F3 trail, is
5000 feet long, and extends from San
tn Fe avenue, to the main gateway of
the Roselawn Burial park. Cost of
one and three-fOurths miles is approx
imately $4,000.
Records at the postoffIce show that
during the first eighteen days Of Oc-
tober fifty-seven tons Of parcels post
tlc.l vvlp thGH M
Junction office, this exceeding all pre-
viOus records. The growth Of Grand
Junction as wholesaiing center is re-
suIting in the heavy increase In par
GELS post shipments. Parcels post ship
ments 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-opera-
tive Crop Reporting Service Is making
special effort to determine just what
proportion of 1t have been harvested
for the various purposes for which
corn is used In this state. Advance
crop reports indicate that about 66 per
cent Of the crop has been harvested
for grain. the remainder being cut for
silage or for dry forage, fed to stock
in the fields without harvesting.
Final compilation of returns made
by county assessors, with reports from
three counties still incomplete, show
Ass, $50 acres under cultivation In
Colorado this year, compared with p
25S,145 acres harvested in 1900. No
lob Of fferS<, to
show what percentage Of the acreage
planted for this years crops was not
harvested, but the percentage In some
sections of the state was rather high
because Of the continued dry weather
early in the season. The census report
Of 1909 does not show what acreage
was planted for that years crops, but
only what was harvested.
The Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service began on November 1st, the
calculation of the total production Of
all principal crops in the various coun-
ties in Colorado and will complete the q.
necessary tabulntions 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 be given
credit for smaller production than they
have made
For the first time since the Great
Western Sugar Company established
factory at Brighton. cattle will be
fed at the company farm. Already
several hundred head Of cattle have
been placed on the farm and will be
fed the beet pulp. The pulp has al
shipped to other points TOR feeding.
II 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 fire.
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 slaught-
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