The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-09-19
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

to the State immigration Department
show SO, 1877 acres of beans in Colorado
this year, exclusive of snap beans.
This includes 1856 acres of dry beans
for market, principally pintos, ana
| 1851 acres of beans of various vari-
cites for seed This is the only I'M
portant crop showing decrease IN
acreage this year as compared with
1919 Approximately 252,OOO acres was
devoted to this crop in 1918, but the
Weld was unsatisfactory in many dis
tricts and the price obtained was much
lower than the previous year. These
two facts are the principal reasons for
the low acreage this year. Ell Paso,
Elbert and Weld counties lead in area
devoted to beans, each county having
in excess of 10000 acres. Logan coun-
ty and other counties in the northeast
corner of the state, where large acre
ages of beans were grown last year,
report very light acreage this year,
the land being devoted principally to
winter wheat.
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
hols 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 19O9 and seven coun-
ties here have about two-thirds of the
states wheat acreage.
The Industrial Sugar Company. II
81 100000 corporation financed by
sugar beet growers, is to build its
first factory at Fort Lupton, according
to announcement of the board of
directors. The factory will contract
1000 acres in the vicinity of the town.
1t is planned to have the factory
ready to handle beets in the fall of
1920. AS Fort Lupton already has
two canneries and a large milk con-
densary, the new sugar factory will
make it the biggest manufacturing
center in the county.
A meeting of the pioneers Of north
western Colorado will be held in
Steamboat on October at the home
L
the founder of Steamboat Springs,
and among the first settlers in north
western Colorado. Pioneers, altho
their number is growing fewer every
year, will come from all over the
county to talk over the old days
when this country was but a wilder
ness.
Three-Quarters of million pictures
were taken in and around Colorado
Springs this summer, according to es-
Inmates of local camera shops, where.
for three months, double shifts of
workmen have been engaged in an ef-
fort to keep up with the clicking of
10000 shutters. Not less than fifty
miles of film were exposed.
One Colorado county, Weld, reports
through its county assessor 431 silos
| this year and the number Is being con-
stantly increased. The silo is becom-
ing an important factor in the agricul-
tural development of the state, partic-
ularly in the counties east of the
mountains and in few counties in the
Grand river watershed
The 1919 sugar beet crop in Colo
RADIO will break all previous records,
according to reports received from the
four beet sugar producing companies
of the state. The prediction of ban
ner yield is considered remarkable, in
view of the drought and the destruc-
ton wrought by the web-worm in GER
tain localities.
While Illegally hunting ducks, it is
said, fifteen miles north of Durango
Frank Mcconnell, aged 38. and owner
of poolroom in Silyerton, lost his life
in mysterious drowning.
Under new regulations announced by
officials of the Colorado National
Guard members of the guard are to re-
ceive regular pay under the provisions
of the national defense act of June
1916, provided drill requirements arc
met Pay for privates will be one
fourth that allowed men in the regular
army.
The production of wheat in Colorado
this year will be 1S,049,0O0 bushels, ac'
cording to the September forecast just
issued by the state cooperative croI
reporting service This is the largest
production ever recorded in the state
the previous record crop being that Of
191S-13, ,536, 900 bushels.
Despondent because of i'll health,
Joseph L. Parker, 80, formerly drug
gist at Cullman, Ala, committed sui
eide in a lonely cabin near Evergreen
by shooting himself thru the head
Parker was suffering from tuberculo-
sis.