The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-07-31


to the report Of James Dalrymple,
state coal mine inspector. Every coal
producing county in the state. with the
exception of Routt and Rio Blanco
counties, shows decrease for the six
months period as compared to the
same period In 1913. The number OF
miners employed last month was TO-
92S, as compared to 1860 employed In
the previous year. The total prOduc-
ton of coal In the state during the
first six months of 1918 was 6,414.117
tons. The production for the first six
months Of this year was 4,92S,57S tons.
The average number of miners en-
ployed during the six months Of 1919
was 1920
Colorados wheat and corn crops this
year will exceed last years crops by
millions of bushels, according to esti-
mates by the Colorado cooperative
crop reporting service. based on acre
age returns sent in by the county as
SCISSORS, In accordance with the new
agricultural statistics law adopted by
the last Legislature. These estimates
place the wheat crop this year at 49,
627, 600 bushels for both spring and
winter wheat, as compared with 13,-
SS5. 900 bushels last year: and the corn
crop at 28,14S,OOO bushels as against
q, 585, 900 bushels in 1918.
kilograms received by Manager ]. L.
Bsaman of the Colorado State Fair
from Congressman Vale and Hardy,
state that arrangements have just
been made by the War Department to
send an elaborate display Of heavy war
materials for exhibit at the fair which
opens in Pueblo Sept. %. This display
which IL in addition to the trainload Of
relics already promised, will include
tanks and tractors, heavy
cannon, mobile shops and other heavy
war material used by this country and
others, including Germany.
Plans have been started by the Job
bers' bureau of the Civic and CONNER
cial Association to bring $4,000 mer-
chants into Denver this fall. The plan
Is to bring the merchants, In the ter
ritory served by Denver, to the city,
not In q body, but 100 each day. A
has been appointed to out
line the campaign. The jobbers be-
lieve BY bringing the merchants into
Denver they will be able to look over
the stock and also they will be enter
tanned.
Denver's new state armory will be
built ON Thirteenth avenue between
Sherman and Grant streets, 1t has
been announced. The site, which was
purchased at a cost Of $4,000, has re-
ceived the approval OF Gov. Oliver H.
Shoup and of the State Military Board.
A feature Of the building will be the
gymnasium. The cost of the armOry
will be 100000, this amount having
been appropriated by the last Legisla-
ture. The design Of the building will
conform to the other state buildings.
There are 46,211 farms in Colorado,
with a total area of 1855, $40 acres,
according to reports from county as
SCISSORS compiled by the state immigra-
ton department. Incomplete, the re-
ports show that the area in cultivation
In Colorado this year as A,42O, 765
acres. Complete reports, It Is estimat-
ed, will raise this by not less than
100000 acres. This IL exclusive Of
e1d1 100 acres OF land devoted to wild
hay, which has often been reported as
cultivated land.
Greeley business men will furnish
funds to provide life guard and safe
ty equipment for Seeleys lake, the
scene o. several recent drOwnings, dur
ing the remainder of the bathing sea-
son. They have also inauguruted a
campaign to construct large concrete
bathing pool In one OF the city parks
which will cost at least $4,000.
The acreage cultivated without ir-
rigation in Colorado has increased
close to 100 per cent since 1909, while
there has been a comparatively slight
increase in the acreage cultivated un-
der irrigation.
. Another municipal mountain park is
about to be purchased for the use of
Pueblo people and the tourists. This
Is to be 100 acres of the most pictur-
esQue land and water to be found any
where in the mountain regions of Colo
RADIO. 1t II at the entrance Of the Beu-
lah valley, twenty-eight miles from
Pueblo, and overlooking all the coun
try for 100 miles to the east and south.
nations Of the nearby buttes.
James Luttrell, a negro, who for
years was employed as a wire drawer
at the steel plant at Pueblo, who died
recently, had diamonds in his teeth.
Luttrell had a passion for diamonds,
1t is said, and this passion led him
to have his front teeth set with dia-
monds by a local dentist, and they
were valued at several hundred dol
lars.
Four boys, all employees Of Colo
ra do SnrfnHa RarageS have been