The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-08
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western NEWSPAPER Unlon News serviee.

Boulder County Fair. Longmont, Sept.
Arkansas Valley Fair, Rocky Ford
MsIEan san9 !. County Fair. Fort Morgan
Routt County Fair Hayden. Sept. So.
Logan County Fair. Sterling. Sept y
Delta County Fair Hotchkiss, Sept. 8
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. o
Moffat County Fair, Maybell. Sept. IL
Plsteau valley State Fair. colbran'
Baca County Fair. Springfield. Sept
Trinidad-Las Animas County Fair.
Trinidad. Sept. 1919.
Conejns County Fair. Manassas Sept
Western Slope Fair. Montrose. Sept.
Central Community Fair. Greeley, Sept
Yuma County Fair. Yuma. Sept. 1920
Phiiiips County Fair. Holyoie, Sept.
colorado-New Mexico Fair, Durango.
| Sept. 1925.
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept 22-
Grand County Fair Kremmling. Sept.
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
Inter Mountain Live Stock and Fair,
| L. D.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock.
| Oct. 7-9.
| Jim Wong, 70, committed suicide in
Denver by hanging himself in his laun
dry. This is believed to be the second
suicide of Chinese in the history of
Denver
Sol Exon, flockmaster in the Echo
basin country, recently killed one of
the largest brown cinnamon bears ever
seen in that locality, and the animal
weighed 1000 pounds.
More than 1000 acres of land in the
districts north of Greeley, centering
about Eaton. Pierce and Ault, are be-
ing irrigated this year with water
raised from underground by electric
pumps
The Western Slope Fair Association
has offered Il purse of $400 to the win
ner of the three-day baseball tourna
ment which will be held this fall The
Telluride, Delta, Olathe and Montrose
teams will play for the purse.
| Colorado has collected S443, ,69903 in
Inheritance taxes since January 1st
says Attorney General Victor Z. Keyes,
head of the inheritance department.
OF this amount, according to the re-
port issued, $21, ,456S2 was collected
the last two weeks of July.
The figures show that there are ap-
proXimately 22,000 motor cars in the
city and county of Denver alone and
10000 elsewhere in the state The
increase Of machiaes in DenY,lf this
year will easily be 20 per cent, ills es-
timated.
Approximately p per cent of the
wheat grown in Colorado this year is
on irrigated land. compared with 81
per cent in 1909 The acreage of wheat
on nonrrigated land in the state has
! increased nearly 700 per cent in the
past ten years.
, Every part of Weld county has been
drenched by heavy and repeated rains
recently Both the Platte and the Pou-
{ Dire rivers have big flows of water and
5 all danger of damage to late crops such
/, us potatoes and cabbage resulting
from drouth is believed to be past
f Inquiries received by the State
l Board of immigration indicate that the
r demand for Colorado lands, which has
t been exceptionally strong for the past
, eighteen months, is continuing and
. promises to be almost as good during
: the coming fall and winter as it was
2 last fall and winter Such checks as
: it is possible to make through the
\ agencies at the command of the board
h Indicate that people from other states
2 have invested fully S2,O0O,OOO in Colo
RADIO lands In the past twelve months.
5 The Colorado registration law was
$ enacted in 1913, when 1890 cars were
S licensed in 1914 the number increased
k to 1926; in 1917, TO 66,S50; in 1918,
/ to 1924, and to date this year ap-
0 proximately 100000 cars have been
registered. This number will total
f 10000 before Dec. 81 The 1919 rev
n enues will reach about S430,00O, to be
n divided accordingly between the coun-
I, ty and state road funds, after deduct
S ing per cent for administering the
t law.
Statistics compiled in the assessors
reports on agriculture, and submitted
TO the State immigration Department,
Indicate that there are more than 2,500
Z farm tractors now owned and operated
@ by farmers in Colorado. The reports,
$ not yet complete, show that there are
e 2,330 farm tractors owned by farmers
4 who are actively engaged in farming in
Il the state this year. There are also q
O large number of tractors, owned by
?. town residents, that are being rented
/. to farmers. Weld county leads in the
/ number of farm tractors with 365, and
4 the eastern plains section has more
o than 10 per cent of the total number
in the state.
+ The Delta County Farmers Supply
o Company, with capitalization OF
!. 100000 has been organized. The com
z pany is organized for the purpose OF
t handling crops trading, selling and
e supplying machinery to its co-opera-
| five H., l,ap ~