Cheyenne record., 1919-07-31
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western spaper Union News Ser> Ice
COMING EVENTS.

Lar!mer ae County Fair Loveland' Aug
Boulder County Fair. Longmont. Sept
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford
Merkan County Fair. Fort Morgan.
Routt County Fair. Hayden. Sept. 3-5.
Logan County Fair. Sterling. Sept. 9
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept. 8
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. o
Moffat County Fair. Maybell. Sept. IL
Plateau Valley State Fair. colbran.
Sept. 1918.
Trinidad-Las Anlmas County Fair,
Trinidad. Sept. 1918. s,
western Slope Fair, Montrose. Sept.
Central Community Fair Greeley. Sept.
Yuma County Fair. Yuma. Sept. 1920.
Phillips County Fair. Holyoke. Sept
sasuache County Fair. saguache. Sept.
Colorado-New Mexico Fair. Durango.
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept. 22-
Grand County Fair. Krsmmline. Sept.
ZS-27.
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
Inter- Mountain Live Stock and Fair
Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct. ;.
Oct. TO.
Placerville. which has been practi-
cally destroyed twice by fire, is being
rebuilt on plan that will insure both
beauty and permanency.
Appropriations Of $4,000 for the
Rocky Mountain National park and
$1,000 for the Mesa Verde, for ex
penses during the coming year, are in
cluded in the sundry civil bill signed
by President Wilson.
Charles Place of Sawpit was instant
ly killed when an auto plunged over
Halrpin Tour curve and dropped thirty
feet to the bottom of the canon. The
rear wheel rim broke and the sharp
spokes pierced Places head and ston-
nch.
Monte Vista will stake big three
day Frontier roundup and stampede
on the occasion of the meeting of the
Spanish Trail-Mcsu Verde Highway
Association, August llth, 10Th and
18th. California Jack and his Wild
West riders and outlaw horses have
been engaged for the event.
The first Car Of cabbage to be
shipped from Brighton was sent to
Texas. Farmers of that district are
bringing in cabbage daily and the buy
ers ara loading cars on the tracks
ready for shipment. Practically all of
the produce men are ready for the big
crop which is to be harvested next
month and have many orders for cab
bage.
The greatest wheat crop in the his
tory of Phillips county is being hauled
to the elevators and the harvest is
just about done. The total is safely
placed at 2,OOO,OO0 bushels of wheat
and the yield is running from twenty
to forty-twO bushels an acre, the aver
age being twentysiX. The grain Is
testing sixty pounds to the bushel and
is selling at the local elevators for
$l9O. 1t is placing it conservativeiy
To say that Phillips county farmers
will be richer by $3,6OO,OOO this fall.
Except in the southwestern part of
the state, range pastures have suf-
frred very severely from the contin-
ued drought and the condition of live
stock generally has deprecated as a
result in the past ten days. The north
central section continues to be the
most afflicted district and considerable
numbers of cattle have been shipped
in, hn, nf
the state or In other states. On the
Western Slope the rainfall has been
generally ample until very recently
and ranges are only beginning TO be
damaged.
The federal bureau of public roads
approved the plans submitted by the
state highway department and Costilla
county for building So miles of road
between Fort Garland and San Luis
under federal aid. The new road sec.
ton, beginning with the San Luis end,
will cost approximately 100000.
Advance reports from threShermen
received by the Cooperative Crop Re-
porting Service Indicate that the yields
of wheat will be close to normal This
year, except the north central part of
the stat" and in restricted areas in
the eastern part. In parts of Weld,
Morgan. Lnrimer, Boulder. Adams,
jefferson and Arapahoe the crop was
seriously damaged by drought and will
in many districts average as low as 80
per cent of the normal production.
Since this district produces II very
large percentage Of the wheat grown
in the state the result will be II marked
reduction in total production from
estimates. The acreage
devoted to the crop, however, is some
what greater than advance reports in
50 that total production will
be fully 3OO.OOO bushels greater than
the largest crop previously grown.