The Dolores star., 1919-08-01
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
estern Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

COMING EVENTS.
Larimer County Fair. Loveiand. Aug.
Boulder County Fair, Longmont. Sept
2-5.
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford.
Sept. 2-5.
Morgan County Fair. Fort Morgan
Routt County Fair. Hayden. Sept. S-5.
Logan County Fair, Sterling. Sept 3
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss, Sept. 8
Adams County Fair Brighton. Sept. @
MoIfat County Fair Msybell. Sept. IL
Plateau valley State Fair, colbran
Baca County Fair. Springfield. Sept.
1918.
Trinidad-Las Animss County Fair.
Trinidad. Sept. 1919.
Conejos County Fair. Manassa, Sept
Western Slope Fair. Montrose. Sept.
Central Community Fair. Greeley. Sept.
Yuma County Fair. Yuma Sept. 1920.
Phillips County Fair. Holyoke. Sept
Saeuache County Fair. saguache. Sept.
Colorado.New Mexico Fair, Durango,
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept .2
Grand County Fair. Kremmling. Sept.
1927.
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City, Aug.
Inter Mountain Live Stock and Fair,
Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct. 3.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock,
Oct. 7-9.
Placervillc, which has been practi-
cally destroyed twice by fire, is being
rebuilt on a plan that will insure both
beauty and permanency.
Appropriations of $4,000 for the
Rocky Mountain National park and
S1l 1000 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
Hulrpin 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 stom-
nch.
Monte Vista will stake big three
day Frontier roundup and stampede
on the occasion of the meeting of the
Spanish Trail-MeSa Verde Highway
Association, August 11th, 18th and
l3th. 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 are loading cars on the tracks
ready for shipment. Practically all of
| he 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
| ory of Phillips county is being hauled
10 the elevators and the harvest is
| lust about done The total is safely
placed at 100000 bushels of wheat
and the yield is running from twenty
20 forty-twO bushels an acre, the aver
age being twenty-SiX. The grain is
| testing sixty pounds to the bushel and
| ; selling at the local elevators for
| LOO. 1t is placing it conservatively
to say that Phillips county farmers
| will be richer by S3,6OO,O0O this fall.
| Except in the southwestern part of
| the state, range pastures have suf-
| fered very severely from the cOntin-
| ned drought and the condition of live
| stock generally has deprecated as Il
| 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
out for feeding in other sections of
| 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.
tion, beginning with the San Luis end
will cost approximately $4,000
Advance reports from thresherInen
received by the Cooperative Crop Re
porting Service indicate that the Yields
VI WHEAT viii bt 'loSt 10 IlDTlIIul lllIS
year, except the north central part of
the state and in restricted areas in
the eastern part. In parts of Weld,
Morgan, Larimer, Boulder, Adams,
jefferson and ArapahOe the crop was
seriously damaged by drought and will
in many districts average aS low as 10
per cent of the normal production
Since this district produces very
large percentage of the wheat grown
in the state the result will be marked
reduction in total production from
preliminary estimates. The acreage
devoted to the crop, however. is some
what greater than advance reports in.
dicated, so that total production will
be fully 100000 bushels greater than
the largest crop previously grown.
The school directors of district No
! of Summit county have advertised /;
special school election, for the purpos,
| of voting hnnIS IN ,f