The Elbert County tribune., 1919-09-26
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

This includes n, ,5S8 acres of dry beans
for market, principally pintos. and
| 1,5S1 acres OF beans Of various vari-
eties for seed. This is the only I'm
portant crop showing decrease In
acreage this year as compared with
1919. Approximately 252,O00 acres was
| devoted to this crop in 1913, but the
yield 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. El 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 "A very light acreage this year,
the land being devoted principally to
| winter wheat.
The condition of the apple crop in
the state at this time is GO per cent of
normal, compared with so per cent at
this time last year and an average con-
ditIon of "a per cent. The estimated
production Is 2,S39.OOO bushels, or
more than 100000 bushels in excess
of last years output. The quality of
thief ruit is good. The peach crop is
being marketed rapidly and is general
ly of excellent quality. The produc-
tion is estimated at 100000 bushels,
compared with 633,0O0 bushels last
year. Tie pear crop is also good, the
.lfit
bushels, compared with 191, 900 bushels
last year.
Another name was added to the me-
mortal roll of Colorado Springs when
Sergt. Benjamin Harrison Bailey died
from the effects of shell shock and
poison gas at his home in thai city.
The young soldier was one of tn. FIRST
enllstments from Colorado Springs nnd
served with the British before MINT
didier and with the engineers NJ Cam
brai. Time after time he escaped
death by fractions of an inch until. i
the closing days of the war. he was
shell-shocked at the Argonne for..,,
and while lying helpless on the butte
field became a victim of poison ris
gas.
According to the county assessors
abstract of assessment Jackson coun-
tys valuation for tax purposes this
year is S5,755455 There are 1920
head of range cattle, assessed mt an av-
crage of S44.9l per head, IL total of 81
036,7G0, which makes the largest item
on the list. There are 6G,I20 acres of
lay land; assessed at $1,S51. $50; graz
ing land, SG7S,675; improvements on
land, S231 ,215. There are 3.T47 head
of horses in the county, valued at
S1S3,145.
A falling off of nearly 100000
bushels In the production of corn for
the stnte is Indicated as result of dry
weather late in the season. The condi-
tion of the corn crop. is found to be
only 62 per cent Of normal, which in
6icates a production, on approximately
900 600 acres devoted TO the crop, Of
13,950.000 bushels. compared with a
production of 20,5S5000 bushels on
$4,000 acres last year. The acreage
planted this year Is the largest on rec
ord
The threatened street car strike in
Pueblo wns averted after an all-night
session, when the employees of the com-
pany voted to accept the offer of the
company for half OF the % per cent
wage increase now and the other half
Nov. 10, when the city ordinance grant
Jng the company the privilege OF
charging G cents car fare in Pueblo be-
comes effective.
Breckenridge school children, who
We're fourth in the national contest to
raise the largest amounts of War Saw
ings stamps subscriptions, will receive
n specially penned honorary testimon-
ial from Mrs Mary C. G. Bradford,
"war president" of the National Eau-
cation Association and state superln-
tendent of public instruction.
Increased traffic on Main avenue at
Durango has made necessary the pass
ing of an ordinance by the City Coun-
Gil preventing the parking of cars
along that ihoroughfare for n longer
period than thirty minutes ut any Oh,
-Ime. A special traffic officer has
teen added to the police force to en-
force the parking order.
A sugar shortage which has pre-
vailed in Colorado for several weeks
caused many merchants in Denver to
begin limiting their customers to tl:c
amount that may be purchased at auy
one time. The limitation. merchants
say, should cause no alarm among
housewives as it Will be only tempo
airy.
Mrs. Cora Sulsar, about 3S years OLD.
one of n party of tourists from Gilpin
City, Mo-, was instantly killed when n
runaway team of mules. drawing a
.oad of hay crashed into the automo-
bile in which she, her husband, two
children and an 1S-year-old nephew