The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-10-09

according to report Just issued by
Stephen T. Mather, director Of the ma
tional park service. According % sta
tistics taken at the park, 161, 900 have
teen visitors during the past summer.
while last year only 1000 visitors
were recorded. Last year 2O,5S8 motor
cars passed through the park, while
during the past season this number has
been nearly doubled with total of
4OS71.
Decrease In the amount of land
available for demonstrating in Colo
RADIO has reduced the number of appli-
cations this year by one-third. as cOm-
pared with 1916 records, according 10
State immigration Commissioner Ed
ward Foster, the inquiries are as many
this fall as three years ago. There 10
still a total Of $500 600 acres open 20
entry, records of the department show,
but this total is 100000 acres less than
that available year ago and 5,OOO,CoO
acres less than on July /, 1916.
Application from the Grover, Colo,
high school for rifles for drill purposes
and similar applications from other
schools of Colorado led Col. d. e. Nc
Cunniff, federal inspectOr-instructOr
with the Colorado National Guard, to
call these schools attention to the pro-
visions of the army regulations under
which any school with n uniformed Ca
Diet corps of not less than forty MEM
bers can obtain both rifles and ammu-
milton from the War Department.
C. F. Burke of Pueblo was elected
secretary treasurer of the Colorado
Duroc Jersey Hog Association at
meeting held in Pueblo. Professor
Morton of the Colorado State Agricul-
tural College, Fort Collins, was elected
president. ]. w. Brewer of Colorado
Springs was chosen vice president. The
association members plan on taking
Jerseys. possibly thirty. to the Denver
stock show this winter.
The reported dynamiting Of fish In
the Rio Grande has been amply veri-
fled. Hundreds of dead fish have been
found floating and lodged along the
river banks all the way from Deep
creek to Wagon Wheel gap, and all
olared that they had been killed by
blast of dynamite or other explosive,
as the bones were broken and pulled
loose from the backbone.
The manufacturing industry in Colo
RADIO had developed rather rapidly In
the past twenty years. During that
reriod the number of manufacturing
establishments has nearly doubled, the
capital invested has Increased about
o25 per cent, the number of persons en-
gagged has more than doubled. and the
value of manufactured goods produced
annually has Increased approximately
ITO per cent
AS a result OF the excellent work
done by county assessors in Colorado
this year In the collection of statistics
showing the acreage of the various
crops grown In the several counties,
the State Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service will be able this year for the
first time to determine with reasonable
accuracy the production of all crops by
counties. instead of only for the state
as whole.
Approximately $500, 600 will be ex-
Tended In Colorado this year on new
school buildings, 1t is estimated by
Mrs. Mary c. C. Bradford, state super
basis of reports now received from
twO-thirtls of the sixty-three counties
in the state Buildings costing $1,000
600 are actually In course of cOhstruc-
ton, and others will be building soon.
James Rithey, IA years old. son of o.
Rithey, rancher west of Monte Vista, is
dead OF injuries received when he was
hooked by COW. Young Rithey was
hertiing cattle into feed lot when he
was thrown from his horse and cow
came along and hooked her horns into
Rithey's head. The horns penetrated
his right eye and punctured his brain.
He died few minutes later.
There has been rains In most sec
lions of Colorado in the past two
weeks which have put the soil In ex-
cellent shape for fall blowing. and this
work is farther advanced than 1t usu-
ally is at this season Of the year. Re
ports received by the Colorado Coop
erative Crop Reporting Service indi-
cate that the amount OF winter wheat
planted this fall will he somewhat less
than that planted in 1918, which was
the largest crop of winter wheat ever
planted In the state. the season was
rnfavorable for winter wheat in most
sections of the state this year and
many farmers who were dissatisfied
with the Yields obtained will grow less
wheat this year, while certain
amount Of uncertainty as to what the
price of wheat may be next year is ap-
parently influencing n few farmers to
decrease their acreage.
The shipping season for pinto beans
is just opening in this state. and Colo