The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-10-03
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

There has been rains in most Sec
.,ons of Colorado in the past two
weeks which have put the soil in ex-
cellent shape for fall plowing, and this
work is farther advanced than it usu-
ally is at this season of the year. Re-
norris received by the Colorado Coop
erativp Crop Reporting Service indi-
cate that the amount or winter wheat
planted this fall will be somewhat less
than that planted in 1918, which was
fhe largest crop of winter wheat ever
planted in the state. Fne season was
1nfayorable for winter wheat in most
sections of the state this year and
many farmers who We're 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 few farmers to
decrease their acreage.
All previous records for visitors
wer broken in the Rocky Mountain
National Park during the past season,
according to report just Issued by
Stephen r. Mather, director of the ma
tional park service According % sta
tisties taken at the park, 10000 have
leen visitors during the past summer,
while last year only 100000 visitors
v ere recorded. Last year Loss motor
cars passed through the park. while
during the past season this number has
been nearly doubled with total of
4O,S71.
Decrease in the amount of land
available for homesteading in Colo
RADIO has reduced the number of appli-
cations this year by one-third, as com
rared with 1916 records, according 10
State Immigration Commissioner Ed
ward Foster, the inquiries are as many
this fall as three years ago. There Is
still total of 9,500OOO acres open 10
entry, records of the department show,
but this total is 100000 acres less than
that available year ago and 3,OOO.Co0
acres less than on July l, 1915.
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-instructo
with the Colorado National Guard, to
call these schools attention to the pro-
which any school with uniformed ca
det 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 a
meeting held in Pueblo. Professor
Morton of the Colorado State Agricul-
tural College, Fort Collins. was elected
president. J. w. Brewer of Colorado
Springs was chosen vice president. The
association members plan on taking
large number Of head of fancy Duroc
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
those who have examined them de-
clared 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
40 per cent.
The shipping season for pinto beans
is lust opening in this state, and Colo
RADIO is facing very serious situation
in this industry. Bigger marketing
problems are confronting the pinto
lean producers than last year, because
there viii. be no big government orders
TO be filled, such as there was during
the season of 191S-1919,
Approximately s3,5OO,OOO will be ex-
Tended in Colorado this year on new
school buildings, it is estimated by
Mrs. Mary G. G. Bradford, state super
intendent of public instruction, on the
basis of reports now received from
two-thirds of the sixty-three counties
in the state Buildings costing $1,000
900 are actually in course of construc-
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
herding cattle into a feed lot when he
was thrown from his horse and COW
came along and hooked her horns into
Ritheys head The horns penetrated
his right eye and punctured his brain.
He died few minutes later
searching investigation of health
conditions at the state reformatory at
Buena Vista will be instituted by the