The Ordway new era., 1919-10-10
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

hons of Colorado in the past TWO
weeks which have put the soil in e3-
cellent shape for fall plowing, ana this
work is farther advanced than IL usu-
ally is Mt this season of the year H.
ports received by the Colorado Coop
sratiye Crop Reporting Service inu'-
cate that the amount of winter wheat
planted this fall will be somewhat less
Than that planted in 1918, which was
the largest crop of winter wheat ever
planted in the state. The season was
tnfavorable for winter wheat IN most
sections of the state this year anu
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-
rarently influencing few farmers 1"
decrease their acreage
All previous records for visitors
wer broken in the Rocky Mountain
National Park during the past season,
Hccor,iing 10 report just Issued Dy
Stephen r. Mather, director of the ma
iional park service. According 20 STA
tistics taken at the park. l6i 900 have
i'ecn visitors during the past summer
while last year only 10000 visitor,
We're recorded. Last year 2o.aSS motor
fnrs passed through the park. while
during the past season this number mas
been nearly doubled with total of
i0.S7l.
Decrease in the amount OF land
available for homesteading in Colo
RADIO has reduced the number of appli-
cations this year by one-ihird. 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 n total OF 9,!J0O0OO acres open 40
Cntry. records OF the department show,
but this total is 100000 acres less than
that available year ago and 5.oOO,cM
ceres less than on July l. 1915.
Application from the Grover, Colo.
high school for rifles for drill purposes
snd similar applications from other
schools of Colorado led Col. ID. +. 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 a uniformed ca
Diet corps of not less than forty mem
bers can obtain both rifles and ammu-
uition 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 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-
fed. 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 a
blast Of dynamite or other explosive,
as the bones We're broken and pulled
loose from the backbone.
The manufacturing industry in Colo
RADIO had developed rather rapidly in
the past twenty years. During thai
period the number of manufacturing
establishments has nearly doubled. the
capital invested has Increased about
oao5 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 just opening in this state, and Colo
RADIO is facing a very serious situation
in this industry. Bigger marketing
problems are confronting the pinto
Lean producers than last year. because
there viii, he no big government orders
Ia be filled, such as there was during
the season of 191S-1919.
Approximately s3,5OO,OOO will be eN
rended in Colorado this year on new
school buildings, it is estimated by
Mrs. Mary c. c. Bradford, state super
intendent of public instruction, on the
basis of reports now received from
rwo-thirds of the siNty-three counties
In the state Buildings costing $1,000
900 are actually in course of construc
lion, and others will he building soon.
james Rithey, IA years old. son of o
ltithey. rancher west of Monte Vista, is
dead of injuries received when he was
hooked by cow. Young Rithey was
herdlng cattle into feed lot when he
was thrown from his horse and COW
came along and hooked her horns into
Hithey's head. The horns penetrated
his right eye and punctured his brain
He died II few minutes later.
y searching investigation of health
conditions al the state reformatory al
Bnenn Vista will be instituted by the
State Board of Health as an outcome
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