Gilpin observer., 1919-07-31
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

COMING EVENTS.
Lorimer County Fair Loveland. Aug
Boulder County Fair. Longmont. Sept
go.
Arkansas Valley Fair Rocky Ford
Mersan sa;,, County Fair Fort Morgan,
Routt County Fair, Hayden. Sept 3-5.
'osan =. county ra'r sterling sept, 3
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept. s.
Adams County Fair Brighton, Sept. O.
Moffat County Fair. Maybell. Sept. IL
Plateau Valley State Fair. Colbran.
paea County Fair. Springfield. Sept.
1918.
Trinidad-Las Animas County Fair.
Trinidad. Sept. 1919.
Conejos County Fair. Manassa. Sept.
Western Slope Fair Montrose. Sept.
Central Community Fair. Greeley. Sept.
Phillips County Fair Holyoke. Sept.
saguache County Fair. saguache. Sept
Colorado-New Mexico Fair, Durango.
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept 22-
35-27.
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
27-2S.
Inter NJ fountain Live Stock and Fair,
Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct 8.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock,
Oct. TO.
Placerville, which has been practi-
cally destroyed twice by fire, is being
rebuilt on plan that will insure both
beauty and permanency.
Appropriations of $4,000 for the
Rocky Mountain National park and
$1,000 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
Hairpin Tour curve and dropped thirty
feet to the bottom of the cafion. The
rear wheel rim broke and the sharp
spokes pierced Places head and stom-
nch.
Monte Vista will stake a big three
day Frontier roundup and stampede
on the occasion of the meeting of the
Spanish TrQil-Mesa Verde Highway
Association, August 11th, 18th and
18th. 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
crop which is to be harvested next
month and have many orders for cab.
bage.
The greatest wheat crop in the his
tory of Phillips county is being hauled
to the elevators and the harvest is
just about done. The total is safely
placed at 100000 bushels of wheat
and the yield is running from twenty
to fortytwo bushels an acre, the aver
age being twenty-six. The grain is
testing sixty pounds to the bushel and
is selling at the local elevators for
S1.9O. 1t is placing it cOnservatively
to say that Phillips county farmers
will be richer by S3,60O,OO0 this fall.
Except in the southwestern part OF
the state, range pastures have suf'
fered very severely from the cOntin.
ued drought and the condition of live.
stock generally has deprecated as a
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 road.
approved the plans submitted by tn,
state highway department and Costills
county for building So miles Of roat
between Fort Garland and San Lui,
under federal aid. The new road sec
tion, beginning with the San Luis end
will cost Approximately $4,000.
Advance reports from threshermer
received by the Cooperative Crop Re
porting Service indicate that the yield.
of wheat will be close to normal thi.
year. except the north central part %
the state and In restricted area I
the eastern part In parts of Weld
Morgan, Larimer, Boulder, Adams
Jefferson and Arapahoe the crop wal
seriously damaged by drought and will
IN many districts average as low as q
per cent of the normal production
Since this district produces n YER,
large percentage of the wheat grow
In the state the result will be a marke,
reduction in total production from
preliminary estimates. The acreag
devoted tn the crop, however, is some
what greater than advance reports in
dicated, so that total production will
be fully 100000 bushels greater thai
the lnrgpSt crOp previously grown