The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-09-11
Pithy News Notes
From Al Parts Of
Colorado



Trinidad. sept 1919.
conetos County Fair. Manassas. Sept.
Western Slope Fair. Montrose. Sept.
centr.I Community Fair. Greeley. Sept.
Beaver Park Fair At Penrose. Colo.
Yuma County Fair Yuma. Sept 1870.
Pht!ips County Fair. Holyoks. Sept.
saxueche County Fair. saguache. Sept.
coloredo.New Mexico Fair. Durango.
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept. 81
Grand County Fair. Kremmling. Sept
cf sI.isy County Fair. Sugar city. Aug.
Grand Junction. sept so to Oct. ).
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock.
Haxtun, In Phillips county, will
shortly possess a new bank under arti-
cles of Incorporation filed in the secre-
tary of states office for the Haxtun
State Bank, with announced capital
stock of $4,000
One hundred tons of freshly stacked
alfalfa hay, valued at $1,000, was
burned on the Lakeside Hereford ranch
of John E. Painter near Roggen. Fire
is believed to have started from spon-
taneOus combustion.
al Bank has been completed at Bur-
lington with capital of $50 600 and a
surplus of 5000. The bank will open
for business some time during the
month of September.
On behalf Of the people Of Colorado,
Gov. o. H. Shoup has sent Gen. John
J. Pershing a letter, welcoming him
back to the United States. The letter
Is to be delivered to General Pershing
upon his arrival In New York.
While timbering a dangerous place
in the Huffaker mine on Elk mountain,
Andrew johnson was injured severely
when he slipped and fell from q rock.
Both legs were crushed. This is the
first mine accident in the Kremmling
district.
Fire OF alleged incendiary origin de-
stroyed the planning mill and 100000
feet Of lumber at the plant of the Tab
erpash Lumber Company at the edge
Of Tabernash. The loss il estimated
at about $4,000, fully covered by in
surance.
More than two-fifths of the beans
raised in Colorado this year are being
grown in three counties, Weld, Ebert
and Ell Paso. PintOs are grown largely
in the last two counties named, while
Weld county produces a large acreage
Of seed beans.
Street railway employees Of Boulder
have been granted an increase in
wages averaging 8 per cent. The men
have been receiving wage of 3S cents
and 35 cents an hour. According to the
new scale the wages will be IS. 50 and
10 cents an hour.
A bill authorizing the city Of Boui-
der to acquire 400 acres of United
States forestry land in the vicinity Of
Silver lake, has been passed by the
House, according to kilograms received
by City Manager Salter from Congress-
men Timberlake and Vale. The city
will use the land In Its scheme for
improving the city water supply sys-
tenn.
During their four months of exist
ence the four state employment offices
which are operating In conjunction
with the State Labor Department, have
placed 1850 discharged soldiers In po-
sitions, according to figures just made
public by W. L. Morrissey, state labor
commissioner The two offices main
tanned in Denver secured work for l.
800 men, the one in Pueblo for go
men, and for 80 men at Colorado
Springs A total of 3,776 applications
for jobs were received at the offices.
In the northeast counties Of Colora.
do, where wheat Is grown more extern
sively than In any other section Of the
state, the average yield per acre this
year on non-irrigated land has been
larger than for a good many years,
while in the north-central counties 1t
has been the lowest in twenty years.
An airplane will be on the tax rolls
in Colorado this year for the first
time in the states history. The plane,
owned by E. j. johnson of Denver.
was assessed by Assessor Mccarthy at
a valuation Of $1,000. There are two
other air machines in Denver, but on
April LIST, when the assessment was
made, JOhnson's was the only one in
the state.
william Brewer, AZ, well-known
rancher of Platteville, Colo. was in
stantly killed, and William Roam, Fort
Lupton, attorney, and George Brew
ster, also of Fort Lupton, were slightly
Injured in an automobile accident on
the East Lake road. Mr.. Brewer was
driving the car, and 1t was travelling at
a high rate of speed, according to the
other occupants OF the car, when it
struck chuckhole and upset on the
side of the road.