Cheyenne record., 1919-08-28
COLORADO
STATE. NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

2-5.
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford.
Morgan County Fair. Fort Morgan
Isoutt County Fair. Hayden. Sept, So.
Delta County Fair. Hotehkiss. Sept. >
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. g.
Moffat County Fair. Maybell. Sept. H.
Plsteau Valley State Fair. colbran
Eaca County Fair Springfield. Sept.
1918.
Trinidad-I.as Animas County Fair
Concjos County Fair. Manassa. Sept
Western Slope Fair, Montrose. Sept.
Central Community Fair. Greeley. Sept.
Yuma County Fair. Yuma. Sept. 1920
Phillips County Fair. Holyoke. Sept.
Saguache County Fair. Saguache. Sept
Colorado-New Mexico Fair. Durango
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept az
Grand County Fair. Kremmling. Sept
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
Inter-Mountain Liye Stock and Fair
ITanU Junction., sept. ~ 10 OCl.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock.
Oct. 10.
G. w. Badger, for four years a
scoutmaster in Denver and for one
year assistant executive of the Denver
Boy Scouts, has been elected executive
of the Boulder troops.
In Logan county more than $4,000
>e 10 or
last summer for cultivation in crops
this year. This is more than is under
cultivation in any one of forty-One
counties in the state.
The death toll of the explosion at
Oakview mine Of Oakdale Coal COM
pnny is eighteen, and all the bodies ex-
cept three Of the miners whose lives
were snuffed out when the blast
caught them 1000 feet in the work
ings, have been recovered by rescue
crews.
Rolling down the hillside with the
velocity of cannon ball. huge boul-
der, which weighed at least two tons,
crashed through the two walls of il
barn at the rear Of the residence of
f. F. Boles at Telluride, and then
crashed through the walls of the
kitchen.
The total country revenue raised by
taxation through tax levies for county
purposes this year would be, If all
taxes were paid, $S.SSGS51.71. This
amounts to an average county tax levy
of G23 mills. The actual levies range
al in DhilIinS
1850 in Pilllin county.
The Sunnyside mill Of the Sunny side
Mining and Milling Company at Eu-
reka is under operation after a forced
,'l"srdown by the $25O,OOO fire that de-
SlrOyrd the bunk and boarding houses
At the mine several months ago This
llIl is one of the largest and best
equipped in the state.
The total acreage of rye planted In
Colorado for the 1919 harvest was ap-
proNimatrly 10000 acres, compared
With IL little more than 10000 acres in
1909. Yuma county is COlorado's ban
u,r rye growing county, with 29,Oo1
acres or nearly twice as much as was
CROWN in the state in 1909.
Costly and Atkins, leasing on the
Southern Boy mine in the La Plata
lno,lntnnS, have cut three-inch
streak of high grade ore that assays
$50 per pound. The ore carries AIS
ounces gold and sixty ounces silver to
'hr ton. and was discovered in the
shaft that is being sunk in an open
cut where some good ore was mined
h
rrn Boy Is located one mile above the
camp of Mayday, and the high grade
is in Il monZanite-porphyry formation.
"Outduor Life in the National For
ests of Colorado" will be the title of
two reels of film to be shown through
out the United States within the near
future The taking of these pictures
has just been completed by w. I.
Hutchinson, in charge Of the publicity
department of the forest service.
Mrs. Marie Reynolds of Pine bluffs,
Wyu, was held up and robbed Of $50
in cash and a travelling bag containing
II considerable amount of clothing, one
mile south Of Greeley, by two armed
higllwaymen. The Greeley police
have arrected Greeley farmers son,
who, Mrs. Reynolds believes, was one
Of the two men who robbed her
Frank Gable, director of the Du-
range roundup. to be held from Sept.
23 to 26 inclusive, is arranging one of
the classiest wild west programs ever
offered. There will be bull riding,
cowgirls' races. running races. goat
roping contests, trick roping contests,
steer bulldogging. Indian races. cow
boys relay races, bareback riding,
cowboys bucking contest, trick riding,
farmers wagon races, in all twenty
events day and 5000 to be distrib-
uted to the winning contestants during
the four-day celebration.
Grn sshonner hill the site of DenYar'S