Gilpin observer., 1919-08-28
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Boulder County Fair. Longmont' Sept.
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford.
Mergan County Fair. Fort Morgan.
Routt County Fair. Hayden. Sept. s-5.
Logan County Fair. Sterling. Sept. g.
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept. 3
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. 81
M9fnfat County Fair. Maybell. Sept. IL
plssesu ssss, ,s,s.y Valley State Fair. colbran'
Baea County Fair. Springfield, Sept.
Trinidad-Las Animas County Fair,
Trinidad. Sept. 1913.
Conetos 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.
saguaehe 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 Live Stock and Fair.
Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct. 8.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock.
Oct. rs.
G.. w. Badger, for four years
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 62,OOO
acres of land was broken this year 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
pany 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
barn at the rear of the residence of
e. 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, il all
taxes were paid, $S,SS6, 6,S51.71. This
amounts to an average county tax levy
Of 6.23 mills. The actual levies range
frSm $50 mills in Phillips county to
1850 in Pitkin county.
The Sunnyside mill Of the Sunnyside
Mining and Milling Company at Eu-
reka is under operation after a forced
closedown by the S250,OOO fire that de-
stroyed the bunk and boarding houses
at the mine several months ago. This
mill 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-
prOximately 165,000 acres, compared
with Il little more than $4,000 acres in
1909. Yuma county is Colorado's ban
ner rye growing county, with 29,O51
acres, or nearly twice as much as was
grown in the state in 1909.
Costly and Atkins, leasing on the
mountains, have cut a three-inch
streak of high-grade ore that assays
$3.50 per pound. The ore carries 41S
ounces gold and sixty ounces silver to
the ton, and was discovered in the
shaft that is being sunk in an open
cut where some good ore was mined
two or three years ago. The South
ern Boy is located one mile above the
camp of Mayday, and the high-grade
is in monzanite-porphyry formation.
"OutdOor 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. 1.
Hutchinson, in charge Of the publicity
department of the forest service.
Mrs. Marie Reynolds of Pine Bluffs,
Wyo, was held up and robbed of $50
in cash and travelling bag containing
II considerable amount of clothing, one
mile south Of Greeley, by two armed
highwaymen. The Greeley police
have arrected a 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.
% to 20 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
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