The Ordway new era., 1919-08-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Larimer County Fair. Loveland. Aug.
Boulder County Fair. Longmont. Sept.
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford.
Morgan County Fair. Fort Morgan.
Routt County Fair. Hayden. Sept. S-5.
Logan County Fair. Sterling. Sept D
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept. g.
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. O.
Moffat County Fair. Maybeli. Sept. H.
Plateau Valley State Fair. coibran
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 Hoiyoke' Sept
saguashe 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 Eaif.
Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct. 3.
| Douglas County Fair, Castle Rock,
| Oct. 10.
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.
That the war on prairie dogs, inaug-
uratcd in La Plata county last spring
and which still is being waged, has
been fruitful in results, is the an
nouncement of G. w. Boyd, field fore
man of the Bureau of Biological Sur
vey.
Grasshopper hill, the site of Denver's
proposed Presbyterian hospital. was
sold 10 the organization committee Of
the Hospital Association for $4,000,
according to announcement by Frank
n Briggs, chairman. Work on the
erection of the building will begin next
year.
Waunita is certainly coming to the
| front, as one of the leading resorts
in Colorado. The popular resort is at
| tracing hundreds of visitors this year,
twice the number of last year. Fish
| ing has been remarkably good and
there have been numerous big catches
| made all season.
In Colorado approximately S6,OOO,-
900 is now being spent annually for
| the construction of state and county
| roads, or more than three times as
| much as was being spent annually five
years ago. The amount available for
road work is being increased each
year.
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.
The first state fair ever held in
| Colorado under state supervision and
| financed and supported by the state is
to be held at Pueblo, September 22nd
to 27th. The state has acquired title
to the fair grounds through purchase
with funds granted In a special appr0-
priation. The tax levy is being used
| In the payment of premiums and other
items of expense of an educational
character. In addition the State Fair
| Commission is spending $4,000 on the
sports and amusement program. 1t is
10 be Colorado's first 100000 fair.
| The contests in all departments have
been thrown open TO the world and
the liberal premiums have attracted
entries from all surrounding states.
By removing a glass in window,
| thieves gained entrance TO the French
Electric Cleaning shop at La Junta,
and made away with a number OF fine
dresses and several suits of clothes.
According to advices by w. p. Ella,
secretary of the Chamber of Com
meroe, the United States Dehydration
Company of Denver will establish n
branch dehydration plant at Grand
Junction.
One of the most disastrous losses
in the dairy industry occurred at Hol-
ly when twenty-seven pure-bred Hol
stein cows and pure-bred Holstein
bull died as the result of eating cane
when they broke into field on the
farm of Jens Jensen. The loss will
total $4,000.
Construction work on an irrigation
project lying five to fifteen miles
south of Las Animas, which will make
an immense tract of land productive,
will begin Immediately, viii II. Muir
ply OF the state land board announced
after the land commissioners ap.
proved a S25O,OO0 contract and bond
posted by w. A. Colt X Son of Las
Animas for building the irrigation sys-
TEN for the Mutual Carey Act Irriga-
tion Company.