The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-22
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Boulder County Fair. Longmont. Sept.
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford,
Mergan County Fair, Fort Morgan.
Sept. 2-5
Routt County Fair, Hayden. Sept. 3-5.
Logan County Fair. Sterling, Sept. o
Delta County Fair. Hotchl1iss. Sept. g.
Adams County Fair. Brighton, Sept o
Moffat County Fair. Maybell. Sept. IL
Plateau Valley State Fair. Colbran.
Baca County Fair. Springfield. Sept.
1913.
Trqidqd,das rrinldad San, Ani%as mas County air'
ConeJos County Fair Manassa, Sept.
western Slope Fair, Montrose. Sept
Central Community Fair, Greeley. Sept.
Yuma County Fair, Yuma, Sept. 1920.
PhbiIIligas bI Ja County Fair HoIyoke' Sept.
sagusehe County Fair, saguache, Sept.
colorado,Nsw 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.
Oct. 79.
In Logan county more than G2,0O0
| 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-
urated 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 to 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,
1 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 $4,000
900 is now being spent annually for
| the construction of state and county
roads, or mof'e Than three times tis
much as was being spent annually five
| II
read 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 rescne
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 9th. The state has acquired title
to the fair grounds through purchase
with funds granted in a special appro-
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
to be Colorados 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 glass in a window.
hieves gained entrance TO the French
Electric Cleaning shop at La Junfa,
and made away with a number of fine
dresses and several suits of clothes.
According to advices by w. 2. Ella,
secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce. the United States Dehydration
Company of Denver will establish ii
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, Will r. Muir
ply of the state land board announced
after the land commissioners ap-
proved a S250,00O contract and bond
posted by w. A. Colt & Son of Las
Animas for building the irrigation sys-
tenn for the Mutual Carey Act Irriga-
ton Company.
The Midland Cereal Products Com
pany have signed a contract with the
Farmers and Merchants Association
which calls for the erection of a fac
tory building in Brighton to cost Sl5O,-