The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-09-25
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show 63,le7 acres Of beans h COLOMBO
this year. exclusive Of snap beaAA
This includes al -566 acres Of dry beans
for market. principally pintox. and
IL ISL acres Of beans OF various vari-
cites for seed This 10 the only i'm
portant crop showing 4 decrease in
acreage this year as compared with
1913. Approximately 1000 acres Was
devoted to this crop in 1918 but the
yield vas unsatisfactory in many dis
trictx and the price obtained WIS much
lower than the previous year These
two facts are the principal reasons for
the low screage this year e. Psso.
Ebert and Weld counties lead in area
devoted to beans each county having
in excess OF 1900 Acrea- Logan ccun-
~ and other counties in the northeast
corner Of the state where large acre
ages Of beans were grown last year.
report a very light acreage this year.
the land being devcted principally TO
" inter wheat
The State Immigration Department
Las had prepared Wheat Map Of
Colorado for l9l9.- the first map of
the kind ever made for the state IL
shows the distribution Of both winter
and spring wheat In the state as in
dicated by the reports Of county as
sesSorx- A glance ar the map will
show where wheat is grown in Colo
rado and how extensively A small
symbol II used 10 represent each LOO
acres Of wheat grown and the couD-
lies in the northeast corner Of the
state are 80 crowded with these syID-
tolls that there is hardly room left for
the names Of the counties -Four coun-
ties in this district have grown more
wheat this year than was grown in the
entire state In 1903. and seven coun-
ties here have about two-thirdx Of the
states wheat acreage
Another name wss added TO the me-
rooriaI roll Of Colorado Springs when
Serg1 Benjamin Harrison Bailey died
from the effects OF shell shock and
poison gas at his home in thai city
The young soldier was one OF the I.r.t
eniistments from Colorado Springs and
served with the British before j;nDf-
didier and with the engineers NJ Cain-
brsi- Time after time he ESCAPED
death by fractions of m inch until. n
the closing days of the war. he was
sbeil-shocked st the ArgOnne forest.
and while lying helpless on the battle
field became a victim Of poisonous
gas.
According to the county assessors
abstract Of assessment Jackson coun-
ty's valuation for tax purposes this
year IL &5.755.455. There are 1870
head of range cattle. assessed at an nv.
ersge of &44.9l per head. u total Of 81
036. 100. which makes the largest Item
on the list. There are 66.720 acres Of
Lay land. assessed at 81 .S57 $50: graz
ing land. s67s.675; improvements on
land, S231 .2l5. There are 3,747 head
Of horses in the county, valued Al
s1s3,145.
A meeting of the pioneers Of north
western Colorado will be held in
Steamboat on October 0 at the home
Of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Crawford.
the founder Of Steamboat Spring.,
and among the first settlers in north
western Colorado. Pioneers, altho
their number Is growing fewer every
year, will come from all over tha
county TO talk over the old days
when this country was but a wilder
ness.
One Colorado county, Weld, reports
through Its county assessor 4S1 silO1
this year and the number is being con,
stantIy increased The silo IL becom,
ing an important factor I'm the agricul,
tural development Of the state, partic,
,xIo In hA NJ
mountains and In few counties In the
Grand river watershed.
Mrs. Cora Sulsar, about 3S years old,
one Of a party Of tourists from Gilpip
City, Mo-, was instantly killed when a
runaway team Of mules. drawing a
load Of hay crashed into the automo,
bile In which she. her husband, two
children and an 1S-year-old nephew
were riding on the Lincoln highway.
Three-Quarters of million pictures
were taken In and around Colorado
Springs this summer. according to es-
Inmates Of local camera shops, where,
for three months, double shifts Of
workmen have been engaged in an eff
fort to keep up with the clicking Of
1000 shutters Not less than fifty
miles Of film were exposed.
Breckenridge school children, who
were fourth In the national contest to
raise the largest amounts of War Saw
inss stamps subscriptions, will receive
specially penned honorary testimOn-
ial from Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford,
war president Of the National Ecu
cation Association and state xuperin-
tendent of public instruction.
The Lovelnnd Masonic order will
have n new temple when the work on
the State Mercantile building, which