The Elbert County tribune., 1919-10-10
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

WOrk Is 1aTluer duNhuttu thhh II HSu
ally is at this season of the year. Re
ports received by the Colorado Coop
erative Crop Reporting Service indi-
cate that the amount OF winter wheat
planted this fall will be somewhat less
than that planted In 1918, which was
the largest crop of winter wheat ever
planted in the state. The season was
pnfavorable for winter wheat in most
sections of the state this year and
many farmers who were dissatisfied
with the yields obtained will grow less
wheat this year, while q certain
amount of uncertainty as TO what the
price of wheat may be next year is ap-
parently influencing few farmers to
decrease their acreage.
The National Wholesale Grocers As
sociation, comprising brokers and man
ufacturers, will hold its 1920 conven-
tion In Colorado Springs, starting June
7, according to an official announce
ment made by A. II. Beckman, general
secretary of the association, who has
been In that city making arrangements.
Preparations will be made for handling
/ 900 delegates and their wives. This
Is the first time the association has
held convention west of the Afissis-
slppi.
Application from the Grover, Colo,
high school for rifles for drill purposes
and similar applications from other
schools of Colorado led Col. ID. Z. Nc
Cunniff, federal inspector-instructor
with the Colorado National Guard, to
call these schools attention to the pro-
visions of the army regulations under
which any school with n uniformed ca
det corps of not less than forty MEM
bers can obtain both rifles and ammu-
milton from the War Department.
The reported dynamlting of fish in
the Rio Grande has been amply veri-
fed. Hundreds of dead fish have been
found floating and lodged along the
river banks all the way from Deep
creek to Wagon Wheel gap, and all
those who have examined them de-
olared that they had been killed by
blast of dynamite or other explosive,
us the bones were broken and pulled
loose from the backbone.
The manufacturing Industry in Colo
RADIO had developed rather rapidly in
the past twenty years. During that
reriod the number of manufacturing
establishments has nearly doubled, the
capital invested has increased about
:2e25 per cent, the number of persons en-
gagged has more than doubled, and the
value of manufactured goods produced
annually has Increased approximately
40 per cent.
State Treasurer Mulnix has called in
$4,000 of the $685., 900 issue of ma
tional defense bonds put out by the
Gunter administration in 1917 to raise
funds for Colorado's part In the nation
al war program. This, with S125,000
previously called. makes total of
100000 worth of the bonds which have
been retired, leaving S565. 900 of the Is
sue outstanding.
The Ward Nederland road, a high
line road connecting the two mountain
towns about twenty miles west OF Boul-
der, has been completed at a cost of
$4,000. The road is 100 miles long.
and is through some of the most rugged
mountains in the Colorado Rockies. 1t
Is thought to be one of the most scenic
drives In the entire state.
The permanent state school fund
was Increased by SOL 1888 go through
auction sale by the State Land Board
of 6,o59 acres of state school land
The sections sold are situated In Baca,
Washington, Douglas, Moffat, Logan,
Prowers, Rio Grande, Elbert, Lincoln,
Morgan and Montezuma counties.
Farming under irrigation came in
Colorado almost as soon us gold min
ing. Its development was not rapid in
the beginning, but it was steady and
persistent, and today the value of the
annual output OF the states irrigated
farms is more than four times as great
as the gold mines.
AS result of the excellent work
done by county assessors in Colorado
this year in the collection of statistics
showing the acreage of the various
crops grown in the several counties,
the State Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service will be able this year for the
first time to determine with reasonable
accuracy the production of all crops by
counties, instead of only for the state
as whole.
Approximately S3,50O,000 will be ex-
Pended In Colorado this year on new
school buildings, it is estimated by
Mrs. Mary c. C. Bradford. state super
intendent of public instruction, on the
basis of reports now received from
two-thirds of the sixty-three counties
in the state. Buildings costing $3OOO,-
900 are actually in course of construc-
ton. and others will be building soon.
Administration, as well as fire pro-
lection, of national forests by wireless
telephone is the most recent innovation
attempted by the Denver district of the
forest service. Two field sets of wire