The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-08-07
Pitty News Notes
From All Paris Of
Colorado

III = II
Western Newspaper U.soa News Service
COMING EvENrs.
L.rimer County Fair. Loveiand' Aug.
Boulder County Fair. Longmont. Sept
Ark.ns.s Valley Fair. Rocky Ford.
hS .ss,, ,. Count, Fair. Fort Morgan.
Logan County Fair. Sterling. Sept D
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept =
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. 3
Mefi.. County Fair. M.ybell. Sept. IL
Plateau Valley state Fair. Cochran.
B.s: County Fair. Springfield. Sept.
Tr1nidad-LAs Anim.. County Fair.
Trinids1. Sept. 1919.
consjos County Fair. Manassa. Sept
western Slope Fair. Montrose. Sept
c.atrsI Community Fair. Greeley. Sept
Yum. County Fair. Yuma. Sept. 1870.
PhiiliDs County Fair. Holyoke. Sept
sASu.she County Fair. saguschs. Sept
colo..dc;Ssw Mexico Fair. Durango.
COLORADO State Fair. Pueblo. Sept 22-
Grand County Fair. Kremmling. Sept.
c[Sri;:y County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
Inter-Hountain Live Stock and Fair.
Grand Junction. Sept. 50 to Oct ,.
Oct -. ' ~ '
Announcement has been made Of the
marriage Of Miss Matru Emmett Scott
u Nontrose and Roy II. Chapman OF
Grand Junction. blind overseas war
hero, At Los Angeles, Calf. The couple
we're engaged before the war.
The name, The Editor. was ordered
given to q 9,00O-ton steel ship to be
launched At Seattle Aug 16 In honor of
the National Editorial Associations
convention, which will meet in Seat
tie. Chairman E. N. Hurley of the
shipping board assigned the name. Mrs
Guy U. Hardy, wife of Congressman
Hardy of Canon City. Colo. president
Of the association, will sponsor the YES
sell
Coal prices at the mine have gone
up Is cents a ton and was followed at
once by the retailers announcing an ad-
vance Of from 25 cents to IS cents
ton on coal, with the Information that
further advances would probably fol-
low Sept. l and still more as the winter
wore on. The explanation for the re-
tail advances IL that increased cost at
the mine. increases in freight rates and
wages would force them to advance the
prices to the consumer.
Approximately p per cent Of the
wheat In the state at the present time
10 grown on irrigated land, according
TO reports made by county assessors to
the State Board OF Immigration The
census report for 1909 indicated at
that time 81 per cent Of the wheat
grown In the state was irrigated. The
very rapid increase in acreage OF
wheat cultivated since 1909 has been
accounted for chiefly by the breaking
Of new non-irrigated land. One Of the
results OF this large excess OF non-irri-
gated over irrigated wheat has been .
very marked decreqSe In the average
yield per acre for fhis crop.
Statistics compiled in the assessors
reports on agriculture, and submitted
to the State Immigration Department,
indicate that there are more than 500
farm tractors now owned and operated
by farmers In Colorado. The reports,
not yet complete, show that there are
2.33O farm tractors owned by farmers
who are actively engaged In farming In
the state this year. There are also a
large number of tractors, owned by
town residents, that are being rented
to farmers. Weld county leads in the
number of farm tractors with 3G5, and
the eastern plains section has more
than 20 per cent of the total number
in the state.
The greatest wheat crop in the his
tory of Phillips county is being hauled
to the elevators and the harvest 10
lust about done. The total Is safely
placed Mt 100000 bushels of wheat
and the yield Is running from twenty
to forty-two bushels an acre, the aver
age being twenty-six. The grain Is
testing sixty pounds to the buShel and
10 selling at the local elevators for
$3.50 1t Is placing It conservatively
TO say that Phillips county farmers
will be richer by 100000 this fall.
Assessors reports on agricultural
statistics made to the State Immigra-
ton Department, indicate that there
are in excess Of $500 farm tractors
now owned and being operated by
farmers In the state. The report Is not
complete and shows at this time 1880
farm tractors owned by farmers who
are actually engaged in farming in the
state this year. In addition to the trac-
tors owned by farmers there is con-
siderable number owned by persons liv-
ing in cities and towns who use them
in farm work on a rental basis. Weld