The Raymer enterprise., 1920-12-09
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMs.

ated ON nat opposite the uiiD'nu'
i've stock exchange building. Tho ex-
libits consisted Of a few head Of cat
lie. horses, sheep and other farm AMI
mails. mostly drawn from the state az
ricultural school II now takes many
heres Of ground and floor space on
that same plat Of ground to house the
wonderful exhibits Of pure bred AMI
mails drawn from every part OF the
West and middle West, and sometimes
from the East. II has been the aim,
and in fact necessity. for the show
management to add an important new
building every year. For the show
that starts this winter on Jan. Is and
closes on Jan. % 1t is huge pavilion
for hogs. The hog comes into his own
this year at the Denver show, largely
because around the city has grown up
considerable hog industry. In the -ag-
ricultural sections more attention Is
being paid to hogs and more marketed
than old timers ever believed would be
possible. The coming exhibition may
prove to be the largest hog show held
In the United States this year.
Approximately ten sections Of land
in Boulder. Ebert, Lincoln. Moffat,
Pueblo, Weld and Yuma counties will
be sold BY the state land board at the
regular monthly public auction at its
office IN the state house, Register
John +. Vivian announces. The land
will be offered In tracts Of not more
than 100 acres and not less than forty
acres. The boards appraisal values
the land at $3.50 to $50 an acre. In
several parcels all offered must be sold
or none, the board announced.
The value Of farm land and build
ings In Eagle and Grand counties has
increased $3,13S, ,435 In the last year,
according to statement issued by the
census bureau at Washington. In Eagle
county the valuation this year reached
81, 233, ,125, or s1,759,535 more than last
year. In Grand county the 1920 valu-
alton Is S3,2S4,2i0, an increase Of ST.
37S.90O. or 72.4 per cent over the 1919
valuation.
Retail meat prices In Denver will
fluctuate with the wholesale cost of
meat in the future, according to an
nouncements made by Denver meat
dealers following meeting of the Den
yer Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers
Association. II was decided at the
meeting that hereafter reductions on
the retail market would be made ac-
cording to reductions on the wholesale
market.
The city of Loveland will not be re-
qured TO obtain a special order from
the State Public Utilities Commission
before II may proceed in court to ac.
quire by condemnation the distribution
system Of the Western Light and
Power Company In that city, according
to finding made by the commission
upon a petition recently filed by the
city.
The average Of yields per acre this
year Of all crops combined, duly
weighed, compared with their yields
for recent years in Colorado, is 1861
per cent. and In the United States Is
1869 per cent. The production index
for the United States Is about 80 per
cent more than last years aggregate
production and 6S per cent more than
the average Of the preceding five
years, 19l4-lS.
The Vanadium Corporation Of Amer.
lea, operating vanadium and tungsten
mines In Colorado, has announced the
complete shutdown Of all its works al
Vanadium, Fall Creek and Placerville,
between ten and eighteen miles west
of Telluride.
Antonio Manzanares, former post.
master at Walsenburg. Colo. will moi
have to make good loss Of approx.
mately $1,000 to the Postoffice Depart
ment, by virtue Of verdict returned
by jury In the United States District
Court.
That reduction in the force en-
ployed at the steel mills at Pueblo is
imminent is contained In statement
made by ]. F. Welborn, president of
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
A surveyors transit was the unusual
but effective means by which an In.
fringement Of the game laws was de
tected In the Colorado national forest
near Fort Collins. Surveyors turned
their far-seeing instrument on party
OF hunters who were several miles dis
tant. They saw a deer being strapped
across the saddle of one Of the horses
For two days the hunting party was
tracked. Eventually one of the party
was located and search warrant was
obtained. An investigation revealed q
saddle with deer hair and specks Of
blood clinging TO it. In Fort Collins,
before Justice Sarchet, Charles Thorn.
as, a rancher, made vicarious sacri.
flee Of $l20. Though denying his guilt
of participating in the killing Of the
deer,
Citizens Of Wray and Yuma, Colo
have filed a protest with the Public
Utilities Commission against the re