The Raymer enterprise., 1920-05-06
STATE ITEMS.

lines, Tor new factories ana IOr tnc 10
cation OF business and professional
people In some of the most prosperous
cities and towns In the state, accord
ing to the annual opportunity survey
now being completed by the State I'M
migration Department. Apparently
there Is greater demand for hotels at
the present time than for any other
kind Of business establishments, more
than sixty cities and towns reporting
need for new hotels or for purchasers
for existing hotels. There Is also con-
siderable demand for physicians,
though not 30 large call as there was
at this time last year. The list now in
cludes nearly 1000 opportunities, In
more than fifty different business and
professional lines. II does not include
positions Of employment in established
business houses, but only opportuni-
ties for the establishment Of new busi-
ness houses In locations WHARF condi-
tons are favorable for success.
Bean planting time In Colorado and
New Mexico Is drawing near and farm
ers will naturally be interested In In
formation concerning the bean situa-
tion and the prospect for the next sea-
sons crop Of the Rocky Mountain
states. 1t appears from the Bureau
Crop Estimates, generally accepted as
official, that the shrInkage in the bean
acreage for 1919, compared with 1918,
was SO per cent In California, 40 per
cent In Michigan, and 20 per cent in
Colorado; and advance information
from the Pacific coast Ia that the COM
Ing seasons acreage in California will
probably not exceed 30 per cent OF
last years acreage; with the probable
| lty that the Michigan acreage will be
further cut this year; 80 1t would seem
that our Colorado and New Mexico
bean growers might be interested In
this information, since II follows that
those growers who put In about the
bean acreage they can well take care
Of ought to have very good prospects
and no cause for regret when harvest
ing time arrives.
Advance reports from county as
SCISSORS on the number OF fruit trees
of bearing age in the various counties,
now being received by the State Immi-
grafton Department, indicate that the
total number Of fruit trees In the state
win be considerably greater than most
people have believed. There has been
no complete survey Of the number Of
fruit trees In the state since that made
by the Federal Census Bureau In 1910,
and the general impression has been
that the increase In all classes Of fruit
has been very slight since that
time and In some classes decrease
has been forecasted. Such reports as
have been received to date, however,
indicate increases in all classes of fruit
trees and rather large increases In
most classes. These increases are due
chiefly to relatively small increases In
counties where fruits are not raised
extensively.
More than $4,000 In cattle has been
saved by ranchers on the Colorado ma
tional forests as a result of the poi
sonous plant determination work which
has been carried on by forest rangers
during the last five years, according to
United States District Forester A. s.
Beck. 1t Is estimated that $4,000 was
expended for this purpose by the For
est Service and stockmen.
San Juan county-the Silverton dis
trict-is In line for large gain in
mine output during 1920, compared
with last year, when several Of the
larger properties, such as the Gold
King and the Sunnyslde, were practi-
cally out Of commission by reason OF
destruction by fire, the influenza cpl
demic and shortness Of labor.
An order has ben placed for 500 Can
adian poplar trees, which will be set
out by the town OF Steamboat Springs.
| Several years ago virtually every
street in town was planted with trees.
These have grown remarkably well,
and the town council has decided to
extend the work.
A wool pool has been organized at
Montrose In order that the small grow
er might benefit as much as the larger
grower. Hitherto the small grower In
that section has been forced to ship
his wool to the markets on consIgn-
ment and trust to the judgment of 9th
ers, while under the new organization
the wool will be stored in warehouses
there and at Delta and purchasers in
yited to bid on the wool.
Ten women and two men of The
senior class Of the University Of Ccio-
RADIO have been elected to membership
in the honorary scholastic fraternity
Phi Beta Kappa. They are the lead
ers Of their class In scholarship. At
torney Harold H. Healey. who was
graduated in 1911, and Wayne Ivers,
former football star and graduate Of
1916, have also been elected to mem-
bership.
The snow on Rabbit Ear pass, at the
top Of the continental divide, is re-
ported to be fifty feet deep in places.
Telephone poles forty feet high are