The Colorado statesman., 1921-08-27
Pithy News Notes
From An Parts of
Colorado
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Washington County Fair, Akron. Aug.
Sl-Sopt. ?: Joe II. Powelson' secre-
Teller County Fair. cripple Creek. Sept.
3; ID. J. Upton. secretary.
Larimer County Fair Loveland, sept
20 = W. Thompsons s,oe,l seGreS@rIy' 1nI Fair.
Grand Junction, Sept. 60. G..
Moffat County Fair at Maybell. Sept.
Boulder County Fair. Longmont. Sept.
1917: Harry L. Nlven. secretary:
Phillips County Fair. Holyoke Sept.
Routt County Fair. Hayden. Sept. IA
1G; u. T.. shelton. secretary,
Logan County Fair Sterling. Sept. lS-
16: c. J. Funk. manager.
Delta County Fair. HotchkIss;s A. N.
Minton. secretary. Sept. 1916.
saruache County Fair Saguache. Sept.
15-17; William rcllers: secretary.
Western Slope Fair, Montrose. Sept.
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept.
2O-23: George II. Smith, secretary.
The long bridge over the Fountain
river was completely swept AWAY on
the night of June 3, ut Pueblo. 1t Is TO
be replaced at once. As soon as ac-
ceptable plans are made the contract
will be let by the city commissioners
and the structure started.
c. A. Finch, president of the Colo
RADIO Anti-Saloon League, in an address
at Colorado Springs, said the fight be
ing made In this country against the
eighteenth amendment is being staged
by English brewers. He intimated that
workers for the amendment faced n
harder fight 10 enforce the law than
they did to secure its passage.
The Berthoud city council has de
cided to discontinue the giving of FIRE"
light for porch lights in town, because
the light company asserts that many
people have been hooking electrical
appliances to these lights and using
the free current for housework, and
also because many of them were never
turned on at nights as was intended.
The city of Fort Collins has just
purchased water right that will in
crease its available supply of water
for domestic, irrigation and fire pur-
poses by one-eiGht increasing It's total
water volume from 7.151 feet per sec
ond to S.O01 feet. The additional 80
foot per second acquired cost the city
S2,125. The water right was obtained
from ditch No. /, division No. ], dis
tflcI y, kHONn hs llc 81 - i'''7N'
ditch, and is an excellent acquisition
as it has all priorities.
An inspection trip of the Colorado
to-Gulf highway will be made by the
executive officers of the North Star
Highway Association of Colorado, Ne
braska and the Dnkotas the second
week in September. The trip will he
;Y,
rado-to-Gulf Highway Association, ac-
cOrding to plans being worked out at
present by G. II. Walker, president Of
that organization, and l.. II. Kielgas,
president of the North Star orga"iZa-
ton in Sedgwick
Sugar beets ranks first in value
among the irrigated crops grown in
Colorado, though the acreage devoted
to this crop is smaller than that de
voted to either alfalfa or wild hay.
The records of the census bureau
showed that 80 per cent of the sugar
beets grown in the state in 1909 were
irrigated, while for 1919 only SIS per
cent were irrigated. In both 1920 and
1921 the acreage of sugar beets cult
waited was greater than for 1919 and
the acreage cultivated under irrigation
was greater each year than that shown
by the census bureau for 1919. The
census bureau report shows only 49,
800 acres of sugar beetS grown under
irrigation in 1919, while the records of
the immigration Department indicate
that over 100000 acres We're grown un-
der irrigation in 1920 and nearly 2O0,-
600 in 1921.
Edgar T. Conquest has been nomi-
mated to be register of the land office,
Sterling, Colo, and James ID. Gallup,
10 be register of the land office, Buff
falo, Wyo.
Chicken thieves and allied crafts are
waging Il strong campaign upon the
town of Wellington. Every night "A
dozen or more roosts have been
robbed, garden truck is pulled up, and
two five-gallon cans of gasoline were
stolen from an irrigation well.
The largest increase in acreage
grown under irrigation shown for any
crop in the decade is for alfalfa. The
census bureau showed that 6j9,9l2
acres of alfalfa was grown under irri-
CATION in Colorado in 1919, compared
with 4S0, $50 acres in 1909. There was
| also a considerable increase In acreage
of alfalfa grown without irrigation,
the census bureau reports showing
| that 944 per cent of all alfalfa grown
in the state in 1909 was irrigated
while only S4,4 per cent of it was ir-
rigated in 1919. Records of the State
Immigration Department show that
| the acreage of alfalfa grown without
irrigation in eastern Colorado coun-
! ties is increasing rather rapidly each
year.
Fire threatened destruction to the