The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-07-29
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


Putnam, agricultural statistIcian of
the U. s. Bureau of Markets and Crop
Estimates, Colorado Cooperative Crop
Reporting Service, the apple crop in
the state this year is about 65 per cent
of normal, compared with ~ per cent
last year. The forecast Of production
is 100000 bushels, compared with
2.76O, 900 bushels last year. About 50
per cent of this crop this year will be
produced on the western slope, where
the crop is making good progress. The
state crop of peaches had condition
of go per cent, compared with 80 per
cent last year and go per cent the ten
wear average The total production
for the state is forecasted at 72S,OO0
bushels. The pear crop in Colorado
on July l, on 65 per cent condition
basis, was estimated at $4,000 BUSH
| els. The condition of cantalOupes on
| July in Colorado was SO per cent of
normal, compared with 80 per cent
July / last year and 80 per cent the
ten-year average.
A field man for the county assessor
has completed the reassessing of four
| townships along the Platte river in the
| southwest part of Weld county and
turns in figures showing loss of
S1s4, 500 to property along twelve miles
of the course of the river. One thou
sand acres of land is damaged for
total of Silt, 800. On this land prop
erty loss of $4,000 is given, including
a total loss of $50 acres of beets. $780,
600; so acres of cabbage, $4,000; 200
acres of wheat, $1,000; 200 acres of
corn, $4,000; 100 acres of oats, $500.
All Colorado hay had condition
figure of "a per cent on July 1, as
compared with 9S per cent last year
and the forecast of production is g.,
250,000 tons, compared with 1892, 900
tons last year. The area to be har-
vested this year is estimated to be less
than last year or 1,57S,000 acres, COM
pared with 1,603,OO0 acres harvested
in 1920. The alfalfa in the state this
year indicates good crop, the condi-
ton being 90 per cent of normal. OF
the above hay crop, about 1,IS0,OOO
tons will be alfalfa.
The family of A c. Claug left Love
land hurriedly for trip in the noun
tains. In her haste, Mrs. Claug left an
electric iron standing on an ironing
board in the kitchen. She neglected to
turn off the current to the iron. Roy
Buck, a friend of the family, who
knew they We're absent, saw smoke
| pouring from the residence. He broke
| through a door just in time to avert
disastrous fire. The iron, heated
white, had burned its way through the
ironing board, table cover and two
layers Of flooring.
Colorado Springs doesn't intend
| that 1t shall be known as heaven on
earth, though its streets are to be
paved gold. This gold will be poured
into cement mixtures and used to fin
ish a 100000 paving job. The rock
which will be used to make the paving
is to come from the dump of the old
| Vindicator mine at Cripple Creek. In
this dump, according to reports made
| by mining engineers and assayors, may
De lOuuu tHOuSituuS VI uOiluFS WOTtu
| of pure gold.
The last of the great plains cattle
herds is to pass into the realm of
memory when Bill Shanahan, George
Baxter and Vern Simpson move their
herds from the Seibert country to
homesteads which they will take near
| Meeker, Colo.
Donald Couse, - years old, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Couse of Cripple
Creek, was drowned in a pond at Gill
lette, eight miles northeast of Cripple
| Creek, while in swimming
| The Schooley drug store at Hillrose
was entered by burglars and iewelry.
| fountain pens and other articles, all
valued at about 5000 stolen, according
| to information received.
| John Morgan, 9-year-old son of
Frank Morgan, n slieepman, was in
| stantly killed on Barlow creek, ten
miles north of Rico, when he was
caught by rock slide. His head was
crushed and his body badly bruised.
| Members of the family and friends
from the Morgan sheep camp on
Lizard Head were spending the day
fishing and picnicking. The children
were rolling rocks down the mountain
when the rock slide caught young
Morgan.
The Utes' sun dance, which has be-
come an annual event at Ignacio, has
just closed. The sun dance, a relig
ious ceremony supposed to be their
method of worshipping the sun, lasted
three days. The nine dancers who
performed this year neither ate nor
drank during the ordeal, greatly i'm
pressed the onlookers with their ap-
parent earnestness.
Troop headquarters of the Colorado
rangers have been transferred from
Pueblo to Denver, and in the future all