The Raymer enterprise., 1921-07-07
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

voreQ TO Wnedt tnlS year - tne largest
In the history Of Colorado. These re-
ports are about IS per cent completed.
and indications are that wheat produc-
ton will break all Colorado records.
Nearly 100000 more acres have been
planted to winter wheat this year than
ever before However. there has been
q falling off In the acreage devoted to
spring wheat. To date this year, 310.-
900 acres Of spring wheat has been re-
ported. This compares with 335,000
acres In 1920.
Sheriff Francis L. Hampton Of Mof-
fat county is authority for the state
msnt that there Is no sheep war i'm
pending in Moffat county or on the
Colorado Utah line 80 far as be can
ascertain, despite wild reports to the
contrary. According to Sheriff Hamp-
ton, the sheep war; reports being
circulated resulted from the refusal Of
homesteaders and ranchers and cattle
men In q section Of country eighteen
miles south Of Craig refusing to allow
a small bunch Of sheep to pass over
their holdings to the reserve west Of
them.
The threatened invasion OF FL Paso
county by grasshopper army moving
northwest from the southeastern cor.
ner has been averted, according to J.
C. Hale, county agent. The grasshop.
psrs descended on the county recently
and 1t was only through the hardest
sort of work that the pest was stopped
according to Hale, who declared that
farmers In the community worked day
and night In their efforts to head off
the grasshoppers. Poison bran and ar
senIc were used In the battle against
the insects.
II cost the state Of Colorado $4,000
to pay the salaries of National Guards
men on duty In the Pueblo flood dis
trict, according to pay roll figures
compiled In the office Of Adjt. Gen.
Patrick Hamrock. "voucners for the
pay Of guardsmen to the extent of ST.
500 have already been drawn" said
Colonel Hamrock In discussing the ex-
pense of guarding the flooded city,
"and when the pay rolls for the last
contingent Of troops are completed. the
total will run slightly over $2S,000."
Pueblo county property owners, who
suffered financial losses during the
flood early this month, will receive a
reduction In their tax for 1921, &C.
cording to an announcement made In
Denver BY c. P. Link, member Of the
State Tax Commission. Mr.. Link has
just completed a detailed survey Of
the actual damage done In the county.
He places the total loss at $11, 900, 900.
A tax levy on this property will be re-
duced five-twelfths Of the original a.
sessment, the state official announced.
Weld county will produce 100000
bushels Of wheat this year, judging
from present indications. Figures
compiled by the field men of the coun.
ty assessor show that there are 1885,
600 acres planted to wheat In the
county this year. Because Of the large
amount OF moisture the yield will be
from thirty to fifty bushels on the non.
irrigated land rs well as In the irri.
gated districts. There are 5000 acres
Of wheat on the irrigated farms and
about 100000 on the dry land.
Airplune patrol for the detection Of
forest fires in the Pixies Peak region
around Colorado Springs, Colo, has
been permanently established, accord
ing to an agreement entered into by
the government and the Western Air
craft Company Of Colorado Springs
Colorado College receives 100000
by the terms of the will left by the
late Henry Roger Wolcott, one Of
Colorado's pioneer mining men, whose
estate totals more than 100000, ac-
cording to a petition filed In the Coun-
ty Court In Denver.
Plans are being made to make the
Moffat County Fair at Maybell, Sept
9-10, one of the best affairs In that
part of the state.
John P Keith, d. & r. G. freight
conductor, was killed when his touring
car plunged over the embankment on
Eighth street, Pueblo, where the flood
Of June 3 carried away the long bridge
spanning the stream.
Sixty-five thousand dollars Of fed.
eral funds will be spent on the Rocky
Mountain National park projects dur
ing the fiscal year beginning July 1.
This sum exceeds by $55,O00 any fund
ever before appropriated by Congress
for use on these Fairgrounds.
Rider Herrickstad, 6 years old, son
Of Ole Herrickstad, was killed almost
instantly by an automobile on a street
crossing one Of the main streets of
Akron recently. Lights blinded the
boy and caused the accident.
Pete Smith. well-to-do bachelor.
farmer, about 40 years old, was shot
by another farmer, George hammers,
also well-to-do, southeast Of Sedg.
wick near the Phillips county line.
Smith is thought to be insane.
A young man giving his name as
Harry P. Coffin and asserting he ID