The Colorado statesman., 1921-11-05
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

pared with ~ per cent on Oct.
1, last year was - per cent,
the ten-yenr average The de-
cline of 10000 bushels In the state
crop during September was due large
ly to the effect of the hot weather dur
ing the latter part of August and the
injury to the vines by frost early in
September. In contrast with the de-
cline In the state crop, the national
crop improved during September about
%, $4,000 bushels, making total es-
timated production for the United
States OF 3i5.s44,000 bushels. Even
with the Improvement during Scptem-
ber, the crop is still 81, 524, 900 bushels
short of the 42S. 900 900 hushel crop of
1920 aud over 25,OOO,000 bushels below
the 1015-10, five-yenr average, of 3I1,-
100000 bushels.
The effect of the drouth on corn
since about June l In the northeast
ern part of the state continued TO be
apparent in the condition figures for
corn. which was 40 per cent on Oct.
/, or 30 points below the figure for
the some time last year, and Q points
below the ten-year average for this
date The indicated production Is To-
10000 bushels, compared with ten
tntive estimate of lS,940,000 bushels
last year. These production figures
are based on the assumption that ap-
proxlmately so per cent of the acreage
planted to corn will be harvested for
grain.
Colorado Is the greatest sugar pro
duclng state in the country, and sugar
forms by far the most valuable manu-
fnctured product in the state. The
manufacture Of sugar has ramifica-
lions that takes expert and common la
bor, the farmer, the live stock indus
try and the housewife. There ia
scarcely n corner of a citizens life that
1t does not enter. Beet sugar manufac-
ture had Its beginning in Colorado
over in Grand Junction in 1900, and in
twenty-one years has reached its pres
ent enormous dimensions.
Construction of Seibert's $4,000 wa
terworks system has been started by
the Beeson Machinery Company of
Kansas City. Work on the $4,000
light system also started, current to be
brought by heavy transmission lines
from Flagler, twelve miles to the west.
The $4,000 addition to the high school
building was recently completed and
the consolidated district now brings
pupils from the most distant parts In
four big school busses, the largest in
this part of the state
There are 272,000 dairy cattle In
Colorado and the dairy products ag-
gregate $27,756,967 In value annually.
These products are butter, ice cream,
cheese condensed milk, milk, cream,
matted milk and other manufactured
products. If you make it point to
buy Colorado dairy products you are
doing your bit in the upbuilding of one
Of the states most promising indus
tries
A S250,000 bond issue has been au-
thoriZed by the stockholders of the
Beaver Land and Water Company for
the construction of new dam south
west OF Colorado Springs TO replace
the Shaeffer dam washed out by the
flood last June. The new dam will
make possible the irrigation of 1000
duuitioHui uCres III the DtuNeT EhTh
country.
Adams county tax collections for the
month of September this year were
more than 80 per cent in excess of the
collections for September, 1920, ac-
cording to the county treasurer. The
1921 figure was $4,000, as against
SO, 900 for 1920. This Indicates an i'm
provement in general conditions.
There are 59,934 farms with "a, ,462,-
Ola acres in Colorado, and the value
of farm property is 1,076,794,749 and
the average size of the farms is 40S
acres. Now the question: Are you do
ing your share in buying the products
of these farms 30 make them prosper
GUS? That's real home industry.
Mrs. ]. L. Leroy, 81 years old, was
killed instantly at Florence when run
over by freight train. The engineer
of the train says that he saw her
standing by the side of the track near
some bushes as his engine approached
the place. When 1t was almost at the
point she either fell or threw herself
before the engine. There was no indi-
cation of any purpose on her part, he
said, previous to the act, but the train
was so close to her that no action was
possible on his part.
Sight of mans hand sticking out
of the ground led to a frantic though
unsuccessful, attempt to save the life
of ]. c. Grain, 60, teamster, who was
buried beneath sand slide In n gray
ell pit near Colorado Springs. Police
officers and street department en-
ployes dug Grains body out of the pit,
but his pulse, which had been flutter-
ing feebly in his hand when he was
discovered, had stopped.
Colorado is one of the leading pro-
ducing states in alfalfa meal, there
being several large mills scattered In