The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-08-26
COLORADO
STATE NEW
(wsstern Newspaper Union News Service. }
COMING EVENTS.

oi-oepl- <, Joe ~ f'oWelSon. secre-
Teller County Fair. Cripple Creek. Sept.
3; d. J. Upton. secretary.
Larfmer County Fair. Loveland. Sept.
5-9: J. w. Thompson. secretary.
Inter Mountain Live Stock and Fair,
Grand Junction. Sept. 60.
Moffat County Fair at Maybeh. Sept
Boulder County Fair. Longmont. Sept.
1917; Harry f. Niven. secretary.
Phillips County Fair. Holyoke. Sept.
Routt County Fair. HAYDEN. Sept. IL
Logan County Fair. Sterling. Sept. 1S-
16: c. J. Funk. manager.
Delta County Fair. Hotehkiss;. A. N.
saxuache 9 connty eetsrf Fair see. sarusche & Sept
15-17; William Fellers. secretary.
Western Slope Fair. Montrose. Sept.
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept
| 20-2S; George r. Smith. secretary.
An automobile belonging to r. r.
Yates was stolen from the Rockhold
garage mt Fort Morgan and recovered
a few hours later in Cheyenne. A man
and woman who had the car in their
possession We're lodged in Jail.
Chicken thieves and allied crafts are
waging strong campaign upon the
town of Wellington. Every night IA
dozen or more roosts have been
robbed, garden truck is pulled up and
two five-g gallon cans of gasoline were
stolen from an irrigation well.
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
harder fight to enforce the law than
they did to secure its passage.
| Charging that he was robbed by
Mexican soldiers, illegally held in the
| Jail at Juarez, Mexico. and that he
was beaten with swords while pris-
Oner, John OByrne, tourist driver, liv-
| ing in Colorado Springs, brought ac-
tion thru the secretary of state to
collect claims of $4,000 against the
government of Mexico.
The filling station of the Continen-
tai Oil Company at Lake and North
ern avenues in Pueblo was robbed by
man and lad not over 12 years
of age. Raleigh Tracy, in charge of
the station. was forced by the man,
who had a pistol. to stand with his
hands up and face the wall while the
boy rifled the cash register OF $50.
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 its total
water volume from 7.lJl feet per tsec .
ond to S.O01 feet The additional .S5
foot per second acquired cost the city
81, 125. The water right was obtained
from ditch No. l, division No. 1, dis
trict 3, known as the J. II. Yeager
ditch, and is an excellent acquisition
as it has all priorities.
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 S2.S per
cent were irrigated. In both 1920 and
1921 the acreage of sugar beets culti-
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 137,-
329 acres of sugar beets grown under
irrigation in 1919, while the records of
the immigration Department indicate
that over 100000 acres were grown un-
der irrigation in 1920 and nearly 200
900 in 1921
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 Dakotas the second
week in September. The trip will be
made in conjunction with the Colo
rado-to-Gulf Highway Association, ac-
cording to plans being worked out at
present by @. H. Walker. president of
that organization. and E. r. Kielgas,
president of the North Star orgauiza-
ton in Sedgwick.
| The largest increase in acreage
| grown under irrigation shown for any
crop in the decade is for alfalfa The
census bureau showed that 659,912
/
| CATION in Colorado in 1919, compared
with 4S0,5S6 acres in 1909 There was
also considerable increase In acreage
of alfalfa grown without irrigation,
the census bureau reports showing
that 94.4 per cent of all alfalfa grown
in the state in 1909 was irrigated,
while only S4.4 per cent of it was fr-
rigated in 1919. Records of the State
Immigration Department show that
the acreage of alfalfa grown without
irrigation in eastern Colorado eoun-
ties is increasing rather rapidly each
year.
Manuel Ybarro, IS months old baby.
probably was fatally wounded while
playing at its mothers side in the
Ybarro home in Pueblo. A large cal
ibered revolver bullet tore through
the side of the house and struck the
infant in the right side. Thes hooting