The Raymer enterprise., 1922-01-26
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
western S...p.p~ ua,sa s.v. s.r,a.,

IuuO hetdll MefcluntS Association at
the concluding session Of the conven-
tion at Greeley. 1t was voted to hold
the next convention at Boulder.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of new
Colorado postmasters have been sent
to the Senate as follows: Francis NJ.
Wheeler, at Campo, and Loran G. Den
ison, at Telluride. John Il. Gilmore
was named to be postmaster at Grey
bull, Wyo.
Loveland.-Jean V. Knapp, a gradu-
ate Of the Loveland high school, and
son Of Under Sheriff l. o. Knapp of
Larimer county, who has been in Geor-
gia for some months, has been appoint
ed as state veterinarian of the state of
Florida. He is a graduate Of the AMI
NAL husbandry department Of the Colo
RADIO Agricultural College.
Denver.-The stranger In Colorado
becomes confused when irrigation is
spoken Of and he hears the frequent
expression of an acre inch Of water"
He doesn't understand 1t. An acre inch
Of water is an acre of water one inch
deep and 1t weights little more than
100 pounds. Experts have figured the
use of water down to nicely, SO the
experienced irrigation farmer knows
exactly how much water he needs for
his crops.
Greeley.-The Colorado potato ex-
pertinent station Is near Greeley and
consists Of forty acres. 1t was estab-
lished In 1915 for the improvement of
potatoes for the good of the entire
state, and is under the direction of the
board Of county commissioners of
Weld county, the State Agricultural
College and the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture. Every angle of
potato raising is studied at the station
by experts.
Denver.--A financial report made by
Warden Frank ]. Kratke Of the coun-
ty jail to Mayor Dewey O. Bailey
showed that 1t cost the city and county
Of Denver $88,50 to maintain the jail
during the year 1921, as compared to
an expense Of seO,670 during the year
1920. Bread for that institution, the
county hospital, Steele hospital, Sand
Greek hospital, the county farm and
the City park ZOO, the report shows,
cost the city approximately $1,000.
Walsenburg.-Ex-service men are
given homestead preference rights to
the 5,160 acres Of public lands, twenty
five miles northeast of Walsenburg,
Colo, which have just been thrown
open to entry, according to word re-
ceived by NJ. d. McEniry, chief Of the
Denver field division Of the United
States general land office. Homestead
tracts on this land are limited to 800
acres each. After Feb. 2s, the general
public may file on any remaining
lands, 1t was announced.
Pueblo.-Roy and Claude Monroney,
sons of B. f. Monroney, Illinois farmer
who surrendered to the authorities and
told that he had killed his wife, daugh-
ter and sons, went East upon receiv-
ing word Of the tragedy. The Monron-
ey brothers are proprietors of local
barber shop. According to local ad-
vices the slain son and daughter Of B.
II. Monroney were half-sister and half
brother Of the Pueblo men, as the
woman slain was their stepmother.
Pueblo.-Mrs. Hazel S. Gunby Of
Fowler has filed suit In District Court
In Pueblo asking damage amounting to
$35,020.55 from the Colorado & South
trn Railroad Company for injuries she
sustained and for the death of her
mother. The women were driving a
car from Denver to Fowler, March 10.
1921, and were struck by a c. L 8.
train at the Roselawn cemetery cross
ing, the older woman being Instantly
killed, the machine demolished and
Mrs. Gunby sustaining serious injury.
Fort Collins.-Isolated communities
in Colorado are demanding more and
more the services Of the extension sps-
cialists from the Colorado Agricultur.
al College. Since Aug. l, 1921, the
poultry specialist alone has assisted
with meetings In twenty separated
communities, reaching over 1000 farm
people. It II estimated that as re-
suit Of these meetings, 500 farm nocks
have been culled at a saving Of $50, 900
and that better feeding and housing is
being practiced with all Of these flocks.
Alamosa. The San Luis valley, one
Of Colorado's most famous sections, IL
the bed Of an ancient lake, and Is 100
miles In length and thirty miles in
width. From the northwest to the
southwest flows the Rio Grande river,
and into 1t flows many smaller
streams. The valley forms one Of the
great artssian well sections Of the
United States, and an abundance of
water is found from 100 to 500 feet.
A late report says there are more
than 5000 such wells in the valley.
There are five counties in the valley,
and farming and stockraisIng has in
creased to proportions believed impos-
sible q few years ago.
Las Anlmas.-With more than 70 per
cent increase In the cantaloupe acre
age signed up for the coming season
the prospects for a bumper crop in
Bent county are looking bright. At the