The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-08-02
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

send an elaborate display of heavy war
materials for exhibit at the fair which
opens in Pueblo Sept. D. This display
which is in addition to the trainload of
relics already promised, will include
captured tanks and tractors, heavy
cannon, mobile shops and other heavy
war material used by this country and
others, including Germany.
| Denver's new state armory will be
| built on Thirteenth avenue between
Sherman and Grant streets, it has
been announced The site, which was
purchased at cost of $4,000, has re-
ceived the approval of Gov. Oliver ii.
Shoup and of the State Military Board
A feature of the building will he the
gymnasium. The cost of the armory
! will be 100000, this amount having
been appropriated by the last Legisla-
ture. The design of the building will
conform to the other state buildings.
There are 1921 farms in Colorado,
with a total area of 12,3SS,9T0 acres,
according to reports from county as
SCISSORS compiled by the state immigra-
ton department. Incomplete, the re-
|
in Colorado this year as 4,420,765
acres. Complete reports, it is estimat-
ed, will raise this by not less than
100000 acres. This is exclusive of
216,102 acres of land devoted to wild
hay, which has often been reported as
cultivated land.
The shipment of potatoes from this
state this season has been the great
est in the history of Colorado. Ac-
cording to records of the United States
Bureau of Markets, 1860 cars of po-
| tatoeS have been shipped from the
1918 crop. This places Colorado
fourth among the twenty-one late po-
tato shipping states of this country.
Minnesota ranks first, having shipped
some $4,000 cars, Wisconsin second,
with 10000 cars and Maine third, with
$4,000 cars.
| Phillips county is the states leading
agricultural district in proportion to
Its size, having a larger percentage of
| its area under cultivation than any
other county, according to reports of
county assessors to the State Immi-
grafton Bureau. Phillips county has
1922 acres under cultivation, or
1852 per cent of its area. Logan
county, which was given this honor
at first reports, has but 34.79 per cent
Of its total acreage in cultivation.
Eight thousand acres of land in
Montrose county has been reclaimed
by the laying of 365 miles of thing, &C
cording to an estimate made by Mont
rose authorities. For years, with
thousands of acres remaining idle be-
cause of seepage, the drainage has
been the greatest problem facing the
Uncompaghre valley farmer. However,
this has been to great extent over
come by the use of such large guam
tity of thing.
Mesa County's share of the state
school fund will total S9,073.3S. The
entire fund totals $685., 1884, and the an
nouncement of the various apportion-
ments was issued from the state super
ntendent's office at Denver. Other
West Slope counties will receive the
following sums: Delta, $6,316.07; Do
lores, S429.71; Gunnison, S2,19024;
Hinsdale, S179.4S; Ouray, S9O7.56; Pit
kin, S1,342.24, and San Miguel, ST.
| S5912.
Four boys, all employees of Colo
RADIO Springs garages, have been
arrested on charge of OPP
Grating a tire stealing ring which
has disposed of more than $1,000 worth
of stolen tires in the last six weeks.
The boys range in age from IS to "a
and police say they have traced a large
| number of theftS TO them
Announcement has been made of the
marriage of Miss Matru Emmett Scott
of Montrose and Roy NJ. Chapman of
Grand Junction, blind overseas war
hero, at Los Angeles, Calf. The couple
were engaged before the war.
Another municipal mountain park is
about to be purchased for the use of
Pueblo people and the tourists. This
| is to be 100 acres of the most pictur-
esque land and water to be found any
where in the mountain regions of Colo
RADIO. 1t is at the entrance of the Beu-
lah valley, twenty-eight miles from
Pueblo, and overlooking all the coun-
| try for 100 miles to the east and south.
nations of the nearby buttes.
f. E. O'Brien, reported officially
dead of pneumonia while serving in
France, gave his sister, Mrs w. II.
Wiggin of Pueblo, a big surprise, by
appearing at her home. O'Brien is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. d. II. OBrien of
Denver and served in a transportation
engineer company. His family re-
ceived three notices of his death from
! the War Department.
Having in his possession the Dis
tinguished Service Cross, the CroiX de
Guerre with palm, and the Italian war
cross, all of which were awarded him
for extraordinary bravery in action or
| thn In ttlnfinlhS of Franco Cant Gerry