Gilpin observer., 1919-10-23
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


ty assessors this year in collecting ag-
ricultural statistics under the recently
enacted law the State immigration De-
partment, which prepares the blanks
on which statistics are gathered has
decided to make number Of changes
in the blanks for next year. 1t has
been found that most of the mistakes
made this year resulted from making
entries under the wrong heading, as
the blanks are large and the lines that
must be followed are long. A system
of double line and colored line ruling
will be followed next year which will
make it easy for assessors and their
both across the blanks and from top to
bottom. 1t has also been found this
year that with the blanks now in use
it is impossible to obtain accurate in
formation regarding the less import
ant crops, such as tomatoes, garden
peas, flax, snap beans and others that
are grown only in restricted localities.
Special blanks will be furnished next
year for gathering information regard
ing these crops which are grown only
in restricted areas. Reports from all
parts of the United States indicate that
no state has obtained better result in
the collection Of agricultural statistics
upon the first attempt than Colorado
did this year and an effort will be
made next year to bring the report as
near as possible to perfection. All as
SCISSORS did excellent work this year
and few of them obtained as COM
plete reports as 1t will ever be possible
to obtain.
Even though the season just closing
has been one of the most unfavorable
crop seasons in the history of Colorado
the total value of crops grown will be
perhaps fully as large as that for last
year, because of the large increase in
acreage cultivated. The increase in
acreage was largest in the case of
wheat, and the total production of
wheat for the state is estimated by
the Colorado Cooperative Crop Re
porting Service at 17,694.OOO bushels,
the largest crop on record for the state.
Corn makes much poorer showing.
The acreage planted was the largest
ever reported, but reports received by
the Crop Reporting Service Indicate
that only 66 per cent of the acreage
planted was harvested for grain, which
would indicate production of approx
imately 100000 bushels, or some
thing short of last years crop. The
production of oats is estimated at s.
642,O00 bushels, compared with 1896, 600
bushels last year, the average yield
per acre being in the neighborhood of
twentysiX bushels, compared with thir-
ty-three bushels the year before. The
average yield of barley as reported to
the Crop Reporting Service is but
twenty-five bushels per acre this year,
compared with twenty-eight bushels
last year, and the total production g.
$1,000 bushels compared with 1925
600 bushels last year.
The Flower and Vegetable show CIV
en- under the auspices of the Denver
Society of Horticulture, Parent-Teach-
ers Association and Denver Garden
Club, will be held in Denver, in the
Auditorium. Oct. 29-3O-31. The Audi
torfum has been donated by the city as
the show is free exhibition. Twenty
five dollars will be given as prize for
the best Premier Rose, which is one
of the most beautiful grown and
Colorado developed product. Florists
from Colorado Springs. Pueblo. Boul-
der and other points will assist in max
ing the show success. The high
schools Of the city will choose a set of
Judges to work in conjunction with the
regular judges.
The State Land Board, Governor
Shoup and Secretary of State James
II. holland are made defendants in a
mandamus action filed in the Denver
District Court in which George r.
seeks to force the land board to issue
patent on 160 acres of state land in
Moffat county.
With the discovery of the bodies Of
two young women identified by the po-
lice as those of Mrs. Thomas Loren
sen, % years old, known in Denver as
Edith Cook, and her sister, Ethel Cook,
%. floating In Berkeley lake by park
attendants, the police were confronted
with one of the most startling death
mysteries encountered in recent years.
The two women were formerly OF Lis
bon. Iowa, 1t was found, after hours
of work on the part of city detectives,
who discovered the identity through
the medium of pawn ticket. How
the death of the women occurred sug-
gests number Of theories, most plaus-
lille of which, In the minds Of the pO-
lice, is suicide.
Spencer PenrOse, multi-millionaire
capitalist, presented his Dale street
residence in Colorado Springs, valued