The Colorado statesman., 1920-10-16
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS,

county assessors on agricultural sta
tlstics, made by the State immigration
Department, show total OF 5,OO9,99l
acres In cultivation in the state this
year, including wild hay, compared
with 4,S2o,946 acres reported by coun-
ty assessors last year. Since present
Indications are that the reports of
county assessors are about ten per cent
incomplete, the total area in cultiva-
tion in the state this year Is above
100000 acres, not including orchards.
These reports include 49,117 farms ON
which land was actually cultivated
this year. The Census Bureau found
4G170 farms in the state in 1910, ana
the area reported to the bureau as mn
der cultivation in 1909 was 2,253, l4o
acres. According to these figures,
there has been an increase of Ia
per cent in the cultivated area in the
past IL years. Since the reports made
to the Census Bureau were perhaps
not absolutely complete, the actual IN
crease in cultivated area was no doubt
somewhat short of the figure gwen
above, but it was considerably more
than double that of 1909.
Reports made to the State Immigra-
tino Department by county assessors
Indicate that there has been an in
crease in the percentage of Colorado
farms operated by tenants since 1910.
According to these reports "a per cent
of the farms reported this year are
operated by tenants, compared with
1872 per cent reported to the census
bureau in 1910. About 1.5 per cent of
the farms reported this year did not
show the character of the tenure OF the
farm operative, while the remaining
| farms were operated by owners or by
homesteaders who have not yet proved
up. Homesteaders of this class were
| treated as owners by the census bu-
reau in 1910. OF the farm acreage re-
ported by assessors this year approx
mately 20 per cent is being farmed by
renters and ~ per cent by owners and
hOmesteaders, while about 5 per cent
is operated by owners who rent some
land in addition to their own farms.
william S. Roe, for seven years
principal of the Greeley High School,
will be the new principal of the Colo
RADIO Springs High School, according
to an announcement made at Colo
RADIO Springs. Mr.. Roe is a we'll
known educator of the state and was
given consideration as principal of the
East Denver High School. He takes
charge of his duties at once, relieving
Stillwell Moore, who has been acting
principal since the promotion of Mr..
Bair from principal to superintendent.
Pueblo will be invaded Nov. 4 for
a three-day visit by educators from
all over Colorado, who will gather 10
attend the sessions of the State Edu-
cational Association. At last years
session more than 1,200 people at
tended the meeting and more are ex-
pected this year. Notable among the
speakers will be Ida NJ. Tarbell, Mrs.
Mary G. G. Bradford, state superin-
tendent of public instruction, and DR..
Frank w. Gunsaulus, president of Ar
mour Institute, Chicago.
Delta friends of Ross Barker, who
is now serving his sixth year in the
navy, have received a letter which
states that he has been recognized as
the prize shark catcher in the navy.
With an apparatus consisting of fish
hook thirty inches long which weighs
two pounds, he has made record
catches in the West Indies, India, Sa-
moa and at Manila. At the last place
he caught his largest one, which meas
ured more than eighteen feet in length.
The expansion of the soldiers train
ing school and the establishment of
| oh nd lah m ha trsaI in
conjunction with classroom work is
now under consideration by repre-
sentatives of the federal board for vo-
cational education.
For offering for sale meat that had
not been inspected by the Pueblo
health department, John Grosich,
grocer, received $40 fine. Jim
Liapes, butcher, also received a sim
liar fine LAST week.
The purchase of the Cushman ditch
and stock was completed at the Octo-
Der meeting of the Uncompahgre Val
ley Water-Users' association at Mont
rose. The price paid by the govern
ment for this irrigation ditch was So
| $50. One thousand one hundred and
| IlIty Oh tniS VIII De SuDScrlDeu Dy tne
farmers who will use the water from
the ditch and the government will pay
the remaining $4,000
Mrs. Carl White, wife of a farmer
who lives thirty miles east of Hugo,
was instantly killed and their 2-year-
old son seriously injured when shot
gun was accidentally discharged while
| going TO town with a truck load of
wheat.
What is believed to be record
buck killed during the open season
was brought down by r. C. Seals of
/ NIontrnSe This Mas killed the first