The Ordway new era., 1920-10-15
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

tisucS, made by the state lininiSrauoh
Department, show a total of 5,OO9,991
acres in cultivation in the state this
year, including wild hay, compared
with 4.S20.946 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-
ton in the state this year is above
$500, 900 acres, not including orchards.
These reports include 49.111 farms Oh
which land was actually cultivated
this year. The Census Bureau found
46170 farms in the state in 1910, and
the area reported to the bureau as I'M
der cultivation in 1909 was 2,253, l45
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.
Approximately 200 acres of heavily
forested land In Wagon Wheel Gap
have been cleared of timber and un-
derbrush by officials of the United
States weather bureau and forest serv-
ice, to determine the effect on the
water flow and drainage of barren
land formerly timbered. Virtually a
year will be required to conduct the
experiment, according to P. Kuplinger,
forest examiner, following an inspec-
tion Of the work. An experimental
station has been maintained Jointly
by the forest service and United
States weather bureau at this point
for the last ten years, to obtain data
and general Information on the ex-
tent of the water flow from timbered
land.
Reports of county assessors to the
State immigration Department show
that Phillips county again leads the
state In percentage of its land in
cultivation, with Logan and Sedgwlck,
adjoining counties, ranking second and
third respectively. The report this
year shows that Phillips county has
41.35 per cent of its area under culti-
walton, Logan county, 34.60, and Sedg-
wick county, 30.03. OF six counties
in the northeast corner of the state,
each shows more than 20 per cent of
its area In cultivation, while for the
state as whole the percentage is
only 7.37.
Denver is to have new 600-acre
fnf RI
gresham William N. Vale notified
Walter B. Lowry, manager of improve
ments and parks, and Fred G. Stein
hauer, superintendent of mountain
parks, that steps will be taken by the
United States general land office to
segregate some mining claims which
have prevented the city from acquir-
ing 900 acres on Cub Creek. The city
has been trying to obtain this land for
months under the act of 1914, which
permitted cities to buy land in the
public domain for park purposes.
Hugh Beers of the East Denver
High School faculty has been appoint
e6 instructor in mathematics at the
State Preparatory School, succeeding
Prof. Charles r. Burger, resigned. The
latter has taken up his new duties as
registrar at the University of Colo
RADIO. Fred e. Hagen, who has been
registrar since 1906, goes to Fort
Logan to begin his duties as cap
tain in the quartermaster's department
of the regular army.
La Junta is soon to be ranked as
(s.I H.. ,tN
At recent meeting of the city coun-
Gil resolution creating a paving dis
trict, which includes all the down town
district, was passed. Work on the
actual paving will start early next
spring. while a great deal of the pre-
liminary work will be started right
away. new white way is planned
on the main streets when the paving
is put in place.
George A. Levy, president, and Ezra
X. Baer, secretary, of the Liberty Fuel
Company of Denver, were in Craig re-
Gently to perfect arrangements for the
development of 100000 coal mine
on their property near Craig. A dia-
mond drill will be used to determine
the depth and quality of the coal on
the 500-acre tract recently purchased
by Mr.. Levy and his associates. Ten
tative plans call for the opening of
mine fully equipped with every ef-
ficiency and safety device and for the
establishment of a model mine.
The first deer hunting fatality Of
the season has been reported. Wal
ter II. Herrod, prominent Fort Collins
man, was killed when his rifle was
accidentally discharged in the wilds
twenty miles northwest of Walden,
near Pearl, Colo.
The first official motor car trip
over the newly completed Fall River
rond thru tho Raclry Maintain Nh