The Raymer enterprise., 1920-10-07
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS


year is more thap 100000 acres, Of
which about 95 per cent is irrigated
and. 90.5 per cent non-irrigated. About
the same acreage was devoted to win.
ter wheat, of which S9.2 per cent was
non-irrigated. The spring wheat aSea
is about 10000 acres, Of which 51.7
per cent is non-irrigated. Last year
about 90 per cent Of the corn grown
In the state was non.irrigated, IS per
cent OF the winter wheat and 81 per
rent OF the spring wheat. In 1910 81
per cent Of all the wheat grown in the
state was irrigated and about s per
cent Of the corn. Fully 10 per cent
Of the acreage devoted to crops In the
state in 1910 were irrigated, while thl'
year about IS per cent Of the cult
yaied acreage is non-irrlsated.
Unless there is very considerable
change In prices before November ],
the date when the value OF farm crops
10 the farmer Is generally estimated,
wheat will, for the first time, prove to
be Colorado's leading crop. Final -es.
Inmates Of production, based upon
acreage figures received by the State
immigration Department from county
assessors. will put the crop somewhere
above 26,000,000 bushels, which at
prices now prevailing will be worth
above So, 100000. In the past hay has
always been this states most valuable
crop, but present Indications are that
1t will fail somewhat below wheat this
year. Last years hay crop was worth
about $45,0O0,0o0 and apparently the
crop this year will not be worth In ex.
cess Of S50.0O0.0OO. 1
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 Il
year will be required to conduct the
experiment, according to p. Kuplinger,
forest examiner. following an inspec.
ton 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
There are 900 more children In the
Denver public,schools today than there
were at this time last year, according
to an announcement given out from
the office of Jesse II. Newton, super
lntendent OF schools. The largest in
crease is In the elementary schools
and the junior high schools. In each Of
which there Is an increase Of 400 over
the number enrolled last year. The
figures for the enrolment In the Den
yer schools for September for the last
three years are as follows: 1918, 30.
8l2; 1919, 34,5s4; 1920. 35.493 pupils.
La Junta ID soon to be rnnked us
one Of Colorado's best improved cities.
At q recent meeting Of the city coun.
ell resolution creating paving dis.
trict. which includes all the down town
district, was passed. Work on the
actual paving will start early next
spring, while great deal of the pre-
liminary work will be started right
away. A new white way is planned
on the main streets when the paving
Is put In place.
The taxable property in Colorado is
valued at $780,, cor, ,798, according to
the annual report issued by the Colo
RADIO tax commission, The state Is
richer by s98,794,l3 than 1t was In
1919, this report shows. Abstracts Of
assessment submitted to the commits
sion by the county commissioners from
every county in the state have been
examined by the state body
Albert Bernard Buss, % months old.
was drowned within three blocks Of
his home in Denver, when he fell into
the city ditch while playing with other
children In vacant lot near Wash
ington park He was the son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Chris Buss.
True A. Smith has sold his famous
Urrrua Smifh rop,h. ~ Woltar Mo-.
Kenzie for $4,000. The farm, contain.
ing over 100 acres, Is one Of the best
ranches in the Roaring Fork valley.
True Smith and family spent thirty
years developing the place. They are
moving into Aspen to make their
home, having purchased the Milton
Conner home, one OF the best places In
that city.
Peter Waltz, lO-year-old son Of
George Waltz, farmer living about
four miles from Loveland, was instant.
ly killed when he fell from a truck be-
longing to the Colorado Condensed
Milk Company, about mile from his
home. According to George McKie,
driver Of the truck, Peter, in company
With his 12-year-old brother, John, apd
his sister, were riding to school. Peter
was standing on the running board
when the machine gave a sudden
lurch.
The first official motor car trip
over the newly completed Fall River