The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-10-01
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

the same acreage was devoted to win
ter wheat, of which S9.2 per cent was
Lnon-irrigated. The spring wheat area
is about $4,000 acres, of which 51.7
per cent is non-irrigated. Last year
about 80 per cent of the corn grown
in the state was non-irrlgated, IS per
cent of the winter wheat and 81 per
cent of the spring wheat. In, 1910 81
per cent of all the wheat grown in the
state was irrigated and about 8 per
cent of the corn. Fully 20 per cent
of the acreage devoted to crops in the
state in 1910 were irrigated. while this
year about IS per cent of the culti-
waited acreage is non-irrigated.
Unless there is very considerable
change in prices before Novembes 1.
the date when the value of farm crops
to 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,OOO,00O 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
it will fall somewhat below wheat this
year. Last years hay crop was worth
about S45,0OO,OOO, and apparently the
crop this year will not be worth in ex-
cess of $o0,0OO,OOOl
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 H. Newton, super
intendent 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, 3d.
612; 1919, 34,5S4; 1920, 35,493 pupils.
A picnic and celebration is being
planned for Oct. -, Columbus day,
up the Poudre canon, when it is
hoped the road will have been COM
pleted as far as Rustic. The Fort
Collins Commercial Club is making
the picnic arrangements, a feature of
which will be barbecue. The road,
it Is stated, will be completed within
two weeks, as there is only one more
place to blast out before the road will
be opened as far as Rustic.
La Junta is soon to be ranked as
one of Colorado's best improved cities.
At a recent meeting of the city cOun-
Gil 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 problem of the teacher shortage
has been solved at Oak Creek by en-
listing the services of the citizens of
the community. Half of the faculty
of the public school is composed of
local married women who are ex-
teachers and possess first-grade GER
tificates. The experiment promises TO
be very successful due to the fact
that it also solves the boarding house
problem and insures permanent sys-
TEN.
True A. Smith has sold his famous
1'rue Smith ranch" to Walter Mac
Kenzie for $4,000. The farm, contain
ing over 700 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, 10-year-old son Of
George Waltz, farmer living about
four miles from Loveland, was instant
ly killed when he fell from 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, and
his sister, were riding to school. Peter
was standing on the running board
when the machine gave sudden
lurch.
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 "A vacant lot near Wash
ington park. He was the son of Mr..
and Mrs Chris Buss.
Practically complete reports re-
ceived by the State immigration De-
partment from county assessors show
that there has been an increase in the
percentage of non-irrigated land de-
voted to all the leading crops grown in
the state and that the total acreage
cultivated without irrigation in the
state this year is considerably greater
than it was last year, while there has
been but little change in the irrigated
acreage under cultivation.
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