The Ordway new era., 1920-01-09
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

HlipTdllOn department htts pNe" '~
to show during the current year 'hat
the acreage of land in cultivation III
Colorado is fur in excess OF what those
best informed regarding agricultural
development have believed 1t 10 be.
These reports show that the area IN
cultivation in the state this year, IN
Guiding native hay but not Including
orchards, is approximately o,ooo,ooo'
or fully 1,OOO,OOO acres more than has
been shown by the estimates for any
preceding year. The Increase in cul-
tivated area in the state in the past
few years has been so rapid that those
whose task 1t has been To keep records
on agricultural development have
been unable to show the full extent OF
the growth. The census bureau showed
but 2.6l4,000 acres in cultivation ten
years ago The United Sintes Bureau
Of Crop Estimates showed but 6oo,ooo
acres of wheat harvested In the state
in 1916, whereas the records prepared
by county assessors show that more
than 100000 acres was harvested this
wear. The records of The same bureau
showed but 2I.OOO acres of rye har-
vested III IHe Slult III i'io, Nh'N yum
ty assessors records show approNi-
nntely 143OO0 acres harvested in 1919.
Since this was the first year records
of This character ever prepared
hy county assessors it is fair to as
sumo that they are not 50 complete as
they will be in the future. Data OF
this character is especially important
in n state where agricultural develop
ment is very rapid as it has been in
Colorado In the past ten years.
The new cattle building at the stock
show grounds in Denver is thoroughly
up-to-date. II contains ample provi-
sions for barberng and manicuring
blood stock for the show ring. Six
hundred registered Herefords and
Shorthorns will be housed In the build
ing. They are gathering from all over
the United States. Two famous herds
are entered from Montana, the a. B.
Cook herd from Townsend aud the
Wallis Huidekoper herd from Wallis.
The last is II newcomer at the Denver
shows. Mr. IIuidekopper will bring a car
of registered Hereford calves and II
car of yearing bulls. At the lnterna-
tionnl at Chicago last month he pur-
chased for 1900 "Wyomng Image" n
yearling bull sired by Blayney's "Wyo-
ming"
DIR. Charles d. Spivak, Denver ply
sician and one of the founders of the
Jewish Consumptive Relief Society,
left Denver for New York City, where
he will join other members of jew
ish war sufferers relief unit to do re-
construction work in the devastated
countries in Europe. DIR. Spivak is
commissioner of health and sanitation
of the unit and will make reports of
conditions as he finds them
Two men wearing black masks and
armed with revolvers, held up the pool
hall at the Puritan mine near Freder-
lex and got away with about $780,
taken from the cash register and the
dozen patrons of the place who We're
present. The patrons were lined up
against wall with their hands above
their heads. While one of the robbers
kept them covered, his accompllce
rifled their pockets.
With the interior or her home rag;
destruction, near Walden, Colo, Mrs.
Edward With managed TO drag her
three little children to safety and then,
herself and babies, thinly clad, started
for the Leatherman ranclk half mile
away, where it was found that the lit
tie second son, aged years, had froz-
en- his hands and arms to the elbows.
A. Sullivan, Sam Cooley and several
other Mosca men have organized
company which will put in an alfalfa
meal mill there as soon as the machin-
cry arrives The machinery is already
bought and shortly after 1t arrives In
Mosca the mill will be in operation.
Mr. Sullivan says that the mill would
be of forty tons daily capacity.
Despairing of recovery from tuber-
culosIs, Sergt. George Purdy, veteran
of Cantigny, Chateau-Tnierry, St Mi
hiel, the vesle >and the ArgOnne,
slashed an artery in his arm at United
States General Hospital 81 ut Denver
and died before the rush Of blood could
be checked. Purdy went through the
war but contracted tuberculosis from
exposure.
Large herds of antelope are reported
to be feeding on hay and straw in the
Dover district, in northern Colorado,
TO the annoyance and loss to the farm
ers In that section. The anteiopes have
been driven from the hills by deep
snow and the freezing of water courses.
In some cases the antelopes have
mingled with domestic cattle and tried
to eat food put out for the latter.
In line with the state public utilities
commissioners recent decision denying
to the Durango Street Railway and
Realty Company permission to discon-