Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1920-10-14
COLORADO NEWS NoTEz.

Final tabulations Of returns OF
county assessors on agricultural sta
tistics, made by the State Immigration
Department, show total of 5.O09, ,991
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-
ton in the state this year is above
5,5OO,OOO acres, Eot including orchards.
These reports include 49,117 farms on
which land was actually cultivated
this year. The Census Bureau found
46,17O farms in the state in 1910. and
the area reported to the bureau as IN.
der cultivation in 1909 was 2,253, las
acres. According to these figures,
there has been an increase Of IA
per cent in the cultivated area in the
past II years. Since the reports made
not absolutely complete, the actual in
crease in cultivated area was no doubt
somewhat short of the figure given
above, but 1t 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 72 per cent by owners and
homesteaders, while about 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
rauo springs Hign schooi' ACCORDING
u an announcement maze at COLO
,auo springs. Mr. noe ID "eiis
known EDUCATOR OF the state anu was
given consideration as principal of the
East Denver High School. He takes
charge of his duties at once, relieving
otiiiweii MOORE VINO mas Deen acting
po;r fror, n-,r,,-., :. .a.os.,...,a..
" e-
fueDio Will Do invaded NOV. for
three-day Visit Dy educators from
al over COLORADO VINO VIII gathe: to
attend the sessions OF the State Edu-
catonai Association. At last years
- .e.s's ~, ..an A'Ioo peopie AZ
o.a.es ..,. anu .noie aie SA
sses,'a- III, No,soi1 a,nons .hc
~ "" De .ua ~ .aroeA' nais'
.ss.s ' e.a.e supe,.n-
U"..'n ~, ~ puoe ins'ruetoh' anu IT.
mour Institute. Chicago
Do,t. r.,.,a =. D. ,
ia now serving biu s,~th vaar ,n tha
navy. have received q 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
ne 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
shops and a laboratory to be used in
conjunction with classroom work Ia
now under consideration NV ranre-
sentatives OF the federal board for vo-
catlOnal education. ..