The Ordway new era., 1920-10-08
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

area devoted to corn in the state this
year is more than 100000 acres, Of
which about 90 per cent is irrigated
and 905 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 area
Is about $4,000 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, 81 pei
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 per
| cent of the corn. Fully 40 per cent
Of the acreage devoted to crops in the
state in 1910 were irrigated, while this
year about 70 per cent of the cult
waited acreage is non-irrlgated.
Unless there is very considerable
change in prices before November l,
the date when the value of farm crops
to the farmer is generally estimated
wheat will, for the first time, prove tG
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 26000,0O0 bushels, which at
prices now prevailing will be worth
above $52,OoO,00O. In the past hay has
always been this states most valuable
crop, but present indications are thai
1t will fall somewhat below wheat this
year Last years hay crop was worth
about S45O0O,O0O, and apparently the
crop this year will not be worth in eX
cess of S50,000,0O0.
There are 900 more children in the
Denver public schools today than there
were at this time last year, accordint
to an announcement given out iron
the office of Jesse ii. Newton, super
intendent of schools. The largest in
crease is in the elementary school,
and the Junior high schools, in each o.
which there Is an increase of 400 ovei
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, 80,
0l2; 1919, 34,5s4; 1920. 35,493 pupils
A picnic and celebration is being
planned for Oct. IL, Columbus day
up the Poudre canon, when it IL
hoped the road Will have been com
pleted as far as Rustic. The Fort
Collins Commercial Club is making
the picnic arrangements, feature OF
which will be a barbecue. The road
| 1t 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 ai
one of Colorado's best improved cities
At recent meeting of the city coun'
ell resolution creating paving dis
trlct, 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-
| limlnary work will be started right
away. A now 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 1t also solves the boarding house
| problem and insures a permanent sys'
| TEN.
True A. Smith has sold his famous
'True 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.
n,,,,n Smith family thirty
years developing the place. They are
moving into Aspen to make theii
home, having purchased the Milton
Conner home, one Of the best places In
that city.
Peter Waltz, 10-year-ofd son OF
George Waltz, a farmer living about
four miles from Loveland, was instant
ly killed when he fell from a truck be-
longing to the Colorado Condensed
MIX Company, about n 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
tbnt hoc ar a in fhe
percentage of non-irrigated land de