The Keota news., 1920-01-23
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

now revising the schedule to be used
By county assessors In gathering agri-
cultural statistics for 1920 ana Will
have them ready for distribution to
the assessors early In March. Every
effort will be made to make the work
Of the assessors easy and simple, no
infOi nation being asked for when
farmers cannot give readily without
reference to their books or accounts.
The schedule will also call for con-
siderable amount OF Information
which was not collected last year,
principally regarding crops grown
only In restricted localities and the
number Of fruit trees Of bearing age.
An effort will be made To distribute
samples Of the schedules sometime In
February, xo that farmers may be In
formed regarding what Information
will be sought and will be prepared
to give assessors and their deputies
the Information without delay.
Reports Of county assessors for
1918. N tsbulated by the State lmmi.
grafton Department. show that M.
G2OO0a acres. or iOl3 per cent Ut the
total area Of the state. ls assessed us
agricultural land. This includes y
very large area that has never been
broken and much that will never be-
broken. being valuable only for grax.
Ing purposes. II includes more thun
100000 acres ciassed nS dry fnrin.
Ing" land. most Of which ultimately
will BIZ cultivated. Reports Of coun.
~ usscxsors made to the immigration
Department In 1919 showed that there
wRs approximately s.iOOOOO acr~s In
cultivation last year. the largest ever
cultivated In one year.
The Avon,isie prison farm Ii M
more. Ten substantial farmers Of Pu.
eblo county bought 90 ncrcx Of the
iand and the improvements aud thu
water rights for $i4a.2ia.SO at the
sale when members Of the State IAn.l
Board auctioned off tho land In sn,ull
tracts. none less than forty acres and
none more than eighty acres. None
Of the sixnerx Of the petition previous
~ circulated asking that the state
Land Board refuse to renew the lease
to the penitentiary for the prison
farm. was \ bidder at the xaie.
The R-ndie. Dow 4 Co. mercantile
store was completely destroyed by fire
Mt CRANKY. The loss. according to Of.
f'cials Of the company. is estimated
between $4,000 and $4,000. part Of
which In covered by Insurance. Glenn
Dow. the manager. lives In the rear
OF the store. and when he was
aroused at 3 o'clock In the morning the
flames, which are believed to have
started from the furnace In the bnse.
ment. had made such hcadway that
nothing could be saved.
Claiming that Palmer Lake has
failed to clear snow from certain
parts Of the Dcnvcr.C Colorn,io Springs
highway and that nutoists stalled
there have been compelled to pay cx.
orbitant prices in order TO get pulled
out Of the snow banks, the Colorado
Springs Auto Trades Association hns
submitted to the Chamber Of Com.
merce q resolution asking thnt Pal.
mer Lake be cut off the intcrcity roud
II the situation is not rcmc,lie,i.
The rare operation OF transmission of
blood was performed upon Thomas
Weiss at a local hospital In A,nmosa.
His brother. Peter Weiss, n mining
man Of Creole, furnished the blood
and several ounces were transferred,
to the veins Of the patient. Weiss
suffered q breakdown from ovcrwork
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