Gilpin observer., 1920-11-04
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

State immigration Department by
county assessors, the area devoted to
wheat in Colorado this year is about
400 900 acres, of which S0.12 per cent
ls non-irrigated. The total area de-
voted to wheat in the state in 1909, as
shown by the census bureau report for
that year, was 34O,729 acres, of which
4S.9 per cent was irrigated. The non
irrigated wheat acreage in the state
this year is nearly three times as great
as the entire area devoted to wheat in
1909, Logan and Weld counties this
year have larger acreage of wheat
than the entire state had ten years
ago. Reports of assessors show that
1915 per cent of the wheat grown In
the state this year is winter wheat and
PAPA per cent Is spring varieties In
the northeast part of the state, where
the largest acreage of wheat is grown,
about 30 per cent of the crop is winter
wheat.
The increase in acreage farmed
without irrigation in Colorado is in
creasing rapidly each year, while there
has been but little increase in the cul-
tivated irrigated acreage in the past
ten years. Reports of county assess
ors to the State immigration Depart
ment show that approximately 20 per
cent of the wheat grown in the state
this year is irrigated, compared with
oil per cent in 1909, as reported by
the census bureau. The irrigated acre
age devoted to wheat has increased
from 174,116 acres in 1909 to 1882
acres in 1920, while the non-irrigated
acreage has increased from 1868
acres to 1,057, ,235 acres. In 1909, 69.7
per cent of the oats grown in the state
were irrigated, while this year only
4S1 per cent of the crop is irrigated.
In 1909, 6S.3 per cent of the barley
crop was irrigated, compared with 32.4
per cent this year.
A total of $79O,21O.S5 has been col
lected through 121,54S automobile IL
censes by the state on motor vehicle
licenses during the first nine months
of 1920, according to report issued
by the state motor vehicle department.
This report shows licenses have been
issued for 3,163 motorcycles, of which
1,O9S belong to residents of Denver. II
also reveals that Denver citizens have
obtained licenses on 2S,974 passenger
cars and 1884 trucks, paying total
of $22S ,00O.40 in fees up to October 1st.
A total Of 100000 motor vehicle H.
censes were issued last year. 1t is esti-
mated that the number will reach 150,-
600 throughout the state in 1920.
August Lick is recovering from a
fall over thirty-foot cliff recently
near Nucla. He is "A years old. He
was hunting lost rope some miles
from where he lived with his aged
wife, when he fell. He had been all
day looking for some cows and he lost
a rope and went back after it. He
stumbled off rimrock in the dark
ness and fell about thirty feet. He
was not found until fourteen hours
later, and light snow had fallen while
he lay there injured He was taken
home by the rescue party and is recov.
ering nicely.
Fire completely destroyed two new
dwellings on the Rosedale farm, ten
causing loss of $4,000. The houses
had just been completed when one
took fire, supposedly from the new
fireplace, and soon ignited the other
dwelling nearby, and nothing could be
done to save them. G. r. Rowe owned
one and his brother, S. Il. Rowe, owned
the other. The fire broke out before
the families had got out Of bed, and
they lost most Of their belongings and
furniture.
The 1920 corn crop in Colorado is
estimated at 16,215,OO0 bushels and is
valued at $19,66S,795 in a report is
sued by Howard Sullivan, deputy i'm.
migration commissioner. Other croCs
of the state are estimated as follows:
100000 bushels of barley at 91.2
cents bushel, S,126,000 bushels of
oats at 60.7 cents bushel, 1862, ,0OJ
bushels of potatoes at $1,34S bushel.
The people of Colorado are called
upon by Governor Shoup to observe
November 11th as Armistice Day, in a
proclamation. The proclamation reads
in part as follows 1T marks the lib
GRAFTON of mankind from the most ter
rible menace Of all history. 1t is the
anniversary of the defeat of military
barbarism. In honor of the victory Of
allied arms, l call the citizens to pay
tribute to the heroes, living and dead,
who suffered and bled and triumphed."
A readjustment of the freight rate
on coal shipped from the Pike View,
Keystone and City mines to Colorado
Springs, few miles south, is asked
of the state public utilities commits,
sion in petition filed by the Colo
RADIO Springs Chamber of Commerce.
The present rate is 671s cents a ton.
The petition asks the restoration of