The Arvada enterprise., 1920-10-14
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

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-
tion In the state this year Is above
5,5OO,OOO acres, not including orchards.
These reports include 49,117 farms OH
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 us I'M
der cultivation in 1909 was 2,25S,l4
acres. According to these figures,
there has been an increase of IA
per cent in the cultivated a-ea In the
past II years. Since the reports made
to the Census Bureau were perhaps
not absolutely complete. the actual IN
crease in cultivated area was no doubt
somewhat short Of the figure given
above, but it was considerably more
than double that of 1909.
Reports made to the State Immigra-
tho 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 Y 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
RADIO Springs High School. according
to an announcement made at Colo
RADIO Springs. Mr.. Roe is we'll
known educator of the state and was
given consideration rs principal of the
East Denver High School. He takes
charge Of his duties Mt once, relieving
Stlllwell Moore. who has been acting
principal since the promotion OF Mr..
Bnir from principal to superintendent.
Pueblo will be invaded Nov. 4 for
a three-day visit by educators from
all over Colorado. who will gather to
attend the sessions of the State ELu-
cational Association. At last years
session more than 100 people at
tended the meeting and more are ex-
pected this year. Notable among tho
speakers will be Ida NJ. Tarbell. Mrs.
Mary c. c. Bradford, state superin-
tendent Of public instruction, and DR..
Frank w. Gunsaulus, president Of Ar
mour Institute, Chicago.
Delta friends of Ross Barker, who
Ia now serving his sixth year In the
navy, have received 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
he 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 Is
now under consideration by repre-.
sentatives Of the federal board for vo-
catiOnal education.
For offering for sale meat that had
not been inspected by the Pueblo
health department, John Grosich,
grocer, received q $40 fine. Jim
Liapes, butcher. also received q sim.
liar fine last week.
The purchase Of the Cushman ditch
and stock was completed at the Octo.
Der meeting Of the Uncompahgre Val.
ley Water-Users' association at Mont.
rose. The price paid by the govern.
tnent for this irrigation ditch WIS s..
$50. One thousand one hundred md
fifty Of this will he subscribed BY the
farmers who will use the water from
the ditch and the government will nay
the remaining $4,000.
Mrs. Carl White. wife Of q farmer
who lives thirty miles east Of Hugo,
was instantly killed and their 2.year.
old son seriously injured when shot.
gun was accidentally discharged while
going to town with Z truck load Of
wheat.
What Ia believed to be q record
buck killed during the open season
was brought down by r. G. Seals Of
MontrOxe. This was killed the first
day Of the season and tipped the scales
at 400 pounds.
Chris Christensen, one Of the early
residents Of Evergreen. Ia dead, after
short Illness. ~ 4 result Of n atrokN