The Colorado statesman., 1921-06-04
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

| In spite OF the depressing effects OF
falling prices and money stringency,
the farmers OF Colorado will cultivate
| fully as large an acreage to crops this
year MS they did In 1920 Reports so
far received show that the cultivated
nren this yenr will be but little short
Of 6,OOO00O acres. County assessors
reported on 49,1l7 farms in the state
last year. Reports have been tabu-
lated up to date this year on 11,624
farms. These farms, for eleven of the
| leading crops, report an acreage this
year OF 1,105,0l3. or little more than
1O2 acres per farm. The entire acre
age reported for these crops last year
was 4,102,512, or little more than
eighty acres per farm. IL all farms
| this year should report these crops In
| the same ratio as those already in, the
total acreage would be above 5000, 900.
The crops included in the figures given
above are corn, oats, barley, winter
wheat, spring wheat, rye, potatoes,
grain sorghums, sweet sorghums, beans
and alfalfa.
w. L. Burnett, in charge of rodent
| control of the state. and his assistant,
| c. L. Corkins, with the local county
agent, Waldo Kidder, have completed
a check of the work done in pest eradi-
cation in Adams county. County farm
ers have been saved from $4,000 to
100000, Mr.. Burnett says, by the ex-
termination work Dhus far completed.
More than 125,00O acres have been
baited to date, and, with the territory
now under poisoning 100000 will have
| been treated.
Joseph Nitchen, 73 years old, n pio-
neer resident of Canon City and Colo
RADIO, is dead after an illness of several
weeks. Nitchen was pioneer railroad
| builder. He had charge of the gang of
men that laid the first rails for the
Denver Rio Grande in the Royal
Gorge in the early sos, during the time
of the bitter contes for the possession
of the Grand Canon of the Arkansas
between the Rio Grande and Santa Fe
| Railroad companies.
Partial reports from county asses
sors received by the State 1mmigra-
ton Department indicate that the
acreage of winter wheat in Colorado
this year is fully as large as that last
year and perhaps slightly larger. Par
tial reports to date have been received
from twenty-five counties, several OF
which already have reported more win
ter wheat than their complete reports
showed for last year.
Out of a total of S3,700,033.0S cabled
to China to date thru the American
committee for China famine fund for
the relief of the famine victims of the
northern provinces, Denver has con-
tributed $4,6S4.31, according to a re-
port made public by Vernon Munroe,
treasurer, American committee for
China famine fund.
Donald Fitch, S-year-old son of Prof.
George Fitch, superintendent of the
Golden public schools, was crushed TO
death at Golden when he attempted to
climb onto moving wagon loaded
with sand, missed his footing on the
side brake rod and fell under one of
the rear wheels.
The bond issue OF $4,000 for the
construction of water and light sys-
TENS, carried by vote of 43 to ut
Seibert. The council will proceed at
once to the sale of the bonds and il is
the plan to have the systems installed
before snow flies.
James WINNER, business man, in
CURED eight broken ribs. Il diSlocated
collarbone and severe bruises at Boul-
der, when he was pinned under his
automobile after it had been hit and
turned over by machine driven by
another man.
Curtis Haupt, senior in the Colorado
Springs High School, was awarded
four-year scholarship in Colorado Col
!ege by the local Kiwans Club. The
scholarship goes TO Haupt as the most
proficient student in physics in Il class
of 192.
One woman Is dead and heavy dam
age is reported TO buildings and fences
as the result of high wind north of
Seibert. Mrs. Frank Robinson, n
farmers wife, was killed when the
wind blew down chicken house. Mrs.
| Robinson, according to reports, had
rushed out of the house to try to pro-
| tect her chickens from the storm.
Colorado and the West will have the
| greatest tourist travel in the history
of railroad transportation this sum
mer, according to a statement made
| by III. r. Cornell, division passenger
| agent of the American Express Com
pany travel department for the terri
tory between Denver and the Pacific
coast, with headquarters in San Fran
| cisco.
New York.-At luncheon given by
Mrs Douglas Robinson, sister of Theo-
| dore Roosevelt, TO a large number Of