The Dolores star., 1921-12-02
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

In cultivation in 1921 was devoted to
wheat than to any other crop, approx
imately one-third the cultivated area
| being devoted to winter and spring
wheat combined. Corn ranks second
In this respect, with 1889 per cent,
and alfalfa third. with 1872 per cent.
| The following percentages of the cuiii-
| waited area nrc devoted To other lead
| ing crops: Oats. 5.l3: barley. 4.4s;
rye. 2.31; sorghums, COG; sugar beets,
80. In many eastern Colorado coun-
| ties more than 40 per cent OF thc cui-
! tiyated acreage is devoted 10 wheat.
the largest proportion being reported
for Phillips, which shows 5o.2o OF It's
cultivated area devoted TO wheat Nine
counties in this section of the state
have more than 40 per cent each oil
their cultivated areas assigned to
wheat.
| Forty fires in the National Forests
of district two were caused by smok-
ers. District two includes the forests
of Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska,
| Minnesota and Michigan and five III
| Wyoming The data concerning these
fires was gathered for the purpose of
securing the cooperation of all smok-
ers, says District Forester Allen $.
Peck. Statistics have, for a number
| of years, been gathered as TO how fires
are started. Those started by lumber
men, loggers, railroads and brush
burners have been fairly well classi-
| fled for years. Many more have been
charged against campers. but undoubt-
edly many of these We're started 10y
smokers out in the forest for recreation
fishing, hunting, etc, and now tins
year it has been definitely established
that forty We're so caused.
| Inheritance tax collections of the
State Inheritance Tax Department for
the first fifteen days of November
were S25,311.2 .2S The largest single tax
was from the estate of Sam :. tilau-
Der of Denver. The tax was 80
on gross value Of estate estimated at
S26l .592l II. The second largest tax of
| S4,S6I.3O was on the estimated gross
value of S20u,651.1O on The estate Of
Charles ii. Wheeler of Weld county.
Thirty-two other taxes from fourteen
counties netted the remainder of the
total. In addition, fifty-seren waivers
brought S57 into the state Golfers; six
examination fees. $50, and eleven 50
fees, S55.
| Federal Judge Lewis ordered the
sale of the airplane seized last June
when Eddie Brooks, its driver, WAS ar.
rested on the charge of transporting
liquor in it from Canada to Colorado.
| ha nrt inI ha g hn
Nebraska Airplane Corporation, which
claimed to be the innocent owner of
the plane, for an order restoring it to
the concerns possession. Counsel for
the Nebraska company gave notice
that an appeal would be taken.
Hog raisers of eastern FL Paso coun-
ty met at Colorado Springs to discuss
steps to prevent the spread of hog
cholera, which has appeared in four
herds in the vicinity of Tructon. The
disease, an infectiOnal malady, is III
fectious and usually fatal. Serum vac.
cination is regarded as sure prevent
ative and will be used to avert an cpl
demic.
The Farmers mill and grain elevator
at Craig caught fire and was total
loss. The building is just outside the
city limits, and beyond reach of the wa
ter system. The Cooperative Farmers
Company, which owns the elevator, is
one of the few successful companies
of the kind In the state.
Mrs. Peter Johnson of Denver, Colo,
was shot and killed and her husband
seriously wounded while riding in an
automobile forty miles east of Yuma
ArIz. William S. Estaver, 30 years old
who was riding with them when they
wer shot, was taken to Jail and held
in connection with the affair.
Recent SHOWS in eastern Colorado
has virtually saved the fall crops of
wheat and rye. With no moisture since
August, when they were planted, II
was feared these crops would be a to.
tai loss. The snow extended east from
Colorado Springs as far as Phillips.
burg, Kan, u distance of 345 miles.
Harry II. French. forest supervise,
of the Holy Cross Forest with head.
quarters at Glenwood Springs, has
been transferred to the Uncompahgre
NattiSnal Forest with headquarters al
Delta, Colo. He goes to the Uncom.
pahgre Forest with sixteen years ex.
perience as a forest officer, having
been appointed forest guard on the
Holy Cross National Forest in Novem-
ber 1905, and supervisor of the same
forest year later, which position he
has held up to this present time. The
uncompahgre is indeed fortunate TO
secure man of such training and
ability to fill the place left vacant By
Supervisor .Jeffers, who resigned to
become head Of the forestry school at
Ames, Iowa.
The preliminary estimate Of the an
pie crop of the state is 2,99O,OOO bush
els or about 42S,OOO bushels less than
the crop of 1919, which was reported
by the census hureau nc Q 40 nnn ,,,,