The Dolores star., 1921-06-03
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

ne farmers OF COlOrudO VIII cultivate
fully as large an acreage to crops this
year as they did In 1920. Reports so
| tar received show that the cultivated
area this year will he but little short
Df 6,OOO.OOO acres. County assessors
reported on 49.117 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 1,195.O13, or a little more than
102 acres per farm. The entire acre
age reported for these crops last year
was 4,192.512, or q little more than
eighty acres per farm. If all farms
this year should report these crops In
the same ratio as those already In, the
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
check of the work done in pest erndi-
cation in Adams county. County farm
ers have been saved from $4,000 to
$200,OO0, Mr.. Burnett says, by the ex-
| termination work thus far completed.
| More than 125,OO0 acres have been
now under poisoning 100000 will have
been treated.
Joseph Nitchen, 73 years old, 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 contest 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 Inmigra-
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 total of So, 700. .O33.OS cabled
to China to date thru the American
| pnrnIpitfpn for ('hinu fpr fuuI fn
the relief of the famine victims of the
northern provinces, Denver has con-
tributed $4,6S4.31, according to 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 ut Golden when he attempted to
| climb onto a 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 As to ! at
| 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, a business man, in.
cured eight broken ribs dislocated
| cOllarbone and severe bruises at Boul-
der, when he was pinned under his
automobile after it had been hit and
| turned over by II machine driven by
another man.
Curtis IIaupt, senior in the Colorado
| Springs High School, was awarded n
four-year scholarship in Colorado Col
| lege by the local Kiwanis Club The
scholarship goes to Huupt as the most
proficient student in physics in class
of 1872.
One woman is dead and heavy dam
age is reported TO buildings and fences
as the result of high wind north of
| Seibcrt. Mrs. Frank Robinson, Il
farmers wife, was killed when the
wind blew down Il 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 statement made
by III. II. 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 Il luncheon given by
Mrs. Douglas Robinson, sister of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, TO a large number of
prominent club women, II was deter
mined to make n concentrated effort
by club women to assist the Women's
Roosevelt Memorial Association of l
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