The Colorado statesman., 1921-08-20
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

Practically complete reports from
county assessors to the State lmmigra-
ton Department show above $1,000
farms on which land Is being cultivated
in Colorado this year. compared with
ae117 farms reported by county as
SCISSORS last year. While there is APP
pnrently large area In cultivation In
the state this year than last, the APP
parent increase in number of farms Is
perhaps due to more complete returns
being made by county assessors this
year than previous years. The law re-
uuiring county assessors to collect ag-
ricultural statistics annually became
effective In 1919 and this is the third
year such statistics have been col
lected. Assessors are improving their
reports this year, due largely TO the
demands of local business men and
commercial organizations for complete
and accurate reports.
Excavations now being made of
ruins on the San Juan National forest
at Chimney Rocks, near Pagosa
Springs, Colorado, are proving of great
interest. The ruins are doubtless the
oldest in the United States and show
more primitive workmanship than
those in other localities. permit
covering the San Juan forest was
granted the Colorado State Historical
and Natural History Society and ]. A.
Jeancon, director and curator of the
department of archaeology and ethnol-
ogy is in charge OF the work.
Three iron bridges which were sent
to the forestry bureau for erection in
Larlmer county by the government
during the war, and which have never
been put into service, are to be taken
over by the State Highway Depart
ment and will be used on the South
Platte river not far from Denver.
They were intended for use on the
Poudre river, but are only eleven feet
wide. and for this reason were never
erected 1t is thought probable that
the bridges will be widened when they
are put up.
Colorado Springs is going to attempt
to rival Cheyenne's Frontier Days. A
contract was signed by the Chamber
of Commerce with Irwin Brothers,
who for twenty-three years have
staged Wild West affairs, and the
event will be held Aug %, % and "a.
A site northeast of the city is being
secured and grandstands will be built
Immediately. 1t is the plan to make
the event an annual one and to ar
range festivities on large scale.
Believed to have been one of the
victims of the Pueblo flood the night
of June 3, and given up for dead by
his daughters. the Rev. G. @. Prentiss,
a retired Methodist minister returned
to his daughters house near Mosca,
unable to tell the story of his disap-
pearance. Mr.. Prentiss recovered his
memory I'm n hospital in Oglethorpe,
Ga, last week, but was unable to tell
the attending physicians how he ar
rived there.
The state of Colorado was enriched
by $51 ,S47.77 when the administrators
of the estate of Judson NJ. Bemis,
| Colorado Springs millionaire, who died
April 6, turned over to Roy H. Black
man, state Inheritance tax collector, n
check for that amount This sum rep
| resents the state inheritance tax on n
net estate of 81 1894, 1870. Bemis was
heavily interested in the Bemis Bag
Company of Boston.
Four hundred and fifty vocational
students are to receive instruction Mt
the University of Colorado this fall,
according to w. ]. Shirley, co-ordin-
ator for the government, who has
charge of the students sent to Boulder.
There are $50 men in training now,
twenty-five of whom will be trans
ferred to other schools. Vocational
men are to have months vacation,
beginning Aug. %.
Publication of the national potato
crop estimate of the United States De-
| partment of Agriculture for August
| caused much joy in the Greeley dis
trict. The estimate showed a decrease
from the July estimate of 61,OO0,OOO
bushels, drop from 377,OOO,OOO BUSH
els to 316OOO,O00 bushels
Fewer people in Larimer county will
be delinquent with their taxes this
year than for many years previous,
according to County Treasurer VIII
liam J. Ralph, who says rs per cent
| Oh tHe luAeS were poiu oh .iiiS' 'i'
| those who will pay before the list is
published, and after it appears In the
paper, it is thought that the sale of
property for taxes this year will be
quite small.
With the completion of tina half
| mile track and the gigantic grand
stand and corrals, everything is now in
readiness for the opening of the ride
'em rough roundup" at Colorado
Springs, Aug.2 2, % and "a. Already
| more than 200 head Of horses, incldd-
ing some of the most famous buck
| T., tba NyaSt bOuSpd in the