The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-10-21
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

l tne State immigration Department
show the total area under cultivation
In Colorado this year, exclusive Of Or
chards, to be 5,357, 1884 acres. This is
an Increase Of 34S,O63 acres, or 60
per cent, over the cultivated acreage
| reported by county assessors last year
and Is the largest cultivated acreage
ever reported for the state. Investiga-
tions and inquiries made by the Immi-
| grafton Department in 1920 and 1919
indicated that the reports of county
assessors We're from 10 to 10 per cent
short Of the actual acreage under cul-
livation in the state. If they are as
much as 10 per cent short this year
the actual area planted in the state for
| the 1921 harvest was close to $780, 900
acres. If orchards are included the
area under cultivation in the state
this year apparently is approximately
100000 acres
The large increase in cultivated
areas in the state this year has been
due almost exclusively to a very large
increase in acreage devoted to winter
wheat. No other important crop with
the exception of potatoes shows a sub
stantial increase in acreage over last
| year, and many leading crops, includ-
ing corn, hay, sorghums, rye, sugar
beets, beans, field peas and millet,
show actual decreases. Slight in
creases are shown In the acreages re-
! ported for oats and barley. The in
crease in acreage Of winter wheat re-
ported is 374,117 acres, or about 26,-
600 acres more than the total increase
Of cultivated acreage, showing that
all other crops with the exception Of
winter wheat, taken together, show a
decrease in acreage as compared with
last year. There was also a slight in
crease In the acreage devoted to spring
wheat.
While hunting on Steuben creek, fif-
teen miles west of Gunnison, John
Story accidentally discovered the
bones of Howard Carpenter, who was
lost in the hills nine years ago. The
remains were in thick timber and
were identified by Carpenters gun and
watch close by. The disappearance of
Carpenter, who was popular young
man Of "a, occurred on Oct. 3, 1912,
and created great excitement. He was
leading hunting party, consisting of
the Rey. C. f. O'Farrel, Catholic priest
Of Montrose; Fire Chief Terry Owens
Of Denver and two Colorado Springs
hunters. They were hunting on the
left fork of Steuben creek, aud on the
return to Camp Carpenter left the
party and never was seen again.
fa1- I,r,
hunting party for a deer, Walter Nc
Cafferty of Montrose was shot and ia
tally wounded while hunting near
Lake City. The shot was fired by
Charles Mendenhall, also of Montrose,
who saw a movement in the brush and
mistook the flash of McCafferty's coat
for buck. The bullet tore McCaffer-
ty's right arm to shreds rnu tsstssossss>'
he mounted horse and rode to his
camp mile away in hope of receiv-
ing help, he died of shock soon after
his arrival.
The University of Colorado Players
Club will present Moliere's lie Bour-
geois Gentilhomme." or 1.-THE Newly
Rich," to the alumni on Homecoming
day, Nov. 5, after the football game
between Colorado College and the
State. The play is of the musical ex-
travaganza type. 1t will carry cho-
rus of thirty-five men and women and
thirteen leads. The costuming, as
planned by Coach Francis Wolfe, will
be both unique and gorgeous.
Five deer were killed the opening
day of the hunting season, within four
miles Of Breckenridge, all in the steep
hills and all in virtually the same re-
gion. The best kill was four-point
buck, weighing 300 pounds, shot by
Edward Stewart, town marshal. Adam
Hullender killed deer.
Weld county commissioners have un-
der consideration highway plans which
II carried out Will shorten the auto
mobile distance from Greeley to Den
yer from fifty-six to fifty-three miles,
a saving of three miles.
Ivan Bader, Frank Blow and Roy
Henderson, farmers living near Ault,
have returned from hunting trip in
the Cameron Pass section. Among
their kill were three black bears, fe-
male weighing 225 pounds and IFS two
cubs, weighing ninety pounds each.
The hunters first shot and wounded
the mother, which ran some distance
to where the cubs were. The hunters
followed and killed all three
Linda M. Lee, said to be the only
woman Justice of the peace in Colo
RADIO, recently administered Justice in
the spirit of a true Portia. When Earl
Pollard, a waiter at Il Boulder hotel,
was brought before her on an assault
charge, she fined him $3.50, and then
turned around and fined the complain
ing witness, Walter Carter. like
like amount for provoking fight.
A coal miners strike of employees of
the American Smelling and Refining
Company at Durango, which was in
augurated by union leaders last May
following an announcement of n wo-