Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-08-18
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

,onnty assessors to the State lmmsra
i'm Department show above o-'u
!. rms nm which land is being cuItl'a,eu
n Colorado this year, compared VIZ"
.o117 farms reported by county as
.essors last year. While there ~ ap
a large area In cultivation IN
'he state this year than last, the ny
narant increase in number OF farms u
nerbaps due to more complete returns
haine made by county assessors 'n''
year than previous years. The Ia"
auirlng county assessors to co',ect as
-,cultural statistics annually became
erfectIye In 1919, and this is the thiru
wear such statistics have beeh co,-
iected Assessors are improving their
renorts this year, due largely TO the
of local business men anu
commercial organizations for comp'e'e
and accurate reports.
Excavations now being maze oi
ruins on the San Juan National lores'
at Chimney Rocks, near fasosa
SnrIngs. Colorado, are proving OF grea'
interest. The ruins are douptiess 'he
oldest in the United States and snow
more primitive workmanship mah
those in other localities. A 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 ethnoi'
ogy Is in charge Of the work.
Three iron bridges which were sent
to the forestry bureau for erection In
L.arImer~ 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 attemp,
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 beinf
secured and grandstands will be built
Immediately. II Is the plan to make
the event an annual one and to ar
range festivities on q large scale.
| Believed to have been one Of thu
victims Of the Pueblo flood the nigh
Of June 8, and given up for dead b!
his daughters. the Rev. C. c. Prentiss
q retired Methodist minister, returned
to his daughters house near Mosca
unable to tell the story Of his disap
pearance. Mr.. Prentiss recovered hi
memory In hospital in Oglethorpe
Ca, last week, but was unable to tel
the attending physicians how he al
rived there.
The state Of Colorado was enriche
by 51,S47.77 when the administrator
Of the estate of JudsOn NJ. Bemi
Colorado Springs millionaire, who die
April 9. turned over to Roy II. Blacl
man, state inheritance tax collector,
check for that amount. This sum rel
resents the state Inheritance tnx on
net estate of $1,394, 1879. Bemis wa
heavily interested In the Bemis Blu
Company Of Boston.
Four hundred and fifty vocations
students are to receive instruction Al
the University of Colorado this fal
according to W. J. Shirley, co-ordir
ator for the government, who ha
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. VocatiOnn
men are to have a months vacation
beginning Aug. %.
Publication of tive national potat
crop estimate of the United States De
partment of Agriculture for Angus
caused much Joy In the Greeley dis
trlct. The estimate showed a decreas
from the July estimate of 61.0OO,OO
bushels. drop. from 377 100000 bush
els to 31G,0OO0OO bushels.
City Commissioner james l.. Lover
OF Pueblo sent kilograms to leadin,
engineering firms OF the Unite,
States inviting them to send reprcsen
tntives TO Pueblo to discuss flood pre-
rention measures which may be takeI
here. A date is to be set for the con
ference. Among the firms invited /
the J. NJ. O'Rourke Company of Chi
cago, builders Of the Galveston Sc;
wall.
Dry lahd wheat is running heavie
yields this year than irrigated fields
the average being forty bushels to tn
acre, but some run much higher, Th
best yield yet reported came whel
forty acres of Tom McCloughan's Ian,
southeast OF Loveland, gave a machin
measure Of sixty-two bushels to th
acre, with the wheat weighing out six
ty-One pounds.
Resolutions requesting Congress 1T
Immediately enact such legislation a