Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-08-19
CENTENNIAL STATE Items.

tion Department show above $1,000
farms on which land Is being cultivated
In Colorado this year, compared with
49.117 farms reported by county as
SCISSORS last year. While there is mp
parently a large area In cultivation in
the state this year than last, the ap-
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-
quiring county assessors to collect ag-
Hcultural 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
covering the San Juan forest was
granted the Colorado State Historical
and Natural History Society and ]. A.
Jenncon, director and curator of the
department Of archaeology and ethnol-
osy Ia in charge of the work.
Three iron bridges which were sent
to the forestry bureau for erection In
I a y w hn
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 aEd Erandstands will be built
Immediately. 1t is the plan to make
the event an annual one and to mr.
range festivities on large scale.
Believed to have been one of the
victims of the Pueblo flood the night
Of June 8, and given up for dead by
his daughters. the Rev. G. G. Prentiss,
a retired Methodist minister, returned
TO his daughters house near Mosce,
unable to tell the story OF his dIsap-
pearance. Mr.. Prentiss recovered his
memory in n hospital in Oglethorpe,
Ga. Inst week, but was unable to tell
the attending physicians how he ar
rived there.
The state of Colorado was enriched
by S51 ,S47.77 when the administrators
OF the estate OF Judson NJ Bemis,
Colorado Springs millionaire, who died
April 6, turned over to Roy Fl. Black
man, state Inheritance tax collector, a
check for that amount This sum rep
resents the state Inheritance tax on a
net estate of S1,394, 1880. Bemis was
heavily Interested in the Bemis Bag
Company of Boston.
Four hundred and fifty vocational
students are to receive instruction at
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. 81.
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 81 900, 900
bushels, a drop from 377;000, 900 bush
els to 316,000,0O0 bushels.
Fewer people In Larimer county will
be delinquent with their taxes this
year than for many years previous,
according to County Treasurer Will
liam ]. Ralph. who says 75 per cent
of the taxes were paid on time. With
those who will pay before the list Is
published. and after 1t appears In the
paper, it is thought that the salo Of
property for taxes this year will hs
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, 23 and "a. Already
more than zoo head OF horses, incldd-
ing some of the most famous buck
ers" in the West, are housed In the
corrals alongside the track.
Resolutions requesting Congress Ito