The Colorado statesman., 1921-07-02
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

assessors to the State Immigration De-
partment indicnte that the acreage de-
voted to wheat this year is the largest
in the history OF Colorado. These re-
ports are about So per cent completed
and indications are that wheat produc-
tion will brenk all Colorado records.
Nearly 100000 more acres have been
planted 10 winter wheat this year than
ever before. However, there has been
n falling off in the acreage devoted TO
spring wheat. To date this year, 31O,-
900 acres of spring wheat has been re-
ported This compares with 33o,OoO
acres in 1920.
Sheriff Francis l.. Hampton of Mof-
fat county is authority for the state
ment that there is no sheep war inn
pending In Moffat county or on the
Colorado L tnh line so far as he can
ascertain, despite wild reports to the
contrary. According to Sheriff Hamp-
ton, the sheep war reports being
circulated resulted from the refusal OF
homesteaders and ranchers and cattle
men In section of country eighteen
miles south of Craig refusing to allow
a SInhll DullNll VI ~ f'As''
their holdings to the reserve west OF
them.
The threatened invasion of FL Paso
county by grasshopper army moving
northwest from the southeastern cor
ner has been averted, according to j.
G. Hale, county agent. The grasshop-
pers descended on the county recently
and it was only through the hardest
sort of work that the pest was stopped
according TO Hale, who declared that
farmers in the community worked day
and night in their efforts TO head off
the grasshoppers. Poison bran and ar
senic were used in the battle against
the insects.
1t cost the state of Colorado S2S,OOO
TO nav the salaries of National Guards
men on duty in the Pueblo flood dis
trict, according to pay roll figures
compiled in the office of Adjt Gen.
Patrick Hamrock. "Noucners for the
pay of guardsmen to the extent of ST.
500 have already been drawn" said
Colonel Hamrock in discussing the ex-
pense of guarding the flooded city,
"and when the pay rolls for the last
contingent of troops are completed, the
total will run slightly over $2S,OOO.'
Pueblo county property owners, who
suffered financial losses during the
flood early this month, will receive
reduction in their tax for 1921, ac-
cording to an announcement made in
Denver by c. z. Link. member of the
State Tax Commission. Mr.. Link has
Just completed detailed survey OF
the actual damage done in the county.
He places the total loss at S11,OOO,OOO.
A tax levy on this property Will be re-
duced five-twelfths of the original as
sessment. the state official announced.
Weld county will produce 100000
bushels of wheat this year, judging
from present indications. Figures
compiled by the field men of the coun-
ty assessor show that there are 16o,-
600 acres planted to wheat in the
county this year. Because of the large
amount of moisture the yield will be
from thirty to fifty bushels on the non
irrigated land as well as in the irri-
gated districts. There are $4,000 acres
of wheat on the irrigated farms and
about 100000 on the dry land.
Airplane patrol for the detection of
forest fires in the Pixies Peak region
around Colorado Springs, Colo, has
been permanently established, accordT
ing to an agreement entered into by
the government and the Western Air
craft Company of Colorado Springs.
Colorado College receives 100000
by the terms of the will left by the
late Henry Roger Wolcott, one of
Colorado's pioneer mining men, whose
estate totals more than S6OO,OOO, ac-
cording to petition filed in the Coun-
ty Court in Denver.
Plans are being made to make the
Moffat County Fair at Maybell, Sept.
$40. one of the best affairs in that
part of the state.
John =. Keith, d. & r. G. freight
conductor, was killed when his touring
car plunged over the embankment on
Eighth street Pueblo, where the flood
of June 3 carried away the long bridge
spanning the stream.
Sixty-five thousand dollars of fed
eral funds will be spent on the Rocky
Mountain National park projects dur
ing the fiscal year beginning July 1.
This sum exceeds by $4,000 any fund
ever before appropriated by Congress
for use on these Fairgrounds.
Rider Herrickstad, 6 years old, son
of ole Herrickstad, was killed almost
instantly by an automobile on street
crossing one of the main streets of
Akron recently. Lights blinded the
boy and caused the accident.
Pete Smith, well-to-do bachelor
farmer about 40 years old, was shot
by another farmer, George hammers,
also well-to-do, southeast of Sedg-