The Ordway new era., 1921-11-11
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


Colorado in the past dozen years
forcefulIy Illustrated by the Reports VI
the Census Bureau for lN' anu '"'"
and by the reports OF county aSSi'sS"'s
To the state Immigration Department
for 1921. which show that acreage 'u'-
Iiyited under irrigation III the STA"
has Increased only about is per ceHl
siuc,, 1909. while acreage cultivated
without irrigation has Increased c"h
sidcrahly more than luO per cent inc
census reports show that u per c"h' va
All crops acreage harvested IN Colorad"
i'm 1909 were irrigated, Whlle III t"i'
only ~ per cent Of the acreage ld'
vested was irrigated. The total acr"
onr harvested in the state In 1919, hc-
rnr,lin., Ia the census report. was -
M, o5I acres. an increase ui !ri.3 per
cent over the acreage harvested. Inc
irrigated area harvested iu l'l9, "''
rording to the same census report N"N
,g25,g1l acres. an increase oi nut II
per cent over the irrigated acre"-'
harvested i'm 1909 Reports OF county
assessors To the Immigration Depart
llttl SHOW illaA fsbN' W. ''f.''
were devoted to crops, exclusive OF or
,.hurds. in the state this year, ot Wilch
approximately 10 per cent was non
irrigated. Figures are not yet await
able Showin. the acreage harvested IN
the state this year, though the acreage
abandoned was light except in the
northeast corner Of the state, where
.NUt IN II.
irrigated crops.
\ two-year battle with beetles was
ended with the return Of w. ID. Ed'
monSton. government entomoloSist for
Colorado. Nevada, Utah, Arizona ana
New Mexico, who has his headquar-
ters in Colorado Springs. Edmon-
sion has been waging long fight with
the beetles along the northern rim OF
the Grand Canon. Approximately B.
900 trees were cut down. 1t is diff
cult to combat the pests nS the trees
are not noticcably affected until a
year after the damage is done Edmon'
Ston said As many as 80 trees in
Il single group We're destroyed by the
insects"
Thirty representatives Of the Pub
lie Utilities Companies of Colorado,
New Mexico, Wyoming. met in Den
YER and perfected an organization to
he known as the Rocky Mountain com
mittec on public utility information.
The object of the committee is to work
up and give out useful, Instructive and
interesting information ON the opera.
ton, founding, history and news Of gen.
cral interest to the general public on
public corporations OF Colorado, Wyo
ming and New Mexico
Construction of Seibert's $4,000 wa
terworks system has been started by
the Beeson Machinery Company of
Kansas City. Work on the $4,000
light system also started, current to he
brought by heavy transmission lines
from Flagler, twelve miles TO the west.
The $4,000 addition to the high school
building was recently completed and
the consolidated district now brings
pupils from the most distant parts in
four big school busses, the largest in
this part of the state.
-hN'aihS NphiAiN t'lA toii''NlpbS lol illt
month of September this year were
more than 50 per cent in excess of the
collections for September, 1920, ac-
cording to the county treasurer. The
1921 figure was $4,000, as against
So, 900 for 1920. This indicates an i'm
provement in general conditions.
There are 1884 farms with 24,462,-
n A ~, HNI, Il
of farm property is S1,O76,794,749, and
the average size of the farms Is 4OS
acres. Now the question: Are you do
ing your share in buying the products
of these farms to make them prosper
Gus? That's real home industry.
Colorado is one of the leading pro-
ducing states in alfalfa meal, there
being several large mills scattered in
the agricultural districts of the state.
Those familiar with this product de
clare that Colorado alfalfa makes the
finest meal of any alfalfa grown in
the country.
Sight of mans hand sticking out
of the ground led to frantic, though
unsuccessful, attempt TO save the life
of j. c. Grain, CO. "A teamster, who was
buried beneath sand slide in a gray.
el pit near Colorado Springs Police
officers and street department en-
ployes dug Grains body out of the pit
but his pulse, which had been flutter
ing feebly in his hand when he was
discovered, had stopped.
There are 272,o0O dairy cattle in
Colorado and the dairy products ag
gregate S2T,756,967 in value annually
These products are butter, ice cream
cheese, condensed milk, milk, cream
mailed milk and other manufactured
products. If you make it point t,
buy Colorado dairy products you ar,
doing your bit in the upbuilding of on,
of the states most promising indus
tries