Semi-weekly herald., 1909-01-07
rado for 1908 worth $75,000.ooo.
Manufacturing wage earners In the
state were paid S4g.250,9e2.

rado for 1908 worth $75,000,000.
Manufacturing wage earners In the
state were paid 349.250.se2.
Denver has 1915 manufactures.
Alfalfa crops OF state was worth
$1,000. 600
! Colorado bees produced 100000
worth of honey.
Colorado stands first In the country
in the number of actual silver mines
operated. One other state produces a
greater output. but the silver Is q by.
product of other ores.
Value of 1908 fruit crop In state,
$500 900.
Colorado Telephone company oper.
ates over 10000 miles of wire.
Three hundred thousand acres were
reclaimed In the Grand valley.
Denver postofflce receipts increased
s3S,69623
About $1,000 tourists visited Colo
RADIO during the year.
The marble quarries of Colorado are
equal to any in the world.
The potato crop for 1908, 10000 900
bushels valued at s5.000,000.
Colorado land yields average of 40
bushels OF barley per acre.
The average value of Colorado farm
lands Is s25 per acre.
Dairy product of state valued at SIS.
100000.
The Denver mint coined ss2,217.oOO
worth of gold and silver coins.
Denver leads all cities of her class
in building increase.
Hay crops OF 100000 tons valued at
s12,600.000.
Colorado farmers grew 100000
bushels of wheat. value s4.400,00O.
One Rocky Ford cantaloupe grower
made s4,4l2 net from Is acres.
Cultivated forage crop OF state worth
s1O.5oO.0O0.
Colorado does not supply her do
mand for chickens and eggs by one
half
Value of building stone auarried In
Colorado. s3,OoO.0O0.
Over $4,000 was spent to Improve
toiOTuuO IOreStS.
About $3.G00.000 worth OF oats raised
in 1908.
Over $60.0o0,000 capital is invented
in Denver manufacturing plants.
Denver consumed 98.37s cattle. 27l.-
4iG hogs and 10l ,l6s sheep during
1908
Denver required 3.14S new horses
during the year.
Colorado beet sugar crop totsled
] .097000 tons.
Denver has over 800 lawyers.
There are 10000 dairy cattle in
Colorado valued at $6.4s0.0 900.
Offices OF six forest districts are
concentrated in Denver.
Colorado's cement output was 900.
900 barrels.
Denver's building permits reached
the total value of s9,s8s.700
Over 100000 acres OF pubic lands
were entered In Colorado during the
year.
Twenty-Five acres at Rifle produced
9.3ll boxes OF apples.
Denver manufacturing employees,
2s.200, earned 317.s7I,2s3
In wages.
Denver was 5000 automobiles worth
s5,5OO.0oO.
Denver Tramway company carried
81, 0,000.000 during the year.
There are 1880 miles of main line
irrigation canals In the state.
The cost OF irrigation bitches in the
state was s36.000.000.
Colorado beet sugar factories pro
duced 217.600.000 pounds Of refined
sugar worth s10.ss0.000.
Denver's bank deposits for 1908 were
$50. .97O.054.
Bank clearings in Denver during the
year totaled s411.4s3.942.75.
New projects for rcclaiming $4,000
acres OF land will be started this year.
There are 2.500.O00 acres under irri-
cation In the state.
Colorados livestock output was S3s..
671 900.
Colorado sugar beet growers receiv.
ed $8.310.000 for beets In 1908.
Weld county grew products worth
s1.OoO,00o.
The value of livestock handled 10
Denver was S22.154.S5s.
Total value OF livestock In Colorado
is 500 100000.
Since George E. West got to be