Gilpin observer., 1916-11-23
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INCREASE OF $4,000, 900 IN YEAR
FOR COLORADO PRODUCTS.
Unusual Finishing Weather Makes
First Estimates Of Production 10
10 IS Per cent Too Low.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-Governme and state ex-
perts are adding 10 and is per cent
to the crop production of Colorado
over the estimate previously made by
agricultural experts. Their figures
give the yield of the state total
value of over $S2,0OO,0O0, or an in
crease of approximately $13,000.000
over the 1915 production and $4,000
900 over the value of the crop pro-
duced in 1914.
The unusually good finishing wealth
err with late frost is the basis for the
increased production and valuation
over the estimate made last month.
From an acreage of 5000 less than
the $4,000 planted last year potato
growers will realize approximately
100000 bushels, this crop being par
ticularly favored by the favorable ma
turing conditions. This is against
production of 1876, 900 bushels in 1915.
But the farmers will receive for this
years crop over $s,60O,OO0, against
$4,722,30O realized for the 1915 crop.
The production of wheat this year
will aggregate 100000 bushels less
than in 1915, but its value is approx
mately $14.0OO,O0O, 100000 more
than last year. The acreage planted
was $4,000 acres, nearly 100000 more
than planted last year.
For three years there has been
steady increase in acreage devoted to
crops. In 1914 the acreage was $685.
400, in 1915, 2,754,SOO, and this year,
1851 900, an increase in 1916 of 206,-
500 acres over 1915.
The 1916 potato crop will be worth
$3,972,110 more than in 1915. The acre
age of wheat increased 10000 and the
value, $2,4S0,000.
Other crops increasing in value in
clude rye, barley, oats, pears. kaffir
corn and cantaloupes. Hay, corn and
peaches showed decrease in value.
Pears yielded $4,000 bushels, as
against $4,000 in 1915, but the price
of $3.50 bushel was 81 more than in
1915, giving a total value of $4,000,
the largest in the history of the state.
Peaches dropped in production from
1913 of $4,000 bushels, which, even
with lower price, made the total
value nearly $35O,OOO less than in
1915.
Other fruits and vegetables brought
a total of $1.6S4.e00, an advance of
$I,200,000 over 1915.
Estimates on other crops place the
value of the cantaloupe yield at $512,-
900; cherries, $4,000; Strawberries,
$105,O0O; tomatoes, $4,000; onions,
100000; celery, $s7,500; field peas,
100000; canning peas, $4,000, and
cucumbers, $4,000.
The livestock industry has also ex-
banded beyond all estimates. In Au-
gust, j. A. Shoemaker, manager of the
Denver Union Stockyards Company,
predicted that the total receipts at the
yards for the year 1916 would be $780,
900 cattle, 100000 hogs and 1000, 900
sheep. This record was reached and
passed last month and the total prom
ises to be in excess Of rs per cent
more than Mr.. Shoemaker's estimate.
Denver. = Beet sugar growers in
northern Colorado already have re-
ceived $5,792.000 for their crop from
the Great Western Sugar Company
alone. The final payment on the 1916
yield was made by the nine factories
operated by the company a few days
ago.
The following is the total paid out
by the nine factories of the company
In northern Colorado: ,Longmont, ST..
l25,00O; Fort Collins, 81, OOO, 900; Love.
land. $1.200,000; Greeley, $4,000;
Windsor. $329.OOO; Eaton, $25O.000;
Fort Morgan. $4,000; Sterling, $685.
900.