The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-11-24
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INCREASE OF $4,000, 900 IN YEAR
FOR COLORADO PRODUCTS.
Unusual Finishing Weather Makes
First Estimates Of Production 10
to is Per cent Too Low.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-Governmen 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 q total
value of over $4,000. 900. or an In
over the 1915 production and $14 .000.-
900 over the value OF the crop pro-
duced in 1914
The unusually good finishing wealth
er 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 a
production of 7.155,000 bushels In 1915
But the farmers will receive for this
years crop over Ss.G00.000. against
81, 1922 800 realized for the 1918 crop
The production OF wheat this year
will aggregate 100000 bushels less
than in 1915, but its value is approx
mately Sl4.o00,o00. 100000 more
than last year The acreage planted
was 1871 900 acres, nearly 100 900 more
than planted last year
For three years there has been a
steady increase in acreage devoted to
crops. In 1914 the acreage was 1905
400, in 1918. 2,754,so0 and this year,
2,96l 600 an increase in 1916 Of 2O6.-
500 acres over 1915.
The 1916 potato crop will be worth
1922, l10 more than In 1918. The acre
age Of wheat increased 1877 900 and the
value. s2,+so.0 900.
Other crops increasing in value in
clude rye, barley, oats, pears. kaffir
corn and cantaloupes. Hay. corn and
peaches showed a decrease in value
Pears yielded $1,000 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 100000,
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 s350,000 less than in
1915.
Other fruits and vegetables brought
total of $l,6s4.6o0 an advance OF
A.2o0,000 over 1915.
Estimates on other crops place the
value Of the cantaloupe yield at $512.
600; cherries, $4,000: strawberries,
s1o5.oo0; tomatoes. $4,000: onions,
100000: celery. ss7,5o0; field peas,
100000; canning peas. $50 900. 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,
600 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 25 per cent
more than Mr.. Shoema6er's estimate
Denver. - Beet sugar growers in
northern Colorado already have re-
ceived $5.792.0 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 few days
ago
The following is the total paid out
by the nine factories Of the company
in northern Colorado Longmont ST.
l25,o0o; Fort Collins, 81 900 900; Love
land. 81 600: Greeley, 900;
Windsor. $4,000; Eaton. s25o,000;
Fort Morgan. $4,000 Sterling, $685.
600