The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-01-04

Iihc ..'....... l6,64O,OOO l2,969,179
copper ........ 100000 l,244 ,694
Lead ........... 100000 3,5G3, 49,
tungsten ...... 100000 1857, 329
nahauluin .... 100000 100000
Cripple Creek
Metals ...... l4,4S5,G 1929, 800
crops III ,4S4,17O 1871 $40
Beet Sugar 49,. 36,739 ,050 24,946, 2lO
sugar Bects -. 12,Sl5,40O ll,Sl7.G4O
Live Stock
Output ...... 97,72S,O00 GG,2G9 600
Denver Bank
Clearings ...GS9, 25G,O5O 51G,S29 1873
Denver Bank
Deposits .ll9,S5O,7iO 9O,455,22i
Denver Manu-
featuring ..... SO,000,0O0 G3,53S, 547
Denver Build
ing Permits. 4.O37,4iO 2,G4S,575
Coal Produc-
ton, Tons. &C.. 10lSi,l03 S,115,397
Denver.-COlorado opens its accounts
for 1917 with the largest volume of
business within the history of tn"
state to the credit of 1916. More than
SiOO,OOO,OOO worth of transactions is
the record of the year, and as the
highest peak of its prosperity, will all
underlying financial conditions thor
oughly sound and a forecast of anoth-
er season of expansion and growth be-
fore il.
Colorado farmers made more money
from practically every crop in 1916
than ever before in the history of the
stale and this ~ Of
age yields. The government figures
show a total value for the states ag.
rlcultural output OF $l11,iS4,17O, an in
crease of s33,292 $50 over 1915. High
prices for practically every commodity
produced by the farmers and orchard,
lists of the state We're the cause of
his enormous increase in cash revc-
nues.
Colorado has just experienced its
greatest year in mineral production.
Reckoned in dollars and cents 1916
looms far ahead of the boom days of
Cripple Creek and the other great min.
ing camps and this despite falling off
in gold production. The actual value
o. the years output is s53,5SO 900, or
Thirty-onc per cent. OF all the beet
sugar produced in the United States
was made in Colorado" A gross re-
turn of $50, 739, $50 is the record for
the year and the farmers were paid
nearly $4,000 900 for their efforts. The
German monopoly OF sugar beet seed
production was broken and Colorado
has shown that she can be entirely in.
dependent of Europe so far as this
great yearly harvest is concerned
Colorado factories increased their
payrolIs last year by 100000 giving
5000 more persons employment than
in 1915. The total value OF Dcnvcrs
manufacturing output is estimated at
$50, O0O. 600.
Tungsten came into unexpected glo
~ during the year. The war sent the
price of this metal to unhoard-ot
heights and increased the value of the
total of production from sl,GS7,329 10
s5,0OO.OO0.
The Denver Union Stock Yards cX
pcrionccd a year that proved record
breaker. An increase of sl2, 900 900 in
the state Is recorded. Denver has be
come on" of the nations most import
ant packing ccntcrs and tn" total
value OF the business has increased
from Slj,0oO.0O0 in 1915 TO $4,000. 900
in 1916.
Silver. zinc. copper and lead showed
extraordinary gains, while the Increase
in the production of tungsten IL really
staggering.
II II Is true that the automobile and
prosperity 20 hand in hand. then Colo
RADIO must be well up in the vanguard
OF the procession OF prosperous states,
for there arc $4,000 within her do
main
with 100000 acres of Colorado
land already being cultivated under ir.
iigation, the state has sufficient wa.
ter to irrigatc at least 1000 900 moro.
acres. The minimum watorpowor avail.
able the year around Is 100000
horsepower and III" maximum during
six months of tn" year Is moro than
100000 Less than 100000 horse.
power has been developed at the pres.
ont time.
Weld county ranks first among the
counties OF Colorado in agricultural
products, estimated for 1916 at si.,
100000 It stands ncSt In lin" TO Den
yer In assessed valuation and in the
ndmbcr Of automobiles owned there.
with a population of $4,000 II reports
$500 machine, or ono machine to oy.
cry three families.
Never IN tho history of good rondB
or since the advent Of the automobile
a. commercial and social necessity
/ IN Colorado has 80 much Improvement
OF highway been accomplished In
twelve months rs during 10" year just
passed. Sewer bofur" has III" work OF
building good roads been extended
over 30 vast an area Of tho stat" ~
during III" year. 1916 Every county