The Colorado statesman., 1919-01-11

Teag ISPger i.sSsSss i.sSs.sss Ss5s.SSS S.s5s.SSS
Moiybdenum.
Van dunn,
II u n ten,
Radium i i .... -. 5,5OO.Ooo 100000
Deposits ~ ~. 125,4Os,o5s 1sO,OoO,OoO
ciesrings " -, 1.sl4,o7s,46s s7O,s9s,2Ol
Liberty Bonds
state ...... 72.9276OO 42.27s,OaO
MID Products. 240, 100000 2OO,uOO,OOO
] tai Live
stock prod. 346,544.51O 3lG02O,OOV
Denver-Despite the payment in
1918 of $40 per ton for sugar beets by
factories OF northern Colorado, the
acreage failed by 20 per cent to equal
that planted by the growers in 1917.
An increased yield per acre, however,
reduced the shrinkage in output of
sugar to 10 per cent. The average was
close to thirteen tons per acre of
nearly 16 per cent beets, a slightly
higher sugar content than preceding
years.
In 1918, the story shows for the year
the total farm crops of Colorado
valued at s147O0OOOO; it would show
4,125,000 acres under cultivation and
it would dwell on the future in citing
10,000,000 acres of arabic land un-
broken 1t would show a wheat crop
value of S25 1877, $50 for the one year;
it would show sixty-three counties in
the state with a combined revenue OF
S24 4,657,7S7.4 and an assessed valua-
tion of s1,S079O4 ,7O2.
The dairy industry in Colorado
shows a substantial growth each year.
The United States Department of Ag-
riculture estimates that in 1918 there
were $4,000 head of dairy cattle in
the state, compared with 257O00 head
in 1917. The value of products, such
as butter, condensed milk, ice cream
and cheese, amounts to about $780,
900 year.
There has been a rapid development
of dairying in the nonirrigated sec
tions, especially in eastern Colorado,
in the last year Forage crops are be-
ing grown and silos are rapidly ap-
pearing.
The story of the development OF
Colorado will not be complete without
the story of the construction OF the
railroads, the telephone and the tele-
graph, with an assessed valuation of
s169, 1885, 800 for railroads, $12,S90, ,130
for telephones and S2,050,320 for tele-
graph.
There are forty-four railroad com
panies represented in Colorado, with
5,5S6.96 miles of trackage, with val
uation of approximately $17O,OOO,OOO
There are eighty-nine telephone COM
panies, with a total of 276,506 miles
of telephone wire.
In 1918 one gets glimpse OF the
mining industry by the assessed val
uation in the fifteen principal coun-
ties of mining property at $141,379,117.
In 1918 the number of horses In
Colorado increased 10000 head, with
an average price from S93 to s97
head. The total value of horses in
Colorado is 3S,7O3000. The demand
for heavy draft horses is still large.
Twenty-eight Colorado counties EN-
ploy agricultural agents who work In
conjunction with the federal govern
ment and the State Agricultural Col
lege at Fort Collins.
Wages for working people have,
generally speaking, advanced mate
rally in. the biennial period of 1917
and 1918, according to the official re-
port for the period by William r. Nor
rissey, commissioner of labor OF Colo
RADIO. While the report deals with or
ganized labor, yet all classes of toll
ers are drawing larger wages today
than ever before. There were nine
teen strikes, of which eleven were
successful, five were compromised,
one was arbitrated and one was lost.
Facts TerseIy Told.
Population of Colorado 100000
Population of Denver-26S,439.
Revenue of Countless, ,657, 1874.
Government land in Colorado-10,-
271,955 acres.
Seed crop in Colorado-37,0 900 acres.
Assessed valuation of counties
s1,3O7 ,904,702.
Value of farm crops-s147,771,630
Amount of money spent by tourists
s30,OOO,OO0.
Cultivation in Colorado-4,125,OOo
acres.
Arabic land unbroken in Colorado
-1O,O00,000 acres.
Value of wheat crop in Colorado
$25,7S7,6S0
Colorado's subscription to Liberty
Bonds-$115,0 100000.
Colorado's subscription to war activ-
ities-s140,000;0
Colorado's war business-s7, 200, 900.
Bank deposits in Colorado-S25S,-
OO5, 5,257.66.
Value of Colorado manufacturing
output-$210 100000.
Value of Denver packing house prod
soI O. q