The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-01-10
WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENT DUR.
ING THE PAST YEAR MAY %
EXCEEDED IN 1919.
output Of States Farms in 1918 Totalo
e147,373,e3o Compared with S1%+r
7o6, $50 in 1917-Oeereass In Min
Ing, but Gain In Live stock.
W sstsrn Newspaper Union News Service.
COLORADO's 1918 OUTPUT.

isPSer Ssss ssss:sss sssssss tsss: tsss:sSs :sSs
Molly bdenum.
Var a dium,
Tun q ten.
Uran um,
Radium 5,b00.000 100000
Deposits -. 125.4os,o5s 10000. 900
Denver bank
clearings :. 1.344,o7s.4ss s7o,sss, ,2ol
Liberty Bonds
Bought in
MID. Products 24O.OOo,ooo 200. .OoO. 900
Total Live
stock prod. 346,644.b70 $780, 900
Denver.-Despite the payment in
1913 of SO 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 15 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 $147.000,O00; it would show
4.125,000 acres under cultivation and
1t would dwell on the future in citing
100000 acres Of arabic land un-
broken. 1t would show a wheat crop
value of $25.7S7,68O for the one year;
1t would show sixty-three counties in
the state with combined revenue OF
$24,657.7S7.4l and an assessed valua-
tion of $1.3O7, ,904.702.
hn dat ind ufr1t in, do
shows a substantial growth each year.
The United States Department Of Ag-
riculture estimates that In 1918 there
were 254.O0O head of dairy cattle In
the state, compared with 267OO0 head
in 1917. The value of products, such
as butter, condensed milk, ice cream
and cheese, amounts to about $780,
900 a year.
There has been rapid development
of dairying in the nonirrigated SEQ
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 tels-
graph, with an assessed valuation Of
$169, 10000 for railroads, $12,890,13O
for telephones and $2,05O,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 $170,000,0O0.
There are eighty-nine telephone COM
panies. with total Of 276,5O6 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 $93 to Ss7
head The total value Of horses In
Colorado is $3S,7o3,00o. The demand
for heavy draft horses Is still large.
Twenty-eight Colorado counties en-
pioy 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 r.
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.
Faets TsrseIy Told.
Population Of Colorado-1,O ,O0O, 900.
Population of ,439.
Revenue OF counties-24 ,657, 1874.
Government land in Colorado-10,-
271,955 acres.
Seed crop in Colorado-37,0 900 acres.
Assessed valuation Of counties
$780,. .904,702.
Value Of farm crops-$147,771,6 $50.
Amount OF money spent by tourists
$50 ,OO0, 900.
Cultivation in Colorado-4,126,0o 900
acres.
Arabic land unbroken in Colorado
-1O.O0O,ooO acres.
Value of wheat crop in Colorado
$25, ,787 $50.
Colorado's subscription to Liberty
Bonds-$115, ,010,900
Colorado's subscription to war activ.
ities-$140,00O,0
Colorado's war business-$7. 900, 900.
Bank deposits In Colorado-$26S,.
0O5,257.66.
Value of Colorado manufacturing
output--$21O, 900, 900.
Value Of Denver packing house prod.
ucts-$24,61
Value of livestock in Colorado
$173, ,28S, 900.