| Show Grand Junction Growth Is Predicted to Top Records Grand Gr Junction key city on the the- Colorado Plateau added five fewer fewer rewel few rew er el citizens during th the decade 1940 50 than the community numbered when the first official census was taken in 1890 1 showing a total of 2030 persons in the town These figures spring from a census comparison prepared by Wan Warren en D. D Toyne Grand Junction city manager In a prospectus compiled complied for the sale of municipal municipal pal water bonds From other charts prepared by Toyne come figures which show a steady growth of the community from 1950 and which indicate the future is indeed an assured one As in the case of ot most growing communities t two w o comparisons furnish the key One is the amount of building permits issued during a given calendar year the other Is bank deposits and debits These two figures in the case of Grand Junction show a steady increase during the last five live years and in the case of building permits permits per per- mits a huge jump during the year just past In 1954 a total of was issued by the city for lor permission to build more nore than two and one one- half times the figure for 1953 which totaled The 1954 figure was a record approached only by post war building spurt spurt spurt-of of and the total for 1950 when Climax Uranium Company started its mil mu- lion dollar uranium mill Bank deposits jumped almost 8 million during 1954 from a figure figure fig fig- ure of million to one of million while debits took a corresponding corresponding corresponding corres corres- upswing increasing 39 39 to a total of Getting back to population figures figures fig fig- ures the Colorado Bureau of Bust Busi ness Research has hns estimated n a population pop pep of for Grand Junction Junction Junc- Junc tion lion at lit the end nd of oC 1951 That figure represents an increase of or almost over official census tally of or That just lust about jibes with an unofficial estimate made from Crom Public Service Company figures of or average customers during 1954 On a national basis there are 35 persons per home and after deducting the number of business house connections from Crom the total a population of about would be bo indicated Those average customers too have grown in the fifteen year period from Crom 1940 to 1954 almost doubling from to With an expanding economy In indicated In in- by census financial and public service figures Grand Junctions Junction's Junc June lions tion's continued growth may be ba safely predicted to to r reach ach a possIble possible poss poss- ible within the span of th the next decade |
