Show grand junction growth Is predicted to top records grand junction key city on the colorado plateau added live five fewer citizens during the decade than the community numbered when hen he the first official census was talen in 1890 showing a total of 2030 persons in the town n these figures spring from a censul con comparison pre prepared paled by carien war en U D toyne grand junction city manager in a prospectus cot compiled piled tor for the sale of pal water bonds from other charts chart prepared pre prepared Fared by toyne come figures figure which wh ch show a steady growth of the community from 1950 and which indicate the fu future t ure Is ind indeed c ed an assured one A As in the case of most growing r communities omm unities t two w 0 comparisons furnish the key one Is the amount of building permits issued during a given calendar year the other Is bank deposits deposit 4 and debits these two figures in the case of grand junction show a steady increase during the last five years and in the case of building permits a huge jump during the year just p past t in aa 1954 a total of was issued b by 1 the h e C city aly for permission to build more 0 r e than an two and one half times the figure for 1953 which totaled the 1954 figure was a record approached only by post war building spurt of and the 3 total for 1950 when climax uranium company started its mil lion dollar uranium mill bank deposits jumped almost 8 million during 1954 from a figure of 24 5 million to one of million while debits took a corresponding upswing increasing to a total of getting back to population figures the colorado bureau of busi nesa research has estimated a population of for grand junction at he the end of 1154 1954 that cigut e represents an of almost oer mer of effial fial anstis tally of that just about jibes with on an unofficial estimate made from public service company figures figurel of average cut customers omers during 1934 1954 on a national bash chete ore are 3 5 persons per home and after deducting d acting he the number of bust business no house connections from the 61 total a population of 0 about would be he indicated those average customers too h have ave grown in the fifteen year p period er lod from 1940 to 1954 almost d doubling from 2705 to with an expanding economy indicated by census financial and public service figures grand junctions continued growth groth may b be safely predicted to reach a possible within the span of the th next decade |