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Show Grand Junction Growth Is Predicted to Top Records Grand Junction, key city on the Colorado Plateau, added five fewer citizens during the decade 1940-5- 0 than the community numbered when the first official census was taken in 1890, showing a total of 2,030 persons m the town. These figures spiing from a census comparison prepared by Wanen D. Toyne, Grand Junction city manager, in a prospectus compiled for the sale of municipal 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 most growing two comparisons communities, 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 years and, in the case of building permits, a huge jump during the year just past. In 1954, a total of $4,676,643 was issued by the city for permission to build, more than two and one-hatimes the figure for 1953, which totaled $2,112,533. The 1954 figure was a record, approached only by 1947s post war building spurt of $4,464,737, and the $3,322,-55- 6 total for 1950, when Climax Uranium Company started its uranium mill. Bank deposits jumped almost $8 million during 1954, from a figure of $24 5 million to one of $32.2 million, while debits took a corresponding upswing, increasing to a total of $291,533,382. Getting back to population figColorado Bureau of Busi the ures, lf SLEEK BLACK ANGUS cattle munching in a newly mown hay field near Meeker, Colo. Many of the topmost show cattle herds in the U.S. are quartered on the Colorado Plateau. The year round cool weather keeps good hair on the animals and prevents loss of weight by excessive perspiration- - back to 1940 feet. Standards Red Wash No. 32 and Red Wash No. 34, both in the Oil Well Drilling In Uintah Basin Paced by Big Firms plugged Red Wash Unit Area of Uintah County. The former has been drilled past 7,000 feet in sand and shale, while the latter is a projectTexas ed test into the 5,900 foot Wasath in- VERNAL Carter Oil Company 26 per cent Interest and Is currently drilling a wildcat test Company with a five per cent well on its Coyote Basin Unit, 35 terest. miles southeast of here and only in this area, Other oil four and a half miles west of the which includesactivity the 23,850 acre Coystate line. ote Basin, includes at latest reCompany officials have announe-e- d port: they plan to sink the shaft New World Oils No. 1 Govern8,000 feet into the Mesaverde stra- ment, a 9,500 foot Weber test, in tum, in the southeast quarter of the Powder Springs Area. Section 19, Township 8, South, Carter Oils Duchesne County Range 25 East, in Uintah County. location, testing at over 9,700 feet, on Bluebell Unit No. 2. Drilling is in the hands of a sand. Continentals No. 2 Chapita Wells and No. 1 Kralovec units, Chapita in the Mesaverde formation at over 8,000 feet, Uintha County, and Kralovec drilling at 11,800 feet in the South Myton area of Duchesne Cou Utah-Colorad- o ty. Uintah Neal Dome Co.s Huling-e- r No. 1 shut down for repairs at the turn of the year while drilling at slightly more than 500 feet tn a red Gulfs No. 1. Morgan-Federa- l, Carter unit, with that firm holding bed. It is a Uintah location. in Unit North test Area 68 a Ouray per cent interest, supported Unit No. 1 in Uintahs Phillips which been Uintah California a has with County, by Standard of Two Waters Unit area, has set up winter quarters for a drilling crew in a 10,000 foot Weber sand test, and No. 1 Roy Johnson, in 3 0252-JRes. Phone the Hells Hole Unit area, has been Phone 739 sunk below 3,000 feet. Equity Oil is drilling a 4,500 foot Weber test at its No. 1 Preece, located in the East Ashley Valley area. ness Research has estimated a population of 18,000 for Grand Junction at the end of 1954. That figure represents an increase of almost 4,000 over 1950s official census tally of 14,504. That 18,000 just about jibes with an unofficial estimate, made from Public Service Company figuies of 6,003 average. customers during 1954. On a national basis, there are 3 5 persons per home, and after deducting the number of business house connections from the 6,003 total, a population of about 18,000 would be indicated. Those average customers to have grown m the fifteen year period from 1940 to 1954, almost doubling from 3,705 to 6,003. With an expanding economy indicated by census, financial and public service figures. Grand Junctions continued growth may be safely predicted to reach a possible 25,000 within the span of the next decade. Youth Runs This New Mex. Town This little GRANTS, N. M. northern New Mexico town, described as the fastest growing town in the fastest growing state, is literally run by men in their 20s. A man operates the department store, the manager of the local gas company Is 25 and so is the towns energetic newspaper editor. A leading lumber mill is manand alaged by a man who is 26,and drill most every mine owner operator in town is under 40. 50 Years Experience in exploration and development - at your service! ELMER V. 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