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<br />2950 <br /> <br />-19- <br /> <br />Bank Deposits in City of '-ort i.Iorgan (First National Bank <<< Farmers State Bank) <br /> <br />1935 1940 1947 1948 <br />:;;1,061,739 ~1,932,589 ;;7,662,386 ,,8,131,619 <br />.j <br />Postal Receipts at Fort 1JOrgan <'ost Office <br />1932 1940 1947 <br />'il25-;ssb.86 ~29,991.40 .;;44,305.44 <br />Vehicle Registrations in 1iorgan County <br /> <br />1932 <br />~ <br /> <br />1939 <br />5673 <br /> <br />1947 <br />7213 <br /> <br />Total Evaluation of j,lorgan County (County Assessor I s figures) <br /> <br />1933 <br />$17,803,695 <br /> <br />1940 <br />~17~,620 <br /> <br />1947 <br />:';21,257,310 <br /> <br />Assessed Irrigated Acreage in :,iorgan County (County Assessor's Figures) <br /> <br />1933 <br />80-;bOb.22 acres <br /> <br />1940 <br />83736b.n acres <br /> <br />1947 <br />957584.22 acres <br /> <br />(This increase in acreage has been greatly accelerated during the past three <br />years with the rapid expansion of the ~organ County Rural Electrification <br />Association.) <br /> <br />RETAIL SALES TAX C01LC:CTIONS - Morgan County sales tax collecoions in 1947 ilere <br />~230,293.31 as compared to the 1946 figure of ~161,538.21, an increase of 42.6 per <br />cent. Morgan County ranked sixth from the top in percentage increase in that period. <br /> <br />Compare this with the years from 1936 - 1940 ao' S{[own beloH: <br /> <br />1936 <br />$58,740.04 <br /> <br />1937 <br />~66-;b74.17 <br /> <br />1938 <br />;;53,673.16 <br /> <br />1939 <br />~53,2,,1.02 <br /> <br />1940 <br />~58,803.55 <br /> <br />To illustrate how much of this figure is representative of the City of Fort <br />Morgan, a report of the ColoradO State Departme~t of :.evenue issued for the month of <br />April, 1944, shm'ted that of the ;';7,061.43 sales taxes collected that month, ~4,488.53, <br />or 63.9 per cent of the total came from the Ci t;y of Fort dorgan. This would indicate <br />that considerably better than 50 per cent of the retail business of this county is <br />transacted in Fort "iorgan. <br /> <br />Telephone Connections in the Fort j'iorgan Exchange Wountain States Tel. & Tel. Co.) <br /> <br />1934 <br />U88 <br /> <br />1940 <br />1424 <br /> <br />June 30. 1948 <br />2436 <br /> <br />(of these, 577 are business phones, 1383 are residential, and 476 are rura1J <br />