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<br />. <br /> <br />the rai Iway which connects with the Arkansas Valley Branch. The city <br />is located on transcont inenta i U.S. Highway 50 and on Co I orad.o State <br />HighwC'y 101. Continental Trai Iways Bus Line and two interstate trucking <br />I ines serve the city. Central Air lines has one schedu led flight .each <br />day into Lamar, Colo., which is 37 mi leseast.of Las Animas. The Las <br />Animas airport, located near the city limits on.the south, is adequate <br />for small and medium planes. <br /> <br />59. Natural gas is suppl ied to the area by the Citizens Uti I ity <br />Company, a privately-owned concern. The Las Animas water system and <br />light and power faci I ities are municipally owned, The Rural Electri- <br />fication Administration has brought electricity in recent years to <br />nearly every farm home in the irrigated area. In addition, municipally- <br />owned uti lities have bui It many mi les of power I ines to serve rural <br />customers in the county. Telephone service is supplied by the Mountain <br />states Telephone and Telegraph Company, which spent $445,000 in 1961 <br />for installation of a talephone dial system in Las Animas. The Las <br />Animas municipal water supply is pumped from four wells 30 to 40 feet <br />deep and one we II 400 feet deep. Las Animas, was ,the first town in the <br />Arkansas Val ley in Colorado to bui Id a modern sewage disposal system <br />(1957). The treatment faci lity is located approximately one-half mi Ie <br />below the town on the right bank of the Arkansas River. The sewage is <br />delivered in a 10-inch forced main from a lift station in the city. <br />Treatment is accomp I i shed in three open sewage lagoons wh ich discharge <br />into the Arkansas River through open ditches. <br /> <br />60. FUTURE GROWTH TRENDS.- <br />area was estimated by an analysis <br />income, assuming that there would <br />for flood contro I . <br /> <br />Future development in the Las Animas <br />of popu I at i on growth .and agr i cui tura I <br />be no add it i ona I improvements bu i It <br />\ <br /> <br />61. An estimate of the future population growth at Las Animas was <br />made by taking into consideration the growth factors and trands in Bent <br />County, the State of Colorado, and the United States, and the primary <br />factors influencing growth in each of the areas. The rate of population <br />growth at Las Animas over the next century is expected to be lower than <br />that of either the State of Colorado or the United States. The popu- <br />lation of Las Animas is expected to increase to about 4,500 in 2060, <br />an increase of 1.32 times the 1960 population of 3,402, or about 0.3 <br />percent per year compounded annual 'y. The principal reason for this <br />expected slow growth is the great extent to which the economy of the <br />area is dependent on agriculture. Cultivated acreage in the vicinity <br />of Las Animas is probably stabi I ized because the demand for irrigation <br />water exceeds the supply under present conditions. This situation <br />coupled with the decrease in number employed in agricultural production <br />tends to produce an out-migration which is barely offset by the birth <br />rate. <br /> <br />62. Although expansion of the irrigated acreage in the Las Animas <br />~ area is not anticipated, the net income from presently irrigated land <br /> <br />19 <br /> <br />