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<br />o <br />r-:- ) <br />N <br />W <br />00 <br />OJ <br /> <br />"- <br /> <br />to irrig~ted crops~ primarily h~" Private grazing lands include 2843981 <br /> <br />acres and timber lands 15,,490 i5.cres" The remainder is largely in Federal <br /> <br />ownership~ including National Park lands~ 92,336 acresJ Forest Service <br /> <br />lands,\) 5'479122 acres, and public domain~ 117.9958 acres" <br />25., Indus try 0 Two of the eArliest industries in Middle Park were <br /> <br />mini.ng ~md lumbering" Many ghost towns remain as evidence of the former <br /> <br />importance of those industries th~t today are of relatively SIMll signifi- <br /> <br />c~nce in the economy of the Park" The livestock industry brought many <br /> <br />early settlers into the are?3 and its development continued for many years. <br /> <br />This growth was due in l~rge part to a corresponding increase in the amonnt <br /> <br />of cropland. <br /> <br />26.. The Recrea.tion Industry., According t.o the Tenth Federal Reserve <br /> <br />Bank of Kansas City, "Not only is the recreation industry big business.1 but <br /> <br />its mushroom growth in recent times has also been one of the outstanding <br /> <br /> <br />facts of American life..II~/ In 1940$ leading industries in Colorado~ which <br /> <br /> <br />is in the Tenth Federal Reserve District, were ranked as followsg (1) Manu- <br /> <br />facturing; (2) agriculture,9 including stock raisingf) dairying,9 and farming; <br /> <br />and (3) tourists 0 From. 1935 to 1941 tourists increa.sed in number nearly <br /> <br />150 percent for the State as a whole., There has been even more phenomenal <br />growth since World War II" An est:iJ:nated 1,117,,000 touristsY visited Denver <br />in 1949, approximately one-hAlf of the total number that came into Colorado <br />that year. Those who visited Denver spent ~ estimated $64,000,000 in that <br />city alone" In 1950" these figures increased to 13128,9323 tourists whose <br />expenditures in Denver were estimated at $65:>625,701.. The total number of <br /> <br />tourists visiting Colorado in 1950,9 239229000, spent $205,92}-t.,000" <br /> <br />27.. Records of numbers of tourists who h~ve enjoyed the immedi~te <br /> <br />proj ect are~ are not 8vailable:; but visitor attendance figures have been <br /> <br />-8= <br /> <br />. .", , ~.-.:.~ . <br /> <br />~. -' . <br /> <br />", .... .' <br />.', . <br />