WSP08299

• File Number: 8141
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/1969
• Author: US DoI BoR
• Title: Flood Control Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Eastern Slope Features
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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fi2. . CONSTRUCTION, /.IANUFACTURINr:, N1D r:OVERNf.lENT. - Manufacturing
in Colorado exceeded agriculture in value for the first time in 1954
and has continued to increase up to the present. Between the years
1954 and 1958 for example. value added by manufacture in Colorado in-
creased by 61.6 percent as compared I<i th a gain of 58 percent for the
Rocky Mountain region and 20 percent for the entire United States.
Among the 50 states, Colorado ranked fifth in percentage gain with an
increase from $548 million in 1954 to $805 million in 1958 on a constant
1963 price level according to the U.S. Census of Manufacture. The 1961
statistics shol< an increase to $993 million. Of the major industrial
groups, food and kindred products rank first; miscellaneous manufactur-
ing, toys, sports goods, etc., second; printing and publishing, third;
machinery, except electrical, fourth; and stone, glass, and clay prod-
ucts, fifth. Other important industries in order of importance are the
follol<ing: fabricated metal products, chemical and al lied products,
transportation equipment, electrical machinery, petroleum and coal
products, I umber and I<ood products, and furniture and fixtures. Manu-
facturing activity within the study area was 18.22 percent of the
Colorado total in 1958, This decreased to 16.6 percent in 1961.

63. Therefore, it can be seen that the degree of industrial ac-
tivit)' J.nd malluf~cturinb ,~'ithin the study area is relatively lowo llow-
ever, there arc several manufacturing activities in the area that are
important to the econo~y of the basin and to Colorado, One of the
largest single manufacturing establishments in Colorado, the CF&I Steel
Corporation mill, is located in Puehlo, Colo. Other important types of
manufacturing in the area include food processing, cement manufacturing,
nel<spaper publisbing, production of advertising film, agricultural
implements and equipment, primary smelting of ore, and lumber and wood
products. Tbe total value added by manufacture for 1958 in the economic
study area was $146,745,000. It is estimated that this figure increased
to $165,000,000 by 1961.

H.- - ~leasuiea -in -cons-tant- 19-63 -don ars ,- the- I 9-60 v-a I tiC - of bui ldin-g
permits for the State of Colorado amounted to $354. I million. This
figure represents a decrease of about 13 percent from the 1959 figure
of $400.6 million but about 29 percent increase from the 1950 value of
$274.7 million. The peak construction year for the study area I<as 1955
when the value of building permits I<as $8H.15 million. By 1960 this
figure had dropped to $41.67 mil lion. This 52.73 percent decrease I<as
probably due to the characteristic I<ide fluctuations of the construction
c/clo. Evidence of a revival of construction activity in Colorado aftor
1960 I<ould seem to indicate that the slump in the study area was probably
cyclical rather than the result of a chronic economic deficiency.

65. COVE~NMENT.- In 1940 public administration and armed forces
accounted for 2,600 employees in tbe study area or 3.2 percent of total
employment in the area. By 1960 the figures were 22,300 emp Joyees and
17, I percent. This large increase resul ted from increases in State and
local government employment as "ell as incr"ases in general Federal

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