TABLE 1.-Percentage of labor force unemployed in Las Animas and Huerfano Counties, Colo., 1955-56

Source: U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Employment Security.

TABLE 2.-Monthly percentage of labor force unemployed in Las Animas and Huerfano Counties, Colo., 1953-54

Source: U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Employment Security.

TABLE 3.-Employment by industry group in Costilla, Huerfano, and Las Animas Counties, Colo., 1950 census of population

Source: 1950 census of population. Characteristics of the Population, vol. II, pt. 6, Colorado, pp. 75-78

TABLE 4.-Costilla, Huerfano, and Las Animas Counties, Colo., estimated population, 1950–56, as of July 1

Source: Colorado Business Review, bureau of business research, University of Colorado, December 1956,

p. 2.

TABLE 5.-Population and effective buying income estimates for 3 Colorado counties, Colorado and the United States, 1955

Source: Sales Management Survey of Buying Power, May 10, 1956, pp. 308, 310.

I Disposable income available for spending in the United States.

TABLE 6.-Farm market data for selected Colorado counties, Colorado, and the United States, 1950, 1954

Commercial farms exclude part-time, residential, and abnormal or institutional farms, regardless of size. Source: Colorado Business Review. Bureau of Business Research. University of Colorado. October 1955, p. 3. U. S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. 1954 Census of Agriculture, preliminary. December 1955.

TABLE 7.-Per capita expenditures for welfare purposes in Costilla, Huerfano, and Las Animas Counties, Colo., and in the State of Colorado

Source: Colorado. State Department of Public Welfare. Public Welfare in Colorado. Annual Re

port, 1955. P. 21.

TABLE 8-Surplus food distribution program in selected counties in Colorado, July 1956 to January 1957, number of persons eligible and number of recipients

Costilla

County

Number Number Number Number Number Number eligible recipients eligible recipients eligible recipients

Number Number Number Number Number Number Number Number eligible recipients eligible recipients eligible recipients eligible recipients

In Colorado in December 1956, there were 14,369 persons eligible and 10,879 recipients. In the United States in November 1956, there were over 3,500,000 persons eligible.

Costilla did not come under the surplus food distribution program until December.

Source: U. S. Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Marketing Service. Food Distribution Branch.

TABLE 9.-Principal industries of Trinidad and Walsenburg, Colo., 1956

Agriculture: $20 million industry. Many acres used for range in production of beef cattle. Some alfalfa, small grains and sugar beets. Some dry land crops.

WALSENBURG, COLO.

Principal industries: Mining, farming, stock and turkey raising; food packing; flour mills.

Source: Editor and Publisher Market Guide, 1956 Edition. p. 71.

Source: Colorado Business Review. Bureau of Business Research, University of Colorado. January 1957. P. 2.

TABLE 11.-Trinidad, Colo., bank debits, demand deposit accounts, OctoberDecember 1955–56

Senator DOUGLAS. We have a statement from Walsenburg, Colo., which will go in the record.

(The statement referred to follows:)

STATEMENT OF D. D. HANEY, MAYOR, WALSENBURG, Colo., F. S. MILES, PRINCIPAL, HUERFANO COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL, THE INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE OF THE WALSENBURG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

The city of Walsenburg, located in Huerfano County, in the State of Colorado, has for many years been a thriving community. The economy of the community has been based primarily upon the coal produced in the county, and the tourist trade which has been passing through the beautiful State of Colorado.