This is a somewhat random list of details about the town of Fort Collins from 1908 (as listed on our old historical society website. This info probably came from an old newspaper.)
Assessed Valuation – $1,900,000
Banks – 3 National and 1 State with deposits aggregating $2,500,000
Bonded Indebtedness – $55,000
Bricks – Pressed brick plant that turns out 10,000,000 fine pressed bricks/year
Capital of National Banks – $400,000
Churches – 11
Cigar Factories – 2
City Revenues – $80,000
County Seat of Larimer County
Court House valued at $60,000
Courts – Number of civil and criminal cases docketed in county court – 304
Civil Cases – 180 and 136 criminal cases
Dog Taxes – The city marshal collected $626 in dog taxes in 1907
Foundry and Machine Shop – 3
Gas works supplying the city with illuminating and heating gas
Hay – 250,000 tons of hay were put into the stack in Larimer Co. in 1907
Hospitals – 2
The Tedmon House was a hotel that stood on the north corner of Jefferson and Linden until 1910.
Hotels – 5
Mail delivery – free by city carriers and four rural routes
Marriage licenses issued by County Clerk in 1907 – 246
Mills – 2 – Lindell Mill which paid out $300,000 annually manufactured 75,500 sacks of flour in 1907. Hoffman Milling Co. manufactured 12,500 sacks of flour in 1907.
Naturalizations – 19 naturalizations and 37 declarations were filed with the clerk in 1907
New Buildings Erected in 1907 – $600,000
Newspapers – 3 daily and 4 weekly
Oats – 150,000 bushels of oats harvested in Larimer County Packing house that pays out $125,000 annually for butcher stock
Parks – 3
Passenger trains each way daily between Fort Collins and Denver – 4
Population – 10,000
Post Office Receipts – $28,000 a year
Potatoes – 250,000 sacks of potatoes were grown in Larimer County
Public Library – 5,000 volumes of books
Railway – 5 miles of street railway will be in operation Restaurants – 5
School Rooms – 42
School Population – 2,500
School Property Valued at $225,000
Sheriff’s office made 67 arrests in 1907
Shipping point for 200,000 fat sheep and lambs, annually sent to Eastern markets
Streets – Amount Expended on – $20,000/year
Sugar – will annually manufacture 50,000,000 pounds of granulated suga rduring the season of 1907-1908
Sugarbeet Factory – 1 – one of the largest in the U.S.
Teachers – 52
Telephone Exchange with 1,500 subscribers
Theaters – Opera House, Orpheum and 2 electric theaters
Treasurer – County Treasurer’s collections for 1907 amounted to$386,032.73
Trolley Car – About 1,200 to 1,500 people a day patronize the trolley car
Water – 155 miles of water mains, 115 fire hydrants, 16 miles of public sewers and 75 miles of stone and cement sidewalks
Water Mains – City clerk issued 250 permits to tap the water mains
Water Plant Revenues – $30,000/annually
Wheat – 800,000 bushels of wheat produced in Larimer County in 1907
Y.M.C.A. building