COI.OUADO. 



COMMERCE. 



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western border of Texas; and the south fork of 



.1 tributary i'f the Missouri, all aro 



an-livities. In 1859 gold was 



in tin- then Territory. Three yrar-; 



, \\vro coined from the product 



, in, 'tal. and the next year $2,186,086. 



-ilvi : mines \vcrofoundsoon after the gold, 



:in,l their di-covery was supplemented by lind- 



ippcr, iron, coal, salt, limestone, and 



:n. Tlie-;o discoveries induced immigra- 



<>n January 10, 1807, a hill passed both 

 II,.u's of ('(in^ros providing for the admission 



iorado as a State of the Union, upon the 

 fundamental condition that within the State 



should bo "no denial of the elective fran- 



r any other rights to any person by rea- 

 rf race or color, excepting Indians not 



!." This bill was returned by the President 

 with his objections on January 19th, and it 

 subsequently failed to pass in the Senate on 

 February -jxtli. A bill was afterwards passed, 

 applying the same principle to the organic acts 

 of all the Territories, in which Colorado was 

 included. (See CONGRESS, U. S.) At its ext 

 session the Legislature passed an act accepting 

 the amendment of Congress. On August 12th 

 an election was held in the Territory for mem- 

 bers of the State Legislature. That body was 

 politically divided as follows : Council Demo- 

 crat s(5; Republicans 6; Conservative 1. House 

 Republicans 15 ; Democrats 9 ; Conservatives 

 "2. The majority in both Houses was repre- 

 sented to be opposed to a State organization. 

 Poetically no county in the State was regarded 

 as having a clear and decisive majority in favor 

 of either the Republican or Democratic party. 

 In the event of her admission as a State, neither 

 party was certain of her vote, though the 

 party by whom she might be admitted would 

 be sure of defeat at the next ensuing election. 



The immigration had increased the popular 

 vote at the election in August. In the aggre- 

 gate it amounted to 9,349 votes. The vote on 

 the constitution in 1865 was 5,895. The vote 

 for Delegate to Congress in 1806. was 6,960. 

 At the election in August it was supposed that 

 many persons neglected to vote, as it was the 

 most active season with farmers and miners. 



The condition of Colorado in 1864 and 1867 

 presents the following contrast : 



The total receipts by the Post-Office De- 

 partment from Colorado in 1864 weer. ..$16,781 05 



In 1867 they were 82,580 24 



The total receipts of internal revenue in 

 1864 were 41,160 28 



In 1867 they were 151,686 51 



Colorado has paid to the General Government 

 internal revenue to the amount of $578.079.15, 

 being more than half as much as all the other 

 Territories combined. 



'1 lie assessed value of the taxable property in 

 1807 was nearly $12,000,000, excluding mines 

 and homesteads preempted.- Pastoral or graz- 

 ing and agricultural lands cover the larger part 

 of the area of one hundred and five thousand 



square miles within Colorado; the remaining 

 portion is covered by excellent timber, 

 limited water power is found in almost ull part* 

 of the Territory. Inexhaustible and widely- 

 distributed beds of excellent coal and iron ore 

 exist. Lime, gypsum, and building-stone aro 

 abundant and of the best quality. Salt sprit; _- 

 of great value and extent are found and 

 worked. Several oil regions of great promise 

 have been found and worked to some extent. 

 Lead, copper, silver, and gold mines of sur- 

 passing richness, pervading in the greatest 

 abundance a distance of two hundred miles in 

 extent along the range of the Rocky Mountains, 

 within Colorado, are a feature of extraordinary 

 importance. 



Some difficulties took place with the Indians 

 not only in Colorado, but in some of the other 

 Territories. (See INDIAX WAR.) 



COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES 

 FOR 1867. With the exception of the year 

 immediately preceding, the foreign commerce 

 of the United States, during the twelve months 

 which closed on the 30th of June last, was 

 larger than in any previous year. The follow- 

 ing table gives the specie value, in millions of 

 dollars, of exports' and net imports combined : 



The year ending June 30, 1866, it will be re- 

 membered, was that in which the war closed, 

 and the Southern ports were reopened to com- 

 merce. The activity of our foreign trade 

 during that period must therefore be regarded 

 as entirely abnormal, and the fact that during 

 the succeeding year it was less, does not prove 

 a falling off. On the contrary, the commerce 

 of the year 1867 was 178 millions larger than 

 the annual average of the period of 1861-'66, 

 inclusive, which was 548 millions. The im- 

 petus exhibited in I860 has been better main- 

 tained than there was reason to expect, and 

 the large trade of 1807 is due most likely to the 

 steady growth of the country, the rapid filling 

 up of its Western lands by immigration, and 

 the gradual adaptation of the industrial classes 

 of the South to the newer and wider fields of 

 enterprise which a changed and better social 

 organization has opened to them. It is re- 

 markable, despite the apparently unsettled con- 

 dition of affairs in that section of the country, 

 that it has furnished in value nearly seven- 

 tenths of the entire exports of the year. 



Exports of Southern products from Atlantic and fron- 

 tier ports north of Baltimore, and from all Ibcific 

 ports, during the focal year ending June SO, 1867. 



Rice $117,000 



Cotton 63,415,000 



Tobacco 17,146,000 



Naval stores 1,486,000 



Spirits of turpentine 757,000 



