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COLORADO. 



COMMERCE AND FINANCE IN 1881. 



shares, $882,780; insurance premiums, $186,- 

 669. The number of business failures was 107, 

 against 78 in 1880. The total liabilities were 

 $763,000, and the assets $502,000, a net in- 

 crease in loss sustained of $57,000 over the 

 preceding year. The increase in the number 

 of dealers was about one fourth. The total 

 State debt on November 30, 1881, was $330,- 

 185.78, against which there was a balance in 

 the Treasury of $45,064.97. 



The following is a statement of the opera- 

 tions of the State Treasury for the year ending 

 November 30th, showing receipts amounting 

 to $373,302.31, exclusive of cash in the Treas- 

 ury, and an expenditure of $395,384.33 : 

 RECEIPTS. 



Balance in Treasury on November 80, 1880 



Keceipts of general revenue (four-mill tax) 



Agricultural College (one-fifth mill tax) 



Insane Asylum (one-fifth mill tax) 



Mute and Blind (one-fifth mill tax) 



School of Mines (one-fifth mill tax) 



Kound-up and inspection, one mill on value, neat- 

 cattle 



University of Colorado (one-filth mill tax) 



Military poll-tax (fifty cents per capita) 



Penitentiary labor 



State Board of Medical Examiners 



Secretary of titate, office-fees 



Sale of printed laws 



Agricultural College receipts 



Fines for violating fish law 



Sale of school lands 



Sale of lands for internal improvement 



Lease of lands for internal improvement 



Lease of land, interest on sales and interest on 

 school investments 



Lease of other State lands 



Colorado Land and Mineral Association 



Other sources... 



$07,146 99 

 245,880 26 

 12,467 80 

 11,843 69 

 12,854 48 

 12,580 58 



8,787 20 



12.321 t>8 



6,710 63 



17,303 69 



1,25 00 



4,148 00 



1,119 90 



17485 



78 00 



10,908 75 



847 00 



2,380 95 



15,597 14 



845 55 



552 65 



536 



Total $440,449 30 



CASH EXPENDITURES. 



Agricultural College $12,928 26 



Agricultural College (special) 174 85 



Insane Asylum 16.502 18 



Mute and Blind - 2,617 18 



School of Mines 12,388 00 



University of Colorado 12,500 00 



Military poll-tax 6,752 88 



Cattle round-up and inspection 4,196 83 



Penitentiary labor 1.950 09 



School-fund apportioned 18,569 96 



Interest on warrants paid 17,84092 



Wolf-scalps 3,a35 50 



Hawk-heads 4,875 50 



Mountain-lions 260 00 



Skunk-scalps 49 75 



Paid on account for general revenue and appro- 

 priations 276,448 98 



Cash now in Treasury 45,064 97 



Total $440,449 80 



The following arrests were made by the Unit- 

 ed States Marshal at Denver during the year : 



Violation of internal revenue laws 27 



Bobbing United States mails 3 



Obstructing United States mails 2 



Embezzling Post-Office funds 8 



Embezzling letters 4 



Forging signatures to money-orders 2 



Opening mail-bags 1 



Sending obscene circulars through mails 1 



Breaking into United States Post-Office 1 



Larceny on Indian reservation 5 



Murder on Indian reservation 5 



Embezzlement from army department 2 



Embezzlement as Indian agent 1 



Perjury before United States Keceiver of Land-Office ... 1 



Bigamy 1 



Counterfeiting 4 



Cutting timber on United States mineral lands 45 



Total.. 



108 



The railroad system and railroad business of 

 the State developed with surprising rapidity 

 during the year. In the ten months ending 

 November 30th, the Denver and Rio Grande 

 road, the most important line in the State, laid 

 629 miles of steel rails, and built 374 miles of 

 new road. In that period its net earnings 

 were $2,158,693, against $1,372,468 in the cor- 

 responding ten months of the preceding year. 

 The Union Pacific Railroad's Omaha and Den- 

 ver Short Line was completed, bringing the 

 two cities fifty miles nearer together than by 

 any other route. The wheat-crop of the State 

 was about 1,600,000 bushels, against 1,425,104 

 in 1880, and 258,474 in 1870. Congress, by 

 various acts, has granted to the State of Colo- 

 rado 713,322 acres of land, divided as follows: 

 For internal improvement, 500,000 acres ; for 

 public buildings, 32,000; State penitentiary, 

 32,000 ; State University, 46,080 ; miscellane- 

 ous, including salt springs, 46,080 ; school lands, 

 57,152. For 420,596 acres of these lands the 

 State has already received patents from the 

 United States, and is in possession. 



Colorado is becoming a favorite resort for 

 invalids, its many mineral springs and ex- 

 tremely salubrious atmosphere giving it a high 

 reputation among the world's sanitaria. The 

 subjoined table gives the elevation above the 

 level of the sea of some of the prominent towns 

 in the State : 



Feet. 



Alamosa 7,000 



Alma 11.044 



Black Hawk 7,975 



Boulder 5,586 



Breckenridge 9,674 



Cafion City 5,260 



Caribou 9,905 



Central 8,300 



Cheyenne 6,041 



Chicago Lakes 11,500 



Colorado Springs 5,028 



DelNorte 7,750 



Denver 5,224 



Divide 7,210 



Estes Park 8,000 



Fairplay 9,964 



Garland 8,146 



Georgetown 8,400 



Golden 5,729 



Gold Hill 8,463 



Greeley 4,776 



A system of sewerage, on what is known as 

 the Waring plan, has been begun in Denver, 

 and is being rapidly pushed forward. The 

 death-rate of the city for the year was only 

 17'50 per thousand ; the total number of deaths 

 was 698, divided, in respect to diseases and 

 causes, as follows: zymotic diseases, 213 ; con- 

 stitutional, 148 ; local, 223 ; developmental, 27; 

 violence, 57. 



COMMERCE AND FINANCE, AMERI- 

 CAN, IN 1881. The grandeur of the present 

 epoch of American commerce and production 

 can be measured by the magnitude of the agri- 

 cultural exports which are its chief cause and 

 characteristic. The total value of the exports of 

 breadstuffs for the three years ending June 30, 

 1881, was $749,470,445, having been $265,- 

 561,328 in 1881, $282,132,168 in 1880, and 

 $201,776,499 in 1879. The exports of wheat 



Feet 



Green Lake 10,000 



Hot Sulphur Springs.. 7,715 



Idaho Springs 7,500 



Lake City 8,550 



Leadville 10.205 



Magnolia 6.500 



Manitou 6/297 



Montezuma 10,295 



Morrison 5,922 



Nederland 8,263 



OroCity 10.247 



Ouray 7,640 



Pueblo 4,679 



Kosita 8,500 



Saguache 7,745 



Silverton 9,405 



Sunshine 7,0(iO 



Trinidad 6.IW5 



Twin Lakes 9,857 



VetaPass 9,389 



