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196 females, 154,537 natives and 39,790 for- 

 eign-born, 191,126 white, 2,435 colored, 612 

 Chinese, and 154 Indians. There were 93,608 

 males twenty-one years old and over, of whom 

 26,873 were whites of foreign birth; 9,321 

 persons ten years old and upward, or 5'9 per 

 cent, were unable to read, and 10,474, or 6-6 

 per cent, were unable to write. There were 

 living in the United States 31, 827 persons born 

 in Colorado. The yield of barley was 107,116 

 bushels; corn, 455,968; oats, 640,900; rye, 

 19,465; wheat, 1,425,014. There were on 

 farms 42,257 horses, 2,581 mules and asses, 

 2,080 working-oxen, 28,770 milch-cows, 315,- 

 989 other cattle, 746,443 sheep, and 7,656 

 swine. The number of manufacturing estab- 

 lishments was 599; capital, $4,311,714; hands 

 employed, 5,074 ; value of material used, 

 $8,777,262; products, $14,260,159. 



There are at the present time in the State 

 about 2,250,000 cattle, two thirds of which are 

 well bred ; 1,000,000 of these cattle are in the 

 south, along the Arkansas and Purgatory Riv- 

 ers, and the other 1,250,000 are north of the 

 Divide, along the waters of the Republican, 

 the Platte, and in the North, South, and Mid- 

 dle Parks. 



UNITED STATES SENATOR. On the llth of 

 April, George M. Chilcott was appointed by 

 the Governor United States Senator, in the 

 place of Henry M. Teller, appointed Secretary 

 of the Interior, in President Arthur's Cabinet. 



George M. Chilcott was born in Trough 

 Creek Valley, Huntingdon County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, January 2, 1828. He was reared on a 

 farm, and received a common-school educa- 

 tion. In the spring of 1844 he removed with 

 his parents to Jefferson County, Iowa, where 

 he lived, working upon a farm, about two 

 years. He subsequently taught school, and 

 also pursued the study of medicine, until the 

 spring of 1850, after which he located near his 

 father and engaged in farming. In 1853 he 

 was elected, on the Whig ticket, Sheriff of 

 Jefferson County, which office he held one 

 term. In 1856 he removed to Burt County, 

 Nebraska, where he was shortly afterward 

 elected to represent the counties of Burt and 

 Gumming in the Lower House of the Legisla- 

 ture, which met in session at Omaha, in the 

 winter of 1856-'57. Mr. Chilcott started, in 

 the spring of 1859, for the famous "Pike's 

 Peak country," arriving at Denver in the 

 month of May. He engaged in prospecting 

 during the summer and in the fall following 

 he was elected from the town of Arapahoe to 

 the Constitutional Convention, which met at 

 Denver. In October, 1860, he removed to 

 Southern Colorado, now Pueblo Connty. He 

 engaged in farming during 1861-'62, and in 

 1863 he located upon a farm of his own, twelve 

 miles east of Pueblo. He served as a member 

 of the Territorial Legislature in the first two 

 sessions of that body. In 1863 he received 

 from President Lincoln the appointment of 

 Register of the United States Land-Office for 



the District of Colorado. Mr. Chilcott held 

 the position nearly four years, until he was, in 

 1866, elected to Congress under the State or- 

 ganization then formed, and which sought ad- 

 mission into the Union. But Congress refused 

 to receive Colorado as a State at that time, and 

 Mr. Chilcott could not take his seat. In 1867 

 he was elected a Delegate to Congress for the 

 Territory of Colorado, and served one term. 

 It was he who introduced and secured the pas- 

 sage of a bill repealing the act which discrimi- 

 nated against all the territory west of the west 

 line of Kansas and east of the east line of Cali- 

 fornia, by charging letter postage on all printed 

 matter between the two boundaries. Mr. 

 Chilcott was a member of the Territorial 

 Council, and president of that body during the 

 session of 1872-'73. He was also a member 

 in 1874. In 1878 he was elected to the State 

 Legislature from Pueblo County, and during 

 the session of 1878-'79 he was prominently 

 before the Legislature as a candidate for United 

 States Senator, Mr. Hill, however, securing 

 the place. 



POLITICAL NOMINATIONS. The Republican 

 State Convention met in Denver on the 14th 

 of September, and on the following day nomi- 

 nated candidates as follows: For Governor, 

 Ernest L. Campbell, of Lake ; Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor, William Meyer, of Costilla; Congress, 

 J. B. Belford, of Gilpin ; Secretary of State, 

 Melvin Edwards, of Summit; State Treasurer, 

 Frederick J. Walsen, of Huerfano ; State Au- 

 ditor, John C. Abbott, of Larimer ; Attorney- 

 General, D. F. Urmy, of Pueblo ; Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction, J. 0. Shattuck, of 

 Weld ; Regents of the State University, James 

 Rice, of Pueblo, L. S. Cornell, of Boulder; 

 Judge of the Supreme Court, Joseph C. Helm, 

 of El Paso. 



Ernest L. Campbell is a native of Woodford 

 County, Kentucky, thirty-six years old. He 

 was educated in Bethany College, Virginia, 

 Harrodsburg College, Kentucky, the Illinois 

 State University at Jacksonville, Heidelberg 

 University, Germany, and the Wurzburg Uni- 

 versity, Germany. He is a lawyer by profes- 

 sion, and went to Colorado in 1874. In 1879 

 he went to Leadville, and in 1881 became 

 President of the Bank of Leadville, which posi- 

 tion he still holds. 



The Democratic nominees were: For Gov- 

 ernor, James B. Grant; Lieutenant- Governor, 

 John R. Prowers ; Secretary of State, Frank 

 C. Johnson ; Treasurer, Dennis Sullivan ; Au- 

 ditor, Ansel Watrous ; Attorney-General, B. F. 

 Montgomery; Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction, Frank M. Brown ; Regent of the 

 University, J. M. Vanauken; Judge of the 

 Supreme Court, Vincent D. Markham; Con- 

 gressman, S. S. Wallace. 



The Greenbackers nominated for Governor, 

 George W. Woy ; Lieutenant-Governor, Theo- 

 dore O. Saunders ; Secretary of State, William 

 N. Bachelder ; Treasurer, John L. Herzinger ; 

 Auditor, Amos K. Frost; Attorney -General, 



