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Cattle. The following is the number of cat- 

 tle inspected during 1884: 



There has been shipped East from Colorado 

 during the past season and inspected at the fol- 

 lowing points : 



Kansas City 28,210 



Pacific Junction 14,286 



Omaha and Council Bluffs 9,564 



Denver 1,972 



Pueblo 842 



Total number shipped from Colorado during 18S4. 54,874 



The above number does not include all the 

 cattle shipped from the State to the Eastern 

 markets, as part of the cattle shipped from some 

 of the northern counties were sent over the 

 Union Pacific, also some shipped from the 

 South were driven into Kansas. 



Coal, There is no extended portion of Colo- 

 rado that has no coal-deposits of its own or 

 which could not be readily supplied with coal. 

 The number of men employed in and around 

 the coal-mines of Colorado is about 2,500, over 

 one fourth of whom work in Fremont County. 

 The product steadily increased from 1873, when 

 the output was 69,977 tons, to the year ending 

 July 31, 1884, when the total estimated out- 

 put was 1,352,373 tons. In consequence of a 

 strike, the coal product almost entirely ceased 

 for several weeks in some localities, and the 

 Colorado Coal and Iron Company's mines at Coal 

 Creek, in Fremont County, were closed from 

 about the 1st of August until the latter part 

 of December. 



Boulder County is one of the leading coun- 

 ties in the number and product of its coal 

 mines. There are eight mines in that county, 

 and they are worked largely with the view of 

 supplying the Denver market. The output for 

 the year ending July 31, 1884, was 202,657 

 tons. The Boulder coal is lignite. 



In El Paso County only one mine was worked 

 during the year. The output was 36,518 tons. 



One of the great coal-mining counties of Col- 

 orado is Fremont. The total product of all 

 the mines was, for the year ending July 31, 

 302,616 tons. 



In Gunnison County there are six regular 

 mines, which in the last statistical year pro- 

 duced 86,940 tons. There are several varieties 

 of coal in Gunnison County, one of the mines 

 producing an excellent quality of anthracite. 

 The product in tons of anthracite was 13,241. 



In Huerfano County there are three mines. 

 The output, was 81,386 tons for the last statis- 

 tical year. 



In Jefferson County there are eleven mines, 

 but, as the majority of them were shut down 



or were not included under the mining law, 

 the product of the county is small. It amount- 

 ed, according to McNeil's report, to 13,792 tons. 



In Las Animas County there are two work- 

 ing mines, and last year they produced 45,0,266 

 tons of coal. The coal in that county is bitu- 

 minous, and is noted for its coking qualities. 

 In addition to the two mines referred to above, 

 there are small openings in Las Animas County 

 working from four to fifteen men. 



In Park County there is but one mine of im- 

 portance, it being the Union Pacific mine at 

 Como. The quality of the coal is semi-bitu- 

 minous, and the product during the last statis- 

 tical year was 58,997 tons. 



In Weld County there are five mines, and 

 their combined product was 51,874 tons. 



With the exception of those in Gunnison 

 County, all the mines mentioned above are in 

 what is called eastern Colorado, that part of 

 the State which lies east of the main range. 

 But across the Divide in western Colorado 

 there is a vast country the coal area of which 

 is probably more extensive than that of the 

 eastern part of the State, and which in the 

 quality of its coal product rivals Pennsylvania. 

 That great country embraces Gunnison County. 



Bullion. The product of bullion in three years 

 has been as follows: In 1882, $25,933,365; in 

 1883,$24,319,000; in 1884, $20,233,749. 



Election. The election on the 4th of Novem- 

 ber resulted in favor of the Republicans. The 

 vote for Governor was as follows: 



Benjamin H. Eaton . . . 88,845 ! J. E. Washburn 2,104 



Alva Adams 80,718 | Scattering IT 



The other State officers chosen were the follow- 

 ing : Lieutenant-Governor, Peter W. Breene ; 

 Secretary of State, Melvin Edwards; Treas- 

 urer, George R. Swallow ; Auditor, H. A. Spru- 

 ance ; Attorney-General, Theodore H. Thomas; 

 Superintendent of Schools, L. S. Cornell ; Re- 

 gents of the University, Roger W. Woodbury, 

 Clinton M. Tyler, and Joseph C. Shattuck. For 

 Congressman, the vote was as follows : George 

 G. Symes, Republican, 35,446; Charles S. 

 Thomas, Democrat, 28,720 ; George W. Way, 

 Greenback-Labor, 2,485. The average vote for 



B residential electors was: Republican, 36,277; 

 emocratic, 27,627; Greenback-Labor, 1,957; 

 Prohibition, 759. The Legislature is largely 

 Republican. Three amendments to the Consti- 

 tution were ratified by large majorities. The 

 amended sections read as follows : 



SEC. 6. Each member of the General Assembly, un- 

 til otherwise provided by law, shall receive as com- 

 pensation for his services, seven dollars ($7) for each 

 day's attendance and -fifteen (15) cents for each mile 

 necessarily traveled in going to and returning from 

 the seat of government, and shall receive no other 

 compensation, perquisite, or allowance whatsoever. 

 No session of the General Assembly shall exceed 

 ninety days. No General Assembly shall fix its own 

 compensation. 



SEC. 19. No act of the General Assembly shall take 

 effect until ninety days after its passage (except in case 

 of emergency, which shall be expressed in the act), 

 [unless] the General Assembly shall by a vote of two 

 thirds of all the members elected to each house other- 



