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ing a total of $2,350,530.85. The total dis- 

 bursements from the treasury for this period 

 were $1,515,951.80, leaving a balance at the 

 close of business Nov. 30, 1886, in cash and 

 securities of $834,579.05. The State debt was : 



Outstanding warrants $594.699 63 



Certificates of indebtedness 18,483 91 



Loco-weed certificates 53,690 52 



Total $666,874 11 



Less cash in treasury applicable 22,236 43 



Total indebtedness $644,637 68 



The total revenue outstanding to meet this 

 is $667,822.97. From this the Auditor deducts 

 20 per cent, as unavailable, leaving $534,258.38. 

 This leaves the debt payable from the general 

 fund, $110,379.30 in excess of the revenue. 



Railroad Valuation. The State Board of Equali- 

 zation placed the following valuations upon the 

 railroads in Colorado in 1885 : 



BROAD GAUGE. 



Burlington and Colorado 



Pueblo and Arkansas Valley 



Denver and New Orleans 



Union Pacific, Union division 



Union Pacific, Kansas division 



Denver Pacific 



Golden, Boulder and Caribou 



Denver and Boulder Valley 



Denver, Western and Pacific 



Denver, Western and Pacific (grade only) . . . 



Greeley Short Line and Pacific 



Greeley Short Line and Pacific (grade only). 



Julesburg division, Union Pacific 



Colorado Central 



NARROW GAUGE. 



Greeley Short Line and Pacific 



Georgetown, Breckenridge and Leadville 



Georgetown, Breckenridge and Leadville 



(grade only) 



Denver, South Park and Pacific 



Colorado Central 



Denver Circle 



Denver, Utah and Pacific 



Denver, Utah and Pacific (grade only) 



Denver and Rio Grande . . . 



$1,383,877 98 



2,482,192 05 



&43,274 86 



72,927 97 



1,411,204 39 



688,286 02 



42,333 84 



197,186 75 



152,615 66 



13,665 00 



293,992 24 



8,500 00 



1,179,929 63 



675,850 93 



$75,523 32 



8,775 00 



3,225 00 



2,150,342 28 



571,407 66 



51,043 20 



212,967 27 



8,401 50 



7,505,642 21 



Total $20,033,164 96 



Land-Office. The United States Land-Office 

 makes the following report of the business 

 transacted during 1885 : Number of pre-emp- 

 tion filings, 2,398 ; number of acres in cash 

 entries, 61,009 ; number of acres in final home- 

 steads, 21,039; number of acres in original 

 homesteads, 105,580 ; number of acres in tim- 

 ber-culture entries, 362,258. 



Denver Manufactures. Recent statistics reveal 

 the fact that the city has double the number 

 of establishments it had five years ago, with 

 three times the number of employes, and eight 

 times the capital invested. 



Lead. The production of lead in Colorado 

 has been as follows: 



1873 



1874... 

 1875... 

 1876 



1877 

 1878 . . . 



Tons. 

 50 

 312 

 818 

 667 

 897 



Tons. 



1879 23,674 



1880 35,674 



1881 40,547 



1882 55,000 



1883 40,547 



1884 63,165 



To this we may add the product for 1885, 

 which will probably not exceed 57,000 tons, of 

 2,000 pounds, the Leadville district alone show- 



ing a falling off of about 20,000 tons. A very 

 slight gain over 1885 was expected in 1886. 



Quarrying. The work done by the stone de- 

 partment of the Union Pacific Railroad and 

 other quarries in Colorado, is but little under- 

 stood. Along the foot-hills of the Continental 

 divide, from the Wyoming line to the Raton 

 range, is a series of hog-back elevations. In 

 these upheavals are found inexhaustible quanti- 

 ties of stone and marble, suitable for the manu- 

 facture of lime and for building from the rough 

 rubble-stone that sustains the superstructure of 

 buildings, piers, and bridges, to the substantial 

 granite, the various colored sandstone, and the 

 finer varieties of marble equal to that of Ten- 

 nessee and Vermont. 



In almost all cases the material lies above 

 the surface, and the process of quarrying con- 

 sists in uncovering and removing earth and 

 bowlders and revealing the dip of the formation. 

 The Union Pacific Company decided to quarry 

 on its own account and ship directly to con- 

 sumers, and have established a special depart- 

 ment, entitled the k ' Stone Department, Union 

 Pacific Railroad." The principal quarries are 

 at Stout, where 250 men are regularly em- 

 ployed, the pay-roll being from $10,000 to $12,- 

 000 per month. There are in addition from 50 

 to 100 men employed by others, who dispose of 

 their products to the company. The company 

 owns a large area of quarry-ground at Lyons, 

 principally producing red sandstone. Here are 

 employed about 75 men. Ten miles northwest 

 of Loveland, and a short distance south of Stout, 

 the Buckhorn quarries have been opened. 



The marble-quarries of Gov. Routt at Marble 

 Glen, ten miles northwest of Fort Collins, are 

 practically inexhaustible, and the deposits of 

 the most beautiful material for building and 

 all kinds of marble-work lie exposed. 



There have been transported eastward, during 

 the past three years, about 12,000 car-loads of 

 stone, the value being about $500,000. 



COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION OF THE UNITED 

 STATES. The total value of the foreign trade 

 during the year ending June 30, 1886, was 

 $1,314,960,966, being $4,756,118 less than in 

 1884-'85. The decline was much less than in 

 the two previous years, the volume of trade 

 having fallen off $88,494,218 in 1 884^85 from 

 that of the preceding year, when it was $138,- 

 809,014 less than in 1882-'83. The exports of 

 merchandise in 1885-'86 amounted to $679,- 

 524,830, showing a decrease 'of $62,664,925. 

 The value of the imports was $635,436,136, 

 being greater by $57,908,807 than in 1884-'85. 

 The value of the exports of domestic produce 

 was $665,964,529 in 1885-'86, as compared with 

 $726,682,946 in 1884-'85; that of the exports 

 of foreign merchandise, $13,560,301, as com- 

 pared with $15,506,809. 



The exports of gold in 1885-'86 were $42,- 

 952,191, as compared with $8,477,892 in 

 1884-'85, and $41,081,957 in 1883-'84. The 

 imports of gold were $20,743,349 in 1885-'86, 

 $26,691,696 in 1884-'85, and $22,831,317 in 



