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The attendance at the university in September 

 was about 225, a large increase over that of 1891. 



A new building has been erected for the Den- 

 ver University at University Park, and the col- 

 lege proper was removed to it in February. The 

 preparatory departments remain in their former 

 location, but will eventually be provided for at 

 the Park. 



The State Agricultural College at Fort Col- 

 lins has also been improved by the addition of 

 new buildings. The agricultural hall contains an 

 experimental workroom, a museum, a room for 

 small seeds and garden tools, and a large lecture 

 room. The hall of mechanic arts contains a ma- 

 chine shop, office, and tool room, a wood shop 

 and wood-carving room, engine room, forge room, 

 and foundry. The college has under its control 

 240 acres of land, and receives from $15,000 to 

 $20,000 yearly from the Federal Government. 



The Colorado College at Colorado Springs is 

 reported in an unprecedentedly prosperous con- 

 dition. A new dormitory has been built, and 

 the faculty increased to 14 members. The col- 

 lege has an endowment of $150,000, and prop- 

 erty valued at $350,000. 



the attendance at the State Normal School at 

 Greeley for the term ending March 31 was 165 

 normal and 40 model students. 



A table of the public libraries gives the num- 

 ber as 66, of which 26 are in Denver. The whole 

 number of volumes is 108,157. The State Library 

 has 11,450 volumes, and the Denver Public 

 Library 11,400. 



The total amount of money distributed among 

 the counties from the State school funds for 

 1892 amounted to $57,731.12. 



Charities. The Insane Asylum at Pueblo 

 cost the State, in 1891, $51,573, the number of 

 inmates averaging about 282. The number in 

 the asylum at the beginning of 1892 was 290, of 

 whom 194 are men and 96 women. 



A soldiers' home was dedicated at Monte 

 Vista, Nov. 4, 1891. 



The State Mute, Deaf and Blind Institute, at 

 Colorado Springs, has an enrollment of 140. 

 They are in charge of a superintendent and 22 

 teachers. 



Penitentiary. The number of convicts in 

 the State Penitentiary in 1891 was 524. The re- 

 port of the State Labor Commissioner, a part of 

 whose duty it is to investigate the number, con- 

 dition, and nature of employment of the inmates 

 of the State prison, and ascertain to what extent 

 their employment comes in competition with 

 mechanics, artisans, and laborers outside of 

 prison walls, shows by his report that the only 

 manner in which the Colorado Penitentiary in- 

 mates compete with outside labor is in the pro- 

 duction of lime, brick, and stone. 



The cost of maintenance per capita of con- 

 victs in Colorado, including subsistence and all 

 expenses, has been materially decreased in re- 

 cent years. In 1886 the cost per capita annually 

 was $433.33. In 1887 it was $347.34. During 

 1889-'90 the price was reduced to $174.10. The 

 total expenses of the State Penitentiary for 

 1889-'90 were $166,098.44. 



During 1889-'90 the output of the prison 

 limekilns was 304.609 bushels, which yielded $31.- 

 196.11. The expenses of maintaining the kilns 

 was $16,510.52. There are 15 kilns in all. The 



brick output for a similar period was 2,405,314 

 brick, and 74,900 casings. The sales aggregate 

 $12,465.91. The expense of production was 

 $5,922. The stone quarries yielded $5,532.86. 

 At the State Industrial School, about one mile 

 from Golden, 225 boys were reported in 1892. 



Timber Reserve. Opposition to the pro- 

 posed Grand Mesa timber reserve, with the 

 boundary lines as laid out, has been developed, 

 on the ground that the country, or at least a 

 part of it, is rich in coal, silver, and lead, and 

 also contains vast beds of valuable marble. Large 

 amounts of coal lands have been entered, many 

 mines have been located, and many more will be 

 if the lands are left open to public occupation. 

 A railroad is now being built into the proposed 

 reservation, and if it is established as now pro- 

 posed it will prevent the further appropriation 

 of coal, mineral, and marble lands under the 

 laws of the United States, and give to those who 

 have perfected their claims a monopoly of the 

 coal and marble production. 



New Mining Towns. According to the cen- 

 sus of 1890, there were 50 cities in the State 

 having a population above 1,000. Since that 

 time the mining towns of Creede and Cripple 

 Creek have sprung into existence. The camp at 

 Creede, which claims a population of not fewer 

 than 6.000, and an increase of 100 a day, had its 

 beginning in 1889, when N. C. Creede located 

 the Holy Moses mine. The Phoenix and the 

 Cliff were located the same year by him and 

 Charles F. Nelson, and the first cabins built. 

 The following year they located the Ethel, the 

 Solomon, the Ridge, and the Mammoth. They 

 sold the Holy Moses in September for $70,000; 

 the purchasers put in a large force, and the 

 fame of the rich discoveries of silver in the 

 Bachelor Mountains began to spread throughout 

 the West. An extension of the Denver and Rio 

 Grande Railroad was begun in September, 1891, 

 and finished in December. The land had been 

 leased to M. V. B. Wason for agricultural and 

 grazing purposes at the rate of $12 for 100 acres. 

 The State Board of Land Commissioners declared 

 the lease forfeited, the lessee having let the lands 

 out for commercial and town purposes. Mr. 

 Wason brought suit, but the board was sus- 

 tained, and the lands were sold as school lands. 

 Sixty-six acres brought $183,662. 



Soon after the discoveries at Creede gold was 

 discovered at Cripple creek. The two principal 

 towns there, Fremont and Moreland, are practi- 

 cally one, and have a combined population of 

 4,000 or 5,000. Other town sites nave been laid 

 out and named Beaver Park and Lawrence. 



Another discovery that promises to be of great 

 importance is that of gold at Copper Rock, in 

 Boulder County. It is on Four Mile creek, 13 

 miles from Boulder. The altitude at the site of 

 the new town is about 7,600 feet, with the sur- 

 rounding country rising from the sedimentary 

 bed of the gulch until an additional height of 

 8,100 feet is attained. 



Many other discoveries have been reported 

 during the year. 



Park Reservation. A movement to set % 

 apart a tract within the old Ute reservation, 

 corn prising parts of Rio Blanco, Routt, Eagle, 

 and Garfield Counties, for a national park, was 

 begun with a bill prepared for the State Legis- 





