

COLORADO. 



CONV.O. 



-The report on these to as fol- 

 sohooriai 



Indemnity eehool land*, not patented, 

 4HJOT4B acres: ssUctsrt by former boan 



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board, not patented. QfcMfrS acres; total, n-.t 

 patented. 680. 441 I* arn*. Add school lands m 

 S5oml6 and 86. 8.000.000 acre*. Total school 



,,: .- i : .-. ;.v *0 111 res, 

 The recript- at the Slate I*nd Office for two 



, , s . >-i - >:.,, -..:.-;. 



ng August, September, and October, 1894, 



a larger number of homestead entries was made 



than in any three 



tnmthf finee its establishment, the nuuwrbe- 

 ittf ML There were 69 m.-re mineral entries 

 thb year than last year, and 75 more mineral 



Motor* and miners. Tin- population in Septoin- 



11* nearly 400. 



A large deposit of valuable manganese 

 i have " 



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"ftie State Land Board has reclaimed many 

 Ihiiasand acres of school lands on which pay- 

 MOU have n..t been kept up bv tin- purchasers, 

 bat which bar* been left heretofore in their 



lain*. The strikes that took place among 

 the miners in 1894 reduced the output much 

 below the estimate made at the baffaualng of the 



year, especially in reference to the amount pro- 

 duced at Cripple Creek. Notwithstanding this, 

 the fold output of the State was $4.000.000 larger 

 that of 1898. More than one third of the 



entire product of the State was from the Cripple 

 Creek District, which yielded $4,050.000. It 

 seems to be the fact, as is claimed, that the 4 

 square miles of this district make up the richest 

 tract of gold-yielding ground of its size on the 

 continent, if not in the world. Leadville, the 

 neit most notable gold district of the State, pro- 

 duced nearly $2.000.000. More than half of this 

 came from one mine, the Little Johnnie, and all 

 from about 4 properties, while at Cripple Creek 

 the fiaying mines are more numerous and the 

 profits more widely dtrtrihut.-d. Activity in 

 gold raining has made San Miguel the most pros- 

 perous of aU the counties of the Southwest. < J 1 1 - 

 pin County, which stood second in 1898, took 

 third position in 1894 by Leadville*s large out- 

 put, though iU yield was actually larger than 

 during the former year. Goose Creek, in (iuu- 

 o won County, is a new gold section that promises 

 well, and new mines were opened in (til pin, Clear 

 Creek, and Boulder Counties, the old properties 

 in which continued to be productive. 



Iadvill u still the largest silver producer of 

 the Slate, the product for 1894 being 7,889,992 

 ounces. The figures representing the mineral 

 yield of 1W4 are as follow: Gold. $11.750.000; 



smelu-rs of the State show 



that their purchases of gold, silver, and copper 

 ore were greater during the first six months of 

 MM than during the same months in 1894. 

 those of lead wm smaller. 



ViiJIean, in Onnnison i v,unty. 12 mike south of 

 ttummoncity.and partly .!,. 



he newest mining town in the State, Pros- 

 pert ing has been done there for some years at 

 times: it has now been found that a mineral- 

 bean ng quart* that had been observed on the 

 surface, but passed by as valueless, is rich in gold, 

 and the place has been rapidly filled with pros- 



have IK-CII found al.iit V*(l miles south "f 

 Silver Cliff, in < .nty. and claims have 



been filed <>n al>ut I.O<M> ., 



total coal product of the State for 

 was 2,994,028 short tout, n decrease 

 from that of 1893. This decrease was < In. t,the 

 strike, which kept 4,000 or 5,000 coal min. 

 of work Cor eereral months, Tin -re were 19 fatal 



nts in coal mines, 15<>f which were 

 by the fall of rock atid coal and hv the had man- 

 agement of inexperienced mil 



I .11 in i nir. The value of I he agricultural 

 produrt for 1894 was given in round numbers at 



">.<MH>. It is estimated that .J.000.0>'. 

 "f land are supplied with irrigatim: ditch. -s. 

 This does not mean that there are 4,o<MHXio irri- 

 gated and cultivatexl to-day, hut then- are that 

 many acres now under systems of ditches and 

 canals that eventually will produce eulthat.d 

 crops. Of the 4,000.000 acres there are 2,500,000 

 acres under actual cultivation. During tl 

 803 ditch surveys were recorded, but then- i- no 

 record of the amount of work accomplished. 

 There are in the State 1,000,000 acres of vega or 

 meadow lands that never require artificial irri- 

 gation and another 1,000,000 acres of fenc.d 

 pasture lands adapted to the growing of 

 grain without other irrigation than the rainfall. 



The prevailing tendency appears to be toward 

 the production of fruit. The orchard acreage of 

 the State amounts to 100,000 acres, with a fair 

 valuation, merging old and new orchards into 

 one, of $50 an acre. The fruit output for l^.i-i 

 amounted to $3,000,000. Mesa County is one of 

 the new fruit-producing districts. Th"e western 

 slope is developing into a grape-growing s. 

 some varieties being successfully grown which 

 have heretofore been supposed b> flourish only in 

 California. The amount of alfalfa annually Cut, 

 is estimated at 2,500,000 ton- : the wool Hip for 

 1894 amounted to 12,000,000 pounds, valued at 

 $3,000,000 : and the annual potato crop amounts 

 to about 150,000 tons, valued at $3,000,000. 



Mining and Industrial Exposition. The 

 twentieth anniversary of the admission of Colo- 

 rado to the Union was to be celt -I. rated in 1896 

 by an exposition at Denver of the products of 

 the State and of the West. A site was P. 

 and secured 120 acres of land in the southeast 

 portion of City Park and 30 acres of the school 

 land adjoining on the south. But finally the 

 enterprise was abandoned. 



nNO f INDEPENDENT STATE OF 

 Mil. a sovereign monarchical state created 

 with the consent of all the powers and dcH.nv 1 

 perpetually neutral in conformity with th- 

 era! act of the Congo, which was signed a 

 In.. Keb. 26, 1885. Leopold II, King of the 

 >us, who was declared its sovereign, ceded 

 his sovereign rights to Belgium by his will, made 

 on Aug. 2, 1889. By a convention made on 

 July .3, 1890, Belgium acquired the right to 

 h> State after a period of ten years. A 

 codicil of the will, dated July 21, 1890, declares 

 the territories of the State to he inalienable. 

 The convention mentioned above was ratified hy 

 the Belgian Chambers on July 25, 1890. A sin- 

 gle Secretary of State has direction over all the 



