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COLORADO. 



the Supreme Court, John Campbell, Republican; 

 \--ociate Justices, Luther M. Goddard and Wil- 

 liam H. Gabbert, Democrats; President Judge of 

 the Court of Appeals, Charles I. Thompson; 

 .\--ociate Justices, Julius B. Bissell and Adair 

 Wilson. 



Population. A small part of the increase in 

 the past decade is due to the fact that there were 

 985 Indians and 66 other persons on Indian reser- 

 vations, etc., who were specially enumerated in 

 1890, but were not included in the returns at that 

 census with the general population. This year's 

 censu> -hu\v- nearly 1(5 times as many inhabitants 

 as that of 18(>0, the first year reported. In 1870 

 the population was 39,804. About one quarter of 

 the counties show each a small decrease; it is be- 

 lieved that, all these have been gaining since the 

 panic, but have not fully recovered from the losses 

 of that time. The population of Denver is 133,859. 



Finances. The financial condition of the'State 

 \\ a-- described at length in the Annual Cyclopaedia 

 for 1899, page 1(57. The revenues are not sufficient 

 to pay the current expenses, owing to the legal 

 limit to the rate of taxation and the low valua- 

 tions. Appropriations made by the Legislature 

 amount to about $500,000 more than the income, 

 acording to report. The Legislature of 1897 made 

 the following order for the use of the revenues: 



1. Expenses of legislative, executive, and ju- 

 dicial departments, and interest on public debt. 



2. Appropriations for penal and reformatory in- 

 stitutions. 



3. Appropriations for educational and chari- 

 table institutions. 



4. Appropriations for other officers, bureaus, 

 and boards. 



5. Miscellaneous appropriations. 



" If the revenues of the State are divided between 

 the first and second classes, as they must neces- 

 sarily be by a strict adherence to the law% it means 

 bankruptcy for the institutions contained in the 

 third, fourth, and fifth classes." 



Education. The school census of 1899 showed 

 143,335 children of school age, that of 1900 gave 

 153,634. This indicates an enrollment of over 

 118,000. 



The State Normal School, at Greeley, graduated 

 a class of 69, May 31. 



There were 425 students at the State University, 

 at Boulder, in February, not including 360 who 

 were in the preparatory school. The university 

 opened Sept. 10 for its twenty- third session with 

 large classes. The $70,000 loan by .citizens of 

 Colorado last spring has made possible the con- 

 tinuance of the university's work and enabled 

 President Baker to throw open the doors of the in- 

 stitution to several hundred students. 



Colorado College, at Colorado Springs, has the 

 promise of $50,000 for an endowment fund for a 

 science department, on condition that $60,000 be 

 raised in addition for a building. 



The State School of Mines, at Golden, opened 

 Sept. Mi with a large attendance, 203 having ap- 

 plied for entrance to the freshmen class. A gift 

 of $25,000 from W. S. Stratton will be used for 

 new buildings and improvements to old ones. An 

 assay building is under way and will be ready 

 about Feb. 1. It will contain 28 furnaces, accom- 

 modating 5(5 students; the building is large 

 enough to admit 50 furnaces. 



A new tiling in education has been organized 

 this year, the " National Rough Riders' Military 

 Encampment," in the Shenandoah valley, on a 

 tract of 1 oo.onn acres, loo miles southeast' of Den- 

 ver. Gen. E. V. Sumner \\a-< <-lir.sp n as the mili- 

 tary head of the school, with Lieut. E. S. Farrow 

 in charge of the instruction. 



Concerning the plan and scope of the new enter- 

 prise, Lieut. Farrow said : " The plan has already 

 met with such popular approval that the Gov- 

 ernor is actually overrun with applications from 

 young men wishing to take the training. Many 

 of the applications come from students of Yale 

 and Harvard, who are to graduate this year. 

 Fifty applications have already been received from 

 England. 



" Young men between seventeen and twenty-five 

 years of age will be permitted to join by regular 

 enlistment. They will be sworn to serve one year, 

 during which time they will receive practical train- 

 ing in rough riding, scouting, reading signs, trail- 

 ing, and all the arts of up-to-date warfare. For 

 this each applicant will have to pay a tuition fee 

 of $500, which covers his expenses for the entire 

 year, including equipment, horse, clothing, and 

 rations. Each applicant must also pass the 

 United States army examination before entering 

 the encampment for instruction." 



A garden school undertaken last year at Pueblo 

 as an experiment has proved so successful that it 

 is to be continued indefinitely. Each pupil had 

 a plot of his own and an interest in certain com- 

 mon beds. The children did all the work under in- 

 struction. During the latter part of the term the 

 gardens added much to their luncheons and some 

 sales were made, in the profits of which all shared. 



Corrections. There were 533 prisoners en- 

 rolled in the Penitentiary, at Canon City, in 

 March, and 163 inmates at the State Industrial 

 School for boys, at Goshcn. 



State Lands. The annual report of the State 

 Land Board shows the total receipts of the office 

 to have been $204,096; the number of acres of 

 school lands sold, 2,000; internal improvemen 

 1,258.25 acres; total, 3,258.25 acres; area undi 

 renew r al certificates, 3,317.26: total area paten 

 18,323.21 ; town lots sold, 21. Of the money 

 ceived, $38,577 goes to the permanent scho 

 fund, $14,664 to the permanent fund of the Ag 

 cultural College, and $5,695 to the income of t 

 college. The permanent internal improveme 

 fund receives $22.302, and the income for intern 

 improvement $29,307. 



United States Lands. The report of the Gen- 

 eral Land Office for the year ending June 30, 1900, 

 shows the railroad grants in the several States 

 which include 35,030 acres in Colorado to the 

 Union Pacific. Colorado had 646 mineral and 

 mill-site patents and 1,187 mineral or mill-site 

 claims, covering 10,528 acres. There was a tract 

 of 99,488 acres in Colorado embraced in Indian 

 patents. 



Products. Following are the figures of the 

 State's mineral production in 1899. as reported to 

 the Director of the Mint: Gold, $26,265,487 ; silver 

 coinage value, $29,679,706; lead, $6,051,156; cop- 

 per, $1,975,518; total, $63,971,867. Other product- 

 have been estimated as follow: Zinc and manga - 

 niferous iron, $557,500: stone and marble, $1,825, 

 000; iron and steel, $7,681,719; coal, $8,750,000: 

 lumber, $3,350,000; oil, $1,500,000; live stock and 

 their products, $11,650,000; farm and dairy prod 

 ucts, $28,112,668. 



An estimate of the beet-sugar production in 

 1900 placed the value of the output of the fac- 

 tories at $2,000,000, of which about half would 

 go to the beet growers. 



In the spring more than 531,000 trout were put 

 into the streams of the State from the hatchery at 

 (jlunnison. 



The number of sheep in the State this year it 

 given as 2.1S5.327. and their value $6,250,036. Ol 

 wool 14.204,625 pounds were produced, the value 

 of which was $1,633,322. 



