COLORADO 



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COLORADO 



The People and the Cities. Colorado's pop- 

 ulation of 799,024, as announced by the Census 

 Bureau in 1910, was greater than that of any 

 other Rocky Mountain state, and its capital, 

 Denver, is the metropolis of the whole moun- 

 tain and plateau region. The growth in pop- 

 ulation in the state has been steady but not 

 phenomenal, and the increase is still going on 

 so rapidly that the last official returns are 

 doubtless below actual conditions. For a long 

 time, as is usual in any mining state, the vast 

 majority of the inhabitants were men, but 

 as boom conditions have given place to a 



railroad center of that part of . the United 

 States. Other important cities are Pueblo, the 

 chief market of the grazing region; Colorado 

 Springs, the most popular scenic and health 

 resort in the state; Trinidad, the center of the 

 largest coal-mining region; Boulder, the seat 

 of the state university; Leadville, a center of 

 silver production, and Cripple Creek, the fa- 

 mous gold-mining town. The two towns last 

 named were smaller in 1910 than they were a 

 decade earlier, because of the exhaustion of 

 certain large silver and gold mines. Each city 

 is more fully described under its title. 



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OUTLINE MAP OF COLORADO 

 Showing boundaries, rivers, principal cities, mineral deposits and highest point in the state. 



settled industrial development this proportion 

 has changed until to-day the men comprise 

 but little more than half of the population. 

 There are fewer than 1,500 Indians left in the 

 state, but the number does not seem to be 

 decreasing. In 1910 there were 7.7 people to 

 the square mile, but it is estimated that in 

 1917 there were more than 9. Over twenty-six 

 per cent of the people live in Denver. 



Over fifty per cent of the people live in cities 

 or towns, and this urban population is increas- 

 ing more rapidly than the rural. There are 

 not, however, very many large cities, only 

 eight having a population of more than 4,000. 

 Denver, the capital, is the largest city and the 



Surface Features. This is a more interesting 

 topic in connection with Colorado than with 

 most states, for it is to its surface features that 

 Colorado largely owes its great fame as a 

 resort state. Except California, it is probably 

 visited by more tourists annually than is any 

 other state, and these with one accord admire 

 the wonders of the mountain country. Only 

 one state, Wyoming, lies higher than does 

 Colorado, which is crossed by the Great Divide, 

 that dominating height of land which separates 

 the eastward-flowing rivers of North America 

 from the westward-flowing. 



Not all of the state is mountainous. The 

 eastern division, which includes about one-third 



