COLORADO. 



COMMERCE, ETC., AMERICAN. 145 



Agricultural lands 6,000,000 



Pastoral lands 25,000,000 



Mineral and timber lands 85,000,000 



Statistics. The mileage and assessment of 

 railroads have been as follow : 



The total assessed number of live-stock in 

 the State is: Cattle, 511,940; sheep, 834,127; 

 other stock, 110,045. Assessed value, $12,- 

 321,109. 



It is believed that this does not represent 

 over 50 per cent, of the stock actually within 

 the State. 



The gross product of the State from all 

 sources, for the year 1882, was as follows : 



Gold, silver, and lead bullion ................... $26,750,800 



Agriculture .................................... 9,175,000 



Coal and coke .................................. 5,000,000 



Iron and steel .................................. 4,500,000 



Cattle, sheep, hides, and wool ................... 5,000,000 



Manufactures .................................. 10,000,000 



Total ...................................... $60,425,800 



The State has no bonded debt. Its total in- 

 debtedness on Nov. 24, 1883, consisted of 



Warrants outstanding ............................ $524,045 



Certificates of indebtedness ........................ 19,836 



Total ......................................... $543,881 



The revenue of the State for the current year 

 (collectable January, 1884, and thereafter) will 

 amount to $583,125. 



The annual bullion shipments for five years 

 were: 



1878, gold, silver, and lead ....................... $10,556,116 



1879, gold, silver, and lead ....................... 19,110,862 



1880, gold, silver, and lead ....................... 23,500,000 



1881, gold, silver, and lead ....................... 22,203,500 



1882, gold, silver, and lead ....................... 26,750,800 



The mining products of Colorado for the 

 year 1883 (gold, silver, copper, and lead) were : 



COUNTY. Amount. 



Boulder $400,000 



Chaffee , 800,000 



Custer 800,720 



Clear Creek 2,000,000 



Dolores 200,008 



Eagle 930,000 



Fremont 20,000 



Gilpin 2,208,980 



Grand 10,000 



Gunnison 650,000 



Hinsdale 390,000 



Lake... 



COUNTY. 



La Plata 



Ouray 



Park 



Piiikin 



Rio Grande 



Routt 



Saguache 



San Miguel 



San Juan 



Summit... 



Amount. 

 $128,000 

 700,616 

 400,000 

 125.000 

 182,000 

 75,000 

 100,001 

 225,000 

 418,956 

 350,000 



Total $26,306,131 



The State Engineer says : " The mileage of 

 new irrigating canals completed since June 1, 

 1882, and those still under construction Dec. 

 1, 1883, is as follows: 



Miles. 



Arapahoe county 86 



Douglas county . 15 



Larimer county 104 



Weld county !.'.".....! 135 



A total of 340 miles, which it is estimated will 

 bring under water 350,000 fresh acres. Large 

 additions are also being made to the system in 

 Rio Grande, Conejos, and Costilla, and canals 



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have been begun in the new counties of Mesa, 

 Montrose, and Delta, all of which will greatly 

 increase the' available acreage next year " 

 COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION, AMERICAN. The 



total volume of foreign commerce in the year 

 ending June 30, 1883, was larger than in any 

 year in the history of the country, exceeding by 

 about $2,000,000 that of 1881. The total value 

 of the exports and imports of merchandise in 

 1883 was $1,547,020,316. Compared with the 

 commerce of other countries it is only exceeded 

 by that of Great Britain, which aggregated $3,- 

 497,boO,000 in 1882, and that of France, where 

 the special commerce in 1882 amounted to 

 $1,713,000,000; exceeding in volume that of 

 Germany, which in 1881 amounted to $1,480,- 

 000,000. Including the imports and exports 

 of specie, the total volume of the foreign com- 

 merce in 1883 was $1,607,330,040, being lesi 

 than in 1881, when it aggregated $1,675,024,- 

 318, and less also than in 1880, when it was 

 $1,613,770,633, but greater than in 1882, when 

 it was $1,567,071,700. In 1874 the borrow- 

 ing period which followed the war came to an 

 end, and the extension of railroads greatly 

 facilitated the exportation of agricultural prod- 

 ucts. Since that year there has been a con- 

 stant excess of exports over imports, and since 

 1876 a large annual excess of merchandise ex- 

 ports. The entire movement of foreign com- 

 merce for these ten years is shown in the fol- 

 lowing tables. The value of the total exports 

 and imports of merchandise, with the annual 

 excess of exports or imports, was each year as 

 follows : 



* Excess of imports. 



The annual values of domestic products ex- 

 ported and of foreign commodities re-export- 

 ed, in the total values given above, were as 

 follow : 



The total value of gold and silver coin and 

 bullion imported and exported, and the annual 

 net exports or imports of specie, were as fol- 

 low: 



