THE POPULATION OF COLORADO 201 
of this decline of 8,141 in the male population was composed of disap- 
pointed miners who returned to the East. These must have met the 
women going to Colorado. If they did, they did not dissuade them as 
there were 13,458 more females in the territory in 1870 than in 1860. 
These cross-currents of immigration and emigration may be explained 
on the assumption that the early adventurers who decided to remain in 
Colorado sent back East for their wives. 
The immigration which had taken place by 1880 again reduced the 
proportion of females. The mining development is largely responsible 
for this change. Since 1880 the percentage of females has steadily 
increased until in 1g00 it had become 45.20 for the state and 50.25 for 
the City of Denver. This change is in some degree explained by the 
greater opportunities for women in the lighter employments, consequent 
upon the development of Colorado as a health resort and tourist state. 
This appears from the table showing the proportion of females engaged 
in domestic and personal service. 
DISTRIBUTION OF THE POPULATION OF COLORADO BY SEX ENGAGED IN DOMESTIC 
AND PERSONAL SERVICE* 
Year Males Per Cent. Females Per Cent. 
TOGO es sii nek ees 85.6 14.4 
EOQOss whee shel ste 75.0 25.0 
TOOOn Sebea oy aakcreh cts 67.1 32.9 
* Census, 1900, Occupations, p. cxxiii. 
The above table shows a decline in the percentages of males in domes- 
tic and personal service from 85.6 in 1880 to 67.1 in 1g00, and a corre- 
sponding increase in the percentages of females. This is to be explained 
in part by the greater approach to equality in the number of the 
sexes in the state since 1880, and also by the greater opportunities that 
have been opening to men since 1880. The decline in the percentage 
of men in domestic service is not as rapid in the decade from 1890 to 
1g00 as in the ten years preceding 1890. This is due to the depression 
of 1893, which bore so heavily on the industries of the state that for the 
time being opportunities of the more active sort were cut off. 
