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again illustrates the tendency of the descendants of pioneers to move on 
in search of fortune in the undeveloped West. 
The third group of states is comparatively unimportant as far as the 
number of native immigrants is concerned. These states furnished 
about a fifth of the population of Colorado in 1860. One of the 
interesting things shown by this group is the small number of native 
immigrants from territory contiguous to Colorado. The small number 
from the southern states is also noticeable. In a general way, this group 
of states taken with the two other groups shows the movement of 
population to Colorado in 1860 to have been in considerable degree a 
movement from points many of which may be considered far east rather 
than a movement of the western people still farther west. 
Attention has been called to the small number of early immigrants 
from Kansas and Nebraska and it may be further explained that these 
states were at that time sparsely populated, and the slavery struggle in 
Kansas, which had lasted for a number of years, had occupied the 
surplus energies of the population and was merging into that of the war 
at the time of the gold excitement in Colorado. Then it should also 
be noted that the inducement that first brought settlers to Colorado was 
the hope of finding gold, and this would appeal more strongly to the 
population of the entire area of the eastern section than the opening of 
territory whose chief inducement to the settler was cheap land. 
The staying qualities of the various native immigrants to Colorado 
is illustrated by the figures of 1870. By that time the mining fever had 
run off and the population had turned to agriculture, stock raising and 
herding and other occupations. The disappointed miners had in con- 
siderable numbers gone away. There were 8,141 fewer males in the 
territory than in 1860. The number of females leaving at this time 
cannot be ascertained as there were more females in the state in 1870 
than in 1860. Of persons born in Colorado before 1870, 1,235 were 
reported in that year as living in other states and territories, and as 
nearly all of these were children, it is highly probable that a goodly 
number of women had also left the territory during the decade, 1860 
to 1870." 
* Census, 1900, Special Reports, p. 309. 
