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tant part consists of a description of the mining camps then existing 

 in the territory. 



Greeley, settled in 1869, is remarkable among frontier commu- 

 nities in that it was deliberately planted in lands which could easily 

 be put under ditch. The village from the start was occupied by an 

 eminently moral and temperate population, under the leadership of 

 Meeker, and under the countenance of Horace Greeley. Its resulting 

 prosperity is described by Richard T. Ely in "The Story of a 'Decreed' 

 Town," in Harper's Magazine, Vol. CVI, pp. 390-401, February, 1903. 



The census of 1870 gave some support to the contention of Presi- 

 dent Johnson, since it reported a population of only 39,841 for the 

 territory. But the figures were attacked by the settlers in Colorado. 

 There is to be found in Sen. Misc. Doc. 40; 41C.3; Serial 1442, a 

 statement signed by territorial governor McCook, which denies the 

 accuracy of the census. It gives various tables showing taxable values, 

 agricultural statistics, railway growth, etc., and closes with an inac- 

 curate abstract of the legislative history of the statehood movement. 

 The early years of the seventies saw considerable settlement in the 

 territory, and twice between 1870 and 1875 ^^^ the House Committee 

 on Territories report in favor of the admission of Colorado. The 

 former report is in H. Rep. 8; 42C.3; Serial 1576, dated January 

 6, 1873. The second comes May 28, 1874, in H. Rep. 619; 43C.1; 

 Serial 1626. This latter report, by Chaffee, gives valuable figures 

 as to the condition of the territory, based on a census of 1873. Its 

 figures of railways are specially interesting. 



Colorado became a state in 1876, and the framing of its constitu- 

 tion is the subject of an article by E. H. Meyer in the Iowa Journal 

 of History and Politics for April, 1904, Vol. II, pp. 256-274, with the 

 title "The Constitution of Colorado." The admission of the state was 

 by presidential proclamation, in accordance with an act passed at 

 the end of the Forty-third Congress. In the following Congress the 

 point was raised as to the constitutionality of this method of admission, 

 and the House Committee on Judiciary presented majority and minority 

 reports to the house upon the propriety of seating James W. Belford 

 as representative from Colorado without further legislation, H. Rep. 



