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67; 44C.2; Serial 1769; pp. 24. The majority report advised the 

 seating of the delegate, while both reports went into the details of 

 the territorial policy of the United States. 



The admission of the new state brought into a new prominence 

 the problem of the military control of the Southwest, with the result 

 that exploration and survey of new routes advanced rapidly. The 

 lines of communication between southern Colorado and points in 

 Arizona and New Mexico inspired a report from the Secretary of War 

 on March 31, 1876, H. Ex. Doc. 172; 44C.1; Serial 1691; pp. 34. 

 The next Congress saw a similar report on communication between 

 Colorado and New Mexico, based upon a reconnaissance of the San 

 Juan country in 1877, H. Ex. Doc. 66; 45C.2; Serial 1806; pp. 38. 

 Tliis report includes three maps, one of which shows the outlines of 

 the Ute Indian reservation at the time. And another map, published 

 in a report of the same department in May, 1878, H. Ex. Doc. 88; 

 45C.2; Serial 1809, shows all the surveys and explorations made west 

 of the hundredth meridian during the ten years then ending. 



The earliest prominence of Colorado in the magazines came with the 

 discovery of the large deposits of silver in and near Leadville, about 

 1877. Before these discoveries, the federal surveys had inspired a 

 description of the work of the "Wheeler Expedition in Southern Col- 

 orado," by W. H. Rideing, in Harper^s Magazine, Vol. LII, pp. 793- 

 806, May, 1876. But this account of a party which started from 

 Pueblo and crossed to the southwest in search of wagon routes, is excep- 

 tional, and it is not until about 1880 that a real interest is aroused. 

 The new Leadville camp drew visitors from all the United States, 

 and among them was Helen Hunt Jackson, who then lived in Colorado 

 Springs, and told of her trip "To Leadville" in the Atlantic Monthly 

 for May, 1879, Vol. XLIII, pp. 567-579. This, like other articles 

 from the same pen, is light and discursive, valuable not for its con- 

 tribution to facts, but for its contribution to color. E. Ingersoll's "Camp 

 of the Carbonates," in Scribner^s Monthly for October, 1879, Vol. 

 XVIII, pp. 801-824, is more serious than Mrs. Jackson's article, and 

 gives some useful accounts of definite conditions in Leadville. "Grub 

 Stakes and Millions, " by A. A. Hayes, in Harper's Magazine, for Febru- 



