PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COLORADO HISTORY I09 



the Committee on Public lands, H. Rep. 197; 47C.1; Serial 1065. 

 The Secretary of the Interior made an estimate in 1889, the year after 

 the formal irrigation survey had begun under the Geological Survey, 

 of the irrigation capacities of the Platte and Arkansas valleys, Sen. 

 Ex. Doc. 120; 50C.2; Serial 2612, in response to a call from the Sen- 

 ate; and the House Committee on Public Lands, in the same session, 

 recommended the establishment of three new land offices in Colorado, 

 to meet the demands of increasing sales, H. Rep. 3617; 50C.2; Serial 

 2673. The establishment of forest reserves created complications 

 in mining lands, a bill to open such reservations to mining claims 

 receiving in 1896 favorable reports from both of the committees. Sen. 

 Rep. 191; 54C.1; Serial 3362, and H. Rep. 152; 54C.1; Serial 3457. 

 The early nineties saw a considerable degree of interest in Colorado, 

 inspired by the great discoveries at Cripple Creek, and the prominent 

 part played by the great discoveries at Cripple Creek, and the promi- 

 nent part played by the state in the prevailing monetary discussions. 

 The general question of mining and mining education came in for con- 

 sideration, and the latter extracted from the House Committee on Mines 

 and Mining a recommendation that a portion of the proceeds from 

 the sale of public lands should be turned over to the aid of the School 

 of Mines in the state in which the lands were sold, H. Rep. 1136; 

 51C.1; Serial 2810. The Nation on October 5, 1893, Vol. LVII, 

 pp. 245-246, gave space to a geographical and romantic description 

 of "Pike's Peak and Colorado Springs" by Mabel L. Todd; and 

 Harper's Magazine for May of that year had already printed. Vol. 

 LXXXVI, pp. 935-948, a description by the New York correspondent 

 of the London Times, Julian Ralph, of "Colorado and its Capital." 

 More specific accounts of the mining excitement of this year are Cy 

 Warman's "Story of Cripple Creek," in the American Review of 

 Reviews for February, 1896, Vol. XIII, pp. 161-166, with its descrip- 

 tion of the early rush into the camp and the resulting construction of 

 railways; and his similar article in the Colorado Magazine, Vol. I, 

 pp. 67-76, April, 1893. Warman had already contributed to the 

 Colorado Magazine, Vol. I, pp. 163-172, May, 1893, an article on 

 "Crede, " describing the discovery of the Amethyst vein in 1891, the 



