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diers' and sailors' home, H. Rep. 1847; 54C.i; Serial 3464, and 

 another, on granting to the Cripple Creek District Railway Company 

 a right of way through the Pike's Peak timber land reserve, H. Rep. 

 1592; 55C.2; Serial 3722. About 1900 came Shafroth's report on 

 the preservation of pre-historic ruins in Colorado, H. Rep. 1104; 56C.1; 

 Serial 4025; Hansbrough's recommendation of permission to Mon- 

 trose to enter 160 acres of public lands for reservoir purposes. Sen. 

 Rep. 2955; 57C.2; Serial 4412; and Palmer's report recommending the 

 erection of terms of federal circuit and district courts at Montrose 

 in place of Del Norte, H. Rep. 3378; 57C.2; Serial 4414. Finally, 

 there is in 1901 a long report of a committee named by the General 

 Assembly of Colorado, on the Australasian system of taxation and 

 the revenues of Colorado, Sen. Doc. 209; 56C.2; Serial 4043; pp. 36. 

 The Outlook during these same years calls attention to the sociologi- 

 cal work under Dr. R. W. Corwin of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com- 

 pany, Vol. LXXII, pp. 149-150; to the "Rehgious Life in Colorado," 

 Vol. LXXII, pp. 365-371 to the home-rule charter of Denver, Vol. 

 LXXV, p. 97, and to the franchise amendment Vol. LXXVI, pp. 249- 

 250. 



The great mining strike of 1 903-1 904 caused much attention to 

 be given to industrial and constitutional conditions in Colorado. Begin- 

 ning with the sympathetic strike of the Cripple Creek miners in August, 

 and continuing through the calhng-out of troops, the explosion at the 

 "Vindicator" mine, the recall of troops, the Independence disaster, 

 and the deportations, there is a long series of pertinent articles to be 

 recorded. The Outlook, Vol. LXXV, p. 390, October 17, 1903, com- 

 ments upon the beginning of the strike, and its provocation in the eight- 

 hour agitation. In later issues it calls attention to the less important 

 strike of the coal miners, and to the comphcations produced by the 

 appearance of the Citizens' Alliances, Vol. LXXV, p. 763*; to the 

 general support given by the business interests at Cripple Creek to 

 the drastic measures of Governor Peabody, Vol. LXXVI, pp. 143- 

 144; and to the dangerous social cleavage which divided the mining 

 communities into the hostile Mine Owners' Association and the Western 

 Federation of Miners, Vol. LXXVI, pp. 1001-1003. As the spring 



