COUNTY BOUNDARIES OF COLORADO 



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Her mines were in a measure discredited, statehood failed in spite of 

 the exigencies of the RepubHcan party in Congress, and population seems 

 actually to have fallen away during these years. The county process 

 indicates this stagnation in its own leisurely development. 



Lanmer 



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Arap<:?hoe 



Doua/cf'S 



El Pa^cp 



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Las Animas 



Map IV. — r868 — Seventh Assembly. 



With the exception of Saguache, formed out of that part of Costilla 

 north of La Loma del Norte and Moscow Creek,* no new county was 

 created on the western slope during these years. Saguache was the work 

 of the sixth legislative assembly sitting at Golden in 1866-67. Its north- 

 west boundary was not the original Costilla-Lake line of 186 1, but a new 

 line erected for Costilla-Conejos by the third legislature in 1864, and ex- 

 tending from the top of Cochetopa Pass to "the mouth of the canon of 

 the Snowy Range from whence flows the Rio Grande del Norte,"* the 

 southern point being later determined by the state engineer as the town 

 of Del Norte, situated in La Loma del Norte. ^ 



" 5fM. Laws, 1866-67, p. 54, act of December 29, 1866. 



' Sess. Laws, 1864, p. 68, ; February 24, 1864. 



3 Cochetopa Pass was in 1892 defined by the state engineer as situated in S. W. Cor., Twp. 46 N., Range 

 No. 4, East, of New Mexico Principal Meridian (Colorado Slate Engineer, Sixth Biennial Report, p. 49). The 

 'mouth" of the canon was located in this same report (p. 44). 



