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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO STUDIES 



save for the county of Custer, made in 1877,' the eastern slope remained 

 through the rest of the seventies and through the eighties to 1887. 



On the western slope of Colorado the seventies show a greater county 

 activity than on the eastern. The early counties beyond the range had 

 lost much of their importance from the fact that the Ute reservation cov- 

 ered most of the useful lands. But the Indians receded before the pros- 

 pecter during this decade,^ allowing the creation of many new counties in 

 place of the original three — Summit, Lake, and Conejos. 



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Map VII — 1876 — Eleventh Territorial Assembly. 



Saguache county was the first to change in the early seventies, receiving 

 in 1872 a new northern Hne in the latitude of Poncha Pass, and a new 



•Act of March 9, 1877 {fjentral Laws, 1877, p. 211). The first general assembly of the new state of 

 Colorado published no Session Laws, but embodied the statutes of 1877 in a code of General Imws. 



' The original reserve, west of 107° and south of fifteen miles north of 40°, was based on a treaty March 

 2, 1868. The Utes ceded the San Juan rectangle out of this by a treaty of September, 13, 1873, and the 

 remaining portion, save for the fifteen mile strip of the Southern Ute reserve, by an agreement of March 6. 

 1880. (RoYCE, Indian Land Cessions, pp. 848, 864, 874, 899, 904, 908; House Executive Document 66, 

 Forty- fifth Congress, Second Session.) 



