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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO STUDIES 



The first general assembly of the new state, meeting in 1877, took up 

 the process of subdividing the west so vigorously that three new* counties 

 made their appearance in this year. San Juan, which had come into 

 existence only the year before, was cut down until it reached its present 

 location and boundary, while so much of the original territory as lay west 



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Map VIII. — 1877 — First General Assembly. 



of an irregular mountain line became the new county of Ouray/ Lake 

 county was confined to the east of the continental divide or Snowy Range, 

 while its discarded portion received the name of Gunnison.^ Routt 

 county was cut off from Grand with an eastern boundary that was at a 

 later day to cause litigation with both its mother-county and Larimer.^ 



' Actlof January i8, 1877 {General Laws, 1877, p. 207). 



' Act of March 9, 1877 (General Laws, 1877, p. 213). 



3 The western boundary of Larimer was determined by the supreme court in Grand Co. v. Larimer Co. 

 (lyjPolorado, p. 268). Routt county received a somewhat uncertain boundary in the act of January 29, 1877 

 (General Laws, 1877, p. 209). In one section it was to include that part of Grand lying west of a defined line, 

 while the defined line, starting from the intersection of south line of Grand and the Gore Range, and running 

 north to the Wyoming territorial line, ran, through half its length, through North Park and Larimer county. 

 iThus a technical contention based upon the more definite boundary statement might have included in Routt 

 a part of Larimer. The identity of Gore Range caused litigation between Routt and Grand over a twelve- 

 mile strip. The state engineer, J. S. Green, identified the point of intersection at Yarmany Peak, hb ruling 



