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Map XIII. — 1889 — Seventh General Assembly. 



erected two counties of Logan and Washington, and began the process 

 of the final subdivision of the east.' 



The seventh assembly, in 1889, created eleven counties on the east- 

 ern border of the state.* Logan parted with its eastern end to endow 

 Sedgwick and Phillips; Yuma was erected in the eastern end of Wash- 

 ington; while Weld gave up, as its last contribution, the area of Morgan. 

 South of Arapahoe, which came through the assembly untouched, 

 perhaps because its eastern end contained no railways to develop the 

 country or to pay taxes for new counties, Elbert and Bent suffered 

 most in the division. From Elbert came Kit Carson and a part of 

 Cheyenne on the Kansas line, with the greater part of Lincoln; while 



» Washington, February 9; Logan, February 25, 1887 (Stss. Laws, 1887, pp. 251, 247). 



• A study of this county expansion in connection with the railway development of the eighties shows the 

 intimate relation existing between railway transportation and frontier development. A state commissioner 

 of railroads was created in i88s (Sess. Laws, 1885, p. 307). Two reports were published by this oflScial in 

 1885 and 1892, and finally the ofl&ce was abolished over the veto of Governor Waite in 1893 (.Sess. Laws, 1893' 

 p. 405; Davis H. Waite, Biennial Message . ... to the Tenth General Assembly |Denver, 1895], p. 43). The 

 Eleventh Census. Report on Transportation Business, Part I, pp. 4, 43, states that railroad mileage in Colorado 

 increased from 1,385 in i88o to 4,176 in 1890. 



