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Bent not only contributed to complete Lincoln and Cheyenne, but parted 

 with three complete counties in Kiowa, Prowers, and Otero. Las 

 Animas lost Baca in this same destruction, giving up the one county 

 of the eastern border with no railway in its endowment.^ 



Map XIV.— 1899— Eighth to Twelfth Assemblies. 



There was little left to be done on the eastern slope after the com- 

 prehensive accomphshments of the seventh assembly. Ten years 

 later, in 1899, the twelfth assembly took the next step in response to 

 the demands of the new Cripple Creek camp, creating Teller county 

 at the expense of El Paso and Fremont.^ 



« Morgan, February 19, 1889 (Sess. Laws, 1889, p. 267); Yuma, March 15 (p. 476); Cheyenne, March 

 25 (p- 56); Otero, March 25 (p. 281)-, Phillips, March 27 (p. 288); Sedgwick, April 9,(p. 340); Prowers, April 

 II (p. 294); Kiowa, April 11 (p. 222); Kit Carson, April 11 (p 225); Lincoln, April 11 (p. 234); Baca, April 

 16 (p. 26). 



' Act of March 23, 1899 {Sess. Laws, 1899, p. 359). The difficulties in administering a county contain- 

 ing, as in the case of El Paso, two large centers of population, Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek, were made 

 clear during the great strike of 1893-94 (B. M. Rastal, "The Cripple Creek Strike of 1893," isxColorado College 

 Studies, Vol. II, pp. 1-48). The case of Frost v. Pfeijjer, cited above, was decided in connection with the 

 creation of this county (XXVI Colorado, 338). The western line of Teller had been run, on appeal o 

 El Paso and Park, in 1893 {Colorado Stale Engineer, Seventh Biennial Report, p. 221. 



