64 GUIDEBOOK OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES, 
In the disturbance of the earth’s crust that produced the moun- 
tains the rocks of the plains were thrown into low, broad folds or 
were sharply broken where the stresses were most severe. 
Folds of 
this kind may be seen by the traveler between Pueblo and Canon 
City, but they are so slight that he can hardly recognize them with- 
Arapahoe County, Kans., and also of 
Mountain News of October 6, 1859, 
says: 
oes; one day we understand 
that we are eut off from ence the 
next we have cut ourselves 
pay no regard to rae legislation 
but have an independent government 
of our own; and the very next, when 
there is a chance for a 
eli 
te. election are dry in 
pockets. you will hear them 
Lats advocating ‘independent gov- 
ernment’ and ‘let Kansas go to the 
dogs.’ 
ready 
ne peal teed 
we go, a regular triple 
headed government machine. South 
of [parallel] 40 we hang on the skirts 
. Kansas; north of 40 on those of Ne- 
raska. Straddling the line, we have 
ie elected a Delegate to Congress for 
the Territory of Jefferson; and ere 
long we shall have in full blast a pro- 
visional government of witinsds Moun- 
tain growth and manufacture, 
The eee Frente on Oc- 
tober 10 and formed a Territorial con- 
stitution, sek was ratified by the 
an election held on October 
made the following glowing prediction 
of the future of the Terri : 
“We hope and expect to see it 
stand until we can boast of a million 
people and look upon a city of a hun- 
dred thousand souls having all the 
red, en 
whistle of locomotives and the rattle 
of trains arriving and departing on 
their w 608 a the Atlantic and Pa- 
cific. The future of Jeffer- 
son Territory, soon to be a = 
State, is glorious with promis 
Th rst session of the Rleaicire 
was marked by the enactm 
general laws and special act: 
members seemed rt have been imbued 
with the idea that were building 
a great mountain commonwealth, but 
in the following year interest in the 
= wean government of Jefferson be- 
as the people sont 
to be 
Not entirely disheartened, 
v. Steele issued a proc tude for 
the annual election of officers i 
autumn of 1860, as prov in the 
constitution, but in this proclamation 
all wadds tes that they 
0 serve without 
warning’ was 
given because of the growing be 
that the local Territorial government 
would not be recognized by Congress 
and that all acts of a legislature 
would be declared in 
The second g 
1 
the wits to the 
legislative farce, nas 
vember 27 to Golden 
ducem 
offered at $6 a week—wood and lights 
and hall rent free.’ The members, 
however, lost interest in its proceed- 
after 40 days playing at 
