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Atlas sheet. 
Bedrock; town in Montrose County; population in 1900, 35. 
Beebe Draw; stream in Weld County Greeley. 
Beecher; post village in Yuma County. 
Belden; station in Eagle County on Denver and Rio Grande 
Railroad. 
Belford; village in Hinsdale County. 
Bell; village in La Plata County. 
Belle View; mountain in Rio Grande County; altitude, 12,673 
feet. 
Belleview; station in Chaffee County on Denver and Rio 
Grande Railroad. 
Bellevue; mountain in Cftear Creek County; altitude, 9,684/Idaho Springs Spe- 
feet. I cial. 
Bellevue; mountain in Elk Mountains, Gunnison County; 
altitude, 12, 350 feet. # 
Bellevue Junction; station in Larimer County on Colorado 
and Southern Railway; altitude, 5,211 feet. 
Bells Spur; station in La Plata County on Denver and Rio 
Grande Railroad; altitude, 6,578 feet. 
Bellvue; post village in Larimer County; population in 1900, 99. 
Bellvue; station in Teller County on Colorado Midland Rail- 
way; altitude, 8,993 feet. 
Beloit; village in Kit Carson County. 
Bennet; post village in Adams County on ('nion Pacific Rail- 
road; altitude, 5,484 feet. 
Bennetts; creek in Larimer County, a right-hand branch of 
South Fork Cache la Pond re River. 
Bent; county in the southern part of the State; bounded on the 
north by Kiowa County, on the east by Prowers County, 
on the south by Baca and Las Animas counties, and on the 
west by Otero County. The surface consists chiefly of 
plains, and is drained by Arkansas River and its branches, 
the chief of which are Purgatory River, Rule Creek, and 
Caddoa Creek. The area is 1,497 square miles, of which 
38,858 acres, or 4 per cent, were under cultivation in 1900. 
The population in 1900 was 3,049, and of Las Animas, the 
county seat, 1,192. In 1900 the average magnetic declina- 
tion was 12° 15' east. The mean annual rainfall is about 
12 inches, and the mean annual temperature 50° to 55°. 
Bent; creek in Hinsdale County, a left-hand branch of Lake 
Fork Gunnison River San Cristobal. 
Bent Canyon; small village in Las Animas County near Pur- 
gatory River Timpas. 
Benton; station in Otero County on Atchison, Topeka and 
Santa Fe Railway ; altitude, 4,270 feet Timpas, 
Berg-en; mountain on boundary between Clear Creek and 
Jefferson counties; altitude, 9,555 feet. 
Berg-ens Park; valley in Jefferson County; altitude, 7,543 feet. 
Berkeley; lake in Denver County Denver. 
Berkeley; town in Arapahoe County; population in 1900, 707. 
Berlin; station in Arapahoe- County on Colorado Eastern Rail- 
road. 
