56 GAZETTEER OF COLORADO. 
Atlas sheet. 
Deer Trail; post village in Arapahoe County on Union Pacific 
Railroad; altitude, 5,183 feet. 
Defiance; village in Garfield County. 
Delagua; post village in Las Animas ( mint v on Colorado and 
Southeastern Railway. 
Delano; butte in Larimer County. 
Delhi; station in Las Animas County on Atchison, Topeka 
and Santa Fe Railway; altitude, 5,050 feet Apishapa. 
Del Norte; peak in San Juan Mountains in Rio Grande 
County: altitude, L3,084 feet. 
Del Norte; post town and county seat of Rio Grande County 
on Denver and Rio Grande Railroad; population in 1900, 
705; altitude, 7,868 feet. 
Delta; county in the western part of the State; bounded on 
the north and west by Mesa County on the east by Gun- 
nison County, and on the south by Montrose County, it 
is traverse* 1 by Gunnison River, to which it slopes from 
plateaus on the north and south. Its area is 1,201 square 
miles, of which 5 per cent, or 38,010 acres, were under 
cultivation in 1000. The population in 1000 was 5,487; and 
of Delta, the county seat. 819. In 1000 the average mag- 
netic declination was 14° 10' east. The mean annual 
rainfall is about 11 inches, and the mean annual tempera- 
ture 45° to 50°. 
Delta; post town and county seat of Delta .County on Denver 
and Rio Grande Railroad; population in 1900, 819; alti- 
tude, 4,970 feet. 
Democrat; mountain in Clear Creek County ( Jeorgetown 
Democrat Basin; hanging valley in Gunnison County Anthracite. 
Denver; county in the north-central part of the State; bounded 
on the north by Adams County, on the east by Adams and 
Arapahoe counties, on the south by Arapahoe County, and 
on the west by Jefferson ( Jounty. Denver, the county seat, 
and its suburbs occupy the greater part. Its surface con- 
sists of rolling plains, and its area is 87 square miles. In 
1900 the average magnetic declination was 13° 25 / east. 
The mean annual rainfall is about 15 inches, and the 
mean annual temperature 45° to 50°. 
Denver; county seat of Denver County; population in 1900, 
133,859. It is situated on the plains, 12 miles east of the 
base of the mountains, on South Platte River, at the 
mouth < f Clear Creek. It is the capital and largest city 
of the State, and is entered by eight railroads; altitude, 
5,184 feet, 
Denver and Inter-Mountain Railway; a line running from 
Denver to Golden, a distance of 13 miles. 
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad; main line starting at 
Denver runs south to Pueblo, and thence along Arkansas 
River to its head, crosses the Continental Divide at Tennes- 
see Pass, and extends westward to Salt Lake City and Og- 
den by way of Eagle and Grand river valleys. A branch 
line h. 'ilida in Arkansas Valley follows closely < runnison 
River a. .ins the mam line at Grand Junction. An- 
