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Grace; creek in Larimer County, a left-hand branch of Lara- 
mie River. 
Graham; creek in Eagle and Pitkin counties, a right-hand 
branch of Frying Pan Creek, tributary to Roaring Fork. 
Graham Park Junction; station in Lake County <>n Denver 
and Rio Grande Railroad; altitude, 1.0,605 feet. 
Granada; creek in Prowers County, a right-hand branch offAlbany. 
Arkansas River. iGranada. 
Granada; post town in Prowers County on Atchison, Topeka 
and Santa Fe Railway; population in 1900, 204; altitude, 
3,493 feet < rranada. 
Granby; post village in Grand County. 
Grand; county in the north-central part of the State; bounded 
on the north by Larimer County, on the east by Front 
Range, on the south by Williams River Mountains, and on 
the west by Routt County. The area includes Middle Park, 
an elevated region limited on the east by Front Range and 
on the west by Park Range, and is traversed by numerous 
shorter ranges of mountains. It contains the headwaters 
of Grand River. Its area is 1,873 square miles, of which 2 
per cent, or 18,504 acres, were under cultivation in L900. 
The population in L900 was 741, and of Sulphur Springs, 
the county seat, 106. In L900 the average magnetic decli- 
nation was L4° 10' east. The mean annual rainfall is about 
L6 inches, and the mean annual temperature 40° to 45°. 
Grand; lake in Middle Park, at the source of Grand River. 
Grand; mesa in the western part of the State, lying between 
Grand and Gunnison rivers; altitude, L0,000 feet. 
Grand; river in Colorado and Utah, one of the two forks of 
Colorado River. It heads in the western slopes of Front 
Range in Middle Park, traverses thai high mountain val- 
ley with a westerly course, cuts through the Park Range, 
which forms its western wall, and after a long course, gen- 
erally toward the southwest, in which it cuts through 
numerous ranges and plateaus, it joins Green River, form- 
ing the Colorado. This river has two forks, known as 
East Fork and North Fork of the Grand. The dis- 
charge at Glenwood Springs for 1904 was 2,049,000 acre- 
feet; near Palisades, April 1 to October 31, 1904, 2,944,000 
acre-feet. 
Grand Canyon of the Arkansas; in Fremont County, be- 
ginning just above Canyon and extending up the river 6 
miles; its depth ranges from 1,000 to 2,000 feet. 
Grand Junction; county seat of Mesa County on Denver and 
Rio Grande Railroad; population in 1900, 3,503; altitude, 
4,573 feet. 
Grand Lake; post village in Grand County; altitude, 8,153 
feet. 
Grand River; valley of Grand River extending for some 50 
miles below the junction of Grand and Gunnison rivers at 
Grand Junction, having a breadth of 12 to 18 miles. The 
river closely hugs the foot of the plateau on the south, the 
entire valley lying on the right-hand side of the stream. 
