130 GAZETTEEK OF COLORADO. 
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Atlas sheet. 
Perigo; post village in Gilpin County. 
Perm; town in La Plata County. 
Perrine; peak in San Juan Mountains, La Plata County Durango. 
Perry Park; post village in Douglas County Castle Rock. 
Peterhead; station in Jefferson County on Colorado and South- 
ern Railway. 
Petersburg; post village in Arapahoe County on Atchison, 
Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway; altitude, 5,307 feet Denver. 
Peterson; canyon in Pueblo County, tributary to Mustang 
( 'reek Apishapa. 
_ . * • • m n i n * /Idaho Springs Spe- 
Pewabic; mountain in Clear ( reek Countv i . , 
I cial. 
Peyton; post village in Elbert County on Chicago, Rock 
Island and Pacific Railway; altitude, 6,789 feet. 
Phelps; canyon in Las Animas County, tributary to Purgatory 
River Spanish Peaks. 
Phillips; county in the northeastern part of the State; bounded 
on the north by Sedgwick County, on the east by Nebraska, 
on the south by Yuma County, and on the west by Logan 
Countv. The surface is a rolling plain, traversed east and 
west by the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad. The 
area is 677 square miles, of which 5 per cent, or 20,028 
acres, were under cultivation in 1900. The population in 
1900 was 1,583; and of Holyoke, the county seat, 451. In 
1900 the average magnetic declination was 13° 20' east. The 
mean annual rainfall is about 14 inches, and the mean 
annual temperature 50° to 55°. 
Picayune; gulch, in San Juan County, tributary to Animas 
River Silverton. 
Piceance; creek in Rio Blanco County, a left-hand branch of 
White River. 
Piceance; post village in Rio Blanco County on Colorado Mid- 
land Railway. 
Pictou; post village in Huerfano County on Denver and Rio 
< J rande Railroad Walsenburg. 
Piedmont; station in Ouray County on Denver and Rio Grande 
Railroad; altitude, 7,099 feet. 
Piedmont Junction; station on Colorado and Wyoming Rail- 
way; altitude, 6,290 feet. 
Piedra; creek in Rio Grande County, a right-hand branch of 
Rio Grande. 
Piedra: post village in Archuleta County; altitude, 6,520 feet. 
Piedra Parada; summit in Archuleta County; altitude, 8,200 
feet. 
Piedra Pintada; small creek in Rio Grande County, flowing 
into a sink. 
Pieplant; post village in Gunnison County. 
Pierce; gulch in Pueblo County, tributary to Beaver Creek... Pueblo. 
Pierce; post village in Weld County on Union Pacific Rail- 
road; altitude, 5,034 feet. 
Pierson Basin; valley in Ouray County Silverton. 
Pigeon; peak in San Juan Mountains, La Plata County; alti- 
tude, 13,961 feet, Needle Mountains. 
