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Atlas sheet. 
Sage: plateau in Routl County. 
Saguache; county in the south-central part of the State; 
bounded on the north by Gunnison, Chaffee, and Fremont 
counties, on the east by Fremont, Custer, and Huerfano 
counties, and on the south by Costilla and Rio Grande 
counties, and on the west by Hinsdale and Gunnison coun- 
ties. It includes the northern part of San Luis Valley. 
extending on the east to the slopes of Sangre de Cristo 
Range, and on the west over the Cochetopa Hills to the 
rolling country sloping to the valley of Gunnison River. 
Its area is 2,769 square miles, of which 7 per cent, or 119,587 
acres, were under cultivation in 1900. The population in 
1900 was 3,853; and of Saguache, the county seat, 389. In 
1900 the average magnetic declination was 12° 55 / east. 
The mean annual rainfall is about 7 inches, and the mean 
annual temperature 40°. 
Saguache; post town and county seat of Saguache County; 
population in 1900, 389; altitude, 7,745 feet. 
Saguache; river heading in Cochetopa Hills and flowing south 
into San Luis Valley, where it disappears. 
St. Charles; canyon in Pueblo County, a right-hand branch 
of St. Charles River Pueblo. 
St. Charles; river in Pueblo County, a right-hand branch of IPueblo. 
Arkansas River. IXepesta. 
St. Charles; station in Pueblo County, on Denver and Rio 
Grande Railroad; altitude, 4,888 feet. 
St. Cloud; post village in Larimer County. 
St. Elmo; post town in Chaffee County on Colorado and South- 
ern Railway; population in 1900, 64: altitude, 10,051 feet. 
St. Kevin; station in Lake County on Denver and Rio Grande 
Railroad; altitude. 9,804 feet. 
St. Lewis; creek in Grand County, a left-hand branch of Frazer 
River, tributary to Grand River. 
3t. Mary; post village in Huerfano County; altitude, 6,067 feet. 
3t. Peters; station in El Paso County on Colorado Springs and 
Cripple Creek District Railway; altitude, 8,701 feet. 
St. Sophia; ridge on boundary between Ouray and San .Miguel 
counties Telluride. 
3t. Thomas; town in Teller County on Florence and Cripple 
Creek Railroad. 
Bt. Vrain; creek in Weld County, a left-hand branch of South INiwot. 
Platte River. iGreeley. 
■t. Vrains; town in Weld County; altitude, 5,120 feet. 
Jalado; creek in Las Animas County, a left-hand branch of 
Apishapa River Elrnoro. 
-alem; post village in Arapahoe County. 
■alida; city in Chaffee County on Denver and Rio Grande 
Railroad; population in 1900, 3,722; altitude, 7,038 feet, 
alina; post village in Boulder County on Colorado and North- 
western Railroad; altitude, 6,571 feet, 
alina; station in Park County on Colorado Midland Railway; 
altitude, 8,936 feet. 
alis; station on Union Pacific Railroad; altitude, 4,123 feet. 
