and other metals. Its inexhaustible coal fields and rich iron mines are being utilized in many industries, chief among them being the great works of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. Manufacturing has kept pace with other industries, not only in the growth and development of older establishments, but in the projection of new enterprises. The most prominent of these is the manufacture of beet sugar, begun at Grand Junction in 1899. The close of 1903 found eight other giant factories (two in the Arkansas valley and six in northern Colorado) in successful operation, representing an outlay for buildings and machinery of $6,000,000 and requiring the product of 50,000 acres of land. In irrigation, more attention has been paid to storage reservoirs and less flood water is wasted than formerly. High line ditches have also been constructed to divert unused water from the western side of the range to the thirsty plains at its eastern base, where Nature has spread her millions of acres of rich but semi-arid farm lands; and the end is not yet.. Agriculture now stands first among the state's industries in annual production. Closely allied to it is the sheep feeding industry that has doubled the farm value of the hay crop and turned beet tops and other waste into money. Hundreds of thousands of lambs are now annually imported from New Mexico, fattened on the ranches during the winter months, and sent to the markets of Chicago or the Missouri river cities. Stock raising holds its own with somewhat changed conditions, and grazing herds and flocks are the principal feature of the eastern third of the state. Great advance has been made in the development of public utilities. Not only have the street railway systems of the cities been improved and extended, but water works, gas and electric light plants have been installed in nearly every town of any size, and the telephone system has bound the whole state together with its wires, pushing urban conveniences out to the farms and scattered ranches. The rural free delivery established by the United States. Postoffice Department and the better grading of rural schools through the influence of the State Department of Public Instruction are noteworthy gains. Railway building has not maintained the pace set in the preceding decade, being confined mainly to short spurs from existing roads. In the Cripple Creek district, however, three difficult lines were constructed, one joining the Midland road and one the Denver & Rio Grande, while the last one built connects the great gold camp directly with Colorado Springs. Of unusual importance is the Denver and Northwestern & Pacific, known as the Moffat road, whịch in 1903 began construction across the divide and through Middle Park and Routt county. This will open a large extent of country, rich in natural resources, and give Denver a short line to Salt Lake and eventually another outlet to the Pacific coast. A new mint building, ordered by Congress in 1893, is now nearing completion in Denver, and it is expected that soon the precious metals of this greatest mining state will be coined at home by the government, as they were by private enterprise more than forty years ago. More and more Colorado has become noted as a summer resort and Denver as a convention city. Ten thousand teachers met there with the National Educational Association in 1895. Three years later the General Federation of Women's Clubs convened in Denver. Doctors, lawyers, bankers, cattle growers, mining engineers and railway men have found the city a pleasant place for conventions; the International Sunday School Association brought its thousands in 1903, and in 1903 the hosts of the Christian Endeavor Socities gathered in the "Queen City of the Plains," whose population is one-fourth of the state and whose motto is "Forward." APPENDIX TERRITORIAL DELEGATES IN CONGRESS. Hiram P. Bennett, elected Dec. 2, 1861. REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF James B. Belford, Oct. 3, 1876, unexpired term of Fortyfourth Congress. Thomas M. Patterson, Nov. 7, 1876, Forty-fifth Con gress. James B. Belford, Oct., 1878, Forty-sixth Congress. John C. Bell, Second District, Nov., 1892, Fifty-third John F. Shafroth, First District, Nov., 1894, Fifty-fourth Congress. John C. Bell, Second District, Nov., 1894, Fifty-fourth Congress. John F. Shafroth, First District, Nov., 1896, Fifty-fifth Congress. John C. Bell, Second District, Nov., 1896, Fifty-fifth Congress. John F. Shafroth, First District, Nov., 1898, Fifty-sixth Congress. John C. Bell, Second District, Nov., 1898, Fifty-sixth Congress. John F. Shafroth, First District, Nov., 1900, Fifty-seventh Congress. John C. Bell, Second District, Nov., 1900, Fifty-seventh Congress. Robert W. Bonynge, First District, Nov., 1902, Fiftyeighth Congress. Herschel M. Hogg, Second District, Nov., 1902, Fiftyeighth Congress. Franklin E. Brooks, Congressman-at-Large, Nov., 1902, Fifty-eighth Congress. SENATORS FROM THE STATE OF COLORADO. Jerome B. Chaffee, elected Nov. 14, 1876, term expired March, 1879. Henry M. Teller, elected Nov. 14, 1876, term expired March, 1877. Henry M. Teller, re-elected Dec. 9, 1876, for full term of six years. Nathaniel P. Hill, elected Jan. 9, 1879, for full term of six years, to succeed Chaffee. George M. Chilcott, appointed by Governor Pitkin, April II, 1882, for unexpired term of Teller, appointed secretary of the interior. H. A. W. Tabor, elected Jan. 26, 1883, for unexpired term of Teller, consisting of thirty days. Thomas M. Bowen, elected Jan. 26, 1883, for full term, to succeed Teller. Henry M. Teller, re-elected Jan. 21, 1885, for full term, to succeed Hill. Edward O. Wolcott, elected Jan. 16, 1889, for full term, to succeed Bowen. Henry M. Teller, re-elected Jan. 21, 1891, for full term. Edward O. Wolcott, re-elected Jan. 16, 1895, for full term. Henry M. Teller, re-elected Jan. 20, 1897, for full term. Thomas M. Patterson, elected Jan. 15, 1901, for full term. Henry M. Teller, re-elected Jan., 1903, for full term. GOVERNORS OF COLORADO TERRITORY. William Gilpin, 1861-62, appointed by President Lincoln. John Evans, 1862-65, appointed by President Lincoln. Alexander Cummings, 1865-67, appointed by President Johnson. A. C. Hunt, 1867-69, appointed by President Johnson. * Edward M. McCook, 1869-73, appointed by President Grant. Samuel H. Elbert, 1873-74, appointed by President Grant. Edward M. McCook, 1874-75, appointed by President Grant. John L. Routt, 1875-77, appointed by President Grant. GOVERNORS OF THE STATE OF COLORADO. 1860.. No Statistics, but three or four subscription schools operating. 1870.. 6,417 3,430 22,119 1,995 12,618 86 days 38,714 140 132 $ 66,106 NOTE-The average term of graded schools in 1892 was 171 days, and such schools contain more than two-thirds of the entire enrollment. |