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COLORADO-The name of the state is Spanish and means red colored, so called from the prevailing red sandstone rocks which outcrop in the foothills of the mountain ranges all over the state and color red all its streams after heavy rains. The word is properly pronounced in the Spanish Cole-o-rah-do; since, in that language every vowel has one sound-the long sound. A has the broad sound, like the sound of "o" in the English word "on," or the German "ahn." E has the long sound of a in English; for example, "mes" is pronounced mace. The letter i has the sound of double "c" in English, as the sound of the i in the word marine (mareen). O has the long sound of "o" in English. U has the sound of double "o" in English as in "fool," "tool"; and the letter y has the sound as the "i" in Spanish. Every vowel makes a syllable, and every pure Spanish word ends with a vowel or one of the four liquid consonants, l, m, n and r; and words of two syllables when ending with one of the four liquid consonants, have the accent on the final syllable, as Raton, altar, pronounced Rah-tone, ahltar. Hence the Spanish is the most liquid and mellifluous of all languages. And when it is remembered that every vowel must be pronounced and that each vowel has only one sound, then when anyone hears a word spoken, one knows how to spell it, and when a word is seen in print or writing one knows how it is to be pronounced.
In speaking the Spanish, lay stress on the vowels-the consonants take care of themselves-and the accented syllables are accented strongly and distinctly in enunciation.
PUEBLO-This word, the name of the largest city in the state except Denver, means literally people, hence also a town, village or collected settlement of people. Its proper pronunciation in Academic Spanish is Poo-a-blo, but in rapid or conversational use the letter u is given the sound of the English w and the word
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condensed into two syllables, pronounced "Pway-blo," as "fuego" (fire)- "foo-a-go," is pronounced fway-go.
LA JUNTA-This town, at the junction of the Santa Fé Railroad, with its line to Pueblo, means "junction," and the letter j in Spanish has the hard sound of "h" in English (the letter h in Spanish being silent), the word "junta" is pronounced hoontah, and the name La Junta, Lah Hoon-tah, as the island and city of Cuba are pronounced Coó-bah.
LA VETA-The town and mountain pass of the name means "the vein," and is pronounced Lah Váy-tah.
LAS ANIMAS-This name of the river, on which is situated the City of Trini- dad, near its source, and the Town of Las Animas near its mouth at the Arkansas River, has three names, Las Animas, Purgatoire and Picketwire. The full name, El Rio de las Animas, given to it by the early Catholic explorers-no one knows why-means "The River of Spirits." The French trappers and fur traders called it the Purgatory, as their idea of the proper place of spirits of souls, and the American trappers being unable to pronounce the name Purgatoire, perverted it to "Picketwire" by which name it was called by the first settlers of Colorado for many years.
RATON -- The mountain range south of Trinidad, forming the boundary line between Colorado and New Mexico, the pass over the range and the town on the New Mexican side, each named Raton, take the name from the great number of little bob-tailed animals, somewhat resembling a large rat, which inhabit the high ranges, and "bark" at passers-by, like the prairie ground squirrels, miscalled "prairie dogs." Raton means, in Spanish, a large rat, but is a species of the rabbit family-Spanish for rabbit is "conejo" pronounced co-nay-ho-and the Raton is a coney, living on grass and roots and making its bed in the holes and crevices of the rocks at an altitude near timber line, and recalling the words of the Psalmist : "The rocks are a shelter for the conies."
SANGRE DE CRISTO-The name given by the Spaniards to the lofty range of mountains, separating the Arkansas River from the Rio Grande River, means "The Blood of Christ."
RIO GRANDE-This large and long river, having its source in the San Juan Mountains and emptying into the Gulf of Mexico, was named "El Rio Grande del Norte," the Great River of the North, because there was at the time a river called the "Rio Grande" in old Mexico and also in South America. The name is shortened by the Mexicans to "Rio Grande," and also to "Del Norte." English speaking people call it the "Ryo Grand." The proper Spanish pronunciation of El Rio Grande del Norte is Ale Reeo Grahnday dale Nore-tay.
COUNTY NAMES
The Rio Grande River, after debouching from the mountains, flows through a level valley, once the bed of a lake, seventy-five miles long, and forty miles wide, about eight thousand feet above sea level, surrounded by a wall of timbered mountains, and has a fertile soil, and almost every square mile of this great valley, named the San Luis Park, is fit for cultivation, and produces all kinds of grain except corn, while vegetables, especially potatoes, are shipped by the thousands of carloads. This valley is divided into four counties, Saguache,
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Alamosa, Conejos and Costilla ; the first named from a tribe of the Ute Indians; the second from the town of that name, which means a place where cottonwood trees grow-Alamo being the Spanish name for the cottonwood tree. Conejos, pronounced Co-nay-hoce, the plural for Conejo, rabbit, an animal which abounds in that region.
COSTILLA-Costilla, pronounced Cose-teél-yah, meaning a little rib, from the Latin costa a rib, or side, and takes its name from a stream whose course is curved like a rib.
DOLORES-Dolores is the name of a county in the southwest of the state, mean- ing sorrow or grief.
SAN JUAN is a name given to a river, a range of mountains, and a county which is one of the richest mining regions on the "western slope" of the state. The name means St. John, and is pronounced San Whahn, or Whon.
OURAY -- Ouray is the name of a town and county in the San Juan region, and named after a famous Ute Indian chief, although the name is a perversion by mispronunciation of the name Ule, pronounced in Spanish Oo-lay.
MESA is the name of a county of which Grand Junction (so named from the junction at that point of the Grand and the Gunnison rivers), and Mesa, pro- nounced May-sah, is the Spanish for table, and given to the great tableland forma- tion adjoining the town, on the northwest side of the Grand River.
GREENHORN
The front range, lying southwest of Pueblo, named the Sierra Mohada, or Wet Mountain Range, enclosing the Wet Mountain Valley between it and the high Sangre de Cristo Range, which beautiful valley was once the "Happy Hunt- ing ground" of the Ute Indians, terminates at the south end in a high wooded mountain peak named the Greenhorn. From its eastern side flows a stream named the Greenhorn River. This name has a curious origin. Many years before the settlement of white men there was a noted Ute Indian chief who was given a name which signified "Greenhorn," which in Spanish is Cuerno Verde -- pronounced, Quáre-no Vare-day, and by the Americans Greenhorn. This name was assumed by the Indians to denote that the chief was vigorous and brave like a buck elk or deer when his horns, after shedding during his growth, come out with an added prong and green, covered with short, furry hair, in that condi- tion which hunters call "in the velvet."
The name was then given to the mountain peak which stands as a sentinel overlooking the favorite hunting grounds of the chief, and also given to the stream which flows from the side of the mountain.
THE SPANISH PEAKS
Jutting out from the Sangre de Cristo Range, at a right angle to the east- ward and ending abruptly on the plain, a few miles north of the City of Trinidad, stand the two beautiful Spanish peaks, joined together at the base and separated at their tops by a smooth depression, the most symmetrical and striking of all the Rocky Mountains and a landmark from the East and North, like Pike's Peak. They can be seen from Montclair and Fairmount (Denver) in the light of
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a full moon on a clear night, as clear-cut against the sky line as a cameo profile, and at a distance from Denver of 200 miles. The name of these twin peaks in the Arapahoe Indian tongue is "Wah-hah-to-yas," meaning twins, or twinlike.
More than fifty years ago I asked an old trapper, who came to the Rocky Mountains in 1835, what was the Indian name of these peaks and the meaning. He told me that different tribes had different names, but a chief of the Arapahoes, which tribe possessed this part of the country, had given these peaks the name of his favorite wife, "Wah-hah-to-ya," and that the name means "woman's breasts." The old trapper added that this was the only bit of poetical imagery he ever heard an Indian express.
THE HUERFANO ROCK
On the south bank of the Huerfano River, in the County of Huerfano, at a place called St. Mary, where the old wagon road from Pueblo to Santa Fé via the Raton Pass crosses, there stands a lone black rock over two hundred feet in height, tapering from its base to a point like a church spire and rising from the level ground as though it had been pushed up through the earth from below; an eruptive, metamorphic kind of rock, with no other rocks of the same character in its vicinity, and can be seen as a landmark many miles distant. The name of this rock is the Huerfano, which is the Spanish word for orphan, and is properly pronounced Wayr-fah-no, with the accent on the first syllable.
The river that flows by its base is named Huerfano, and is a tributary of the Arkansas River. The old Spanish wagon road leading up from the Arkansas River and crossing the Sangre de Cristo Pass to Fort Garland, Taos and Santa Fé, passes this rock, about a dozen miles east of the mountain range, and the rock is surrounded by fine farms and ranches. Col. John C. Frémont recom- mended this road over the Sangre de Cristo Pass as a feasible route for a Pacific railway.
In the beautiful little park named Lafayette Park in St. Louis, which was the first park in that city, there stands a bronze statue of Senator Thomas H. Benton. The statue is of gigantic size and shows the famous statesman garbed in the classic toga of a Roman senator, facing the west, in an erect pose, his right arm is stretched to full length with the hand and index finger pointing toward the setting sun. On the pedestal of the statue is engraved this inscription: "There is the East: there are the Indies."
It was many years after I had first seen that statue, and after I had seen the Huerfano rock in Colorado, when I learned the history of the occasion and meaning of that inscription; and it is fitting that the historic incident, which I think has never heretofore been published, should have a place in the history of the state in which stands the orphan rock-as imperishable as the bronze statue of the prophetic statesman whom it inspired.
Senator Benton, who served thirty years in the Senate of the United States, spent the last years of his service in trying to induce the Government to build a railroad to the Pacific Coast. During the time he had familiarized himself with the reports and descriptions of the several routes for such a national high- way, and the fact that Colonel Frémont became his son-in-law added a personal interest to Mr. Benton's efforts. Among the last of his eloquent and forceful
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speeches in the Senate on the subject of the Pacific Railway, he drew a word picture of the route which he preferred, and said:
"This great national highway should start at St. Louis, where it would con- nect with the commerce of the waterways of the Missouri, the Ohio and the Mississippi rivers, midway between the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, then I should have it run to Independence, thence to the Arkansas River and on up to Bent's Fort and on to the mouth of the Huerfano River and up that stream to the Sangre de Cristo Pass, over to the Rio Grande and then over the Con- tinental Divide to the Pacific Coast. And on this route, at the base of the Rocky Mountains, on the bank of the Huerfano River this railroad would pass a lofty solitary rock rising like a pinnacle and seeming a god-created sentinel guarding the gateway of the snow-capped mountain walls, and the summit of that monu- mental pinnacle I would have carved into a titanic figure of Christopher Colum- bus, who discovered this continent in his search for the East Indies by sailing west, and that figure of Columbus would have an outstretched arm with the hand pointing toward the Pacific as though his voice was proclaiming to the world: 'There is the East: there are the Indies!' "
INDEX
Acreage and yield, sugar beets, 537 Acreage to corn in 1917, 488 "Across the Continent, " 479 Adair, Isaac, 518 Adams, Alva, 432, 442, 445, 722, 847, 879 Adams, Andy, 887
Adams, D., 52
Adams, E. D., 363
Adams, James B., 889
Adams, J. F., 207
Adams, John T., 318
Additions to Colorado College, 626 Administration building at penitentiary, 819 Adriance, Rev. Jacob, 661; cabin occupied by, 659 Advent of automobile, the, 579
Advent of General Palmer, 338
Advent of railroad in 1870, 586
Affair at Sand Creek, the, 93
Aftermath, the (Sand Creek), 94
Agreement in Cripple Creek strike of 1894, 844
Agricultural districts, 480
Agricultural interests, 565
Agriculture in Colorado, 478
Agriculture taught in high school, 488 Aid requested, 335
Aikins, Captain Thomas, 272
Akron papers, 809 Alamosa, origin of name of, 893 Alamosa newspapers, 798 Alarm in Denver, 89
Allen, George W., 447 Allen, Henry, 418, 497
Allen, H. W., Reminiscences of, 770
Allen, Jack, 152
Allen, John, 154
Allen, J. S., 418
Allen, L. A., 520
Allencaster, General, 47 Alling, E. B., 286 Allison, A. J., 417 American Beet Sugar Company, the, 542 American Cattle Growers' Association, 532 American exploration, Period of, 37 American Fur Company, 122 American Indian, the, 74
American Medical Association, Colorado hon- ors in, 773-4 American Sahara, 55 American Smelting & Refining Company, 853 American Sugar Refining Company, 540 Ames, Oliver, 333 Ammons, Elias M., 446 Amory, Copley, 317 Ancient and modern Indian tribes, 65 Anderson, A. P., 207 Anderson, Thomas G., 791 Angora goat industry, 520
Annual beat sugar production, 536 Antelope, bear, etc., 120 Anthony, Captain S. J., 704
Anthony, Major, 94
Anthracite, where it occurs, 451
Apache Canon, 713, 714
Appellate courts, 733, 736
Apples, staple crop, 490
Appropriations for Deaf and Blind School, 824
Arapahoe, Jefferson & South Park Railroad Company, 337
Arbitration conference (1894), 843
Arbitration unsuccessful in Leadville strike, 839 Archer, Colonel James, 335
Archibald, Ebenezer, 804
Archuleta county, 13
Area of state, 7
Areas of national forests, 568
Argo, Dr. W. P., 827 Argo Hall, 825
Arkansas Valley Railway, Light & Power Company, 321; directors, 321; officers, 321 Arkins, John and Maurice, 788 Armour, C. Lee, 419, 734
Arnett, W. D., 418
Arrests in Cripple Creek strike, 859
Arrival of first trains in Denver, 340
Arthur, President, 429
Asbestos, 558 Ashley, Eli M., 420
Ashton, T. H., 521
Aspen publications, 806
Assaults in Cripple Creek strike (1904), 858
Assessed valuation, 1878 and 1918, 485
Assessed valuation, total, 486
Association, Colorado Equal Suffrage, 691 Asuncion, Juan de la, 22
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe built, 126, 370 Atkinson, Colonel Henry, 52
A trip to gold region in '59, 785
Attack on Thornburgh, 104
Attack at the agency, the, 106
Attendance at Agricultural College, 616
Attendance at University in 1892, 606 Attorneys general, 194
Auditors of state, 193 Ault Advertiser, 811 Auraria, 765 Auraria Town Company, 136
Auraria Town Company, by-laws of, 139
Authors, Colorado, 877-890 Autobees, Charles, 478, 520 Automobile registration, 581
Auto road, Crystal Park, 9 Avalanche-Echo, 813 Avery, Dr., 773
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Beginnings of El Paso county mining, 285
Beginnings of government, 168
Beginnings of mining history, 228
Begole, A. W., 157, 295
Belden, D. D., 285
Bell, John C., 887 Bell, J. R., 52
Bell, Robert B. H., 887
Bell, Adj .- Gen. S. M., 859, 864
Bell, Dr. W. A., 154, 164, 349, 880 Belford, Judge J. B., 422, 428, 734, 735, 742, 877 Belford-Patterson congressional fight, 428
Balcony House, 69
Baldwin, George O., 286
Baldwin, Lt. H. W., 719
Bancroft, Dr. F. J., 766
Bancroft, H. H., 879
Banking frauds in Denver, 402
Bank organizers and directors, 404-408
Banks and Banking, 392
Banks, Dr. Louis A., 884
Banks now defunct, 396-399
Banks of Colorado, 1918, 408-416
Banks, other, 401
Baptist church data, 1917, 640
Baptist churches, when organized, 639
Baptist "Dugout," the, 635
Baptists of Colorado, 636
Baptiste, John, 146 Bar Association, Colorado, 763
Barker, William J., 320
Barlow, S. L. M., 329
Barnard, Peter, 52
Barnes, S. D., 438
Barney, A. H., 329
Barthella, John, 849.
Barry, Dr. Mary F., 697
Bascom, D. C., 488
Bassick, E. C., 282
Bastin, E. S., 249
Bates, Dr. Mary B., 773
Bates, Gen. J. C., report of, 868
Bates, J. E., 336
Battle Mountain, 842
Baxter, O. H. P., 371
Bayley, F. T., 884
Baylor, Lt. Col. J. R., 706, 710
Bayou Salado, 120
Beaman, C. C., 362
Beardsley, I. H., 884
Bear River Mountains, 12
Bears, elk, deer, etc., 120
Beck, Rev. John, 233
Black, Winifred, 887
Black Hawk, 40
Black Kettle, 93
Blaine, J. G., 423
Blair, Frank P., 419
Blake & Williams, 143
Blakc, Charles H., 143, 149
Blake, I. E., 286
Blake, J. A., 880
Blake, John, 156
Blanco, the Ute chief, 121
Blind, Industrial Workshop for the, 834
Blind, State School for the, 823
Bliss, L. W., 417
Bliss, Rev. T. E., 655
Bloomgarden, Solomon, 885, 890 Blunt, Gen. J. G., 718
Bachelder, W. N., 517 Bailey, H. A., 154 Baird, James, 125 Baird, John, 154 Baggs, Mrs. Mae L., 880
Baker, Charles, 271
Baker expedition, the, 271 Baker, James H., 881 Baker, Lt. John, 714, 715
Baker Park, 271
Belt, Dr. George, 152
Bench and Bar, 732-764
Benkelman, G. A., 521
Bennet, H. P., 156, 172, 394, 420
Bennet, Robert A., 886
"Bennett," 103 Bennett, E. J., 518
· Bennett, I. W., 518 Bent & St. Vrain, 116
Bent, Charles, 116
Bent County Democrat, 803
Bent, George, 116
Bent, John, 117
Bent, Robert, 116
Bent, St. Vrain & Co., 116
Bent, Silas, 116
Bent, William W., 116, 126, 229, 479, 702
Benton, Hon. Thomas H., 894
Benton, Thomas M., 326
Bent's Fort, 59, 116
Bents, the, 116
Bercaw, Albert, 152
Bercaw, Robert, 149
Berger, W. B., 404
Bergtold, Dr. William H., 883
Berroth, O. D., 376
Berthond Bulletin, 800
Berthoud, E. L., 147
Bessey, Sheriff, 103
Bethel, Ellsworth, 882
Bieler and Hutton's horse ranch, 518
Bienville, Governor, 34
Big Elk, 78 Bigney, T. O., 887
Big storm of December, 1878, 510
Billings-Denver line, mileage of the, 369
Bishops of diocese of Colorado, 648
Bissell, C. R., 417
Bissell, Judge Julius, 736
Bird's-eye view of Pueblo, 1888, 119
Bitter lessons of rain-belt failure, 484
Beckwith, Lieut. E. G., 326
Beckwourth, James P., 118
Beecher, Lieut. F. H., 99
Beecher's death, 100
Beet sugar factories, 536
Beet sugar industry by states, 536
Beet sugar statistics, 544
Beggs, Dr. William N., 880
Beginning of colonization, 158
Beginning of Colorado politics, 417 Beginning of depredations, 84 Beginning of Fort Collins, 166
Beginning of improved cultivation, 479
Beginning of miners' organizations, 837
Beginning of smelter industry, 310
Beginning of wagon freighting, 325 Beginning of water right laws, 497
Avery, Jesse W., 376 Aylsworth, B. O., 889
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Board of Agriculture serves in varied capaci ties, 617 Board of Control of State Home, 831 Board of Deaf & Blind School created, 827 Board of Regents, 610 Board of Stock Inspection Commissioners, 208 Board of Trade Annual, 550 Board of Trade report, 1867, 333 Boettcher, C. S., 375 Bonfils. F. G., 792
Bonilla's expedition, 25
Bonney, Dr. S. G., 883 Bonynge, R. W., 442 Books by Colorado authors, 877-890
Boston & Colorado smelting works, 343
Bosworth, Eva Bird, 880
Boulder Camera, 798
Boulder City Town Company, 144
Boulder City, views of, 145
Boulder County's Argonauts, 272 Boulder Herald, 798 Boulder News, 798 Boulder newspapers, 798 Boulder Sentinel, 798
Bourgmont's second appearance, 32 Bowen and Tabor go to senate, 432 Bowen, Gabriel, 285
Bower, Crie, 889 Bowers, Sheriff, 842
Bowles, J. W., 521
Bowles, Samuel, 165, 479
Boyd, David, 878
Boyd, Capt. E. D., 152, 718
Boyd, James R., 403
Boyer, A. J., 790 Boyer, William J., 134 Boys at Clayton College, duties of, 630
Boys, Industrial School for, 831 Bradford, Judge A. A., 420, 734, 744
Bradford, Mary C. C., 446, 695, 696
Bradford City, 150 Bradley, G. T., 207 Bradshaw, Lucius F., 268 Brady, Catherine H., 887 Brady, Sheriff John, 866 Branches of D. & R. G., with dates built, 361 Brandt, J. L., 884 Brantner ditch, 220
Brazee, A. W., 422 Breckenridge, 150 Breckenridge newspapers, 809
Breeding of horses, 517 Brewster, Frances S., 890 Bridger, "Jim," 124
Briggsdale Banner, 811 Bristol, J. L., 518 Broadwell House, the, 347 Bromley, C. C., 320 Bromwell, H. P. H., 422, 689, 888
Brookfield, Alfred A., 144 Brooks, F. E., 442, 795 Brooks, Gen. E. J., 844 Brown, Edwin A., 885 Brown, E. L., 363 Brown, Frank M., 286 Brown, George W., 393 Brown, Grace M., 885 Brown, Henry C., 396 Brown, Jasper, 282 Brown, Joseph G., 877, 879, 880
Brown, J. H., 435
Brown, Samuel, 393
Browne, Samuel E., 90, 349
Brown's Hole, 130 Brown's, generosity of the, 655 Brunton, D. W., 157, 272 Brush Tribune, 803 Bruyère, Fabrée de la, 34
Bryan, Hannah M., 889
Bryan, William J., 445
Bublo's Fort, 131
Buchanan, President, 419 Buchtel, Governor, 207, 444
Buck, E. A., 376 Buckingham, Dr. R. G., 823
Bueklin, J. W., 154
Buckman, George Rex, 317, 879
Buckner, General, 428
Buckskin Charley, 78
Buckskin Joe, 150, 264
Buddenboek, Earl von, 292
Bnell, George B., 152
Buena Vista's newspapers, 797
Buffalo, antelope, etc., 120
Buffalo Billy, Chief, 76
Buffalo meat plentiful, 478
"Buffalo Soldiers," 103
Building expenses of State Hospital, 822 Building homes in reserves, 564 Building of City ditch, 498 Buildings, with cost, U. of C., 611
Bull Hill, 842
Bureau of Child and Animal Protection, 209
Bureau of Labor Statistics, 215
Bureau of Plant Industry, 488
Burghout, H. T., 285
Burlington & Colorado R. R. Co., 370
B. & M. R. in Nebraska, 370
Burlington road, The, 370 Burnell, James M., 788
Burns, James F., 279
Burr, Aaron, 49
Burroughs, J. C., 425
Bnsey, . Dr. A. P., 835
Bush, Benjamin F., 363
Butler, Mrs. Olive, 697
Butte convention of union miners, 838
Butterfield, Caroline M., 890
Butterfield, D. A., 574
Butterfield Overland Dispatch, 329
Butters, Alfred, 521
Buying broken-down freighting oxen, 507 Byers, William N., 229, 418, 498, 781, 877 Byers' journey west, 782 Byllesby, H. M. & Co., 318 Byers & Dailey, 230
Cabin erected by Russell Expedition, 231 Cable, R. R., 377 Cache a la Poudre River, 53 Caiori, Professor Florian, 883 Calderwood, John, 841
California Gulch, 267 C. O. C. & P. P. Express, 329 Calloway, Trowbridge, 378 Cameron, General R. A., 159 Camp Adams, 722 Campaign of 1912, 446
Campaign of. 1914, 446 Campbell, Captain L. E., 292 Campbell, Mrs. Mary G., 691
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Campbell, Richard, 788 Campbell, Robert, 124 Campbell, W. L., 521, 576 Camp Bird mine, 296 Camp Bird yield, 296 Camp Elbert, 719 Camp Hale, 723 Camp Weld, 718
Canals, corporation built, 494
Canals, earliest, 492 Canby, Colonel E. R. S., 706, 710, 711 Canby, General, 709, 715, 716 Candidates for governor, 1880, 431 Cannon, George L., 882
Canon, Benton, 879
Canon City, 149 Canon City & San Juan Railroad, 352, 371 Canon City field, 469 Canon City newspapers, 795
Canon City, penitentiary established at, 816 Canon City Record, 795
Cantrell, John, 230
Capacity, hydro-electric developments, 318 Capacity of coal mines, 456-462
Capacity of smelters, 1910, 316 Capacity of reservoirs, 497
Capital at Golden, the, 174
Capital goes from Golden to Denver, 174 Capital of Colorado banks, 408-416 Capital stock, all banks, 1918, 416
Capitol building, Denver, 197
Capitol managers, state board of, 218 Cappell, Arthur, 362 Cappell, George, 361
Captain Jack, Chief, 77
Carbondale Item, 813 Carey act, the, 495
Carlisle, J. N., 371, 435
Carlson, G. A., 446
Carney & Stevens, 396
Carpenter, F. R., 313 Carr, R. E., 344 Carr, R. V., 889 Carroll, Fred, 218
Carroll, Fred, 1916 report, 256
Carson, Kit, 710
Carter-Colton, F. L., 518 Carter, Eli, 418
Carter, Thomas J., 335 Case, F. M., 336, 419
Cass, Joseph B., 396 Cass, Dr. O. D., 395 Cassady, Thomas, 262 Cassidy, A. M., 285 Castle, Horace, 890 Castle Rock Journal, 799
Casualties at Telluride strike, 849 Casualties in strike at Cripple Creek (1894), 842
Casy, Robert, 884 Catholic church in Boulder, 680 Catholic church in Colorado, 677 Catterson, Wesley, 152 Catterson, Doctor, 152 Cattle and sheep, value and number, 1879, 511 Cattle and their value, 531 Cattle raising, chief occupation, 484 "Cattle Raising on the Plains," 508 Cattle shipments, 1872, 342 Cattle shipments, 510 Cattle thieves, 509
Canses of Cripple Creek strike (1893), 840 Causes of Lake City strike, 847 Cement materials, 557
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