I speak now of what I have personal knowledge of. and what at least twentylive tbousaud people living in the then Territory of Colorado also had personal knowledge of. The population of Colorado was then about twentyfive thousand. In 1860 we were represented as having about thirty three thousand people. the emigration took another direction that fall.and then broke out the war. so that our population was reduced. as shown by our census in 1865. taken by the Territory. to a little less than twentysix thousand people. lere were twentyfive thousand people at the base of the Rocky Mountains. It was five hundred miles to the nearest settlement in the East. Tho only comsunication that we had with the East was by a wagonlino. a stageline. and a telegraph line.
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