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1883 - Colorado State Business Directory

with Colorado Mining Directory and Colorado Live Stock Directory Department-1883

Ninth Annual Volume
Denver, Colorado
James R. Ives & Co., Publishers. 1883

Index to Cities, Towns and Mining Camps
Colorado State Officers
U. S. Officials for Colorado
Legislative
District Courts of Colorado – First District
First Judicial District
Counties, County Seats, Area and Population
Elections – Vote for Congressman at Large - Election, Nov. 1882.
Routt County Officials
Abstract of Assessed Valuation of Colorado, from Records of Auditor of State.
Shippers’ Guide
Towns and Mining Camps
Index to Cities, Towns and Mining Camps Top 
Hahn’s Peak               Page 315
Hayden                    Page 316
Colorado State Officers Top
Executive Department

State Capital Denver
State Building, cor. 15th and Glenarm Streets.

Election for State Officers once in two years, on the second Tuesday in November. Next Election. November 1884.

Office                               Official
Governor                             James B. Grant
Lieutenant-Governor                  William H. Meyer
Secretary of State                   Melvin Edwards
Treasurer                            Frederick Walsen
Auditor                              John C. Abbott
Attorney General                     D. F. Urmy
Superintendent Public Instruction    J. C. Shattuck
U. S. Officials for Colorado Top 
Office                       Official
Assayer U. S. Mint           Herman Silver
Clerk U. S. Court            Keyes Danforth
Collector Internal Revenue   J. S. Wolfe
Post-Office Inspector        R. A. Cameron
Surveyor-General             Albert Johnson
U. S. Attorney               A. W. Brazee
U. S. District Judge         Moses Hallett
U. S. Marshall               Walter Smith
Legislative Top
The State Legislature consist of a Senate and House of Representatives, the former having twenty-six members and the latter forty-nine. It convenes in regular session (limited to forty days) once in two years, on the first Wednesday in January. The next session meets January, 1885.

Senators – None from Routt County

Representatives – John Lefevre, Rep. - Grand and Routt County
District Courts of Colorado – First District Top 
Office                  Official
Judge                   Chester C. Carpenter, of Golden
Attorney                J. McD. Linsay
First Judicial District Top
Routt County – Attached to Grand for Judicial purposes.
Counties, County Seats, Area and Population Top 
County	County Seat     Area     Pop.     Pop.     Pop.
                     Sq. Miles   1870     1880     1883
Routt   Hayden          5000      New      140      300
Elections – Vote for Congressman at Large - Election, Nov. 1882. Top 
County  Belford, Rep.  Wallace, Dem.  Green, G.B.
Routt      76             34            0

Election – Vote on Location of State Capital, Nov. 1881. 

County   Denver  Pueblo   Colorado Springs   Scattered
Routt      14       0           4                0


 
Routt County Officials Top 
Routt County        County Seat – Hayden

Office                       Official
County Judge                 G. W. Edwards
County Clerk                 F. M. Jones
Treasurer                    H. A. Crawford
Sheriff                      E. R. Cody
Assessor                     Thos. H. Isle
Surveyor                     Vacant
Coroner                      T. F. Hickey
Sup’t. Public Instruction    M. C. La Due
Abstract of Assessed Valuation of Colorado, from Records of Auditor of State. Top
Routt County 

No. Military Polls                                69
Acres of Land                                 96,000
Value of Land with Improvements         $  23,350.00
Miles of Railroad                                -0-
Value of Railroad                                -0-
Merchandise –Value                      $   1,894.00
No. of Cattle                                  7,500
Value of Cattle                         $ 112,507.00
No. of Sheep                                   2,500
Value of Sheep                          $   5,000.00
Total Valuation                         $ 169,950.00
Shippers’ Guide Top
List of Post-offices, Railway and Stage Stations, Camps, &c., in Colorado, Population, Counties in which they are Located, and Distances and Directions to the Most Important Railroad Points or County Seats.

Those places that have no post-offices are marked *
Population is estimated from vote at last election; but where no basis existed for such estimate, we have taken the judgment of well-informed residents.
Distances given are by the nearest railroad or stage route.
Accompanying the figures for distance, the direction is indicated as follows: n., north; s., south; e., east; w., west; nr., near, etc. In cases where the exact location of new post-offices could not be ascertained, distances are omitted and the points from which they are easiest of access are given.
County seats are in italics.
Points not reached by regular conveyance are marked “special”.

Place           County     Population     R.R or Stage     Distances and Direction

Hahn’s Peak     Routt        100          Stage            150 s. Rawlins
Hayden          Routt         25          Stage            170 s. Rawlins
Lay             Routt         20          Special          Rawlins
Steamboat Spgs. Routt         50          Special          20 e. Hayden
Towns and Mining Camps Top 
Hahn’s Peak			Page 315

Mining Camp in Routt County, 130 miles south of Laramie City, U. P. R. R.
McIntosh, Robt. P. M. and gen’l mdse.

Hayden			        Page 316

County seat of Routt county, 200 miles northwest of Denver, via Georgetown and Hot Sulphur Springs. Semi-weekly mails.

 

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