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1884 - Colorado State Business Directory

with Colorado Mining Directory and Colorado Live Stock Directory Departments 1884

Tenth Annual Volume
Denver, Colorado
James R. Ives & Co., Publisher, 1884

Index To Cities, Towns and Mining Camps
Colorado State Officers
U. S. Officials for Colorado
Legislative
District Courts of Colorado
First Judicial District
Counties, County Seats, Area and Population
Elections – Vote for Congressman at Large - Election, Nov. 1882.
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 232
Colorado State Officers Top 
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 

Officer                                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 of Public Instruction   J. C. Shattuck
U. S. Officials for Colorado Top 
Office                       Official
Assayer U. S. Mint           Herman Silver
Clerk U. S. Court            E. F. Bishop
Collector Internal Revenue   J. S. Wolfe
Post-Office Inspector        R. A. Cameron
Surveyor-General             N. H. Meldrum
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.

Members of the Legislature

Senate – None from Routt County

Representatives – Lefevre, John Rep. – Grand & Routt County
District Courts of Colorado Top
First District 
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.
                            Sq. Miles      1883
Routt        Hayden            5300         600
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
County Officials Top
Routt County is not listed.
 
Abstract of Assessed Valuation of Colorado, from Records of Auditor of State. Top
Routt County 

No. Military Polls.                                102
Acres of Land.                                   1,920
Value of Land with Improvements           $  29,620.00
Miles of Railroad                                  -0-
Value of Railroad                                  -0-
Merchandise – Value                       $   1,370.00
No. of Cattle                                   12,170
Value of Cattle                           $ 155,892.00
No. of Sheep                                       675
Value of Sheep                            $   1,437.00
Total Valuation                           $ 241,564.00
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
Edith           Routt          20            ---              ---
Egeria (1)      Routt          20            ---              ---
Fortification   Routt          20            ---              ---
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
Yampa (2)       Routt          20            ---              ---

(1) Egeria is current day Yampa.
(2) Yampa is current day Craig, Moffat County.
 
Towns and Mining Camps Top 
Hahn’s Peak			Page 232

Mining camp in Routt County, 130 miles south of Laramie City, U. P. R. R.
McIntosh, Robt. Postmaster and general merchandise.
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