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1885 - Colorado State Business Directory

with Colorado Mining Directory, and Colorado Wool Growers Directory Departments

Eleventh Annual Volume
Denver, Colorado
James R. Ives & Co., Publishers.
1885

Index To Cities, Towns and Mining Camps
Colorado State Officers
U. S. Officials for Colorado
District Courts of Colorado
First Judicial District.
Counties, County Seats, Area and Population.
Elections – Vote for Congressman at Large - Election, Nov. 1884.
County Officials
Abstract of Assessed Valuation of Colorado, from Records of Auditor of State.
Shippers’ Guide
Business Directories by Town
Index To Cities, Towns and Mining Camps Top 
Egeria (1)                  Page 223
Hayden                      Page 269
Steamboat Springs           Page 399


(1) Egeria is current day Yampa.
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, 1886 

Office                                 Official
Governor                               Benjamin H. Eaton
Lieutenant-Governor                    Peter W. Breene
Secretary of State                     Melvin Edwards
Treasurer                              George R. Swallow
Auditor                                Hiram A. Spruance
Attorney-General                       Theodore H. Thomas
Superintendent of Public Instruction   L. S. Cornell
U. S. Officials for Colorado Top
(All Resident at Denver)
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. Attorneys                 A. W. Brazee, I. N. Steven
U. S. District Judge            Moses Hallett
U. S. Marshall                  Walter Smith
District Courts of Colorado Top
First District.
Office                    Official
Judge                     Chester C. Carpenter, of Golden.
Attorney                  J. D. McLinsay.
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           510
Elections – Vote for Congressman at Large - Election, Nov. 1884. Top 
County        Symes,          Thomas          Woy
Routt          106              73            -0-


Elections – Vote for Congressman at Large - Election, Nov. 1882. 
County       Belford, R.       Wallace, D.       Green, G.B.
Routt           76                34               -0-


 
County Officials Top
Routt County not listed.
Abstract of Assessed Valuation of Colorado, from Records of Auditor of State. Top
Routt County
No. Military Polls.                               180
Acres of Land.                                  3,681
Value of Land with Improvements          $  36,763.00
Miles of Railroad                                 -0-
Value of Railroad                                 -0-
Average Value of Mdse.                   $   3,350.00
Capital employed in Manufac’rs           $     169.00
No. of Cattle                                  21,000 
Value of Cattle                          $ 400,380.00
No. of Sheep                                    1,109
Value of Sheep                           $  16,666.00
Total Valuation                          $ 550,509.00
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          Routt (1)     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           Routt (2)     20            ---               ---


(1) Egeria is current day Yampa.
(2) Yampa is current day Craig, Moffat County.

 
Business Directories by Town Top 
Egeria                    Page 223

The Boettcher Hardware Co., Denver, Wholesale Hardware & Stove.
Small settlement in Routt County, 50 miles southwest of Hahn’s Peak. Population, 10.

Egeria Business Directory
Bird, Wm., blacksmith.
Farmers & Merchants’ Insurance Co. Denver.
Gray, A., justice peace.
Use Renne’s Pain-Killing Nervine, J. N. Renne, Colo. Springs.
Ward, J. C. , saloon.
Watson, E. H. atty.
Whipple, D. W., constable.

Note the insertions of other businesses from Denver and Colorado Springs. 

Hayden                    Page 269

The Boettcher Hardware Co., Denver, Wholesale Hardware & Stoves.
Post-office in Grand County, 42 miles south-west of Hahn’s Peak. Population, 75.
Note: Should be Routt County.

Hayden Business Directory
Farmers & Merchants’ Insurance Co., Denver.
Magor, G., gen’l. mdse.
Reed, M. E., postmaster.
Use Renne’s Pain-killing Nervine, J. N. Renne, Colo. Springs.
Walker, M. P., saloon.

Steamboat Springs            Page 399

The Boettcher Hardware Co., Denver, Wholesale Hardware & Stoves.
Post-office in Routt County, 25 miles southwest of Hahn’s Peak. Population, 100.

Steamboat Springs Business Directory
Farmers & Merchants’ Insurance Co., Denver.
French, S. M., gen’l mdse.
Suttle, H. H., saw mill.
Woolery, H., justice peace.
Use Renne’s Pain-killing Nervine, J. N. Renne, Colo. Springs.
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