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Rh region the abundance of is amazing. “The of the landscape,” says |Dilke, “is in summer green and ; in fall time yellow and ; but  ever.”

.&mdash;Wherever can be obtained the of eastern Colorado is well fitted for .,, and  afford heavy ; es succeed except in the extreme south, and owing to the dryness of the  are easily kept; s vie in size and flavour with any in ;  might be grown more extensively, but they suffer from the attacks of a small , possibly a  of undefined; and almost all the  products of the same  in  can be satisfactorily. The affords a very white dry, and competes with the finest in the s of the world. The yield often reaches forty or fifty s per, and in exceptional cases considerably exceeds this amount. In the higher districts—the parks and the -s—a greater proportion of ground is devoted to either of  or. The native es are of excellent quality as ; and during the the natural  that has withered where it grew is preferred by the  to the best that can be furnished by the labours of the. In certain districts the departments of  have had to be abandoned, owing to the presence of ous, the most important of which seems to be undefined; but these districts are of very limited extent. The cost of is merely nominal, as the  can be driven over extensive districts, under the charge of  or. can be produced for ten per undefined., and a four--old steer for ten s. The chief  of the  is the, or , as it is called in. This is usually  in the  of, when the s are well advanced; but occasionally in dryer and warmer s it appears as early as  and does great damage to the young. Another, the undefined, popularly known as the (see  of ), has recently become famous for its attacks on the , not only in this State but as far east as. It appears formerly to have fed on the undefined, but to have found the new a better habitat.

.&mdash;Recent explorations have shown that the western parts, at least, of the Colorado territory were at one time inhabited by a of considerable, who were perhaps connected or even identical with the  of the regions further south. The first important  was that of, despatched from  in 1540. In 1821 the were visited by, the  ; and part of the northern district was pretty fully explored by Captain  during the great expedition of 1843. It was not till 1858 that the  were disturbed in their sparsely-peopled  grounds; but in that year the discovery of  by, a n, on the  of the , near the present  of , attracted general attention, and bands of s poured in from , , and. During 1860, 1861, and 1862, there was a continuous stream of immigration;, , , , , and were all founded in 1859; next  saw the rise of , , and ;  and  were added in 1861, and  was settled in 1862. In 1861 the region was organized as a in accordance with the wish of the inhabitants, who had held a  at  in 1859; its area was declared to include 47,657,000 s previously assigned to the  of  and, 10,262,400 from that of , and 8,960,000 from , making a total of 66,880,000. The first was, a n by birth and a  in , who has done a great deal for the development of the , and was the originator of the scheme by which it was made to include part of both slopes of the. From 1862 to 1865 the natural progress of immigrational movement was checked, partly by, and partly by the local Indian war which broke out in 1864, and for a time rendered the routes extremely unsafe, and even threatened the existence of the new settlements. Many of the sites, indeed, were deserted, and large numbers of the left the country. In this way greatly decayed, and  and  absolutely disappeared. Happily it was only the of the  who took part in the attacks, and though they numbered from 10,000 to 15,000, they were quickly quelled. In 1865 the immigration again flowed on; and it was found that at the of 1870 the population was 39,864 s, distributed into 9358, and inhabiting 10,009 s. The proportion of  to  was 24,820 to 15,044. Since that date the has very rapidly increased, and it was estimated at 120,000 in 1874. Colorado was received into the as a  in 1877.

1em  COLORADO RIVER, or undefined, a large of, which rises in the and falls into the. The main, known as the , has its source in on the western borders of , so that the whole extent of its course must be upwards of 2000 s. After receiving the s of the  and the , it flows south for about 150 s without any important augmentation till it meets with the great rival  of the , which by means of its numerous confluents drains so large a portion of the western  in the. The united continues to force its way south, till at its junction with the undefined, or Little Colorado, which takes its rise in the  of, it turns almost due west, and cuts right athwart the line of the mountain ranges. Its southern direction is resumed after the confluence of the from the, and it only receives one other tributary of real magnitude, the , before it reaches. The enormous s or s through which the Colorado and several of its confluents force their way, render this one of the most remarkable systems of the. The alone extends for a distance of about 200 s westward from the junction of the undefined, and its walls rise almost sheer from the 's edge to a height of from 4000 to as much as 7000. Further down is which, with a length of 25 s and a height of 1000 or 1500, would be considered a magnificent phenomenon, were it not so completely thrown into insignificance by its more stupendous neighbour. These very features which give the river its uniqueness prevent it from being of much use as a means of ; but can proceed upwards as far as, about 612 s from the. The discovery of the Colorado is due to 