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COLORADO.

Government. — The General Assembly consists of a Senate of 35 members elected for four years, one-half retiring every two years, and of a House of Representatives of 65 members elected for two years. Sessions are biennial. Eligible to either House are all citizens of the United States male and female 25 years of age and 12 months resident in the district for which they seek election. Qualified as electors are all persons male and female (except criminals and insane) 21 years of age who are citizens of the United States, a)id had at the last preceding election been 12 months resident in the State.

Gover7ior :—E. M. Amnions, 1913-15 (5,000 dollars).

Secretary of State : — James B. Pearce.

The State sends to the Federal Congress two Senators and 4 Represen- tatives.

The State is divided into 62 counties. The State Capital is Denver.

Area and Population.— Area 103,948 square miles.

Tears. White, i

i

Negro.

Total.

Per Sq. Mile.

1860 34,231 1880 191,892 1900 531,130 1910 787,571

46

2,435

8,570

11,453

34,277 194,327 539,700 799,024

0-3 1-9 5-2 7-6

1 Including Asiatics and Indians. In IWO, 599 Chinese and 1,437 Indians. In 1910 the foreign-born population numbered 126,971. In 1900 it was 91,155, of whom 13,575 were English, 4,069 Scottish, 10,132 Irish, 14,606 German, 10,765 Swedish, 9,797 Canadian. Denver, the capital, had a population in 1910 of 213,381 ; Pueblo, 44,395 ; Colorado Springs, 29,078 ; Leadville 7,508 ; Cripple Creek 6,206.

Religion and Instruction.— Roman Catholics outnumber other denominations, Methodists aiid Presbyterians ranking next, then Baptists and Congegatiopalists.

The public schools are under the general supervision of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. In 1910 the public elementary schools had 5,200 teachers with 149,017 enrolled pupils. The 107 public high schools had 700 teachers and 14,495 pupils in 1910. Public school teachers are trained at the State Teachers' College, which in 1910 had 38 teachers and 831 pupils. Another State normal school has beeu established at Gunnison. For superior education there are several colleges. Colorado College, founded \n 1874 at Colorado Springs, has 57 professors and 780 students ; the Uni- versity of Colorado, founded in 1877 at Boulder, has 130 professors and 1,221 students. The University of Denver, founded by Territorial Charter in 1864, has 160 professors and teachers and 1,324 students ; tlie Chamberlin Observatory in University Park stands at an altitude of 5,280 feet above sea-level. State institutions are an Agricultural College with 65 instructors and 537 students, and a School of Mines with 36 teachers and 331 students.

Charity.— The State has a Penitentiary (744 inmates in 1910), a Reformatory (150 inmates in 1910), and two Industrial Schools one for boys (365 inmates in 1910), the other for girls (131 inmates iu 1910). Charitable institutions are a school for the deaf and blind, an asylum for the insane, a