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UNITED STATES : — COLORADO

COLORADO.

Government. — The State was admitted into the Union on Aug. 1, 1876. 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, and have resided in the State for 12 months immediately preceding the election.

Governor.— Oliver H. Shoup, 1921-1923 (5,000 dollars). Secretary of State. — James R. Noland.

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

The State is divided into 63 counties. The State Capital is Denver. The Indian reservations had an area in June, 1918, of 618 square miles, and a population of 877.

Area and Population. — Area 103,948 square miles, of which 290 square miles is water. Indian reservations in 1919 covered an area of 618 sq. miles, with a population of 821. Census population on Jan. 1, 1920, 939,629.

Tears j White l

Negro

Total

Per Sq. Mile

1860 i 34,231

1880 191,892

i 1900 531,130

1910 787,571

46

2,435

8,570

11,453

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

3 19 5-2 77

1 Including Asiatics and Indians. In 1910, 373 Chinese and 1,482 Indians. In 1910 the population by sex and race was : —

White Negro j Asiatic Indian

Total

421,471 361,944

783,415

5,867 5,586

3,359 797

430,697 368,827

Total ....

11,453

2,674

1,482

799,024

In 1910 the foreign-born population numbered 126,851, of whom 12,926 were English, 4,269 Scottish, 8,710 Irish, 17,071 German, 12,445 Swedish, 9,533 Canadian. Denver, the capital, had a population in 1920 of 256,369, Pueblo, 42,908; Colorado Springs, 29,572 ; Trinidad, 10,906 ; Boulder, 10,989. Of the total population in 1910, 50 '7 per cent, was urban.

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

The public schools are under the general supervision of the Superintendent