Colorado, its gold and silver mines: farms and stock ranges, and health and pleasure resorts : tourist's guide to the Rocky Mountains

Frank Fossett

C.G. Crawford, printer and stationer, 1880 - Colorado - 592 pages

Contents

• PART FIRST: 1
• Points of Interest and how to reach them 1933: 19
• Summer Resorts 3342: 33
• Union Pacific Railway System: 42
• Grand Cafion of the Arkansas 49 and 112: 50
• Central Georgetown and Idaho Springs 6066: 60
• Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway System 6876: 68
• Denver South Park Pacific Railway 7785: 77
• Route to Leadville and the Gunnison 7785: 83
• Climate 102115: 102
• PART SECOND: 117
• The Pioneers of 186063 The Rich Rewards of Placer and Lode: 126
• The Eastern Mining Excitement and Investments of 18634: 133
• Political History The State Movements of 18646 Territorial: 139
• The State Movement of 18756 and the Admission of Colorado into: 147
• PAGE: 153
• Public Schools and Colleges 159163: 159
• Crops of 18789their Extent and Value 171172: 171
• Numbers and Value of Cattle and Sheep 180181: 180
• Extent and Location of Agricultural Lands 189190: 189
• Newspapers of Colorado: 196
• Weights and Values 2062C8: 206
• Colorados Mineral Resources 215224: 215
• Land Offices and Costs of Government Titles: 222
• Description of some Colorado Smelting and Reduction Works 234245: 234
• Colorados Mining Product from the First Discoveries down to 1880 345253: 253
• Boulder County Reduction Works 259260: 259
• Telluride and Gold Mines of Boulder County 272383: 299
• Gunnell Prize Fisk and other Mines 314323: 314
• HerculesRoe 398 Hibernia 459 Howards Fork 550: 323
• Quartz Hill the Kansas California etc: 324
• Rollins Wyandotte and Russell Gulch Mines: 340
• The Gilpin County Silver Belt: 350
• Red Elephant and Empire Mines 382386: 382
• Georgetown Silver District and the Mines of Republican and Demo: 387
• Georgetown District and the Mines of Sherman Brown and Leaven: 403
• The Carbonate Belt and its Formation: 419
• Revenue 381 Robert E Lee: 457
• The Bassick Silver Cliff Plata Verde Bull Domingo and Humboldt 461480: 461
• and Smuggler 549 Smuggler 3 278 and 575 Sherman 270 Seven: 509
• Ouray County Mines Sneffels Dolores and the Miguel Districts: 543
• Chaffee County Mines and Monarch and Alpine Districts 588: 562
• The Coal Mines of Coloradotheir Product in 18789 Mining: 577
• APPENDIX: 583
• Colorado State Officials: 589

Bibliographic information

• Title: Colorado, its gold and silver mines: farms and stock ranges, and health and pleasure resorts : tourist's guide to the Rocky Mountains
• Author: Frank Fossett
• Edition: 2
• Publisher: C.G. Crawford, printer and stationer, 1880
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Sep 15, 2006
• Length: 592 pages
• Subjects: Colorado; Mines and mineral resources