. History of Clear Creek and Boulder valleys, Colorado : containing a brief history of the state of Colorado ... an account of the Ute trouble : a history of Gilpin, Clear Creek, Boulder, and Jefferson counties, and biographical sketches. d other adjuncts of civilized means rich, ami undoubtedly the town isrightly named, for the camp is far in advance ofwhat Leadville was at the same age. Of course,nobody knows what an undeveloped mining townwill amount to one. two or three years hence ; butat present the Dolores country is looking up, andits promise is all that could be desired. It
. History of Clear Creek and Boulder valleys, Colorado : containing a brief history of the state of Colorado ... an account of the Ute trouble : a history of Gilpin, Clear Creek, Boulder, and Jefferson counties, and biographical sketches. d other adjuncts of civilized means rich, ami undoubtedly the town isrightly named, for the camp is far in advance ofwhat Leadville was at the same age. Of course,nobody knows what an undeveloped mining townwill amount to one. two or three years hence ; butat present the Dolores country is looking up, andits promise is all that could be desired. It is stillcomparatively inaccessible except by the roughmountain roads of the southwest : hut there willeventually be a railroad in that direction, and earl ate ores, especially the higher grades, can be treated on the ground. Among the mining experts who visited Rico lastsummer was Senator Jones, and the fact that heinvesteil in several claims during his sojourn showsthat his faith in the future of the Dolores minesamounted to a tolerable certainty. The new mines arc reached via Ouray, Silver-ton or Animas City: but neither route is over aprairie road, by any means. Better roads will lieamong the first results of development in the. Jhft*^ i HISTORY OF COLORADO. 119 mines, and by next summer it may be confidently i carbonates there is not doubted, and ii is thoughtexpected that arrangements will be made not only they are rich enough to pay fur working them to accommodate the large travel which will set Bven at that distance from a railroad. If so, this toward the mines, hut also to take iii supplies and , country has justly earned its title of The Silversmelting machinery. That there are genuine lead San Juan. CHAPTER UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO. A FTEll two years of hard work, the Univer--^—*- sity of Colorado, at Boulder, has been placedon a footing with the largest and best educationalinstitutions in the country. When Prof. JosephA. Sewall, M. P., LL. D., first took the
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