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<br /> <br />TABLlU No. 4.-Unitea States. Geological Su'l'vcy quadrangles couering Purgatmpe <br />River Basin <br /> <br />Name of quadrangle <br /> <br />Scale <br /> <br />Contour <br />intervilJ. <br />feet <br /> <br />Data <br />surveyed <br /> <br />w~~~J~Jt~~~ ~ ~ ~: :~~~ ~~ ~~, .~~~, ~~~ ~:: ~ ~ ~~~~ ~~ ~~ ~~~ :~~ ~~~~~, <br /> <br />Higbee, 0010..._ __._ __.___.~_ _...___.._ ..._ ._._____.__.._________.._ <br />Mt. CarrJ1..o, 0010____._.___...._..__.____...,_..___..__.._____.______ <br />~~l\il~nr. 'N~ne;~~n~f)b~lo~~:::'::::::~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::: <br /> <br />1:125,000 <br />1:125,000 <br />1:125,000 <br />1,:125,000 <br />1:125,000 <br />1:125000 <br />1:125,000 <br />1:125,000 <br />1:'62,500 <br />1:62,600 <br /> <br />100 . <br />50 <br />25 <br />25and'50 <br />25,50,100 <br />25 <br />21) and QO <br />26i'w,~l00. <br />50 <br />50 <br /> <br />1895. <br />18\15 <br />18\16 <br />'1lS' <br />1899 <br />'88' <br />1889 <br />18I1o:'}.-'.- <br />1911-12. <br />1912--13 <br /> <br />The,drainage basin and .other pertinent data are sh.own .on map N.o. t. <br />appendix A. , ' <br />, t4. Popwation.-The t.otal pepulati.on .of the basin is estimated te, <br />be a,beut 26,900 and is largely c.oncentrated in Trinidad and vicinity. <br />The greater perti.on .01 the watershed is very sparsely settled. Trini- <br />dad, with 13;223 inhabitants, is the largest tewn in the basin. Las <br />Animas, .on the watershed divide near Arkansas River, has a P.oPula- <br />ti.on .of 3,232. A c.omparis.on .of the P.oPulati.on figures fr.om the <br />'(jnited States census f.or, 1920, 1930, and 1940 indicates that f.or the <br />entire watershed there was an 8 percent decrease fr.om 1920 t.o 1930 <br />and a 9 percent decrease fr.om 1930 te 1940. 'The pepulati.on .of <br />Txinidad has increased in the 2 decades fr.om 10,906 in 1920 t.o 13,223 <br />in 1940, .or an increllSe .of 21 percent. Per,tinant.d,ata en the trend .of <br />pepulatien f.or the P.orti.on{)f the ceunties, within the,. basin are shoewll'\, <br />in table N .o. 5. <br /> <br />TABLE No. 5.-Trend of population in Purgatoire River Basin <br /> <br />Rstimated'poptIlation in basin <br /> <br />County <br /> <br />United United United <br />States States States <br />census, census, census; <br />1920 1930 1940 <br />91 '50 139 <br />30,953 28,408 25,600 <br />408 440 425 <br />635 600 615 <br />193 95 '0 <br />30 20 18 <br />32,300 29,663 26,878 <br /> <br />-~ <br /> <br />~~tg~{ni~~Oo-~IO~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: <br />~~~t~'C~~~~:::~~~:::::::::::::~:::::::::::::::::::::::::.:::::::::::: <br />~~l~~: it: kl:::::::::~::~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: <br /> <br />Total__~__~~~..~_._n..__.__.___n__..__~_"__.n__.~___.~_____ <br /> <br />AU communities whelly within the basin having 300 inhabitants .or <br />m.ore are in Las Animas C.ounty. Tne 1940 P.oPulati.ons .of these c.om, <br />munities are shewn in table N.o. 6.' , <br />