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<br />-e- ..'- <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />-e-, ___u <br /> <br />20GS <br /> <br />.. -- -- U' - -(General ,desor-iption) - . <br /> <br />PRESENT DEVELOPMENT <br /> <br />Existing facilities for the principal cities and towns on the <br />Eastern Slope are given in the following table. <br /> <br />POPULATION <br /> <br />The population of Colorado in the two deoades following 1860 was <br />confined l!iI'gely to mining districts and to the oity of Denver. The <br />oities of Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and Trinidad did not appear in the <br />population oenBUS until 1880 at whioh time the total population of <br />these three towns was 10,000. In the deoade 1880 to 1890 agrioultural <br />develop~ent beg~~ showing its effeot in popul~tion increa8es. <br /> <br />Since 1880 there has been a general increase in the popul~tion of <br />the area, !l.1 though severe.l counties have deolinod due to the reduotion <br />of mining oper~tions, In Lako'~nd Custer Counties, for oxamplo. the <br />populations at Leadvillo and Sil vor Cliff have nevor roturned to the <br />levol of tho "boom" days of 1880. Likevise, Tellor County nover ro- <br />gaimd tho population it had in 1900 when tho Cripple Creek-Victor uroa. <br />W~s the world's largost gold camp. Other countios Sh~l a growth <br />typioal of areas that hC\vo agricul turo and a limi tod amount of mo.nu_ <br />facturing as basio industries. <br /> <br />A population dooroase during tho 1930-1940 decado in those coun- <br />tios in which agriculturo is tho principal industry oan bo attributed <br />mninly to o.dvorso eoonomic cO!1ditions of tho "doprossion", prolongod <br />drought, and acuto dust-bo'll soasons. During tho.t period the citios <br />and towns gonerally incroasod i!1 population duo to tho migro.tion of <br />farm peoplo to ur ban areas. <br /> <br />Sinoo 1940 tho populations of Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and Lo. <br />Junto. ho.vo incroo.sod rapidly duo to tho looo.tion of military installa- <br />tions in thoso areo.s. Colorado Springs"home of C!l."p CC\rson and <br />Pet~rson Fiold Air Ease. has inoreo.sed in population from 36,789 in <br />194.0 to approxill'D.tely 43,500 in 1944 and 46.000 in 1948. The Pueblo <br />Ordnance Dopot and the Pueblo ArwJ Air Buse t'.re located near Puoblo. <br />Theso installations. togethor with inoroased manufacturing and tro.de. <br />ho.vo illcreC\sed the population of Puoblo from 52,162 in 1940 to approxi- <br />mately 63,000 persons in 1944 and 80,000 persons in 1947. La Junta, <br />site ?f the La Junto. Army Air Fiold and tho Atchison, Topeka and So.nta <br />Fo R~~lwo.y shops" h~s incro~sed in populo.tion from 7,040 in 1940 to <br />o.pproxinmtely 9,000 persons in 1944. Growth of the principal cities <br />in tho ~roa is shown in table 2. <br /> <br />4 <br />