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-17- <br />Lake) was never completed and the coal industry began to f..il <br />during the late 1920'5. Ey 1940, most of tine big coal nines <br />were abandoned while the cattl=_ industry ':as barely surviving. <br />The last fifty years of development in northwestern <br />Colorado was one of town building and concentrations of popu- <br />lation. Once the Utes had been removed, townsites sprang up <br />all over the region. In 1882, P.angely ;vas founded and it soon <br />supplanted the olcer Golden City farth,__ west on the lJhite River. <br />:•feeker was founded in 1881 while Steamboat Springs was laid <br />out in 1884. In 1889, the Craig Land and :~Sercantile Company <br />was formed and the townsite of Craig was laid out along the <br />Tampa River. In 1894, T,~illiam [dalker created Hayden, also <br />along the Yampa. In 1912, Hahn's Peak lost its status as Routt <br />county seat and a fierce struggle broke out among Maybell, Lay, <br />Hayden, Craig, and Steamboat Springs for the new county seat. <br />Steamboat Springs won the fight much to the disgust of the other <br />towns. Craig was made county seat of Pioffat county c: hen that <br />37 <br />county was carved from Routt county in 1914. <br />New industries arose during this period.- These included <br />the elk meat business. The Elk River valley and the Trappers <br />Lake area soon became major centers of elk slaughter. The meat <br />was shipped to the Union Pacific at Rawlins for transshipment <br />east. Additionally, the White River valley became a favorite <br />hunting area. In 1901, Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt <br />visited the Marvine Ranch and bagged a mountain lion. The <br />publicity was national and the region was soon overrun.wi[b <br />hunters wishing to try [heir luck. <br />