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History & Genealogy>Early Routt County Business Directories>1885 - Colorado State Business Directory
1885 - Colorado State Business Directory
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with Colorado Mining Directory, and Colorado Wool Growers Directory Departments
Eleventh Annual Volume
Denver, Colorado
James R. Ives & Co., Publishers.
1885
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| Index To Cities, Towns and Mining Camps |
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Egeria (1) Page 223
Hayden Page 269
Steamboat Springs Page 399
(1) Egeria is current day Yampa.
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| Colorado State Officers |
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State Capital Denver
State Building, cor. 15th and Glenarm Streets. Election for State Officers once in two years, on the second Tuesday in November. Next election: November, 1886
Office Official
Governor Benjamin H. Eaton
Lieutenant-Governor Peter W. Breene
Secretary of State Melvin Edwards
Treasurer George R. Swallow
Auditor Hiram A. Spruance
Attorney-General Theodore H. Thomas
Superintendent of Public Instruction L. S. Cornell
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| U. S. Officials for Colorado |
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(All Resident at Denver)
Office Official
Assayer U. S. Mint Herman Silver
Clerk U. S. Court E. F. Bishop
Collector Internal Revenue J. S. Wolfe
Post-Office Inspector R. A. Cameron
Surveyor-General N. H. Meldrum
U. S. Attorneys A. W. Brazee, I. N. Steven
U. S. District Judge Moses Hallett
U. S. Marshall Walter Smith
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| District Courts of Colorado |
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First District.
Office Official
Judge Chester C. Carpenter, of Golden.
Attorney J. D. McLinsay.
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| First Judicial District. |
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Routt County – Attached to Grand for judicial purposes.
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| Counties, County Seats, Area and Population. |
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County County Seat Area Pop.
Sq. Miles 1883
Routt Hayden 5300 510
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| Elections – Vote for Congressman at Large - Election, Nov. 1884. |
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County Symes, Thomas Woy
Routt 106 73 -0-
Elections – Vote for Congressman at Large - Election, Nov. 1882.
County Belford, R. Wallace, D. Green, G.B.
Routt 76 34 -0-
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Routt County not listed.
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| Abstract of Assessed Valuation of Colorado, from Records of Auditor of State. |
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Routt County
No. Military Polls. 180
Acres of Land. 3,681
Value of Land with Improvements $ 36,763.00
Miles of Railroad -0-
Value of Railroad -0-
Average Value of Mdse. $ 3,350.00
Capital employed in Manufac’rs $ 169.00
No. of Cattle 21,000
Value of Cattle $ 400,380.00
No. of Sheep 1,109
Value of Sheep $ 16,666.00
Total Valuation $ 550,509.00
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List of Post-offices, Railway and Stage Stations, Camps, &c., in Colorado, Population, Counties in which they are Located, and Distances and Directions to the Most Important Railroad Points or County Seats.
Those places that have no post-offices are marked *
Population is estimated from vote at last election; but where no basis existed for such estimate, we have taken the judgment of well-informed residents.
Distances given are by the nearest railroad or stage route.
Accompanying the figures for distance, the direction is indicated as follows: n., north; s., south; e., east; w., west; nr., near, etc. In cases where the exact location of new post-offices could not be ascertained, distances are omitted and the points from which they are easiest of access are given.
County seats are in italics.
Points not reached by regular conveyance are marked “special”.
Place County Population R.R or Stage Distances and Direction
Edith Routt 20 --- ---
Egeria Routt (1) 20 --- ---
Fortification Routt 20 --- ---
Hahn’s Peak Routt 100 Stage 150 s. Rawlins
Hayden Routt 25 Stage 170 s. Rawlins
Lay Routt 20 Special Rawlins
Steamboat Spgs. Routt 50 Special 20 e. Hayden
Yampa Routt (2) 20 --- ---
(1) Egeria is current day Yampa.
(2) Yampa is current day Craig, Moffat County.
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| Business Directories by Town |
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Egeria Page 223 The Boettcher Hardware Co., Denver, Wholesale Hardware & Stove.
Small settlement in Routt County, 50 miles southwest of Hahn’s Peak. Population, 10.
Egeria Business Directory
Bird, Wm., blacksmith.
Farmers & Merchants’ Insurance Co. Denver.
Gray, A., justice peace.
Use Renne’s Pain-Killing Nervine, J. N. Renne, Colo. Springs.
Ward, J. C. , saloon.
Watson, E. H. atty.
Whipple, D. W., constable.
Note the insertions of other businesses from Denver and Colorado Springs.
Hayden Page 269 The Boettcher Hardware Co., Denver, Wholesale Hardware & Stoves.
Post-office in Grand County, 42 miles south-west of Hahn’s Peak. Population, 75.
Note: Should be Routt County.
Hayden Business Directory
Farmers & Merchants’ Insurance Co., Denver.
Magor, G., gen’l. mdse.
Reed, M. E., postmaster.
Use Renne’s Pain-killing Nervine, J. N. Renne, Colo. Springs.
Walker, M. P., saloon.
Steamboat Springs Page 399 The Boettcher Hardware Co., Denver, Wholesale Hardware & Stoves.
Post-office in Routt County, 25 miles southwest of Hahn’s Peak. Population, 100.
Steamboat Springs Business Directory
Farmers & Merchants’ Insurance Co., Denver.
French, S. M., gen’l mdse.
Suttle, H. H., saw mill.
Woolery, H., justice peace.
Use Renne’s Pain-killing Nervine, J. N. Renne, Colo. Springs.
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