Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1885 — COLORADO. [ARTICLE]

COLORADO.

The First State to Report Her Intcrdecennial Census. [Washington dispatch.] Secretary Lamar received an iron box today containing the census returns of Colorado. The law requires that States that expect Government aid in the taking of the interdecennial census must send in their returns before Sept 1. Colorado is the first to report. The population of Colorado has increased from 194; 327 in 1880 to 243,910 in 1885, a gain of 49,583. The number of fanners in the State is nearly doubled, there being 8,474 to 4,506 in 1880. The 559 manufcuettaring establishments in 1880 have multiplied to 1,004.