Excerpt from Report on the Development of the Mineral, Metallurgical, Agricultural, Pastoral, and Other Resources of Colorado for the Years 1881 and 1882 In the foregoing hasty summary of events, the reader will find sufficient cause for the lack of progress during the first eleven years of settlement in the Rocky Mountains. We now begin the pleasing contrast. Of the second period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.