Denver

a city, capital of the State of Colorado, and county-seat of Arapve co., at the junction of the South latte river and Cherry creek. The city is built on a series of plateaux. and has a climate peculiarly mild and adapted to people suffering from pulmonary troubles. Area 50 square: miles. Denver is the headquarters of the mining and manufacturing interests of the State, and has the largest smelting works in the world. The city is the metropolis of the Middle West, and on account of its rapid growth and fine buildings is popularly known as the “Queen City of the Plains.” The schools of Denver are of the first cla , and include 46 public day schools, with over 500 teachers, and 13,500 pupils, and about 15 parochial and other private schools, There are also 21 colleges, academies, and asylums in the city. The first settlements were made in 1857. The pipes was originally known as St. harles. It received its present name from James W. Denver, of Kansas, who at one time owned nearly all the State. The State Legislature first met here in 1859, in which year the vend received its charter. The first railroad connection between Denver and the rest of the country was made in 1868, when the Denver Pacific was united to the Union Pacific, at Cheyenne. Pop.