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Show (Growth of Wt-eturu Population, Denver Republican. Although the census shows that comparatively com-paratively few people in the United Slates reside above uu altitude of liOOU Jeet, it does not follow that there are natural conditions which prohibit the maintenance of a larcre population above that altitude. The greater part of the arid region is more than 2000 f;et above sea level: but it is not its altitude which has preveuled it from being heavily populated. In the first plaix) it is a new country. Tho population popula-tion has had to spread from the seaboard sea-board towarde the mountains, but the day will come when, through the opening open-ing of new mines, the development of manufacturing aud the reclamation of arid agricultural laud, the arid region will have a large population. |