Mr. NYE. Very well; then you are safe and so am I. My friend says she grows poorer and poorer the vote of last year is less than ever before, an he says that that is at war with all the philos o by of the settlement of these Territories. 1 int my distinguished friend thinks so, I have no doubt; but that the fact is exactly opposite I know. I have seen the time when the State of Nevada had 10,000 more population than ithas got now. You see thesame thingin every mining country. They roam and pros pect and develo until there are no more mountains to fin, and then they come back. That is the histor in a word of mining populations. Let the no and cry O up that there is a richer placer somewhere e no, and down go the pick and spade, away they go, and they go to remain until they ascertain that they cannot fill their stomachs on east winds, and back they come to their 1st love, and there they stay. My friend was so unkind in his strictures upon poor Colorado as to afflict. them with grasshoppers. [Laughter] If my friend is spending his time in reading the surveyor Generals reports to keep up With the progress of grasshoppers, he is attendin to small business. ELnughter] I supposed c was enged in higher, nobler purposes than looking after the march of grasshoppers. [Loughter.] Why, sir, I have seen grassho no in assachusetts as thick as locusts in Egypt. Grasshoppers go wherever grass grows; and my friend, when e, establishes the act that there is a good crop of grasshoppers there, establishes the fact that there are pastoral lands there; for they never go but where there is something to eat. But everything couspires to give Colorado n forbiddin aspect in my friends vision. With all the noble qualities that 150 much admire in my distinguished friend, there is one thing he will pardon me for saying that he has yet to learn thut is a bold assertion for me he has got to burn to take defeat gracefully; or in other words, he must learn that to procure success he is only entitled to use such means and such or uments as are legitimate to the subject an to the question to which they are appgri.edP.resident if you take one step west of Colorado, what do you find there? You find there one of the strongest arguments and reasons why there should be the stron govern ment of a State in Colorado. You ti iitI Utah, with all of her calamity, and with all of the dangers incident to it, nestled right in there with a large population. Step beyond Utah and you nd the State of Nevada. To so much of her would not become me but assert this of her: Nevada is a State t t has furnished as many troops in propertion to her population vas any State in this Union; she as done gnucb substantial work; her people are a law abiding people, and they love the Union. Beyond hcvada we come to that mighty barrier, the Sierra Nevada; lenp over that, and you come to the flourishing State of my distin uished friendfrom California, Dir. Consnssfi all glittering with gold; and yet, sir, California is no richer than Colorado, in my judgment; no richer than Utah, no richer than Nevada, Montana, or Idaho. What next do we see? We see the mighty power this nation puts forth, to do what? To ink these 2 great occuns together with hooks of iron and steel, and nlreadyis seen and heard from either ocean the steam whistle on the Atlantic starting for the West, and in July they will be challenged above the clouds of the Sierra Nevada mountains bidding and beckoning them onward to the western coast. Right in this pathway lies Colorado, the 1st great stopping place. Colorado, in 2 years from this time, Wlll have a population that will pay more into the Treasury of this Government than many States whose locks are whitened With years. I know the nbounding elasticity of these outbful States. I know with what Vigor on strength they increase and go for ward, and dvou cannot eep them from popu lating rapi ly. Strike the music of the chord that echoes to “ o, ” and population will flow into them, even from Massac iusetts. Show me where these rich treasures are found, and where, after all, we have got to look for the very material to light from off the shoulders of this nation its now crushing bur den, and I wlll shgw you a population in point of intelligence, vigor and numbers that will he satis acto entirely to my distinguished friendfrom nssachuse tts, and it will drive out the phantom that seems to haunt him, and it Will give certaiirdemonstration by its productions of its ability to be a State. “ 001 Colorado” willse ttle with my friend one of these days; it will show him that be little knows, and has paid but little attention in his researches, to the treasures of her mighty mount ains. Sir, there is a people there who have gone deep down under the mountains, and by their science and their skill, and above al, by their indomitable Will and perseverance, have demonstrated to the world that there in Colorado lies wealth untold. Sir, my friend has one habit that I should never fall into, but thouzghtl 1 have 01;to o so now; and that is reading letters. {Laughter] I hav, e ot nobod to telegraph me or the occasion, [laughter] ybnt I have a letter here by accident. [Laughter] It is a letter written by the mayor of Denver City, and directed to me; he is now in Lew York. I will read it: NewYorkur Ci rv. March 22.1866. Dun Sm: I have just tmisbndrcadin the report. of the discussionin e Senate on the mission of Colorado, and must say that Ivms very much sur at someof the statements made. As a citizen of Colorado, I can but regret that such statements placeour young Territory and people in a very false position before the people of the U.S. as regards our population, mineral wealth and agricu tural resources. I have been a residont of Colorado for the past 6 years. an from the positions I have occupied, think that I nmwallnoatad in regard to iill of these matters. Our population I honestly believe todayis of par manentinhabitants 35,000 if not more. I do not think, in so large a Territory. that the vote at any election is a fair INDEX of population. Our people are scatteredover themountainsnnd valle a, and in anumher of localities no elections are be. I know it was the caseat the last (State) election. Men who nrnreceiving 5 dollars perd will not leave their work and travel 8 or 10 in cc to cast a vote. Our young Territory sent. 3 r ments to the war and at the closeof the rebellion were mus tered out in the States. but. most of them alter a short visit to their friends are now on the way back to their homes and property)in Colorado. There were also hundrpdso on who went from Coloradopto their homes in the tntes and enlisted.who are tnhoiws smprainkign.g tAlilclirpreparations to return to Colorado of thesemenclaim to belongin colorado. as the hold property and pay taxesin that Territory to ay. D So much for our population, which I claim is on the increase daily instead of decrease. Al regards our mineral wealth, I would say that I do not think there needbe any nestionin regard to that. Will kRnIVoGwalefedwge facts which have comounder my personal I was connectedwith the private mint of Messrs.Cl k. Gruborit &Co., in theyears1861.186}. nud1863.aid during that time they struck pffof their owncoin 50,000a.ndduring thesameperiod bought gold dustu ndshippedoastovor$3,000,000 of gold burl, run from dust bought in Colorado. This is the businessof onehouse. There were at the same time 4 other housesengagedin the snow business, namely. banking. From the ownersof 500 feet on 3th, le, 0GOroiz1ory mine there was bought in that time O gold. Distinguished professors state in published works that Colorado has the largest extent of rich quart: veins of any mining country on the globe. I Wlll sayherethatour oresarewbnt is termed refractor, and it requires a v t amount of mashin cry and s illed labor to workt cm. Tbere have been formed in the custom cities over 75 mining companies.involving a working capital of over ten million dollars. Whon theso cor panics gct in full and successful operation I think olomdo will in innu strate to the world at ch: in a rich gold and silver producin: country. sold and alien rich veins of iron. copper, lead. coal, salt springs and Oil producing territory. As regards business.I will state that tbe merchants in the city of Denver sold 812310.61 worth of merchandise in the your 1855.The gregato amount of busi nem done by banks in the a lferritory is $15,000.0opoer mnum. As regards our agricultural resouroes. Iwillsimply say that the amount of land under cultivation is set fisor rtihchinanth deprreopdourcttoivfet, haensdutrhveeyyoireld general. Our 3911 not ocro satisflos the most sanguine of fannors. Irrigation 18re quired excepton the streams. From the county of Boulder, one of the smpllest counties in the Territory. therewere raised an; sold in thufuty of Denver 25,000 bushels of grain. Tbis was exclusiveof what they retained for seedand home oonsumtion. One former lll the county ofArrapuhoc sold is crop in Denver for the snu$sum of 860.000T.he countiesof Jofferson Wee. El oso. Iluerfano. Conqos. Cost 111Pau, eblo and Fremopt or; agricultural counties. This is a simple statement of facts and I son 1!to you for the purpose of placing Colorado right eforo the honorable body of which you are amember. am. su.very respectfully enonon