POPULATION IN THE WEST GROWS

GOLD

• Settlers would come to pikespeak colorado to find gold and become rich
• They made many of the towns with gold become boomtowns
• Gold was the first material that settlers mined

BOOMTOWNS

• Boomtowns were made by settlers mining all the gold and silver
• They made towns like these become no longer a large populational city
• They were then made as populated cities because settlers founded silver

SILVER

• Silver was a material settlers mined
• Settlers would go mine these after gold was all mined from a area
• Silver was one of the six materials founded by settlers

CATTLE = MONEY

• Cattle was money to ranchers living in the west
• At one point in time the amount was 40$ a head in the herd
• Soon all the cattle that were in the west collapsed when ranchers tried to get alot of cattle for money

WHEN CATTLE TURNS TO FARMING

• Once the cattle kingdom collapsed settlers started farming
• They grew crops for survival and money
• They used a method called dry farming
• Dry farming-A type of farming practiced in arid areas without irrigation by planting drought-resistant crops