Excerpt from First Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the State of Colorado, 1887-1888 The act of the Legislature establishing a Bureau of Labor Statistics was app'roved March 24, 1887. By the provisions of that act the Secretary of State was made Commissioner of the bureau, with power to appoint a deputy commissioner. 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.