Let’s per say my settlement is Colorado in the 1800’s the population would be inclined towards 10,000,000 because of the rising number of people moving to the west from the east, and due to this they bring knowledge of industrialization, so they decide to settle down nexed to the Arkansas river, and build dams to hold water for agriculture, and human/animal consumption. With this people don’t want to risk there lives going into the Mountains and rather climbing them for the new found gold bringing more and more people out hear to strike rich. There for the population is increasing from migrating and because people are lazy and don’t want to go back. Besides it’s beautiful out there.