St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-04-25

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of the Platte, are unsurpassed, and this may
be, if not one of the very BEST as good stock
raising country as any in the world and en-
terprising farmers, who are so fortunate as to
be in season TO secure good localities will be
sure to reap golden harvest. Ranches of one
hundred and fifty acres can now be obtained
for 81, 900, which, in few years from this
time, will, doubt not, sell for $50 900. The
cnterprising, the temperate, the courageous,
the energetic, the perseverimg, will find all the
element for making money in abundance. To
such would say, come one, come all
a few words respecting the city of Denver
may not lie wholly unintcrcsting to those who
have friends residing here, or who may wish
to visit the place.
was told that one year ago last August
there were only two framed houses and six
shanties in the place. Now there are nearly
one thousand houses, and many substantial
stores and extensive warehouses !; and have
not the least doubt that when the mining re-
gions are fully developed and worked, and
when the soA is put under cultivation, Den
yer will become the most important city west
of the Missouri River. Its situation in a com
mercal point Of view is such us to command
the trade Of the mining regions and in re-
spcct to beauty of locality and salubrity OF
climate, it is not cqualled by any other city
West of the Mississippi. Its site is on plain,
moderately elevated on the east side of the
II Il,
right line from the mountains.
| The whole area of this elevated plain, in the
centre of which the city now stands, is several
hundred acres, sloping very slightly toward
the river. The land on the west side of the
river is moderately inclined plane, stretching
out nearly to the mountains From any point
in the city, the eye, at one glance, can sweep
over an extensive and boundless range OF
are harmoniously blended, and turning in an
opposite direction, it rests on boundlcss and
gently undulating prairie.
Nothing can equal the beauty, majesty
grandeur, and magnifccnce of the scenery "a
| you approach the mountains After passing
day after day and week after week, over
boundless prairie, gently undulating and tccm
ing with herds of bufftlocs, at length the va
ried outline of the snowy range peers abov,
the horizon and as you proceed, hills seen
to rise on hills and valley seems to wind be
yCnd valley in endless succession; while il
the far background, above and beyond all
tower those mighty Alpine peaks Of the Snowy
| Range here presenting Il clear outline, ella,
in robe Of the purest white, and slight,
tingcd with the rays Of the morning sun, am
there resting on the horizon, shroudcd il
brightness, or wrcathed in misty and unde
fined beauty.
These scenes ,softened and made lovely by dis
tance, become rugged and fearful as you entc
the pass" and wind your way through
zig gag path, now round some beetling crag
and over some deep chasm, and now dow:
through some vast gorge or enormous rarine
again to ascend to some cminence where tn
prospect opens across widely extended vale.
/ | have visited the White Mountains, AM
looked with Increasing delight on all their va
lltN sNSLtS Va bSttdtN but 1At -
hold but u secondary rank, compared with til
ruggedness, vastness, and peerless splendor o
the Rocky Mountains. On a clear, calm day
| passed over one of these submits, iron
which n scene that would well repay travel
Ter for voyage across the continent to loo
upon, lay outspread before me.
One object especially attracted my attention
: This was summit which lowered majesticall
above all others, wreathed in pure white tui
ban, showing rich contrast with the dee
/; shading on the foreground. The vivid rays
e the noonday sun FURNISHED up the whole seen,
: while, at the same time, above and aroun
this peerless summit, rose and lay huge ina
4 ses OF heavy thunderclouds. A solemn still
a ness reigned, rs if some Divinity breath,
n around, gazed and gazed, lost in admir-
i ton; and in the ecsta.y of the moment, m
4 fancy sketched it, as Great Natures altar, Vi
a on which some pure spirit had just placed
S sacrifice, and from which this cloud of inccn
: was rising up to Heaven. w.