The weekly Butte record., 1862-02-08
NO. IL
4 Wonderful Country.

The following is description Of Colorado
Territory. It IS sapposed to be from the pen
of l. W Weld. Secretary Q; tie Territory:
But you want to hear from ny trip; have
no fault 70 find with anything or anybody; our
journey was most delightful; We have been
everywhere agd seen everybody; crowds greet
Cd Us at every settlement with guns, boufres,
balls, speeches, entertainments Of all kinds,
and the fat of the land We four times crossed
the snowy range, twice on horseback and
twice in the coach. never saw such scenery
before. The beauties aad wonders OF the
most marvellous region OF the world suFpass
anything within the power of the mind to con-
ceive. We spent days in The mountain valleys
redolon: with tie perfume of flowers, and rich
in Z fertility Of unclamberiag vines, yielding
the most delicate and beautiful flowers abun-
dainty supplied with wafer full Of all kinds
of game and birds, aud with az atmosphere SO
pure. invigorating and tonic that the garden
of Eden could hardly have been more delight
ful.
We wound our way through mountain
gorges, over snow clad SUBMITS, by the banks
of the Rio Grande OF the West, the Blue
Colorado and the Arkansas where every
thing that nature can produce from the elk
horn cactus Of the tropics, with its wonderful
clusters of scarlet blossoms through all the
grades eff vegetation 10 the shrub pine of the
cactus growing upon the rocks and in the
STOW at the final limit Of living things. With
in two minutes time We drank from streams
flowing into either ocean, and one bathed in
the Colorado, which empties into the Gulf of
California, anu the next in the Arkansas. which
finds its way into the Cult Of Mexico.
We passed through the most formidable
regions Of limestone formations. huge monu-
meuts in sphyux-like shape, and rounded into
other aud more fantastic images, washed out
by the reeeding waters of the primative, per-
haps the eboatic ocean limestone of all colors
and kinds, here pure sulpoate, rcd or about
brick color. towering into the air like The ruins
Of an ancient castle; now carbonate, white
and beautiful, in some fantastic shape, and
both close together and now by compound
Of lime and stone and close by again beau
tiful boulders of gray granite, and again huge
masses Of porphorite, mountains fpure gypsum
and still close at hand huge black masses Of
camel coal, iucxhaustable in qaantity-all
combine 10 vary the scene. Yoa eau hardly
imagine the wonderful variety in color, mass
and shape, which presents itself throughout
this region of about sixty miles at the base of
the mountains, where these things are seen,
and which is called the Garden of the Gods"
l had no idea Of the extent Of fertility or
resources Of this wonderful region. How you
would enjoy the flowers, these clad hills these
tremendous, majestic, awful mountains, the
streams, the rocks, the trees, the living things.
l think you would go stark, staring mad.
enclose some flowers picked here and there, and
preserved in my pocketbook, in letters, and as
best l could Some of them were picked while
sitting in the snow on TIE top Of the mountain,
the flowers growing within three inches of
perpetual winter.