Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-07-12


mer, and exist upon it in winter. Even
here, where, in June we see snow on the
hill sides close to US, and shiver under
double blankets at night, the cattle live
out of doors through the long winter. 1t
is indeed, rich grazing country, and /,
will support its heards of thousands r.
rigation is necessity for all extensive
cultivation of the soil, however and the
extent to which this is already being en-
ployed, and the amount of money invest
ed in it, are occasions of surprise. But
with the fair distance of all competing
production, and the great fertility of the
soil when thus developed. it will pay to
carry water from the mountain streams
miles on miles from their natural courses
and spread it on in little artificial rivu-
lets over acres on acres of potatoes, grains
and the smaller vegetables. A plan is in
progress of execution for bringing large
water course some fifteen miles around
Denver, and letting it out in gentle fruc-
tifying streams all over the town and it's
adjacent farms and gardens. Then will
this Eow barren wilderness of store and
house and sand blossom as the rose then
can door yards be green with grass, shad-
ed with trees, and beautiful with flowers.
Meantime, the people must live on canned
fruits and vegetables from the East, and
possess their esthetic souls in patience for
the rest, magnifying their mountain view
of charming yet constant beauty. The
extensive and common use of these i'm.
ported productions of our eastern orchards
and gardens in all the country west of
the Mississouri is most astonishing. They
are on every table, few New England
housekeepers present such a variety of ex-
cellent vegetables and fruits, as we find
everywhere here, at every hotel and sta
ton meal, and at every private dinner or
supper Corn, tomatoes, beans, pine ap-
pies, strawberry, cherry and peach, with
oysters are the most common; and all of
these in some form or other, you may
frequently find served up at single meal.
these canned vegetables and fruits and
fish are sold, too at prices which seem
cheap compared with the cost of other
things out here. They range from 80
cents to 81 can of about two quarts.
Families buy them in cases of two dozen
each at $l2 $l5 case; while away
up in Montana, they are sold at $27 a
case.
Colorado has four daily and fonr week.
ly papers, two each at Denver, and one
each at Black Hawk and Central City, in
the mining region and though their cir
culatiou is small---some 500 to 700 each
the large prices they to get for sub
scriptions, for advertising and printing
serve to support them all literally. Let
me close with the current Colorado rates
of staples and luxuries: Flour zoe q
pound meal 23c, hams SOC, lard 40c, syr
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up S. per gallon. cheese 75c, coffee 75c
brown sugar 45c, butter 60c, milk 50C
per quart, best cigars SOC each, printing
paper Csc per pound, daily paper, pei
year, $24, weekly 81, brooms 81, molas
ses $3.50 per gallon, boots $l4 per pair
common labor, per day, IS. And here
are some of the latest Montana prices
1900 miles further on: Flour 80 Coo &
pound, hams 75c, golden syrup IS, crack
ers 9Oc, cheese 81, beans SOC, wood ST.
Is per cord lumber 500 per thousand
The high price and terrible quality o
, whiskey and other liquors in all thes'
= distant territories are operating as an eff
fective temperance agent. see very lit
tie of them or of their effects anywhere
. Some of the vernacular of the mountains
3 is sufficiently original and amusing to b.
reported, also. A "square" meal is th
, common term for a first rate one our ole
friend Cavanaugh sighs for "squar
, meal at the Massassoit." "Shebang'
/. means any kind of an establishment, store
t house, shop, shanty; "outfit" has a wide
a: range, your handkerchief, your suit o
clothes, the cut of your hair, your team
q your whole possessions and the most in
| initesimal part or item thereof; and sal
fdavit" signifies anything else that thes
> other terms do not cover. Sd.