New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-26
THE PACIFIC RAILWAY CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE.

THEIR VISIT TO DENVER, GEORGETOWN, GRAYs
PEAKS, GARDEN OF THE GODS, AND OTHER
PLACES OF INTEREsT--A SNOW STORM IN
MIDsUMMER-THE TRIBUNE AMONG THE
MiNERs-BIsHoP RANDALL's LABoRs.
GEORGETOWN, Colorado, July 1.-THE Con-
gressiOnal Pacific Railroad Committee, who were at
Kansas City tho great bridge opening the Sd inst.
are here now From Kansas City after visiting Leaven.
worth and vicinity they travelled guests OF the Kansas
Pacific Railroad Sheridan its present terminus and the
end OF It's subsidized line From Sheridan after passing
Cheyenne Wells on tho Plains they turned in south
westerly direction striking the Arkansas River az Fort
Lyon when they proceeded Immediately up the valley
of tho Arkansas, until they reached the base OF the
mountains Pueblo from whence they set their faces
northward. following up the side Of the mountains to
Denver the political and business capital Of this Terri
tory Then they turned westward again to reach the
center OF this mountain range, and something Of its
grandy picturesque scenery and its unbounded and
developed mineral resources. Having now seen speci
OF almost every phase of this diversified territory
their expressions Of interest The Plains. they say
appear like an unfinished country over which Young
America has sped It's across the continent few gen
erations before the time had fully They were sur
prsed with ts groenswared surface pleased with Its
rolling yastness and euraptured with its SOFT pleasant
yet healthful and inygoratinG atmosphere. As they
neared the base Of the mountain and the immense
focks OF sheep aud herds OF CATTLE they almost
amazed with the vast stockproducng capacity Of the
country. But their views OF It's agricultural resources
not much magniAed IL is fact that oats, wheat
rye barley turnps and potatoes grow luxurantly and
produce abundant crops with necessary cultivation. But
that necessary cultivation includes irrigation and irr
cation requires supplies OF water that unless
wells shall be found practicable, some other yet
tried found for furnishing water the arabic land
win be ereumscrbedw thin comparatively narrow lin.
its for want OF more water.
But the grand beauty and lovely scenery of this coun
try stands not only unexceled, but Is uneQuaed Tha
excursion party spent fow days Pixies Peak in
the Vicinity Of Colorado CITY, where they enjoyed drink
ing and bathing in the COOL refreshing water constantly
bubbnR and eeryescing II pours In large streams
from the cold Soda Springs And they also speak In most
enthusiastic terms OF Sunday which they spent In the
Garden Of the Gods, spot enchanting and lovely so
grand and picturesque, that denes description II IA
misfortune to the reader Of Bowes's Switzerland OF
America that the Indian "scare prevented his visiting
this spot before no his book In the eonyulsons OF
nature, fantastic tricks have been performed 1t
appears as the ponderous horizontal strata which once
lay buried far below have here an been thrown IN
into immense perpendicuars. Summer rains and Winter
SHOWS have evoed down the softer strata into pleasant
valleys nesting at tho base OF the mountains incosed
aud ntersccted by tho harder strata. standing as i'm