New-York tribune., 1870-10-11
BUILDING THE CITY.
NOW CITIES GROw-THE POSITION OF THE TOWN
OF GREELEY" RoUGHING r"-GARDEN-
ING AND STOCK RAISING.

evclonment will be one city, at least while villages
will be formed from the abundant fragments Boston
is an ougrowth OF the pastures and meadows OF New
England; New-York of the Hudson River country and
The near and small farms tho red shae soil of Jersey
Philadelphia Of the wheat lands, Stretching ouin many
dirsctions Cincinnati. of the corn valleys of the Mus
kingum. the sciotO and the Miamis LOuisyie,o the
bluegrass region in the limestone districts Chicago OF
the grain fields OF many states, and st. LOUIS OF
the Upper Mississippi country and the Valley Of the
Illinois River Whatever advantages may exist bcsiue'
they did frs, exist and it true that all Important
cities are i'm the immediate vicinity Of good farming
lands which are the foundation of their groWth uu'
city never becomes the leading one OF section nc III
addition its geographical position is snch 'hat II ca" e
como n center of travel and point OF distnbutloh'
Sometimes city is first started because the locality Is
poin whence roads radate, and the questions OF ostl
,bution and of exchange have for time great promi-
,ence but after awhile, and when trade changes as IL
always does change snc places dwiude as the RUNS OF
cities in many parts Of Asia attest. To come nearer
home though TO mos readers it viii be far away Denver
became fourisinc town because it at the mouth
of Cherry Creek, where many roads diverged toward
different mines and il not possible to build the lead
ing town anywhere else rs many tried TO their sorrow
and aterward when agriculture became puTsuit the
point became still fixed because the valleys OF the
Tatto and Clear Creek. and other streams fortunately
surrounded It, And yet while Denver could st that time
be built nowhere else, account OF the dVcrgng OF
roads to the mincs is seen that it was built only
10 this end and that would be great advantage II II
could be removed TO The mouth OF Clear Creek, some six
,,nes down the Pattc-that is TO natural railroad june
zion which Is shown by the termination Of the Kansas
Pacific being forced miles and half in this direc-
,ton and upon the edge of the opening of Clear Crec
Valley while the railroad the Colorado Contra frm
Golden City, is compelled TO seek he same poim Ihe
treason why the Valley Of Clear Greek is strategic line
Is because II is the only valley in all that section by
which access easy for railway route from the States
70 the passes which lead to the principal mining towns Of
BLACK Hawk Central City and Georgctown for all three
are on the waters Of this stream high among the noun
n and reach these passes from Denver there is no
other way than a series OF ridges of divide,
something like the ridges Of washbsard and then only
that the line of Clear Creek may be reached at last To
attempt to run by any other line is simply impossible,
because such line exists.
GREELEY AND ITS TRIBUTARY COUNTRY.
Il was after considering many such questions, and hay-
ing whole country from which to choose, that our oca
tion of the town OF Greeley made glance at the
,uap when shall recognize US, shall show That We arc
opposite the Pinto, where with turn from the
,0utbvest to receive the Cache In Poudre while the Val
1eys Of the Big and Little Thompson and Of st. Nraln
cpen full upon from above, and from them radiate
tributary valleys; hence We are at the outlet Of wide
AGRICULTURAL country which naturally is tributary to this
1out-tlat is from line drawn northeast around to
2nc drawn nearly sOUtl-whe inadditon the Platte Val
1cy from miles wide, aDdf0r at least 5Omles
east be also but not until immigrants shall have
Forcing the not unwilling half-iaTmlr living along the
llor1er TO venture into that almost unknown region
which is bounded by the Union Pacific the I-rth by
fhe settlements pushed out from the Missouri River on
the east by the Kansas Pacific the south and by the
settlements along the Rocky Mountains on the west in
Guiding al that remains Of the buffalo country, where
-outaSed Indians drink from the Republican and the
Tae and defiance to the Government beat back
during these pressing days the rancheman and his herds
h in the valleys OF an these streams that settlements
TO be made but between are the divides, or swelling
Npands covered with the best grass in the world and as
snuch so in Winter in Summer, where millions Of
sheep and cattle kept their dTinkngplaces and
eorrals being in the valleys hence rancho Of
ahan 21acre strip, lying across the valley from
ahe river TO the bluff may, when properly managed, be
equal in value lOOOacTe farmin SangamOn or Devon
shire The grandeur aud the solitude of these divides have
1lo parallel in country. The deep blue Of the sky
,ninges with the and the gray of the pain and the
stretches are that the natural eye surrenders its
office and the spiritual eye pierces through into an un-
ynown landscape; and thunderstorm, srtng around
from Laramie Plains from Pixies Peak, flashes among
fhe gloomy curtains Of the air. if far out at sea- lost
son and the hour Of final departure when there shall be
q reunion, may near
Nothing can be more certain than that by far the
greater part Of the people here must dwell in cities and
Towns which there will be schools refined society," and
commercial establishments since by of the linn
Ited amount table land, IN comparison with the pas
IOra country residence established in the States will
De impossible, and in founding town 1t Is necessary
that be surrounded by table land that is with land
fha can be irrigated and that its location be such that
u shall be on main lines of travel that it may become
distributing point Now, when the Cotton States and
the States of the Southwest shall reach forth, they
surely WILL for the trade of the Territories of Montana
idaho Utah. and of the Pacific Coast above San Diego
The only practicable line will be along the Republican
Valley, which at least 2j0 miles long, and well TIM
bered thence the divide to the Platte, and thence
rp the Cache Poudre, where planted TO juno
zion with the Union Pacific Laramie Plains This will
give us second line the first being the Denver Pacific,
leading from Cheyenne TO Denver which is already built,
that is to say Pacific, starting from Kansas
CITY is completed by Denver to Cheyenne, which gives
10 this company the trade Of Colorado In view Of this
fact It il but natural that the Union Pacific should at
tompt TO get a part Of this trade which at
tempt already is made, for myself out yesterday
with party Of engineers making the preliminary sur
Sey Of a railroad place TO Golden City by
OF the Valleys Of the Thompsons and the St. Yrain, and
this road is TO be extended eastward either to Pine
Bluff or TO Julesburg, when shall be placed at the
vortex Of two great lines cutting the line already built
py means Of this new road We shall obtain iron coal
stone and timber at cheap rates for they abound along
ihe last 80 miles of this road and the valleys and plains
10 the east Of will also be supplied. 1t would have
been easy to have located in the midst Of these
natural resources and the question considered, but
IL was seen first that there great disadvantages in
town located at the foot OF mountains because it
have but half country to support it, and, second that
we left the locality we have selected il would be i'm
Froyed by Others and would be forced to be ribu
tary.
THE TRIALS oP PIONEER LIFE
detailed and truthful account OF the building of any
town may possibly be entertaining reading, but people
think there Is entertainment for the families which
endure the prvatiOns Inconvenience, and perpeXes
ot the station they will have different opinion when