The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-08-11

Xxx White Wheat Flour made from selected
Minnesota wheat" Looking farther, 1 saw it
was being made from an article of Iowa Spring
Wheat so foul. that our millersrvouid scarcely
make feed of it Your readers can '.pile itups'
TO suit themselves.
From this on, westward SO or T5 miles to Mar
shaltown, it is a very fine country and quito
thickly settled. But from thence to near the
west line Of the State, the land is almost entire
ly unoccupied, although it appears to me the
best part of the State by far. At Council Bluffs
we leave America and cross the Missouri River
| into Omaha, a hugely exaggerated town. where
the gentlemanly HoteI-kcepers complacently
allow you to pay them "a per day for ordinary
accommodations. One here meets numerous in
diyiduals who appear 10 be eagerly engaged in
devising some means to g9tyour bottom dollar
Here one can Stay all night, if by. amy accident
your baggage gets over the river, if not, You
can stay two nights as did, and was rendered
the hospitalities of the city, at least no one OBJ
jccted to my staying. There is but one train
leaving for the west on W. 2. r. II. per day.
This train starts at 1-30 p. n. and is usually
crowded with passengers. The track follows
up the valley OF the Platte, which down in its
lower portion is from 10 to so miles in width
and for $50 to 300 miles up, is the richest land
have ever seen in any country. Such crops can
be found nowhere, else. 81! s@d 80 ,-li.ai
As We continually RISE the surface of the
country and nature of the soil changes quite
rapidly The valley widens, and becomes more
and more barren until it looses its appearance
of valley, and assumes more the aspect of an
elevated plain, bounded on either side by low
ranges Of hills which in many places are alb
rupt aud present face Of solid ledges OF jagged
preeipitous rocks. The country is entirely un-
| inhabited except by. thousands of prairie dogs,
| and great numbers of antelopes. AS we ap-
proach Cheyenne, the grade rises very rapidly,
and person realizes that he has. already at
tanned great altitude, and is still going mp
The air seems light and cool, and one expert
ences an exhllerating effect from bresthing it.
which can compare to nothing else than the
sensation produced by a limited iraught OF
Laughing Gas. 1t is impregnated with scent
OF aroma, which 1 can describe in no way sc
well as by comparing it to the scent that comes
over patch of :" life everlasting y, in Ohio.
A few miles from Cheyenne the road winds
about among range of quite large sand hills
and in several places through deep cuts, one o
which is covered with snow shed. and here il
was that met a great disappointment! I was
told that l was passing through the Rocky
Mountains. could not repress the though
that b arnum had something to do with getting
up TINS range cheyenne IS "a temporary Alok
ing railroad town, which has, apparently seer
its best day. Here the W. P. r. r. Co. have al
important Station. a round house and othel
buildings; tits here that the Denver Racfh,
Road connects with the W. p Road; and it i
down this road distance OF 81 miias, just hal
way to Denver, that the Union Colony callet
Greedy. isilocated, and of this L may write yo,
more in a future letter, for fear tnat this viii
trespass upon your space.
Il Enclosed L send you some specimens of tn,
soil and buffalo and bunch grass. This grass will
not have changed its color or condition, when i
reaches you You would hardly think thai
stock would fatten upon it. but such is the fact
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