New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-28
HOME CORRESPONDENCE.
NOREs FROM COLORADO.

MATTERs-UOPES OF THE CROPS.
GREELEY, Col, July five find that as
often rs once in two days have brisk breeze in the
afternoon lasting half an hour when everything
not nailed fast starts its travels when our cookfoom
blew down two weeks ago. the stove was suffered 10
stand without a roof and when the girls COOK III the
morning they hold their hands over their eyes 10 Keep
of the sun, they prepare the morning les'iF"i' an
through the forenoon the shines across the Sow @
against the east end OF the shanty, making inc oc'
remind one Of the old fiery furnace But IN tne ai'er
noon providing the wind does not blow 'he ni'nono
stand I'm the shade and the eaketle sings gently Inc
iron ng board is placed across the backs OF t"o h
chairs and at this hour the ironing VI SIM
bosoms Is going On, while RaipheuS' WIN n"'
como on tells her how II Is uoho III 1o"
yort A the sun descends the hens return from LOT
aging ON my few cabbages, which every DAY decrease IA
number and passing the stove, where they Cautiously
nick at some drippngs the hearth, and then seek
lodging place on the back side of'the shah'y'
onr house has one story nearly completed but the
mason complains that ten feet Is too hlgh
which made me suspect that he thought IL might o,o"
down Int il stands firmly enough, ana our boy mas
nointad the castings and frames find that mechanics
Generally are good deal like that pestle in the Old story
which brought water from the spring with Vengeance
| and being broken In two, each part went " ps"s
water until the old fellow who maze inc Pcs'io W
enough of 1t that is to say. when mechahc eo'S y
n work he goes ahead without stopping often regard
| To-. =, beiro right or wrong-did / say with
ont stonninrl Alas! this IL erroneous, LOT
certain number OF stories to be told each day.
and the public is Obliged TO rest on noe anu no anu
listen so that have computed each STORY co's ion
o. cents to sO0 and may say that through 'hc cns
and breadth Of this land when men are hoelng corn'
hon tbov are harvesting and building and all this
certain per cent is to deducted for time lost IN teng
stories and might add in singing songs about Ehza'
the total value OF which cannot be less thah sooo"
dav or per annum; handsome sums one must
confess which would be handy TO have IN inc mousse
IT is pleasant outlook from our shanty door, east
ward and across the piles of mountain lumber warpng
I'm the sun and for warpng you never saw any tnns
like it, in the OF one board WIN KotS t"o io'
apar for there warps across the KNOTS hst one way
ond then another giving the board something Of the APP
pearance OF artificial wooden snakes some boy take
fancy for and all pieces OF flooring when cur
and crawl i'm the sun If they were getting reay lor
start back 10 the mountains where in some deep gen.
they could lie in the shade, and, listening 10 inc
| falling of the water, live In peace. lhs outlooA
from our hanty door takes the delta formed by the
Platte and Cache la Poudre with only the railroad TRACK
and the grass sight for the town is behind u.s. ana We
face south and east but there green hinges OF
cotton wood and beyond all is so 20 speak, night Ihs
delta lyfRg most beautifully, Is divided INTO o. Oahu ="
acre lots and is the that the inevitable rroaus
from the Republican and Platte are to come making our
town railroad junction such Indianapolis OF Atlanta
That country yonder and in the night although the
sun shines on it erccly threaded by the Platte the
Republican, the Solomon, and the Ble anu IL Is sae ~
say that II YOU travel 500 miles You VIII not come 10
house. although you would be approaching Phlauelpha
and NewYork First on this journey, you would pass
sort Of border region where at the mouths OF Beaver
and Crow Creek that band OF noble wild horses are
often seem headed by noble gray, and Of which story
is to told day; next you come into the ihua
country occupied by the outlaws OF various cheyenne
Sioux and Arapahoe tribes and then through region
mostly unknown and as wide the whole state OF New
| VI ia he
on tine Blue Rather wild stretch OF country you Will
think directly between and civilization but tbat Is
nothing to the country the north for when you cross
one river you will travel through nearly 90 degrees OF
Iatitude-hat ia over 5000 mes-without finding house.
unless one should happen to strike lone station on the
Union Pacific or a tradingpOst the Missouri, or in
British America McKenzes River where the ground
is always frozen 1G feet Deep and tie Canadian rapper
raises potatoes during the days Of Summer in the soil
hawcd ~ inches the everlasting frOst Dut TINS
5000 miles takes you only to the north, and going 5000
miles more you will the vast steppes Of Siberia
where in wretched cabins the exile wceps Such are our
surroundings the north and east On the south, and
skirtng the mountains, finds settlements all around
TO the Rio del Norte but out on the plains hte you
may travel until you get tired Of IT, and never meet any
habtaton short of Texas beyond the Comanche c0ul-
try On the west it is more desolate still, for 20 miles
distant reach the mountains around the base OF
Longs Peak, and penetrated by canons and divides the
wild snowy range, feet high ntervenes which only
decline miles distant the borders OF Utah. and when
the thread Mormon settlements is passed, you will
enter upon thousandrnie stretch Of mountains and
deserts where hot springs send up their white columns
and where lives the Digger Indian, whose food Is OF
worms, lizards, white men, and be is not particular
| which Beyond are the grand Serras, where Fremont
and his men struggled through 40 feet deep and
escaped half alive. No wonder then that the air we
breathe pure and that it is easy to imagine we have
many of the conditions Of the first the earth
when cities unknown and all things were new
BY the way, situation is not dissn1lar to that OF
the early cities, inasnuch as We live in town and
| have our farms outside; but have no wall'
| and we troubled with cattle. Indeed, this cattle
question is of the ugles have to deal with, for it
Is the law Of the land that cattle may at large and
there herds all around, for which we have
been obliged to hire herder, who performs only during
the day-nor he be everywhere at To cultivate
gardens and trees under such circumstances would seem
hopeless but have decided Congress assembled not
to fence, and must fight the business through The
greatest obstacle lies in not being citizens and not
having been here six months, organize NUM-
cpa government The chief annoyance arises from some
ranchcroa, who, with few cows, have settled I'm town
and built corra whence their cows are driven in the
morning; but sometimes they only led out and then
the rayisment begins. The ceanest piece OF mpudence
call to mind is follows: One OF these fellows, with
herd OF few cows, suffered them TO eat the corn OF
neighbours garden while he absent and then he took
the milk part of which derived from this corn,
and sold 1t to the injured six quart We
shall teach these cattle barons better after
have been here six months, and have elected Mayor
and an assortment OF Consables We are not going to
fence 1t is out Of the question: and every householder
shall take pride in his garden along the edge of the
| sidewalk.
We have a school OF 40 pupils, and want more room
and must build nice school-house this Summer. Our
choir of singers Is improving rapidly and with the help
OF melodeon our church masic quite respectable SO
far have met Sundays in an unfinished hail. and