The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-08-16

Some one has said local attachment,
like pity and the modern love pas
sion, is a hing SO largely produced
by culture that nature seems to have
but little to do with it. Very few,
I believe, would care to tarry long
in such d country as this If It were
not for what culture has done and
what can be done by culture. True,
the climate is an attraction. The
Territory is full of invalids. Every
hotel in the city and IN the noun
tains is running over with people
seeking Notwithstanding away from
their graves" as i heard gentle
man express it this morning. A
number of consumptives have found
their graves here within the last
week or two. From what l have
been able to learn since I came here
IwOuld never advise consumptive
to come to Colorado. The highly
electrical conition of the air, which
gives a tonic, exhilerating effect, the
absence of miasma and sultry
nights make it very favorable for a
debilitated condition of the system.
But the effect is somewhat like that
of alcoholic liquors, it buoys up for
a while, only the effect of living in
such climate for years is bad. 1
have talked with those who have
lived here for sixteen years, and
they tell me that they have
become enervated, a kind OF
dissipation from the overstim-
ulant effect of the air, and no.
where do the older inhabitants need
change SO often for their health.
Invent with some friends-Judge
II. and wife, of Missouri-in q pri.
vate conveyance to Idaho Springs,
thirty miles from Denver,in the
mountains, where 1 spent a week
very pleasantly, climbing noun
tains, bathing, and sleeping, will
the exception of one day, when il
stormed. 1t was not quite so grand
storm as Bierstadt's storm in thu
Rocky Mountains, but it was decid
eddy disagreeable; it made the ali
so cold we almost froze.
The temperature of the water tina
runs from the warm springs is jus
right for a warm bath. There ar
two bathing houses, neither of then
well nor comfortably fitted up
The cold spring of mineral waite
here was sold the other day to ST
Louisan for $1,000. In another yea
tourists will see something grand il
the shape of hotel and new bat
house near that spring.
A rather laughable incident oc
Cured at the springs q week or tw
ago-a mineral water joke on som
lady tourists. They were going, 70
the first time, with their cups t
have O look at the springs and tast
their waters. Passing near where
> swiIl drain from one of the hote
kitchens emptied, installing it 70
one of the many mineral springs
they exclaimed with gushing de
: light, "What splendid mineral wa
ter this is! oh, how nice it looks
They filled their cups with the dish
water and were about to convey
to their dainty lips, when they wer
informed by a bystander of the na
ture of their "nice mineral water.
More tourists visit Colorad
= Springs, at the base of Pixies Pc
than elsewhere in the mountain
!, principally on account of the plac
). being of easy access. The railroa
= passes within a short distance {
the springs. Idaho Springs ar
reached only by stage. They wi
have q railroad through to the littl
> town of Idaho in another year.
shall probably visit Colorad
Springs and the southern part {
the Territory before returning.
!, Good bye for the present. w.
DENVER, COL, August 1Ith, 1877: