Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-05-29
COLORADO.
Switzerland Of America, -

ITS ENCHANTING CLIMATE ANIL MAGNIFICENT
scENERY-ITs MOUNTAIN AIR THE GIAND
ELIXIR OF LIFE-A FORMER wAsHINGroNIAN
AMONG TIE STOCK RANCHES AND BUFFALO
RANGES OF SOUTHERN COLORADO.
[Ertracts from C Pirate letter.
GRINERos RANCH, COLORADO, May 20, 1873.
Dear Colonel: l never tire OF the
no use in trying to make you understand how
perfectly splendid, transparent. exhilarsting
IT is One gets up in the morning feeling a.
dermically injected into his veins Tor in some
other mysterious way administered) in the last
moments of his dreamless sleep, so intoxi-
Gated is he with pleasurable emotions. HIS
brain Is clear, active, spirits elastic and ex-
uberant, the mysterious influence injecting
the body and inducing a strong desire TO
run, leap, shout, sing, eat-yes, anything and
everything before him. lie has no DISPOSE
ton to grumble because his steak is not done
to a turn, his rolls too hot or not hot
enough, or his coffee cold Gf such should
be the case, y but assaults great slice of salt
baSon and Eats it with a relish, "a hing, by the
way, i never thought possible by any one who
had tasted other meats,) slows away half a
dozen tortitias, baked in grease, and swallows
t~o cups OF black boiled coffee, without milk or
sugar. enjoying all far more. IL wager a steer,
than any Of "you alp do your dainty breakfasts
The grand old mountains, almost at our door,
have thousand different phases-now rising
clear-cut against the sky, every crag and gorge
off in the hazier atmosphere, which betokens a
storm, the rocky angles and abrupt spurs toned
down into Q mass OF iron gray, piled high up to-
ward the heavens; and now half shrouded in
great banks of heecy clouds, their topmost peaks
thrusting their heads to the empyrean, hoary
with the SHOWS Of six thousand winters (more
or less.) little green valley takes its tortuous
way towards the foothills, watered by a snow
fed mountain stream that washes the grassy
slopes Of our lawn with its limpid waters. On
every hand are shrub-fringed hills, verdant
with the varied green of the pine, the pinon
and the cedar, and fecked with wild flowers,
bands of listless cattle and herds of timid deer,
ever seeming danger, and of like the wind, ere
you can hope to bring them within rifle range.
How you like i'm, maybe? 1t is all true, but
the deer, and they are antelope, and there are
none of them just about here, but plenty of
them thirty-f five miles away, with buffalo i'm the
season within fifty miles-near enough, for they
play the very devil with a stock range. But
come and see for yourself.
have letter from Mr.. -, of the Pension
office, saying he and Mr.. - would like to
invest 81 900 in sheep ION shares) here. 1 have
advised him to put his money into cattle, which
are low, and hold them for q rise in beef and
fall in sheep; then, If deemed advisable sell the
former and invest in the latter-say at the end
of the year. Cattle are bound to RISE and sheen
prices must topple. The prices at which sheep
are held are dsproportiOnate to the price of
wool. The result of this state of facts is plain
Desirable government land i'm Colorado is be-
coming " very few"-fewer every month-but
there is NO danger Of Overrunning this range
with stock, for all the water is taken, generally
by stock men. WIN. E. SWEET.