The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-31

remarkable for solidity and dryness, as
compared with our soft juicy grapes This
is good country for melons, especially
cantaloupes, which are of very fine flavor.
Potatoes will not do we'll about Pueblo,
inclining to grow all to vine. On the Di-
vide they grow large and very fine. Wild
grapes which grow along the streams indi-
cate by their excellence and yield that this
will prove good grape country. Expert
ments seem to show that apples, pears and
peaches will all do well in this region.
Plums and apricots are fine and of good
flavor.
1t is difficult to describe this country so
that persons who have never seen it can
form any thing like a true conception of the
impression it makes on one accustomed to
the picturesque scenery of the East. Its
bleak wastes and dried up appearance are
sure to offend the eye. The colony plan is
the only plan that will ever succeed in set
ting Colorado, or furnishing it with the
society and comforts which are essential to
our state of civilization.
One valuable class of immigrants to this
country are the health seekers, many of
them wealthy, business men, who have no
health in any other climate. They conse-
quently, permanently locate, and possess
ing business capacity and capital establish
a branch here. Iron, coal, "copper" etc,
and the precious metals, are abundant, and
in the mountains so miles from Pueblo,
which WILL if the railroads do not desert it,
be desirable point in the near future for
establishing smelling furnaces, foundries,
factories, etc Near by in the mountains
mineral springs as health giving as those
at Manitou are found, and people who
may locate at Pueblo can also have Summer
cottages at these mountain springs within
a days drive of town.
The place may be SAID to be in statu quo
at present. No building is going on, ex-
cept the water works, which is to supply
the town with water. A great many skep-
tics shake their heads and say the parties
most deeply interested are pushing the
colony, and that there is nothing in it.
am inclined to take a more encouraging
view of the situation. 1t would be hazard
Gus to come here without means, but with
a small or large capital it might be well in
vested, and openings would develop, that
shrewd business men could turn to advan-
tage very readily. The same capital, bust
ness qualifications and industry here would
be worth many times what it is likely to be
in the East. | would not advise a man of
very limited means, or no means at all, to
come here. One of the leading objects
with the Colony Company here is to estab-
llsh popular sanitarium at Canon City,
similar to Mantou, near Colorado Springs,
and an effort is making to build up Canon
City, a project that will probably succeed,
and prove as desirable a place for the in
valid as Colorado Springs. Pueblo has
milder and better climate for Winter res
idence for invalids than Colorado Springs
or Denver.
The foregoing is as faithful and impair
tial a sketch of Pueblo and its possibilities
as | can write, not perhaps up to the
wishes of its ardent admirers and those
who are striving with might and main to
make it the future "Great Central City of
the Far Vest But the 10, 900 acres COW
cred by the irrigating ditch of the Colony
Company will, beyond a doubt, soon be
settled and placed under cultivation by an
agricultural immigration, which will be a
strong attracting centre for capital and ex-
tensve business enterprises. f. E. E.