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

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fine CLAW and lumber on the neighboring
mountains: and with all these advantages as
| near to Pueblo as to any other colony point,
| the inhabitants have much to hope for in the
future. and the railroad question cannot
| fail to deeply interest the far seeing busl-
ness man who has invested in Pueblo, and
is epdeavoring to make it the metropolis of
Colorado At present, however, a great
doubt rests upon its future. The agrlcul-
tural prosperity of the place, however, can
not fail to be largely developed in the
future With 10000 acres already under
an irrigating ditch with certainty of a
bountiful supply of water for all purposes,
the colony lands which are laid off in ten
acre lots back of the town site, cannot fail
to find purchasers speedily. For vegetables,
grain and fruit, market will always be
convenient among the mining towns and
| ranches, with a demand that will insure
good prices.
| have given in brief the advantages
| claimed for Pueblo by its business men,
and the uncertainty which at present be-
clouds, perhaps temporily, its future pros
| poets, and will proceed to iot down my
notes of travel. The train arriving, en-
tiers North Pueblo or the old town where
| most of the residences and business houses
are tolerably we'll centered, but even these
are scattered over an unusually large extent
of surface The train continues to circle
round and through this part of the town,
| for two miles, crossing the Arkansas river
where South Pueblo is supposed to exist,
| and the depot is located. The leading bus
mess house in this part of the town is the
| large commission house and retail store of
Field & Hill, located near the depot. This
| firm does large commission and forward
ing business, particularly to New Mexico,
in addition to an extensive retail trade.
Their clerks all speak Spanish, it being
their Gus. ON to employ none who do not
understand that language. This insures
them the Mexican custom which consti
tutes the bulk of their trade. Mr.. Hill, of
the firm of Field & Hill, was Cecil county
boy, and son of the late Isaac Hill, OF the
Eighth District. He is man of thou
sand, and made of such stuff as develop
| into the leading men of this great Western
| country. When a mere boy, just from
school. he struck boldly out to try his for
tunes on the frontier. He found employ
ment in large St. Louis house, and by
close application and wonderful adapta-
ton for commercial business, soon attracted
the notice of his employers, who happened
to have the contract for furnishing goods
to the contractors or the construction COM
pany of the Kansas Pacific Railroad
From St. Louis he was soon transferred to
a distributing point near the work, where
incompetent or drinking employees, man.
aged to saddle large share OF the bust
ness on the diligent and industrious young
clerk. which in the end, proved of great
advantage to him. The hard work at this
place began to tell on young Hills health,
and got his employers to send him out on
the road where a kind of large suffers
cfol oh I nd w n
the business he had embarked in was still
further developed, and made apparent to his
EMPLOYEES, as we'll as to the railroad COM
pany, by the large profit realized the first
months of his management. A disagree
ment arose between the contractors on the
road and the mercantile house of st. Louis
over the distribution Of profits, and the
railroad men severed their partnership with
the merchants. Young Hills quiet deport-
ment and undoubted business ability, not
only made money for his employers, but
firm friends on the other side, and the rail-
road men insisted that he should cut loose
from his old employers and follow their
fortunes: and this led to a partnership
between him and Mr.. Fields, who was, and
is, a leading railroad man. That partner
ship grew and prospered, till at present.
from no capital but good health, unflinch
ing industry and good business qualifica
lions, he is one of the leading, wealthy
men of the city of Pueblo. For four years
he lived on the savage plains when he saw
little else than the railroad builders, roughs
and ranch men and Indians. At night
when the dance grew to its hight i'll the
saloons, and the customary revolver fight
commenced, he and Mr.. Field would close
their canvas tent, and placing nail keg
between them and the firing, lie down to
sleep with their heads against the key.
A boy that has gone through this ordeal
will have to be of true mental or nothing
but dross will be left of him at the end.
A fter the X. P. Railroad was completed to
Denver, young Hill followed the narrow
gauge down to its present terminus, where
he and his partner have their large estab-
ment and heavy trade, and are among the
men who are pushing the south Colony of
Pueblo. 1t is well to note here that men who
enter the list to strive for position and
wealth in these territory colonies and towns,
will always find themselves confronted by
just such spirits as young Hill, and genu-
inc ability is all that has much chance of
success. Slow fellows, drones and lag
CARDS, who hesitate and stand to doubt,
have no chance beside such rivals. A little
capital may be well invested here, but there
must be a man behind it always, with brain
anu ucTSe W push 1t. mere IS Healtu here
for all, a hospitable people who are ready
to assist all who have any capacity for bus
mess, but loafers have no show at all.
| Good schools, good society, and intelligent
| people are the rule in all these colony set
| Elements. Whisky is almost always bar
| red out by the charter and not allowed to
be vended within the colony limits. The
! people strive to make amends in their hos
pitality to strangers and new corners who
are worthy, by their enthusiasm for the
advantages the country possesses in the
| stock business, the fine crops raised on
spots capable of irrigation, the general
freedom and independence enjoyed where
neighbors do not crowd each other, for
the comparatively lonesome life which must
necessarily be led, and the lack of every
thing green and attractive in the land
scape. The people who come here, or at
least those who stay, seem to acquire an
enthusiastic love for the country which is
difficult to account for Perhaps it is at
tributable to that germ planted in the hu-
| man breast which vegetables in a dry and
comparatively uninhabited country, and
which is so strongly manifested in the Arab
when he breathes the free air of his native
| deserts, and feels his barb bound beneath
| him.
The scenery of Colorado is much cracked
up by those who have made business of
writing up the country; but with the ex-
ceptlon of the grand mountain scenery,
which to be enjoyed must be sought among
the gorges and peaks where few would
think of taking up their abode, it is decid
eddy fiat, stale " and uniuterestine. In
the pamphlet issued by the South Pueblo
Colony Company, the following romantic
deception is given of the grand view which
| the town commands.
''From the South bluff the view is grand
and beautiful, the eye taking in at a single
sweep the magnificent promontory of
Mount Cheyenne, the snow-crowned crest
of Pixies Peak, the South Park and Green
horn ranges, clear and bold, and the
shadowy outlines of the far-off snowy
range-the grand Sierra Madre, or mother
range of the great Rocky Mountain sys-
tenn. To the South tower the twin Span
sh peaks; while to the East rolls out the
boundess ocean of the plains.''
This ornate description is perhaps literal
| Iv true but the imDreSs0n il will naturally