The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-07-23


thing at his previous home; or, in
other words, there is every opportuni-
ty for the most profitable employment
of capital in this State, but the sup
ply of labor is, for most occupations,
in great excess.
Of the mining interests I need say
nothing; they are simply prodigious
abundance of coal and all useful met
ais, gypsum, and building stones of
beautiful tint and consisteEce, exist
ing throughout it's do,aains. Nor is
it entirely deficient in timber. consid-
cradle pine aid other timber being
cut and sawed near the mountains.
Railroads are penetrating the rocky
interior in many directions; magnif-
cent hotels are springing up at the
Idaho and Canon City hot springs,
and at the Manitou soda and iron
springs, and for several years now a
rapidly increasing interest has devel-
oped throughout the United States in
the gorgeous diversity Of mountain
scenery, mineral springs Of great med
icinal value, and the rare and pure at
mosphere which threatens to rob
Minnesota of its laurels as the chief
sanitarium of the continent.
No part of the State is less than g.:
900 feet above the sea-level-Denver
being over 5,305, and Colorado
Springs 5,975-and in this clear, cool
and attenuated air thousands of incip-
lent consumptives and confirmed
ESTIMATES have found complete res
toration to the normal vigor of life.
Gould Minnesota but own q range Of
rocky hills soaring fourteen or fifteen
thousand feet into the skies, Colorado
would be nowhere in comparison ;
but, as it is, who shall attempt to
place a parallel to these magnificent,
snow-clad SUBMITS! It is useless for
me to attempt to describe the charms
of this scenery, rugged, yet unsurpass-
ed in grace and delicacy of outline.
Let me merely tell my old friends
that should health fail them, OF
| wealth surfeit, in Minnesota,
abundant relief and delight can. be
better obtained in Colorado than any
where else in the Union.
The Territory is rapidly settling W
with an active, enterprising popula
ton, and an unusually large proper
ton Of people of wealth and culture
are seeking homes near or in its granc
canons. So numerous are the inval
ids now Aocking to this region, and
daily seen in streets, hotels, and cars
that it is almost enough to make 8
sound man melancholy, and it is 6
wonder they don't kill one another
off by the mere contemplation o.
kindred woes. This crowding of thu
afflicted in all stages of dilapidatior
many, alas! as in your fair State
going too late-recalls a story nov
current in England of an aged lady
in failing health who went by her doc
tors counsel. to Islington for recuper
alton. Having selected her rooms
she was descending the stairs whe1
she noticed that the banisters were de
fective. "These," she said, "must b
mended before I can think of coming
to live here" MADAM" replied tn
landlady, "that will answer no pur
pose, as the undertaker's men in bring
ing down the cofins are continually
breaking the banisters." The ole
lady was so shocked at this funeral
intelligence that she Immediately de
clined occupying the apartments
However, Colorado claims fewer bro.
ken banisters than any other sanitari'
UNI of the whole outfit. LUKE.