Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-10-01

OF hfSt rate olnner AT Lne appoint
ed time away we go, barely getting a
glimpse of Topeka, but from that
glimpse, concluding that it is quite a
pretty city. About the middle of the
afternoon we passed through a Sec
ton previously visited by that pest of
this Western county-the grasshop
pers. It was very evident that few of
our fellow passengers had before seen
its ravages. Their presence was most
plainly seen upon the cornfield, hun
dreds and hundreds of acres of which
had only the bare stocks to indicate
what the crop had been. / have heard
people tell of the appearance of
field of grain after a 'twenty -four-hour
grasshopper campaign" and had no
ticed the doleful expression on the
face of the narrator, and it is now
plain to me, whence this woe begene,
heart sick, discouraged look, for the
sight to one looking on simply from
curiosity is doleful and detecting in
the extreme. thought as we passed
along, what if some of our Fayette
County men, who are not satisfied with
less than Is or 80 bushels of corn to
the acre, should see their cornfield so
stripped before their eyes? bowling
would be no name for the fuss you'd
hear. Kansas is, in many respects,
stricken State just now, but there is
hope tor her yet, as she is full of
plucky men. Passing through Law
renee, one is reminded of the terrible
ordeals through which it has passed
since it was laid out, and its present
appearance of growth and prosperity
makes one break out involuntarily
into singing "John Browns body 1ies,' -
etc. About midnight something awak-
ened me, and raising upon my elbow
and drawing aside the curtain of the
section" a most magnificent sight
met my view We had reached and
were now no the "plains," and the
white sand under the full moon, now
near the zenith, looked like q great
field of snow, extending out in every
direction as far as the eye could reach,
with nothing to break the view but the
gentle undulations of the surface, and
these only gave the variety that seem
ed necessary to complete the picture.
And then we had found those ''cooII
hreezes," of which we had heard so
much in Cincinnati and ST. Louis,
while sweltering in the heat and dust
of those cities. At s O'Clock the next
morning We caught sight, in the dis
tance, of U. S. colors, and were told
that we were approaching Fort Wal
lace. We were glad to see the colors,
but for further particulars as to our
feelings see "Star Spangled Banner"
''E Pluribus Unium," ''Hail Colum-
bia," ETC., ETC., for we purpose that
we are to get breakfast here and time
will not allow me to detail. At Wall
lace we saw the first people who realiz-
ed our notions of frontier life-buck-
skin suits, tanned and smoked faces,
long hair, unshaven faces, hunting
knives, reVolvers, etc, made up the
appearance and dress of majority of
the forty or fifty men who were Bmok
ing and lounging about the depot, and
the half dozen trading places arranged
in row on the opposite side off, and
fifteen rods from the r. r. track. At
the low doors of these places were dis
played by dozens, Buffalo and Wolf
robes and other articles that were kept
within, and word signs of such things
as WCAC AOb Ol0EJLNJ OOAS'
among them were ''whisky," ''pow-
der,' ''shot," hams ''jerl1ed bufa
lo,'' etc. A poor breakfast and we are
off again, passing on our route buffalo
carcassas by the scores, fresh and old,
large and small prairie dogs by the
hundreds; plenty of antelOpes; and
occasionally wolf, and so, on and on,
with the same monotonous but no t
tiresome plains, dogs carcases, wolves
and antelope until 2 p. m, and 100
miles from Denver, we get sight of
Pixies Peak, more that $50 miles away
Now all find employment in watching
for the other peaks that come success
lively into view, until within forty
miles of Denver, the whole western
horizon is belted with real "Rocky
Mountains When Dever first comes
into view it strikes you as being about
the size of Bloomingburg, in Fayette
county, and for ten miles after it don't
grow perceptibly, but when within
foe miles it begins to spread out, and
SO continues to do until you begin to
realize that it, no doubt, does contain
II, 900 inhabitants.
Over night at the 'sGrand Central, -
in Denver, and hasty look around
the city, and an expressed incredulity
as to the distance, fifteen miles, to the
mountains, which look about one or
one and half miles away, and at s
o'clock a. m, we are off by the Colo
RADIO Central Railroad for Floyd's
Hill, where we take stage for George
J town. The trip from Golden City
1 kol-
Railroad-to the Chip is worthy of
a better description than / could give
it, had l time or space. It is a contin.
ued succession of grand sights, and
/ wonderful performances by the s'Baby
Engine that hoists up thousands of
feet in the few miles that intervene
and that, toe, over the crookedest roaC
J built in the most improbable places
imaginable.
Georgetown is located in Clea
Creek Canon and the junction of Olea
4 creek and its South fork, or branch
/ and may be said to be surrounded by
= mountains; and so it is, so far as sigh
is concerned, and so it is really, ex
cepting the openings or outlets afford
ed by the Cedar creek canons. "Grif
, fith'' and "Anglo Saxon" mountain
9 rise on the east 5000 feet, ''Leaven
y WORTH on the south, about 1000 fee
e and "Sherman," Republican" an
n democrat, on the west, perhaps 2,
:. 500 feet. The canon is about one
f half mile wide where the creek divide
| at the foot of "Leavenworth," bu
!, seems to the sight, as we look north
y ward, the course of the creek to clos
d up about two miles from that noun
&c tain the canon does become muc
G narrower at that distance, and shortl
is affords merely a passage for the streal
N and road track. We have, l judge,
IL resident population of about 1900, wit
n what is termed mining population
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