The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-11-02
,...re,.o,m Colorado.


u,esser srorn Colorado.
son THE WrNa,'' CoLoRaDo.
EJtoy B,oohharen ledger
,any Of got readers want to know
~, the present Sultan Of Turkey Isl
X wa,,t 10 know where Sitting Bull
III Well, your correspondent knows
Iem both well, and had an interview
III them on the 14th of this month";
october. At the interview it was
agreed that your correspondent should
Ego west with Sitting Bull on a pleasure
ltrip. We had a very agreeable ride as
liar as Denver, Colorado, when we part
ed. Sitting Bull going to Salt Lake
'City and your humble servant to Black
Hawk. on the mountain.
From Denver to Golden City there Is
Ya good view of the Rocky Mountains,
most of them covered with snow. From
Holden City to Black Hawk the rails
\ road rms up Clear Greek canon. The
view is beautiful. Mountains are two
Thousand and three thousand feet high
Ion both sides of you. The railroad Is
bne of the best l ever saw, but makes
.l,he shortest turns I ever saw. You can
stand on the last coach ard shake
hands with the engineer at times when
1.-The train is at full speed, say twenty
live miles per hour. The mines are
turning ont lots Of gold At Black Hawk
land FloydGfr.
/ went mp to Idaho and Georgetown,
then tarned and went down the Denver
land Rio Grand road to Taos, in New
Mexico. This is one of the oldest set
Elements in New Mexico, and, if possl-
bic, one of the dirtiest. The entire
population look as if they were just
recovering from a violent attack of the
Shakes" The place is called after
1 Fernando De Taos, who founded the
n
settlement, The population IS about
six hundred, the houses are built OF
adobe, and are dismal and dirty, and
the streets are very narrow and crooked
and ale hardly wide enough for two
wagons to pass each other. The houses
are built in all imaginable shapes, ex-
cepting square, and it is "a self>evident
fact that the line of beauty in a New
Mexican's eye is not a straight line.
On the PLAID or square the town is
mostly built. Here can be seen the
fair Senoritas, the gay Caba1os and the
rag and yag of the town, all p%romenad-
ing together, and all dressed in their
best.
The day I arrived i'll Taos l witness
ed the funeral of a son of n of the
wealthiest Mexicans in the town. A
Priest headed the procession to the
church and graveyard. In the cemeta-
nv in which this man was buried lies
the last remains OF the noted scout and
froutiersman, Kit Carson. The body
of his wife lies beside him. Both
graves are enclosed by a plain picket
fence. and without a head stone or
monument to mark the resting place of
the noble old man.
Near Pueblos are the ruins of the old
Catholic Church in which the Mexicars
took refuge in 1913, and which was
stormed by Gen. Price. The walls are
built of adobe, and still shcw the in
dentations made by the cannon balls
fired against them by the troops.
No warrior Indians are here. All
that are here are friendly and work we'll
They seem to be fire worshipers, and it
is said that they have kept a fire burn
ing for one hundred years, in some cave
near the town or in the mountains back
of the village.
On my arrival at Pueblo | was escort
ed to the Victoria House by a good old
Tennessee darky, who will vote FOR Til
den and reform at the next election.
| Pueblo is one of the busiest cities Of
Colorado. The population is three
thousand. 1t is about fifty miles from
Pixies Peak and one hundred and twenty
five from Denver. / paid my hotel bill
and left fer Colorado Springs, a beanti>
full city of four thousand inhabitants,
TWENTY-FIVE miles from Pixies Peak, but
looks as if it was about n mile. L
went to Maniton Springs, the Garden
of the Gods and Monument Park. These
are all beautiful places-snow in abund-
ance on them all the year. l then left
for Pixies Peak, visited the United
States building and put ont again with
my guide for Colorado Springs. There
were shipped from tllis place last week
to St. Louis, twelve Thousand pounds
Of ore, received from Ore City, Lake
county. The ore was shipped to the
st. Louis Smeltering and Refining Co.,
of which JOHN 3. Maude, OF the firm
of Appleton, Noyes & Co., is President.
Harner Abel told me he stripped last
week forty>ive hundred pounds of ore
to n house alone in New York. There
is enough gold and silver in the mines
to pay the war debt of the United
States and make Colorado rich besides.
1 next left for Atchison, ON the Ar
kansas valley or canon. This IS one OF
the biggest pieces Of ordnance in exist
ance. The gszer is now looking into
the muzzle of the piece which is two
thousand feet in diameter, presenting a
fine opening TO go into business, the
greatest success of the non The
unapproachable majesty of its scenery,
the walls, which rise higher than the
eagles fight, the lightning splihtered