The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-21
Our Colorado Letter.
IhINIDaDi NOLUKADO, NVV' fI'
Editors OF the Register:

Vur Soorou0 heueE.
.- TRINIDAD, COLORADO, Nov. IL.
Editors Of the Register:
To-day, If that school boy" sheult
chance to suggest "thst it SHOWS" b,
would be replied TO in language agreeing
precisely with his statement. Away VI
here in the mountains, $500 feet sbov,
the water that assertion would admit o
no discussion since noon to day, for th'
snow is falling rapidly, with indications
of u good deal yet to come. 1.-THE storm
abstes to morrow your correspondent ii
scheduled to
"Chase the wild antelope DER the plain,
for party of US propose going hunting
Game, such as antelope, elk, deer, bear
&c, is plentiful here, and easy to find.
have seen enough since my arrival in
this place to almost stock first class
mensgerie. In short, as "hunter's par.
adise" this country borders closely on q
success. And not for game alone is this
country great, but the health
giving properties OF its atmosphere
are known almost everywhere. At leas!
l find here people from most every where
who have come tor the benefit of their
health. A person with enough life left
in his veins to exercise himself in this
country, if he will ride around through
the commons and parks. to be found in
every direction from this point, would
soon awake to the fact that he inhaled
strength with every breath. Absorbed
ii, aye, possessed himself of it by capil-
larry attraction through the soles of his
boots whenever be touched the ground.
And then as a country for an artist it
cannot be surpassed. put in three days
last week il the parks about the foot of
the Spanish peaks, and at one time found
myself driving through "picture coun-
try" worthy the pencil of the greatest
landscape painter the world ever pro-
duced. The Spanish peaks, fanked
by snow-capped ranges OF mountains on
either side tor Il background, and can.
mons, hills, valleys and mountain strerms
all about you for the Landscape" part OF
it; and then if you want something ami
mated you could scatter d Jew thousand
sheep and goats and cattle throughout
the picture. And then il the picture is
not yet complete, you can put in the
adobe house of the Chihuahua Sighnorette
Attoche entertaining the "old man,
Sam. Stanton and myself, making cigar.
cites, which we all three smoke, aud as
the smoke curls laZily about our heads
if YOU don't like the picture. why then
the only thing necessary 10 make you
,l., q, I,. 70, ha hot in OF
Are you thirsty? Then drink of either
the pure snow water or from mineral
springs. "SLinking water" creek was 50
named by the Indians because OF the
many sulphur springs cmptying into 1t
By invitation we took dinner a. the
house of old Don Jose Singonca (call him
Simpson, tor you will never be able TO
pronounce it as it sounds in Spsnish),
and We had appetities Tor good
dinner, and we got it, too. Among otter
dishes we had "chillI colorado" or red
pepper dished up in manner purely
Mexican. ate some of it but found it
rather too hot tor my palate, but the 9th.
crs at the table partOok of it largely, and
with widest relish. After dinner the
Dona ROfeno, made us cigarettes and we
all smoked, o! course find in travelling
around here that the cigarette is as GER
tain to be- offered to guests, by the Mexi-
cars, as the handy bottle used to be II
cd Virginia, in the good old days tf
lever tire"
Wool growing is the great business OF
t. : country, and, judging from evidence
il sigrt, is very profitable. AT any rate
all the old sheep men here are wealthy.
Sheen here average one hundred per cent
increase every yea, be,!d two crops #
wool from the oder sheep, and tall crop
OF wool from the spring lambs Added
to this, they grszs the whole year
round and the only expense attending
is that of herding and bearing. A
good wooden mill here in the hands OF
practical men. would pay largely.
The gold and silver mines of this part
of the state are said to be very rich and
il biz rush of miners is expected next
season. Nv advice IL TO those who come
from the East is to buy their outfit at
Pueblo and 90 across the country, there
bv escaping the extortions of the narrow
ruage and narrow constructed Denver
and Rio Grante railroad II any per
son insists on getting into It's clutches
he must be prepared to pay about
thribble prices on it to what he would
have to pay on other reads, and the
schedule time for its creased lightning
fast train IS about SIX hours
to the one hundred miles. The
love of the people here for that road does
not compare with that of Jonathan tor
David, but they curse it loud and deep.
MANY of the dealers here ship by OK tram
overland from Pueblo or La Junta rather
than bv this road, and save money by so
doing.
| fell in with the Stanton brothers
here, who have been all over the "Rock-
les from end to end and crossways. and
know ard have known all the celebre-
ties Of the old trapping days. The "old
man Sam-the UlGer brother was with
Gen. Johnston in 1858, when on his
march to Salt Lake City, and has fought
Indians of most every tribe from that
day to this, and is full Of narratives OF
hairbreadth escapes. These gentlemen
are thoroughly ConverSant with the ms
and oats OF TINS country, and no person
will take more pleasure IN giving inior-
nation, or. if they have time, showing
the country, than they will. They are
fair specimens OF the Western Noun
taincer. but while with them, l look in
vain for the blood and thunder men as
pictured BY novel writers as the true
bear-fghters and pioneers.
But enough for this time.
RAgINHAReUSBUSTE PASIiA.
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