Middletown transcript., 1878-09-07

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icating liquors were never to be sold
as a beverage on the premises sold by
the company. The town got its name
from the mineral springs at MSnitou,
at the foot of Pixies Peak and it filed
up rapidly from the very start with
settlers from nearly every State in the
Union. Many Kansas people, routed
by the grass-hopper raid from their
former homes, located at Colorado
Springs; the oyer-crowded sections Of
the Yankee States furnished q cOnsid-
erable portion of the population, while
there are probably more Marylanders
in this town than there is in any other
town or city in Colorado, save Den
yer.
The Eastern visitor to Colorado
Springs, if he be of an observing turn
of mind, will naturally wonder from
whence the town draws its support, as
it is surrounded by country sparsely
settled and adapted only to stock rails
ing and agricultural pursuits on a
very small scale. Eastern health and
pleasure-seekers are no doubt largely
depended upon for help in the summer
time, for the town is full to overflow
ing with private boarding houses where
one can live at about the same expense
as in the East. One Of the hotels
gives good accommodations for 81 so
per day, which is lower than the rates Of
many one-horse hotels on the Eastern
Shore. Notwithstanding the great dis
tance from Eastern markets, and the
high rates of freight charged by the
railroads, many articles can be pur-
chased at as low rates in Colorado
Springs as in the seaboard cities. In
toxicating liquors are only sold by
the druggists for medicinal purposes,
but inebriated persons are frequently
seen upon the streets and the drug
gists are constantly getting into trOu-
BILE for selling whisky to persons who
habitually get sick three or four times
day, or have to have doctors pre-
scriptiOn every morning for an "eye
opener" of spiritus frumenti.
When the writer visited Colorado
Springs the place was not suffering
from an overflow of visitors; in fact,
the hotels had a very empty appear
ance. 1t is 5000 feet above the sea-
level and is recommended by physi-
clans as a good place for cOnsumptiyes
to sojourn.
No doubt but that large portion
of the resident population of this town
are persons of considerable means, who,
from failing health, were forced to leave
the rigid New England climate and
seek one more congenial to tender
threats and lungs. Many persons
afflicted with lung and bronchial affec-
tions who went to Colorado Springs
during the early stages of the disease
and made their residence there were
greatly benefited and their lives pro-
longed perhaps many years, but the
change of climate couldn't give them
new lungs, and they fear to return to
their old homes for any length of
time.
Upon the whole, the writer's i'm
pressiOns of Colorado Springs are fa-
vorabIe. The climate has its disad-
vantages, but is probably as good, if
not better, than at any other point in
Colorado. The sun is excessively hot
and oppressive during the middle of
the day, but the evenings are deli
ciously cool, a blanket always being
required to sleep under. The rain fall
is exceedingly light, only an occasional
thunder shower lin the summer. But
it is the winter season that is the most
delightful in this section of Colorado.
The days are invariably bright and
sunny, while the nights are cold. The
sun shines from cloudless sky the
through, and the air is cool,
dry and crisp. Snow is rare. and even
when it falls does not lay an hour, but
upon the adjacent mountain peaks its
white canopy may be seen nearly the
whole year round. Cattle and horses
in great herds browse upon the sun
cured grammG grass through the winter
and never need the shelter of a roof.
Colorado Springs is certainly the gar
den spot of the Centennial State"
The Cumberland TFagedy.i
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