Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-20
COLORADO.
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From an Appeal Correspondent. I

From an Appeal Correspondent
DENVER, Col, June 13.-As l promised
in my last, | have made the rounds of many
Is to say, within fifty miles-and, after care
tul end deliberate investigation, l am salts
fed that not more than one In ten of those
operated will pay ordinary interest on the
money invested. But there are few IN Gill
pin and Boulder counties that pay dividends
of fifty per cent. per month; and, from the
best information L can get, there are some at
Lesdville, one at Silver Cliff, and perhaps
others IN the State, that pay one hundred
per cent. per month on all the money in-
vested. 1t lie quite evident that there is an
abundance of silver and some gold under
lying tho sntre Rocky mountain range, and
tor long time to come rich strikes and CO.
lossal fortunes will be made here. But it Is
not so easy matter as many think to find
the leads, or crevlces, nor so small a
matter to use them when found.
Across the range, two hundred miles or
more from here, there are numbers of
claims staked out, and worked Just enough
to hold them, where ore worth forty to sixty
dollars per ton IL as plenty as the sand on
the bars OF the Mississippi river. But as
there ara no railroads and no machinery to
work these claims, and no coal or fuel if they
had machinery, they lie idle and undevel-
oped. | saw to- day FIVE hundred bars of
yer and South Park railroad that, was told,
would weigh over one hundred pounds each,
and 1t was thrown about as il silver was no
more valuable than iron or lead. Think of
twenty five tons of the precious metal In a
pile like so much cordWood. There has been
the most intense excitement here for several
days ovsr the efforts OF the Denver and Rio
Grande railroad company TO wrest their road
from the possession OF the Atchisou, Topeka
ana Santa Fs road, to whom it was leased
last October for thirty-three years. There
has been proceeding pending before one
Judge Thomas Brown, who figured rather
unenVlably IN Arkansas politics a few years
ago, but who has lately become q judge IN
the southern district of Colorado, in which
an application was made to eBJcin the Atch
ison, Topeka and Santa Fe road from opera
ting the Denver and Rio Grande road, on the
ground that the former was foreign COM
oinAtlon. The great Brown, on the
that an injunction would lie. and,
moreover, that q writ of restitution
should issue, placing the Denver and Rio
Grande company II possession. The Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe company, In the
meantime, applied for a change of venue,
which was denied, and then they applied to
the L sited States court to remove the cause
TO that court, which was granted. But in
the meantime Brown s wrlts had been Issued
and we're executed by armed force, and in
the struggle ten or twelve men were killed.
1t Is currently reported that Jay Gould, who
has lately been here, and is the controlling
spirit of the Kansas Pacific road, was at the
bottom of the movement and furnished the
money to carry it On. Brown was selected
as the judge before whom to bring the suit,
and it was brought away out in a backwoods
village where there were no railroads, and
brought by the attorney general of the State,
who lives in Denver, where both the roads
in no AZ
brought without any authority from the legis
lature or governor, who alone have the
power to authorize such suits, and all in all
looks like a deliberate and well-lzld scheme
to commit IN the name of the law a most
outrageous and unheard of fraud Judge
Hallett, of the United States court, has de-
cided the writs of isjunctIon and restitution
void, but the Denver and Rio Grande people
still hold possession and defy the law.
Theirs l. no telling when the end will be, but
the judiciary of the State Is sadly disgraced. |
While ia Kansas City, and since | have been
here, l have endeaVored to show the advan-
tages of more direct railway connection with |
the south; and l fad the people all along
quite favorable to a connection with Mem |
phis. There should be two lines built, if the |
people and merchants of Memphis desire to |
hold their trade and prosperity. The first Is |
4 direct line from Memphis to Kansas City; |
the other is an extension of the Fort Smith |
road up the Arkansas river, so as to tap the |
Atchisop, Topeka and Santa Fe road at Great |
Bend, Kansas. The latter road can be built |
very cheaply, SIS there are no hills to cross,
having water level all the way and the |
finest land under the sun to support it. The |
road from Kansas City can be also built very |
cheaply, aad runs through rich country, al |
ready settled. These roads would give back |
to the southern States what st. Louis, Chica- |
go and Cincinnati have taken from them, and |
would free US from the tribute they now ex-
act. Here In the west are thousands of peo-
pie Ind many hotels to be supplied with the |
early vegetables and fruits of the south. |
Denver Is just now getting strawt erries,
early potatoes, green peas and cucumbers,
and they do not seem amiss, for the tier |
mometer now marks fifty degrees, and fan
mel shirts and thick coats are a
necessity. Corn and oats are not so far
advanced here as with us the first of Nav.
need not occupy space to prove the value
Of these railroads to Memphis but assert
again If Memphis does not move, and more
promptly, so as to cut off the encroachments st.
Louis is making upon her trade, she will be-
come mere landing on the Mississippi river.
There are number of Memphians here, and
| regret to hear them speak so disparsgingly
of things at home. Several of them have
told me that a good many young men of
Memphis were deslrous of learning all about
the prospects for employment, or business
here, and | have taken some pains to learn
all LHdG can % IOuDu out ABOUT IL, ana with |
your permission, will sag few words to all
such young men, or old, as are Interested.
There is no demand-and may say but little
chancellor clerks, school teachers, doctors
or lawyers. Every branch of business, from
boot blacks up, is overdone here. Wages are
low and living higher than in Memphis. The
summers are short and the winters long,:
rents are very like what they were in Mem
phIs Ia 1866. There are but two openings
here for any class of people, stock raising and
mining. Each requires some capital and a
deal of hard living and exposure, and they
also require experience. | think stock
raising ls If anything the saf fest, for aside
from the rich strikes made by about
one IN ten thousand ct those who embark IN
mining, the profit is not greater in mining
than farming. | may add that in either case
those who embark In either branch must live
like brute among his herds, and forego CIV
Illzation and society, for long time at best.
From the central portion of Kansas eastward
there Is the finest farming land | ever saw,
aud farmers of some means can do well there,
though lands are higher than in Tennessee.
As to health here, there is no advantage over
Tennessee. The temperature varies at this
season as much as twenty-five to thirty de-
grees IN = few hours, and there is but little
rainfall, and san j and alkaline dust fl the
air, rendering it anything but pleasant. This
is the c. Sc all over Colorado east of the noun
tains. Diptheria Is now almost epidemic in !