Daily Republican., 1879-11-05
COLORADO AND THE WEST.
A wiImingtODian's Description of
n Trip 10 the Rev Gold and Sill
yer Fields.

Trip TO the Rev Gold and sil
yer Fields.
Special Correspondence Of the REPUBLICAN
| WILM,NGToN, Del, Nov. 3, 10.
The following partial account of hi
trip to the Colorado gold fields from th'
pen Of DR. VIM. Fields will be founc
OF interest:-The Doctor says:
left Wilmington about the first o
August last for Philadelphia, thence Il
Harrisburg, Pittsburg, and Columbus,
Ohio. As Pittsburg and the intermedi
ate places on to Columbus is so famil.
lar to almost of all your readers,
will.defer any particulars. From Colum
bus to st. Louis there is a vast
amount of valuable lands and well cul-
tivated a large amount of wheat has
been raised but of corn fields, almost
every other field bears corn and think
large yield, an immense acreage OF
wheat, corn and hay. Every kind OF
business seemed to flourish. Invent by
rail all the way to st. Louis. st. Louis
is very large, and immense business is
carried on in almost all branches. There
is vast trade with the far west; rails
and all kinds of steel and iron are sent
there and cabinet wares of all grades
are made and sold. Well may the eastern
markets begin to fear as St. Louis has
all kinds OF woods, walnut poplar, and
every other kind, taken there in the
rough and manufactured and sold in
the west and southwest, in short every
branch of business is beginning to flour
ish. Bituminous Coal is very abundant in
Illinois and sold in st. Louis at 10 cents
per busLel by retail and by large guam
titles at much smaller prices. Iron
ore Of good quality is very abundant.
| would be very glad if our good fire.
men could see how the Fire De-
partment at St. Louis train their
horses, For instance each horse
has his own stall with one bar
across and they have their harness
on day and night, and at the sound of
the bell the bars fly up by electrici-
ty and the horses run out to the engine
and back up themselves and are hitch
edin less than 80 seconds and the large
doors fly open also by electricity,
they are so trained daily. No person
that visits st. Louis should leave with
out visiting the great iron bridge. 1t
is of great extent and fine workman
ship; il crosses from the Illinois side
over to the city; then the cars run
underground across the city to
Union depot. Many places OF note
,an be visited in the city limits. From
St. Louis took the cars to Kansas City
! hundred or more miles distant.
Kansas City is very important
olaoe and many railroads centre there.
From thence | took the cars by the way
If Atkinson, Topeka and SantaFee road
to Cannon city, long stretch of
100 miles. Now between those cities is
. vast extent of valuable land, rich,
black soil thousands, yea hundrens
If thousands of acre, uncultivated. A
great deal of it can be bought at from
to 7 or s dollars per acre, and 10 or II
years to pay for it in; and there
ire many farms open and well cul-
ivated. saw many very large wheat
ields when | was coming home which
would equal the best fields in Lancaster
20. There are no hills or rocks to pre-
7snt the farmer from ploughing and
hey have all their reapers and NOW.
RS Of approved styles. At Cannon city
you see hundreds Of wagons, going to
Ieadville and other places across the
rocky Mountains, $50 miles to Lead
lille. In the absence of railroads in
hat direction, travellers should see
he great Canyon near the
own, about two miles in length,
With just a single railroad track, on
.ither side the great rocks Glmost solid
ne thousand feet high. | left Cannon
;ity for Cbaffee county and Marysville,
bout Is miles in a six horse stage. Any
erson who wants to bs well shaken
p ought just TO take that ride.
Now ] aIa in the gold and silver
zines of so called crazy camp, but 60
ne to be one Of the greatest in Colora-
o, Leadvills not accepted, as at Lead
lille they have to sink a shaft l40 feet
efore they come to paying ore, but
ere good lodes are found from ten to
wenty feet. The Monarch Green's gulch
nd many others are rich in silver. The
alleys are very warm the mountains
lors or lass are now covered with
now. You see hundreds and thousands
{ mountains at almost any stand point.
iapy of them above timber line. We
ave had beautiful sunshine every day
,r many weeks. More again.