Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-07-03

rnor also stated that he had just received c
lformation of a threatened Indian out : !,
reak, aud suggested, that if any of the t
isitOrs would like to distinguish them !
elves, they would have the privilege of |
nlisting for the war. The editors of :
)hio, of course are all heroes, but there t
we're some domestic relations of pecu-
iarly tender character that would make
t impossible for them to shoulder the rifle /,
md swing the knapsaek, just at this time.
President Mack, of our Association, sug-
gested that a situation in the commissary
would be the arm of the ser
vice in which they would be the most val
liable. The Governor, however, did not
insist on pressing us into the service
The Governor complimented Ohio as be-
ing the mother of great men; but he in
simulated, slightly, that Ohio had apprOpri-
ated the lions share of the fat positions |
in civil and military posts of honor. Col
orado, he suggested, had made every eff |
fort to secure place of honor at the hands |
of the President, but had signally failed. |
1t was (mentally at least) suggested to the
Governor that in the minor years of Col
orado she was indebted to Ohio for most
able Executive, and that he had left
name that was dear to her people now
that she has reached her majority
even their beautiful and enterprising
city bears the name of distinguished
citizen of Ohio-that of Gov. Denver.
When it was ascertained that seventy
five Ohio editors were to visit Denver the
office-seekers began to feel alarmed, lest
the Ohio gentlemen might take notion
to appropriate a few of the Colorado Of
fees to themselves, and one of the morn
Ing papers insinuated that it might be
well, as a matter of safety, to anticipate
the Ohioans by filling all vacant places,
instanter, with their own citizens.
At O'Clock this afternoon 26 carriages
were furnished for the party (the horses
and carriages were fine ones, toO), and in
company with several prominent gentle
men of the city, visited the new water
works, which are now in course of con-
struction. This is to be done by throw
ing slight dam across Platt river some
three or four miles above the city, and
lake-bed about two miles in length and
half mile wide, and the water, when let
in and the banks are full, will be IA
feet deep. The water is clear and bright.
All through the city water is conveyed
from beautiful little rivulets at the
pavement's edge. This waters the hun
dreds of trees that are planted along the
streets, and by these rivulets many of the
gardens and grounds are irrigated. We
visited other points of interest in the
city and its surroundings.
Denver is handsomely laid out on a
beautiful piece of ground; not too level,
nor too uneven, but the surface is, to our
taste, just right. In passing through the
various streets, we noticed a great many
buildings under process of construction
all of them brick, and many of them are
large and in the latest style of architec-
ture. The city does not, however, seem
to have many medicine shops, but an end
less variety of tfsample-rooms"-a more
!, refined name for dram-shops. The city
seems to be kind of depot for the ma
: chanes and merchandise manufactured in
, other places. 1t is point where the mi
ners in the mountains procure their nee
essaries.
Friday morning we took passage on the
cars of the Denver 6 Rio Grande narrow.
guage railroad and went to Colorado
Springs. This is a brisk little town at the
foot of the mountain, 20 miles from Den.
yer. There are odaily newspapers pub
lished here. From this place we were
, conveyed to Monitor, five miles from tn,
Springs. In passing from Denver to thi
point, we pass down the range of tn,
Rocky Mountains, and at what Is callee
oh0r
the level of the ocean. The air here i
pure and bracing, and to stand straigh
9 up and draw in a full breath of this al
+ Is invigorating, and makes a person fee
: good from his hat down to the soles of hi
boots.
} From Denver the snow-capped noun
tains can be seen along the range fol
, miles, including the father of the Rocky
mountains, which over tops them all
The distance from Denver to Pixies Peal
= is Is miles, and this as we'll as the other
d mountains with their snowy tops is visi
= BILE from the cars all the way from Denve
to Maintou. Where the lands can be irri
> gated In this country they will produc
: well; around Denver there are numbe
/. of vegetable gardens that are irrigated
q and they produce fine crops. In the pre-
{ tracted droughts for a great portion O
q the crop-making season, there is nc
: enough rain to give healthy growth
! the crops. There has been no rain her
since the first of May. This must be tn
&c great drawback to the prosperity of thi
u country as a farming country. Grain
IF Icattle and sheep is getting to be gres
d business on the vast plains of both KaE
= sas and Colorado, although to an Ohioia
- the grass looks so short and dried up, tbs
n you would scarcely think a goat coul
o subsist on the plains. 1t is said to be II
10 markably nutricious despite its worthles
= appearance.
u Our party have been spread out anon
70 the mountains to-day, visiting the curl
SIS ositieR that abound here. Huge piles
re- stone greet the eye all along themountai
ranges, piled promiscuously, in all mar
;" ner of ways, yet there are hundred
lie of apparently stone monuments, very ia
E and look, at distance, as though the
IN had been erected by the skilled hand
= an artist. At this place there are tW
VI soda springs that boil up and flow ovt
v stone basins; these springs, while tt
4 water is not pleasant to the taste, are sal
to possess rare medical properties, an
there are many invalids here to ava
VIC themselves of their medical qualitie
ty There are around this place, it is saiG
ct about thousand families, dotting I'll
o. country over with their tents and wagons
. some are looking for homes and some hel
& for the purpose of recuperating the
er health many of them have Travelled 13l
of orally by mules. All along the road tt
- white covered wagons and the little ten
al camp-meeting fashion) of the Thousand
IN of emigrants ere to be seen. The air is
Id pure and the earth so dry that there is
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