The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-24

tering settlements as they 90. Everything /.
higher in Colorado than in the East, especially
IN the mountain towns, the winters are long
and the temperature, ranging much of the time
from ten 10 twenty-five degrees below zero,
makes exposure extremely dangerous At Lead
vile. where they have ice nearly every night,
even through the sumner, the mortality is
fearful
Tie State Is stocked with people who have
gone there for their health, with just enough
money 70 carry them there hoping to earn
their expenses, who are willing TO work for
theIr board until health IS restored or until
by some miracle or other they can get enough
to return home. | doubt if al such persons
and many others, could obtain employment
were they to offer to work for nothing and
board themselves. Numbers of young men
who have ardently followed Horace Greeley's
advice, and gone West with golden anticipa-
tons TO make their fortunes-wh0 have en-
Joyed the best social advantages a home, and
whose educational qua ifcations entitle them
10 I'LL places of distinction and trust-are fill
ing places as hotel walters, in livery stables
and as railroad brakemen,-not because Colo
RADIO Is a country where money Is scarce and
business dull. but because they are victims of
the truth that there are more men in the
country than are needed, and they must do
such work or starve, | heard of a first honor
graduate of Princeton, who was engaged as
brakeman on one Of the roads that centre at
Denver
Most of the business men of Colorado carry
their employees with them when they go out
or send East for them among friends or rela-
tives, as they are eeded The greater portion
Of the population Is made up from the North
western States. 1t is a working coumunitv
In the multitude of its absorbing realisms
there Is nothing sentimental or roma ntic Its
business men rank among the abest of the
nation. They have been taught in a school
which teaches practical lessons from practi-
cal things. Life to them is a rugged reality
Men and things are visible substances around
which there Is no Imaginative gIamour-no
sentIment-no romance.
To persons with handsome capital or even
a few thousands of dollars, who will exercise
the same care and prudence there that they do
in their affairs AT home, there is good chance
Tor making money, both by speculations in the
mines and in other ways Splendid fortunes
have been made and can still be made The
Denver and South Park railroad now reaches
10 Como, within twenty-eight miles Of LeadvilIe
and with its completion the mining interests
will be greatly facilitated. Several railroad
lines, reaching to the San Juan country, have
been surveyed and work begun, and when they
are finished as they certainly viii be, Il section
-eputed to be as rich in precious ores as the
Carbonate Camp, viii be opened up to the
world.
This viii close my letters. | have written OF
he Western country as / have seen ii myself
md heard it spoken of by others, whose expert
.uce entities their testimony TO the utmost con-
liberation My friends and other readers of
THE CLARION might see it differently, but | am
persuaded not Nowhere on my trip did | see
country that thought would compare in nat
trai adr0HtdgeS with Mississippi b. I. II.