, 1879-04-19
Is There Room for All, and VIII
They Escape Suffering
This Season !?
An Early Spring Will Cover the Mount.
aims Of Colorado with
Prospoctors,
And Doyclop tho Mineral Resources OF
That State 10 m unprecc.
lentcl Extent.
What Men Should Expect to Do
Who Join the Army OF
Silver-Hunters.


sptetai Correspondence Of The Tribun<
DENVER, Col, April 12.-lIo who comes to
Deuyor tceday, Witnesses Two things which I'm.
press him with something llku wondcrtncnt.
Tho unusual activity In The streets, the bust'o
and push OF the people, and the material and
business development hourly going on. IL he
be ali old,timer 70 hoary barnaclo they arc now
termed In the local political world hcsc) return.
ing after an absence Of years to view ngatn tho
strange city which grew up hero In I'D Under
the impetus Of the socal1cd Piko's Peak gold
excitement, he will open bis eyes In astonlsll"
1ncpt,-not ut the number Of people about hint,
for they wero numerous in that first stampede,
but tuthcr at tho cvcrywhcte- prevatcnt alr Of
.:efincncnt md civilization, progress md SUBJ
stantIal wealth. As 1 observed. perhaps, In q
former letter, Denver Is experiencing the
brightest days in her history. which, Us every
Nne who hns followed 1t knows, has been
marked BY strange yiclssitudes nnd remarkable
uncertainties.
THE STATE or COLORADO,
also, has cxucricnccd great change and Increased
|Hctivlty. From the northernnost boundry I'd
Tho lsno Of Now Mcxlco on the soutf, from tho
cnstern rim Of her civilized section to tho fur
'tl,crInost mining camp away up untior tile ever.
lnstIng SHOWS. or down In tho aurifcrous valleys
of tho Rocky Mountains, there Is anfncrcascduc-
tlon OF the pulse. a renewal OF lio, an Infusion
OF new blood being felt. Not n train arrives in
Denver. whether from Kansas City or Omaha,
but. II Is flied with immigrants; not ono rol'a
INTO Pueblo, at the south. hut # bears loud Vi
>lYonturers, each one OF whom believes there IL
= mlne Of stlvcr for him fntcndcd away up in tho
hills. DuT by dny thcac uncouth, poverty strfck.
en- people nra 1ocking 10 this region, each one
nctuatod by the same motive, and alt bound for
tho same locality. This continuous und con.
tnual inpourlng Of
THIS rAouLIXH POPULATION
hns, therefore, the effect Of Frightening tho faco
Of passing events, and, sven though in the ma
1orEty they do not bring much wealth (for tho
Lord knows they have litt'o Or nothing each, rs
u classl their everlasting tnpour keeps things
lively
We have before us hero tlsc third great STAN
pcdc IN quest OF the royal metals tlat las taken
place In the United alates. Tho hardsnips OF
the journey to the Pacific Slope, as experienced
by tho venturcso1nc argonauts who, in 10, bravcd
the sea Tor tho sako Ut gold, or riskcd the tran
sit OF the savageeovcred plains, tho fatigucs,
tho weary marches, tic dreary ploddIng day
after day, mud week. Rftcr week, OF those who
ten years later nude the winding, almost con-
tinuous train Of Pixies Peak gold. .huntcrs,-the
are oil unknnwn to the new 1aco now Joining ia
the rush for the carbonate camps away over the
snowy ranges stGaMl-cars tage superseded
OF weeks r. now. accomplished IN a few
hours: tho Missouri River! then nnl now tho
last important EcoCraEhicai boundary point be-
tween the Wcst ind tho Fur West which every
min mud The growing demands of. intcrnal re-
HDurccE, through tho iEBtruluentallty If HtcAm