The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08
LETTERS FROM COLORADO.
NO. l.
DENVER
The Rocky Mountain Range.
DRNvPR Col AuO lot 1877

DENVER, Col. Aug. 1st, 1879.
Queen City of the Palms, and En-
press of the gigantic mountain range
which stretches its tremendous length
and height and breadth in plain view of
the city, is Denver-this beautiful,
unique, marvellous oasis of city,
blooming garden in a dry and dusty
plain, symmetrical array of smoothly
graded avenues bordered with lofty
shade trees, past which trickle day and
night pure, clear rivulets of water. and
lined with stately buildings and cosy,
empowered homes; an immense and YER
dant grove in which 10000 people
breathe the purest of air and shade them
selves in comfort from the brightest of
sunshine, bee hive of modern industry
and metropolis of trade stretching out
mighty iron arms from ocean to ocean,
and over and through the mountainous
backbone of the continent, to gather in
an ever increasing commerce with the
world; a center of intellectual culture
and moral and religious influence, as
well as of rapidly accommodating wealth
and business enterprise, a permanent
gathering of representative people of all
nations and chimes, history SO brief
that its growth Outdoes the tales of mag
ic, and a future SO evident and prosper
GUS that no man need set limit to its
population, wealth and beauty. Denver
sits smiling in the freshness of youth
and vigor of maturity; a city whose site
men now living have passed over and seen
nothing but the level, uncultivated plain,
and men now living will come to and
admire as one of the most attractive and
imposing OfInodern times. "Queen City
of the Plainsr' without the possibility of
rival in the vast stretch of her domain,
and empress also of the mountains whose
mining trade she will continue to CON-
mand, are titles, pretentious as they
seem, that may be worn gracefully by
the fairest and most promising creation
of human hands between the Pacific
slope and the Mississippi valley.
THE MOUNTAINS.
And the grandeur of the mountains is
splendid contrast to the beauty of the
city which has become their recognized
metropolis. Their innumerable shapes
and sizes, their rock-ribbed sides
and snow-crOwned SUBMITS, their ever
changing garments of cloud and sun
shine, their Unreasonable expanse, their
mysterious depth of valleys and unat-
tainable heights of view, constitute them
indeed the 'giant sentinels of the CONT
nent." Their numberless peaks look
down upon the clouds and storms of
lower air as the gods might have looked
upou earth in the NEUROLOGICAL age, the
stars their companions and the heavens
their home, their rugged forms smile
grimly at mans puny efforts to pierce
the storchouses of incalculable treasures
they contain; their mysterious depths
send forth the furious tornado and the
irresistible lightning as playthings, and
their lofty SUBMITS never cease to pour
down refreshing streams that enable the
desert to become garden. Unaltered
by time and immovable by any force ex-
cept the omnipotent power Which reared
their majestic attitudes, the mountains
stand fast forever, the greatest and grand
est of all earthly monuments to remind
man of the creative power and Omnis-
cient presence of the Deity.
But after our trip up in the mountains
next week. is a few days old, may we
not be liable to pray for kind Aladdin
bird to convey us swiftly and gently to
the bosom of the plain, where the climb
er panteth not for breath and acheth not
in every limb and muscle for a satisfy
ing rest? Would it not be the part of
wise experience to sit lazily here in the
cooling shade of the city, and refrain
from applying any practical tests to the
pleasures of imagination? But who is
the man wise enough to content himself
with experience that he himself has not
experienced. To the mountains!
GRAHAM.