Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1879-05-08
lLlAAs il MEXICO AUDRAM THURSDAY 1879

Time, hunger, whisky, debauchery,
disease, death, will eliminate them :.
They will go out like an exhausted
candle, and il. happily, their fate
proves a salutary example, their
lives may not have been in vain. I
wish to say right here that, from the
best information / could obtain on the
spot. l believe every idle man in
Leadville can obtain employment at
once. The fact of it is, there is a
certain class there who won't work.
They are gardeners in winters, snow
shOvelers in summer-leeches all the
time.
Speaking of this class, gentleman
said to me at Leadville the other day: !:
81 hired two men at two dollars and
half day, to go four miles in the
country They stayed one day, and
the shades of night found them trudg-
ing back to the friendly inns of
Leadville. I saw men refuse to work
for two dollars day. They wanted
mines, not q chance to earn their
daily bread. Some of these men drift
back. There are a hundred and
thirty odd graves in the cemetery at
Leadville. Some of them never left
the country"
HEALTH.
Prior to the great rush OF people to
Leadville the locality was noted for
the beauty of its scenery and the
healthfulness of it's climate. North
| is Mount Lincoln, northwest the
Mount of the Holy Cross, south the
famous Twin Lakes. The air is
pure. The water comes from the
untouched SHOWS. The seasons are
not excessive, and there is absolutely
no reasons-save the uncleaniiness OF
the people, which may and probably
will be rectified-why Leadville should
not be as healthiul as any other
mountain town. There has been con-
siderable sickness there. Sore throafs
have been quite common, and pneu-
monia has obliterated few. A per.
son who has weak lungs or heart
disease or a predisposition to rheu-
matism goes there and his troubles
are aggravated, as they would be in
any elevated atmosphere. Another
class go insufficiently clad; they are
as liable to be sick there as anywhere
else, perhaps a little mere So Other
classes frequent the saloons and gam
bling houses and other disreputable
places, prolonging their orgies night
after night and they are liable to walk
the plank. But the sober, we'll clad,
orderly citizens will find the same
exemption from disease at Leadville
as in other mountain towns.
BUSINESS.
Leadville has VOW three daily news
papers, four banks, twenty hotels
crowded, three theatres, one opera
house, three churches, (services are
also held in the school and court
houses,) eight smelling works and
seven buildings, five stage lines.
twenty dry goods stores, eight hard,
ware stores, eight clothing stores,
thirty groceries, fourteen saw mills.
seven drug stores, twelve jewelers.
nine boot and shoe stores, twenty
bakeries and confectioneries, fifteer
livery and sale stables, twenty butch
er shops, seven furniture stores, two
soda water makers, half dozen har
ness makers, twenty assayers, one
circulating library, over one hundred
saloons and dance houses, doctors
and lawyers in profusion, a host o
milliners and sewing girls, twenty five
cigar stands, thirty restaurants, rang
ing in prices from twenty five cent,
up to price which would make Del
monico shake his sides, besides tn,
inevitable Italian street venders ant
peripatetic quacks.
REAL ESTATE AND RENTS
kEligible building lots on Harrison
- tx2nd Chestnut street rang,
to eight thousand dollars
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