The Van Buren press., 1879-08-30
Our Colorado Letter.
COLORADO SPRINGS, CoT"i
Al 90 lAEN

DEA IREsS-Atter feaullS your i7suo VI
the 10th, containing my letter of the 9th. $50
terribly mutilated.) the only one have seen
since the 2nd inst, | thought | hac better
stop writing as have been informed | do
not write enactly a copy plate hand. which de-
cided me- long since that If Col $. +. Clark ,
Hon, Sam. W, Williams, or goarseD, should
ever undertake to teach writing school that
/ would enter one scholar.
Green Lake is not 10000 feet altitude. but
l0,ial feet. The mounds so high on side OF
the overhanging cliffs at Georgetown. should
be mines reached by ehain-pump arrange
ments. The diseases benefited here (Which
are wrongly set up in that letter. are asthma,
bronchitis, incipient consumption, nervous
or general debility, malaral or bilious trou-
bles, (but these to be treated before arriving
hore) The diseases injnriously effected are
rheumatism, nasal catarrh, throat diseases,
AMI advanced stages Of consumption. The
latter here closes the patients career, very
soon. | see their remains being shipped
home every few days. Embalmers do lu
crative-business here These facts get from
old citizens, and the honest physicians. This
is a beautiful little town of about 1000 In
habitants, aristocratieally laid out, and ele-
gantly shaded. thoroughly watered. Good
society, not saloon. gambling, or any other
wicked house in the place. Splendid public
schools and buildings, and they are now put
ting up large brown @rcherry colored stone
college. The water is brought in Iron pipes
from Mantou (thc spring proper) distance
of five and a half miles. The mineral wa
ters are brought in vessels made for the pur-
pose. and are about as good as at the springs.
This is near all the most interesting places,
Pixies Peak, the Garden of the Gods, Glen
Eyrie, Manitou Springs Cheyenne Falls, Ute
Pass, &c, &c, the finest drives you ever saw.
Parties coming to Colorado, with their fami-
lies, should come to this neighborhood. It
might not suit some fast young men or en-
thusiastic tourists to stay at. But those who
come for health, rest. quiet, and scenery in
easy distance, this is the place. | can say
one thing for Colorado. | have never seen
in the mines or elsewhere, man carrying a
pistol or knife, or other offensive weapons and
have seen very few intoxicated the boys say
one drink of whisky. in the higher attitudes,
lost a man neck. This country is great
market for Kansas and California.
Col. Boudinot returned from New Mexico,
a few days since, don't like it; but left yes
terday for the east -as all country in that di-
reetion is called.
Mr.. Appleton is here with me. again, hav-
ing come here from Leadvillc. There is no
mining in this vicinity.
| saw a large cinnamon bear brought in the
other day, killed about twenty miles from
here. back of Pixies Peak. He had been shot
ten times. anG then tore of one of the hunt
cr's ears; they are reported worse than a
grizzly bear to encounter Immediately a
party was made up to 90 out bear-hunting ];
but remembering the fate of this bear hunt
er, and the.further fact that hadn't LOST any
bear, didn't go.
Proposed to go on an antelope hunt; but
this state has strict game and piscatorial laws,
which our state shonld have. | could not be
gratiiied. as game of this character are not
allowed to be taken till the lst of September.
If stay after this date, will take chance.
Plenty in ten miles of this place.
Boudinot went up to Pixies Peak Thursday
2lst. and was in Il snow storm there. He now
believes all | stated to him on that score.
Judge Tom. Bowen ana family are here.
He is a candidate for supreme Judge, and. |
learn. will get the solid vote of his circuit
thirteen counties. He is a wonderful man
He has large money interests over in the San
Juan (Sanwan) country. He says they beat
L., 81 hat t,t I,,, h.,
ready for them, next time. | learn he gives
general satisfaction on the bench.
Mrs, Bowen looks as young rs twenty
years ago, and Mrs, DIR. Thruston looks much
improved; but she says rheumatism from
Arkansas is aggravated here. She knows
from experience.
| have letter from an acquaintance of
ours, at Denver, who moved out here, last
spring. He closes as follows:
Rackensack is pretty tight place, but |
prefer it to this. You can get up enough veg
etables to make a salad there, which you
couldn't here; and if you could, some cuss
would steal it before you could eat it,
This is the best advertised state in the IN
ion, and ahe state appropriates money for
that purpose. and the newspaper correspond.
tnts professionally are deadheads over the
railroads, in hotels, in bars; nourished and
petted by the spectators; so, of course, they
write them highly painted letters of the beau
ties of the scenery; the stupendous products
of the mines; the excellence of the climate.
&c, enthusiastically. and make it a paradise,
which it Is, in some respects. But the other
side they of course don't touch. With kind
regards for all friends Omega" Yours,
truly, B,J. b.