Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-07-03
i,fiin Rditors Atroad.
From the Senior Editor of the HERALD
DENVER CITY, COLORADO,

Our Editorial party Is neFes All tu SOOU {
spirits, and many of them are out this !
taking in the city and causing a s
great deal of curiosity among the natives. I
In my last did not conclude my obser-
7ations in Kansas city. Tuesday morning
carriages were furnished our party and
we were escorted through the principal
streets of the city, and other points of in
terest, among them the Fair GOunds,
which we found to be large, well located
and handsomely improved. Kansas City
is much more of city than had expect
ed to find on the western confines of Mis-
souri,.
On our excursion through the city we
saw many buildings in process of con-
struetion, and am ereditably informed
that there are already this year, under
course of construction and under con-
tract, sOs buildings. and all to be finished
this season.
The facilities for making bricks here are
superior to any we have seen elsewhere;
for instance, if a man wishes to build a
house he buys a lot and starts brick
yard on it, and by this means he kills two
birds with one stone, as it were. With
the clay ne removes from the cellar he
makes the bricks to build his house. So
you see, that when the cellar is dug, the
bricks are made ready to put in the wall.
A great deal of cutting down and lev
cling of hillocks has necessarily to be per-
formed here preparatory to building
cuts from five to twenty feet have very
| frequently to be made; and what is sim
gular, where these cuts are made the clay
does not wash down, as In our State, from
exposure to heavy rains and the frosts of
winter, but remains In tact for years.
Kansas City is really beautiful city,
and is destined to become one of the
greatest cities IN the West. Its streets
exhibit more life and activity, and more
business throngs are everywhere to be
seen than in any of the cities we have Wis
tied in the West. Our party was kindly
received and welcomed by the city au-
thorities, and our ride through the city
was pleasant, and the kind hospitality ex-
tended to our party, am safe in say
ing, will never cease to be as kindly re-
membered by the excursionists.
At1115 a. M, Tuesday, carriages con-
II m. found us in the Pullman sleeping
cars of the Kansas & Pacific Railroad Co.,
with hats chalked--some for Chicago
yourselves for ChicagO), some for Toledo,
and some for Cincinnati. The train was
an unusually heavy one we did not have
a special train, but had allotted to US, ex-
clusively, first-class Pullmans, and this
attached to the regular train made it an
immense one, and delayed our arrival at
Denver considerably, and consequently
we were on the train 33 hours. The dis
tance from Kansas City is 639 miles, and
almost dead level. For two hundred
: miles west of Kansas City the country ii
as fertile as any we have seen. Our course
3 of travel lay along the Kansas or Kaw
river, which is a handsome stream of wa
ter, but not as clear and limpid as tht
q chrystal waters of the East, or as insight
n ly as 'Big Muddy as some of the Mis-
sourians call the river that bears tn
name of their great State. The bottom
along the Kansas river spread out 70
miles and are covered with as fine ant
luxuriant crop of corn as we ever saw
! and the same can be said of thousands o
acres lying on either side of the railroad
equal to the great Miami and Scioto bot
toms of Ohio.
We could see Lawrence off to our left
= = and as we passed it, and were told that i
was Lawrence, some of the bloody scene.
i that transpired there during the ''border
. . ruffian waI" were brought fresh to oul
memory.
Our train passed through Topeka. Thi
: is beautiful spot, and corn crops cannc
y y be surpassed here; in many of the field
l. that we passed it was as high as horse
: back
At9 O'Clock, we repaired to our sleepin
4 berths, and we are, therefore, unable t
v say anything of the country while en-
. braced in the arms of Morpheus, an
. when morning dawned we were far OF
on the bosom of the traceless prairi,
i where the railroad, the cars and our pal
ty gave the only evidences of civilization
> And this may be said of much of tn
country we saw, until within hundre
A. and fifty miles of Denver, when we b.
al gan to see, here and there, sign of hi
Al manity, with few cattle around tt
squatter's home. Further on herds
n cattle were to be seen, and still furth
4 on it was announced to us to look out ar
7. see 10, 600 cattle that were being herd,
IT, in parcels for miles along the track, wit
n here and there large flocks of sheep 7
IS, an Ohio man, where the grass grows
ms vigorous and fresh, it would be suppose
es impossible for cattle or any other stock
es subsist on the short, gray-looking gra
nd that grows on these great prairies; the
tn is no place where a good bite of grass c;
by be cropped, yet they inform us that eatt
W and sheep grazed on this Insignificant bu
al al falO grass will thrive and get fat. ev,
more rapidly than upon the pastures
our Ohio fields. We feel inclined, ho'
IL ever, to be little slow about giving ere
lsE it to this statement; yet, it may be so.
IL Thursday morning, after breakfast, Y
re- with others took a little view of the ci
N, on our own hook. We found the mark
lp- places well supplied with plenty of We
rs etables, Of fine growth, fresh and mic
te- One lady 1--WE would not mention
=, name for dollar), on seeing some
iaG markably large onions, all in glow
'as excitement exclaimed: claw me WI
ICE nice summer squashes!' But you G
IN. imagine her chagrin, when taking he
yas of the monsters, she exclaimed: go
lie. they're nasty onions!'' Going a lit
ers further the same 1adv 1--WE hone che W
lId excuse us for alluding to the circu
ice stance), seeing some beautiful white {
lat ions, exclaimed: sob, what nice-looki
nd eggs ~ But as women will, she ags
-ue marched up, and laying her hand on t
m savory vegetables, discovered that 6
Ter had again been the subject of humili