The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-30
AN EMPORIAN ABROAD.
Observations of a News Correspondent
in and Around Denver.

observations OF a NEWS correspondent
in and Around Denver
DENVER, Col, July 10, 1880.
EDS. News: 1 think my last letter
was written from Las Vegas. Leaving
this via La Junta, 1 reached Pueblo
Thursday p. M, where l met II. G. Cross
and Charley Fowlks. Maj. Cross and
some friends had been day and half
from Manitou Springs. part of the way
by team, the ID. & r. G. track having
been badly washed away by an overflow
of the Fountain, stream along which
the road runs for over thirty miles. At
Pueblo they are talking up their artesian
well out of which gushed water claimed
to be medical, and certainly charged
with electricity, for a knife blade held
in it for few minutes, is sufficiently
magnetiZed to pick up nails. / stopped
at Manitou Springs, but as that country
has been so gorgeously written up, for
bear Found there Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy
Martin, who had made the trip up and
on to Pixies Peak, ON foot, carrying
their own provisions and blankets. This
was certainly a feat, indeed good many
feet, for the round trip is twenty-three
miles Took in the Garden of the Gods,
the different springs (as to the springs
this statement is not literally true) and
the Ute Pass, one half mile of which
road cost $4,000. Thence visited the
the town of Colorado Springs there are
no springs there, and the watcris brought
| from the mountains back of Manitou
! Springs, seven miles away. At Colorado
| Springs Mr.. Stubbs, formerly Ofof En-
| poria is looking after the interests of the
Adams Express Company. That town
| is the most beautifully laid out of any
place ever saw. Every street is lined
| with shade trees. The streets are very
wide, and one of them has fine drive
on each side, with two rows of trees
| forming a wide foot walk. That street
| for two miles is rs level and even as
| Commercial street from Third 10 Seventh
| Avenue.
| Thence up to Denver This is a town
of $4,000 inhabitants, plenty OF shade
treos, breweries, saloons, hotels and
| newspapers, with the last enterprise
overdone. Met here an old friend, a. J
| Cleveland, of the Denver, South Park &
| Pacific railway. This is a lively. healthy
| build its now Morrison branch, which
/
Junction, seven miles out of Denver
They have fine coaches On the road
NICELY earpeted, also chair cars and Pull
man sleepers, and every car, from ne
cessity, manned with the air brake
This road, although 1t cost a mint o
money to build it, has nearly earned il
entire enormous expense. Twenty mile
out you come to the mouth of the Plat
canon, and then dive into the valley
crossing the Platte river several times
and coming to grading that cost $1,000
per mile. 1t challenges ones credulit.
to see one of those little engines, viii
eight passenger coaches, winding abou
and climbing around those mountains
| And such views as you get hereI Lool
! ing away 10 right or left, on a July day
you see, up above the timber line, larg
, patches and drifts of snow, and perhaps
farther away, at lesser altitude, az
. green patches. Verify, "tall pines dwiI
, die into shrubs in dizziness of distance
If was to venture advice, woul
) turn those SaEatoga-bound to see som
| of this country in its native newnes
: | "Go west and study up this hItlierI
terra ineogRita. Anybody can build