The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-23
DENVER DOlNGS.
An Ohio Man in Colera1s-rhe Izn-
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| Correspondence OF the Star.
DENVER, COL, April l6.-In Presiden-
tial parlance, this city is having quite a
boom at present. The arrivals here
from the East for the past month have
averaged 2eo0 per week. Last week
Ice pilgrims from the South, East and
North landed here. What becomes of
them is difficult thing to learn. The
greater number remain here from two to
three days and then board the Denver,
South Park & Pacific train for Leadville,
Como, Breckenridge, Alma, Fairplay and
either mining towns, where they hope to
accumulate fortune in few days.
About one out Of a thousand ever realizes
their fond hopes. ...... ..........
The hotel people of this city, as we'll as
of all other towns in the State, are grow
ing rich. Provisions here are not very
much costlier than they are in the East,
yet it is impossible to get anything like
decent board for less than $40 to $l4 per
week. All the first-class hotels refuse to
give rates to weekly hoarders.
The inhabitants here claim a pOpula-
tion of thirty-fve thousand, but am in
clined to think this estimate is about ten
thousand too high, unless they include
the transient class.
We have dust zephyrs nearly every
day, which fills the atmosphere with
sand and makes street promenading
anything but pleasant.
The scene at the Post office twice day
is quite amusing, unless one happens to
want to inquire for letter. There are
two delivery windows. All whose names
commence with any letter from A to l.
go to one window, while those whose
names commence with any letter from M
10 Ego to the other. They fall in line,
one behind the other, and sometimes
there will be two hundred in line.
Last Sunday afternoon there were TWO
hundred and fifty in one line, which ex-
tended out of the building quite ways.
The first time | went to inquire for let.
ters ! fell into line at the wrong window,
and stood for fully half an hour before
| noticed my mistake.
The streets here are perfectly grand to
drive upon. They never get muddy, and
are always as smooth as floor Such
streets, Of course, invite fast driving, and
it is no uncommon thing to see nobby
poys speeding along at a 2:40 gait.
There are quite number of very fine
buildings being erected here this sum
mer. Ex-Governor Tabor, who made
over million out of the Little Pitts
burg, will build three hundred thou
sand-dollar opera-house this summer on
the corner of Curtis and Sixteenth
streets.
Everybody who comes here seems to
have the Gunnison country on the brain,
but it will be impossible for very many
to reach that district within thirty days
on account of the snow, which is report
ed several feet deep. The Denver & Rio
Grande Railway Company will have a
road completed to Gunnison City in
four weeks, and parties in
the East who contemplate seeking for
tunes in that district should postpone
coming until the completion of the road.
Staging it in the mountains is not half
so nice as people imagine it is, especially
when the coach turns over about half
dozen times every mile
Perry Crosson, OF Morrow, Ohib, and
four others, are working a good paying
mine about forty miles west of this city,
on the line of the D., S. & P. Railroad.
The mine is known as the "Uncle Rob
ert," and the ore, which seems inexhaus-
tible, assays two hundred ounces of sill
yer to the ton. A large smelter is being
erected at the mine, by New York par
ties, to smelt, the ore from this and ad-
iacent mines. IA L. G. G.
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