The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-25

easy, graceful HOW OF. langulge that Is
astonishing and their kindness and hos
pitality is as wide and liberal as their
imaginations, and you are soon con
WINGED that it is all done for your en-
lightment and pleasure and the glory Of
their adopted State.
In matters of business they are as re-
liable as any people and from my ex-
perience, | think more SO, as one of
them told me the whole truth about
horse purchased from him and that is
not my experience with the jockeys Of
/ Kentucky. But when the pressure is
/ taken off of their honor and their mag
/ nations are set to work as to what the
State is, or has superior to other States;
what their neighbors have, or what they
/ themselves have, or have had, oil
done, then stand from under, fol
they will overwhelm you with scenes
! from their imaoinations as startling as
any from MunchauSen. As q specimen
proprietor told me that he and some
companions were crossing the CONT
mental divide when it was covered with
snow Three miles below them, down
decline of fortv-five degrees, deeply
covered with frozen snow, lay the spot
/ they desired to reach, while to 90 around
| by trail was fifteen miles. He took
/ tin pan, used for washing gold, spread
his blanket over it, got in himself, in a
squatting position ON his launches,
/ tucked the blanket around; held his
rifle and other traps over his head and
/ got one of his companions to give him
/ push. He informed me he went down
at the speed of sixty miles a minute.
and shot far out into the valley at the
foot of the mountain. When he stopped
he found the soldering of the pan melted
/ from friction, his blanket on fire, and il
was his impression that had he gone
much farther he would have been burned
up, together with all his traps. He
further informed me that he got up,
waved his hand and called to ''the
boys to follow, but they declined. l
presume they saw how he was smoking
from hot boxes, and concluded they
would try an easier grade.
Another prospectOr told me his favor
tie amusement had been to Jump upon
large bank of drifted snow and start
an avalanche and ride upon it in its
fearful course of destruction to the val
ley below. On one occasion, however,
he got turned under, and when . the
boys" dug him out he had both arms
and one leg broken, besides being 9th
erwise scratched up; since that time he
haseregarded the amusement as little
dangerous. As proof of his story he
showed me his broken arms, and | ac-
cepted his statement in regard to the
broken thigh without further proof 9TH
er than that he walked game-legged.
The following are some of the things
the ColoradOans will tell you that you
will not find entirely correct-princi-
pally told by the Denverites 80 strang-
ers on their arrival among them, many
of them apparently knowing no more
about the State after several years resi-
dence than the newcomers know and it
is evident from their conversation they
have taken many things on hearsay,
and perhaps seen no more of the State
than that part which they passed over
in coming TO Denver. They will tell
you.it does not get hot in summer nor
cold IN winter; that there is a peculiari-
ty in the atmosphere to be found no.
where else on the earth and its sanitary
effects are miraculous; that it is the
=
States; that cattle keep fat all the wear
on the sandy plains; that meat will not
spoil without salt if properly prepared
q suppose vanished to keep the flies
Off. and that dead animals are not of
fensive to the smell; that Denver is the
most remarkable city in the world; that
people do not die here, therefore
worms do not eat them; that a bob-tail
rat does not always get in the hole first;
that mountains are. forty or fifty miles
away, when in reality they are only
ten. All this and much more do they
tell unto. the astonished and gaping
tenderfoot. An East Tennesseean, a
few years ago, came into the town of
SnvertOn. which is 9, 400 feet above the
level of the sea and was looking around
with some interest when his attention
was called to Mount Kendall, with its
base resting on the valley in which the
town is built and its top towering some
Is, 900 feet heavenward. Some of the /
citizens told him it was fifteen miles to
the top and it would take day to 90
there and return. He Immediately Of
fered to bet 500 he could 90 up and re-
turn in three hours, whereupOn man
acting on what the citizens said took the
bet. The Tennesseean started from the
main street of the town, forded Animus
River. climbed the mountain waved his
flag from the top, was back in town in
less than two hours, scooping in his
money and lived to be the efficient and
accommodating Clerk of San Juan
County, and occupies that position unto
this day.-DenUer Letter to the Courier
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