Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-07-08
COLORADO LETTER.
Judge Mlls's Life Portraits of Grant
County People Met With.
sniGs Of lhe Mountain AiF-HeaIth, Wealth
and UrbanisY in tho Far West.

County People Met With.
snins of The Mountain Air-HeaIth, Wealth
aud Urbanisy in tho Far West
Wagon Wheel Gap, June 20, 1850
Mr. HERALD II suppose some of
your readers will be interested in
hearing about Denver. Some Of our
Grant county people put up the first
shanties and drove down the first
stakes here. II you want to get a
good picture of this city and its en-
yirons, 60 to Madison and look at the
moon through Gov. Washburne's six
foot telescope, provided you can lind
Prof. Watson there. You will see
plains and mountains through that
instrument which are doubtless re-
Elections from Denver; the likeness
cannot be accidental. But who can
number the people that are now
pouring into Colorado through every
door, gap and guleh that will per.
nit the entrance of buggy or q
burro. The sudden and enormous
fortunes that are daily realized here
have made the world crazy. All ma
tons are represented here. Sheriff
elise found me IN Denver after
search which he says reminded him
of old times. l think it was on the
18th Sunday / took dinner with him
and his good lady. They live well
and prosperously, and appear 10 be
well pleased with this country. On
one end of the table there sat young
gentleman who was stranger to
me. He threw his leg over his plate
with as much confidence and self.
assurance as a Bonanza King.
That's Uur graudChIid," sAolaimod
Mrs. elise; that explained the rid
die, and ! soon found out who was
master in that house. There were
two little pert Sunday school misses
a little while ago in Lancaster. Their
heads were just above the back OF
their seats. They are matrons now,
with all life's cares upon them. The
pet grandchild has driven Mr.. and
Mrs. elise one generation further
back into the past. Grant county
people will find Mr.. G. at No. 494
Arspahoe street; he will take pleas.
ure in giving them information which
every traveller here, if stranger,
stands sorely in need of. There are
five or six railroads that run into this
place, and it is the distributing point
for great part of Colorado. You
can find everything here you can
find in Chicago, and hotels that will
charge you as much. The city is well
built, the houses generally of brick,
and the brick made here are of the
best quality of a bright red. The
streets are swsrming with people.
Too much of the capital of the Uni.
ted States and of the world is being
poured into Colorado. They are too
proud to initiate. They have here a
larger Presbyterian church than is
to be found in the State of Wiscon.
sin. All their public buildings are
put up regardless of expense. Their
high school house is palace. Such
is the style in all the growing towns
| have seen here. Mr. elise showed
me a corner lot for which $75, 900
was refused also lot which was
being built on for which $25 900 was
was paid. | think it fronted but "a
feet. shook hands here with Mr..
Fuller, from Platteville. l saw
Master Seaton, son of our we'll. known
fellow citizen in Potosi, in the street
doing paying business in the sale
of 4monade. He rented space of
three feet on the sidewalk at $l2 per
month /; he offered to give 500 for
ten feet of sidewalk, but was refused.
That boy will certainly make money,
and heis making it now. 1t will not be
long before he will be an enterprising
business merchant, and will relate
with pride to his customers that he
commenced his business career in the
sale Of lemonade.
The fixed population of Denver is
about "a 900 or 900 souls. There
is no room for the thousands of fam.
lilies that are rushing blindly into
this city and country. They buy
tents, and the banks of Platte and
Cherry Greek are whitened for a
great distance with these patriarchal
dwellings. In this climate, SO dry
aud pleasant, many prefer to live in
tents during the summer, and close
up their houses. Sheriff elise took
me into this extemporized city. Bus
mess here was as regularly conducted
as if the tent dwellers inhabited pal.
aces of marble. Here WAS a sign
above q tent door, doctors Green.
wood and lady, Homeopathic physi-
clans from Boston, Massachusetts"
The male partaea was out under a
tree washing q skillet. Mr.. Doctor
Greenwood sat in her tent on an easy
chair, with Turkey carpet over the
floor, specialized and grave, admins.
tering advice and pills to the needy.
w onderful cures were performed the
canvas was thronged. Hundreds of
health seekers and dyspeptics and
hypochondriacs of doleful visagss
come to Colorado and live through
the summer in tents. In the midst
of these hopo iorsaken, svil-boding,
Respondent souls the radiant counte-
nance of Mrs. Doctor Greenwood
shines like a ''new moon risen on
midnoon." Her touch is magnetic !;
her hope.iuspiring words life itself !;
the doctor then administers some
living protoplasms, the essence and
origin of life, too minute to be dis.
covered by the microscope, and
veins which were dried up like the
mountain brooks around them are
once more dilated with the vital
fluid. 1t is hopeful sign when the
mosquito can steal dinner from the
patient in return for his music. care