The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-08-15

the people will die off with becnm.
Ing rapidi,y at Lcadvllle or any place elae
1 have viaited In Colorado.
This brings. me to'apeak oil the climate.
You can get almost any climate you want
In Colorado. For instance, Denver has O
climateiof its own, . pretty warm one, too,
and I.eadville has Ito peculiar climate
Denver 10 about 5000 feet above sea level,
while. Leadville 10 over 10 900 feet. The
sun shines hot In both places IRON 7
o'clock In the morning at this time OF year
until sun down. The weather can get hot
and cool quicker In Leadville than any
placs I ever raw. There 10 however no
deafness in the heat. They Toll mo that
sun strokes ere unknown 1T ruins once
or twice nearly every day at this senson.
After September the rain IL over Tor shout
nine months. They get snow the balance
OF lifetime. Last winter the thermometer
ranged from TO- to 400 below zero. Tho cold
wbilo Intense is quite 'as bedrahl6 az the
reul winter. weather ,ofths Ohio Valley,
because 1t is dry cold Cattle stand 1t In
the valleys OF Colorado out Of doors, be.
cause tie snow does not melt on them,
but falls of for lack OF cohesive moisture.
work goes on all over the State during
winter. The temperature OF The mines
remains about the same summer and win.
ter. The railroads 90 up aud down the
mountains the year through. They use
immense snow plows, and also protect
their tracks from drifts at exposed points
by snow fences. You would be sst0nish.
ed to eee the power Of one Of these large
Ohirty.6ve toni narrow gauge locomotives.
They walk up The mountains like u thirg
OF life. They butfer more from drifts In
the plateaus or paika OF the mountains
than on the slopes. l noticed the Increase
In snow fences after We got into South
Park going over 10 Lead vile from Denver.
"Ses Naples and die" I had almos,
applied this quotation to South Park. In
some IespecA 1t presents tho most en-.
chanting scene | have met In Colorado
Imsgine a lawn itry milen long and fifteen
to twenty miles wide Ut m attitude OF 49,
900 feet, begirt on every side by NOV
peaked mountains. You can see Il oil NJ
once, and you can see the railrofd cours'
ing through 1t for forty miles. You can
zee herds Of cstlle miles apsrt, and ranch
houses, and occasionally a group OF trees
The air ia 80 thin and clear and 40 illumi
mated by the hot sun that you can see
distinctly a wonderful dIstance. l said to
myself that the Happy Valley" OF R-sel
las never presented such on inspiring
scene AZ this. My advice to a | travellers
Is to 90 10 Leadville by tho Sjuth Park
road and return by the royal gorge Of
the Rio GraDde route. There Is but ont
"royal Ro,ge' even In this State Of grand
c~nons. It is the gorge where the car.
cross the Arkansas river OIL u hanging
bridge 3 600 icet below tho top Of iht
canon, the walls Of which are as precipi
tous as the side Of a house. Hstp.r's
Ferry fades into %nothingness cpmpaisd
with It. ! sat out on the end OF the slespe,
to see 1t by. moolight. The moon casts Il
very taper like ray into that gorge except
when 1t Is entirely full and at On exac.
zenith.
The Rio Grande route ia longer by 100
miles from Denver 10 Leadville than th.
Snu'h Park rosd, but the fare is the SAINT
SIS. It calls itself "the scenic road Of
America" and it Is. From Lesdyille to
Pueblo it comes down the mountains 1853
miles by winding curves and all sorts u,
horse chloe bends to Pusblo, and from
Pueblo 1t skirts the eastern bspe OF the
Rockies all the way to Denver, l20 milea.
The trains fairly fly along come portions Of
the route. They have the ccsiest little
sleepers you ever cav onthis line. The
berths are however Just a little too narrow
for two persons.
You see that this letter is dated at Roll
linsville. Rollinsvills is q spot in the
Rocky mountains unknown to fame, 8 900
feet above the sea, fourteen miles from
Central City, aud is reached by a stsge
line ifom the litter place. By the way,
Central City is the most peculiarly situated
city you ever eaw. 1t is the western ter.
minus OF. the Colorado Central narrow
gauge road, distant forty.iwo miles from
Denver. 1t ia a terraced kind OF q pluce,
and the site is dug out CT the mountain
eide. The cars get up to 1t by a reriea Ut
liits, or more properly speaking US.
You commence the zig gag at the
suburb Of Black Hawk, one and a half
miles below Central, and tack forward and
back alongt the mountain eide for five miles,
until you reach a dizzy sort Of all attitude
above the suburb. This Lripes you to
Central city, a-plsce of three Thousand in.
habitants. Central is the county seat OF
Gilpin county, M of The richest miner
al counties OF. the State, End one
of the first settled. 1t boasts some
excellent gold placers and good mined.
l." enjoyed the ride over here across
the range In m open spring wagon very
much. | passed on the way the Black
Diamond mine, owned and worked py
two old hsrmits, one OF them named
Barnes, from Barnesville, Ohio, who live
in a cabin near the mine, and do their
" cooking, washing and mending. They
suffer no body to go into their mine, EN-
ploy no laborera. work when they please,
get out several hundred dollars worth o!
ore occasionally and with the proceeds
grub stake" themselves for On indefinite
period, aud thus they pass their lives.
Rollinsvi!le is a beautiful vale In the
mountains no: unlike that at the foo, Of
Robinson's hill in BROOKE, county, on the
road from We'lsbnrg 10 Bethany. And BY
n happy Coincidence there are eeyetsl
Bethany people sojournipg here at this
time, part Of the family Of Sir. James A.
Campbell, one Of them Mrs. Sallie Barrett,
wife If Mr. Geo. Barrett, who represents
the interests Of a large New York mining
company here. There III a creek almost
corresponding to Buffalo creek, we'll
stocked with trout, and here l have tsken
my first Lessons in the mysteries. OF trout
fishing under the auspices of Rev. Geo.
DaIsle, an oid.tims Bethany student, now
OF Frankfort, KY, with. encouraging suc.
GEES.
Speaking Of. reverend gentlemen leads
me to remark upon the apparent state OF
religion In this country. There is some.
thing sbout the, air or the mountains or
something else that works a change in the
outward forms and general manifestations
Of pie'y in THE far western region. For in.
stance, Sunday In Colorado and Sunday in,
the Panhandle OF West Xi,giri. is a dit.
f=ient sort II day altogether. Not that The
people are worse 10 their morals, a,