Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26

to spoil some good name for town,
and the amount of broken, rocky,
non productive land to be seen
here, there and everywhere will be
enough to satisfy any one bent on geolog-
ical Investigations, or the other fellow who
grows and thrives where desolation and Its
kindred seem to run riot. 1t is while
circling along here the practical mind is in
clned to turn to the scientific and ask ::
Have railroad men an idea that there is
beauty in a straight line, or are the instru-
ments used by them in surveying mount
ain lines so completely used up that they
are unfit for service in a level country Ii
the former, how sad such a fatal defect IN
such useful men. Ii the latter, why do not
the directors buy the surveyor new set!
CHEYENNE
Shows much improvement the last few
years, and is now apparently permanent
and well. TODD town. Leaving this point
by the Colorado Central, one of the Union
Pacific feeders, one passes through coun-
try in going to Denver that shows signs OF
prosperity. Everywhere well built new
towns are springiag up farming and graz
Z
brings 81 1862 Is per 100, and farmers
are enabled TO get good prices from the
/ Denver and other local markets, and we
are evidently coming TO section wnere
| the many are at work and general satls-
faction rules the hour. At 10 P. NJ. We
| find ourselves at the Windsor Hotel,
! Denver - five story building OF
cut stone, with a substantial and attrac-
! tive outside and inside of the Eastlake
style, costing some 100000, and half as
much more to furnish it, reminding Que OF
the Hotel del Monte at Monterey In It's
inside amplitude and costly and tasteful
/ Accommodations.
DENVER
Is q city Of some 36, O90 or 40, 600 inhabit-
ants, and with hotels aud many trst-class
business houses and plenty Of push. F"
| 1t is surrounded on three sides nearly with
extensively built and numerous hrst-c class
residences, and these give it an at
Effectiveness to a visitor, and 1t at once
ranks with you as tirst-class West
ern town, a marvel tor it's locality.
/ The Legislature is about closing its
session, holding the same in couple Of
peu-like rooms. The people are seem
ingly bent on building up State first and
Capitol building when the State is well
under way. In the fall of 1882 the people
by vote propose to permanently locate the
| State Capitol. After spending one day in
looking around the city we bid Charles
! Gladding of Lincoln goodbye to 90 direct
to Kansas City on business, and to notify
us of the condition of the Kansas Pacific
I u 49, 80,
Grande Road to Colorado Springs and
| Pueblo. the latter some 100 miles to
the southwest, and from there to Leadville,
some 100 miles farther from Pueblo, in a
northwest direction. Leaving at 30 A.
H., one has delightful ride through
| southern Colorado, much OF it but little
| differing from the road from Cheyenne.
After leaving Pueblo one follows up the
Arkansas river valley, now but ribbon,
/ as 1t were,
Pixies PEAK
Standing out boldly from tho hundred
neighboring peaks to the nl.s.., cloud
now resting on its very top, this peak
looks to much better advantage than
when seen at Colorado Springs, some
! six miles from It's base. About
the middle Of the afternoon, and running
on a narrow gauge at about thirty miles to
the hour and in forty directions to the
minute, we come on one of the greatest Won
derg of railroad travel we have ever en-
loved. But as the railroad literary tend
| has been here, we merely say that like
Yosemite the "Royal Gorge has to be
seen to be at all appreciated, and turning
! IN tho N Of words for a daspTII1-
| ton, we note many wonders of rock forma.
ton, and some of man. One, the bridge
which supports the train, being an iron
frame. work set in the solid rock on both
sides of this canyon like the letter a, and
the track for some distance is suspended
under this iron work and over the rushing
waters below, SO close and so abrupt are the
walls at this portion Of the canyon But
read
WHAT THE FIEND SAYS
"Taking seat at Canyon City in one of
the model open observation cars Of the
Denver and Rio Graude Railway, the tour
list quickly passes the State Penitentiary,
the mineral springs and bath houses, and
approaches the portals of this grandest de-
file of the mountains. Cleft by the throes
of nature, or worn by the incessant water
drill of ages, narrow chasm appears,
through which the turbulous Arkansas
finds its way from its sources
amid the perpetual SHOWS to
the great plains The road passes in be-
tween the giant walls of red granite, hew-
ing it's path IL places from the o'erhanging
cliffs, anon spanning the stream with an
iron bridge OF marvellous construction, aud
crowdlDg the river until it grOwls and
writhes In very rage. Huge promon-
tories rise to bar the advelturer' s
progress, and destruction seems i'm
minent sharp. smooth curve, and
they are lett behind. Shadowy gorges di-
verge on either side, like the arms OF az
octopus feeling for prey. Still higher over.
head grow the massive walls-two thou
sand, twenty-five hundred feet, Now the
SIN is hidden, and the cool air fans many
fevered brows. No sound is heard
save the hollow rumble of the train
and the gurgle and roar of the
river. Men are speeches. in the
awful grandeur of the scene. And so they
are rolled along out into the receding hills
and fertile valleys of the Grand canyon
and they find their voices, but no adequate
language.
Men are stationed all along this section
and other similar dangerous localities with
the red flag by day and the lamp by night.
/ At ii o'clock P. III. we are
AT LEADYILLE,
g a city set on a hill, some 10, 200 feet
above the level of the sea, and claiming for
itself and immediate camps 10000 people.
We find a fair, well-built town here, sur
rounded by mines that are being worked.
| Snow is in abundance and old Winter is
king. California blood is entirely too
thin for this locality, and an impor-
ter of good solid Sacramento valley air
would soon have the greatest thing in the
country. Taking sleigh we were driven
up 1900 feet higher, two miles from the
center of town, to the Iron Silver mines,
now down some l,050 feet the old
est and leading mine OF Lead
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