The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-06-03
LETTER FROM COLORADO.

Colorado Springs, May 26th, 1882.
Editor Exchange:
AS | gave you a brief sketch Of
Pueblo, l will now give you history
of Colorado Springs. While Mani.
tou is the gem of Colorado, Colorado
Springs is the queen of the West. 1t
is an elegant place for residence.
Not more than ten years ago there
was hardly an Indian tent on its soil,
to-day she justly claims six thousand
inhabitants, with many lovely homes.
Streets, always 100 feet wide, while
the avenues are 100, and at the rear
of every tier of lots is lane as broad
as a Milan street. The streets are
all lined with trees, irrigated by a
ditch extending along on either side
of the street. The world can boast
no health resort as complete as the
Springs, with a hight as high as
Mount Washington, Never day OF
mud, drinking water as pure as the
snow aud crystal springs of Pixies
Peak can send, an1 no disastrous
winds.
In the words of another "This little
plateau must always be the retreat
for the cultured and the rich when
health fails them, for here dwell those
who found longer tarrying in the low
er lands of The east equivalent to an
immediate summons to an attitude
higher than that of Colorado. Here
multitudes find perfect health. The
astbmatic is forever happy, the pneu'
moniac breathes through all his lung
cavities, and he cousumptive even,
if he does not neglect himself too long,
releases life for period of years.
The scenery is without parallel in
This region. In the east the slope
rises gradually for several miles until
a series of bluffs like range of forts,
are stationed along the horizon. In
the west roll The majestic mountains,
near enough to show every curve and
graceful sweep with all the delicacy
of sunrise tint and sunset shading,
yet far enough away to harmonic al
the exc, essences and temper all the
abruptness of nearer view.
Two features of Colorado Spring;
are particularly noteworthy. 1t has
probably the largest percentage of
cultured, refined and well-to.do PEG
pie of any town in America. The
reason of this will appear when we
consider what it is. 1t is health re-
sort purely, not in the fashionable
sense ia which that term is used in
the east, but in the life and death
sense. There is scarcely family
here that was not drawn hither by the
immediate danger of some member o.
the family. The consequence is thai
editors, authors, physicians, lawyers
clergymen, bankers, teachers, have
come here with their families, anC
though in perfect health dare not re
turn east. There is not manufac
tory, foundry, mill or anything els'
20 draw the poorer classes or attrac
the spectators. 1t is an absolutely
temperance town, and that without ,
prohibi.ory law. Every deed tina
holds a foot of land has a striugen
specification tpat has been twice test
ed before the supreme court Of tn
United States, which causes ever,
estate upon which liquor of any, kim
is sold 10 revert to the original pro
prietors. This has been so thorough
ly endorsed by the highest legal au
thority of the land that the fight
over. The consequence is that bum
mers give this purely residential cit
wide berth. The coming institu
tions of this city is Colorado College
Rev. E. P. Tenney, formerly q
Massachusetts,, president. With
beautiful building, fine library, valu
able cabinet, excellent meteorologics
department, it is sure to be grea
advantage to the new west"