The daily gazette., 1882-08-02
CoLoRADO'S CAPITAL
MA. BERToLETTE HEARD
FROM AGAIN.
THE GREAT WESTERN SHOW.
Some Idea OF Denver Newspapers and
How They Get Their News-An Interest
Ing Letter.
Especial correspondence of the Gazette.

DENVER, OOl., duiy S0j looS.--By Une
time you receive this the great mining and
industrial exposition viii have been formally
thrown open to the world. While the build
ing and exhibits were not quite complete In
arrangements, IL was decided to have no
postponement of any kind. The great
parade is expected to eclipse all Denyer's
previous displays in that direction, and
everything is favorable to such a consum-
nation. The orator of the opening day will
be Hon. William d. Kelley of Philadelphia,
who is now on his way here, with many
other notables The city is crowded with
visitors from all the surrounding States and
| Territories, and is being decorated in the
| liveliest styles and colors under the direc-
tion of the Board of Trade. The exposition
will be kept open until the Both of Septem-
ber, after which the special efforts will cease
and the thing will settle down to per-
manent exhibition of the mining and indus
trial products and resources of the Rocky
| Mountain region, and of Colorado in par
ticular. There is no doubt that Colorado is
the most enterpIising mining State at the
present time I'm the Union, and she will con
| tinue so unless her mines give out, possi-
| bility too remote to be consderd by the
| present generation.
| Since writing you about our railroads
| there are ono or two things which / can re
| cord as facts, that have only become so since
that date. The first is that the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy has completed its
track to Denver and has 1t in full operation.
| The first train left Denver for Chicigo on
the I'd instant, and made the trip in AZ
hours without change of cars. You can
now come from New York, Philadelphia or
Baltimore to Denver with only one change
of cars-at Chicago-so that railroad travel
across the continent Is actually becoming in
reality, something like 1t has long been on
paper. The c., B. Il Q. crosses the Missis-
sippi at Burlington, Iowa, and the Missouri
at Plattsmouth. TT gave free transportation
to the Colorado Press Association from
Denver to Chicago and back in
the early part of this month, and
has in every way made itself the popular
route, for the present at least 1t looks
like progress when we hold the picture of
the present and that of Is years ago side by
side. Then those who wished to come this
side of the Missouri river had to do so in
bull or mule teams or by stage, and used up
season In the trip. Now you simply take
your choice of four good lines, two through
central and southern Nebraska and two
through Central and southern Kansas, and
you use but one day in the trip. Nor is
this all. Unless all the signs fail, a thing
which they are not given to doing in this
country, In little more than a year there
will be a route here from the Missis-
sippi that will touch neither Kan
sas nor Nebraska, but will come through
Texas. This is the Denver and New Or
leans, of which spoke in my last, and for
the complete construction Qsfwhieh ex-Gov.
John Evans, its pfeAideii6, ias1ua aassseeylcti
in placing So 500, 900 in bonds ON Wall
street. II is the opinion of business men
here that when this road is completed it will
be the most important runninginto Colorado
or Denver The Denver and Rio Grande is
pushing on fast toward Salt Lake City in
spite OF strike on the part of its construc-
ton hands, and the Denver and South Park
last week put into actual use the Alpine
tunnel, which pierces through the great
backbone of the continent at an altitude
higher than any tunnel ever attempted in
Europe or North America The South
Americans, believe, have done something
In an equally high altitude.
DENVER JOURNALISM.
have naturally been very much interested
in the newspapers of Denver, of which there
are certainly all that are needed. The
, Rocky Mountain Ne,gs l give preference,
because it has no superior here, and for the
reason that 1t is the senior, the pioneer OF
barnaele among the popular enlighteners
Denver was started in 1858, and early in
| 1859 the Neaos made its appearance, which
1t has continued doing regularly ever since
/ SO that it is an OLD paper In new country
| Up to few years ago 1t wis Republican
advocate, but, having been purchased by 4
new company, its politics changed, and it il
now the leading Democratic paper in Colo
RADIO, with about as disconraging battl.
a before it as have the Democratic lances o
! Iowa. 1t is well conducted, large and in
@ teresting paper, ana hence is successful
issued daily In the morning.
. One of its most vigorous and worthy com
| petitors is the Tribune, morning paper als6
| of long.standing. 1t sprightly wide awake
, we'll printed and full of bright things, and
fights the Independent Republican, or half
, breed, battle.
The Repmblicdn is the third and last morn
ing paper and compares favorably with it,
8 contemporaries in every way. 1t is StalWar
to the core and has many more tilts witt
+ the Tribune, its halfbrother, than with til,
E Ne,es, its out-and-out enemy. But theI
there is always more interest in a fgh
4 where either side has an even chance o
6 winning than in scuifie the end of whiel
: you can forsee with half an eye.
The evening papers are the Times ant
World, both Republican and neither as goo,
for evening papers as are the three mornin!
& representations in their sphere.
Then comes the weeklies, first anon.
which is Pomeroys Great West. Bricl
Pomeroy came here couple of years agi
n and Immediately went to work in his olt
N style. His paper has long list of reader
n and is devoted cIAely GO INNING interests n
: present, in which Pomeroy is himself mucl
! concerned; it keeps the breath of life in TIL
30 Greenback movement, and deyotes some at
!, tention to spiritualism, so that business
politics and religion unite in equally heaY
= doses. After this comes The Steer State.
silver and Greenback advocate, the Rock
. Mountain Herald, the JoaTndl the Inter
II Ocean, the Meresay, the HoWitzer, the Gel
I and the Star, all of which have their speeia
} hobby, and none of which are slow.
= The newspaper men of Denver represen
p | all parts of the country, and the Atlanti
:, coast is not behind. There are seyera
.s Philadelphia men on the various staffs. Tn
N Associated Press comes In for its share o
criticism. The Ne,oS the other day com
planned that the press dispatches are from
one to six days late when they reach here
e. and the Great West says the Chicago papers
ie which arrive here two days after pubhca
IN ton, contain the same dispatches which ar
" given by the daily papers here on the day OF
h, which they arrive, As to the price of papers
G they uniformly sell for nickel, no NOR
vs. and no less. This to the newcomer sound
ne pretty steep, but to the old'un seems a
lp natural as life, and the wonder is that Oh
he and two cents will do SO much over in tn
lis East. The members of che guild will hav
by their hands full during the next two month
with the exposition.
Speaking of small change, you never hea
Is such an expression as "fye-cents" or "tel