The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-10-26
LETTER FROM COLORADO.
Special Correspondence.
PunsIo, Col, Oct. II, 1ss

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surroundings. Yet the town is large
ly Mexican in its appearance, make
up and characteristics, and contains
mixed population of Mexican he'd
ers, Western hoodlums and entsr-
prising business men. 1t does quite
a trade with the couetry south and
west of here, and at one time asiir
ed to be the rival Of Denver as the
chief commercial poi!,t in the State,
or of this region; but these aspira-
tions have apparently been nipped
in the bud. 1t had considerable of
a boom last year, but that has sub.
sided and the prospects of this ever
becoming n of the big places Of
the West do not seem to be very fat
'tering. The water here is unsuffer
ably mean, and alkali dust torments
you in every direction and at a.
times. In striking contrast with
Pueblo is Colorado Springs, forty
five miles north of here on the rad
to Denver. 1t is the Suggest, pref
tiest and healthiest place in Colora
do. Nc pretensions to commercial
Importance areamade by it, yet a{air
trade IS done With TIE countrprpxd
while as a resort it goesfa afeassF
all others in this part Of the world.
Its hotels are full in the summer of
Eastern tourists and in the winter
miners and ranchmen from the
mountains fill them up. One hotel
keeper started in here on a small
scale four years ago, entertaining
guests at 81 per day. Business pros
pered, so that he has just built a
new $I5,0 900 hotel and is making all
the money be wants. Another big
hotel costing $50, 900 is being erect
ed by a company of whom Gen. Pal
mer, of the Denver and Rio Graude
Railroad, is one. This same comPa-
nv owns the stock of the Ell Paso
Land and Improvement Company,
and have the most complete printing
establishment in the State, from
which is issued the Daily and Week
ly Gazette.
Among the new buildings erected
at Colorado Springs this year are G
number of handsome but modest res
idences. Shade trees are plenty il
all the streets, and there is an air o
comfort and neatness about the place
mot found anywhere else in Colora
lido. Manitou with its seven or eigh'
mineral springs, and the most fash
ionable resort in the West, is ONLY
Ethree miles distant. A narrow guag'
railroad between the two points car
ries passengers over and back to
twenty five cents, and does a livel,,
business. There is nothing of Mani
tou but its hotels and the springs
The hotels are kept on the 'stoney'
plan, and charge a man four or fv
dollars for looking inside Of them
But they are Well patronized, in tn
season, by a wealthy class of tour
lists who go there both for the style
and on account of the spring waters
which are equal to any in the cour
try. The season there came nea
being cut unusually short this yea
by a snow storm which occurred th
last week in August and iastedtHre
days. About two hundred guest
left Manitou at that time, some {
whom did not return. 1t is just 8
the foot of Pixies Peak, where sno'
storms occur every month in tn
year, and, of course, a squall will o.
casionally blow down the mountail
even in midsummer. Parties al
climbing the peak from Manitou a
}. most daily at this season, but I'll
/. same persons rarely go more tina
once. It's a tough climb, and oil
hack at it is enough to last ordin'
ry people a life time. The Cover
ment signal station at the top
about the lonesomest spot I ever say
Though the most famous peak
Colorado, and seen at the create
distance in all directions, Pixies
/. not the highest. Grey's Peak, twel'
miles above Georgetown, is 200 fe
higher-being 14,341 feet above S,
h level.
In the vicinity of Colorado Sprin.
. are some of the most interesting fea
o ures of Colorado scenery. The "Ga
y den of the Gods" where immen
RED granite slabs stand up on edg
= some of them over $50 feet high,
q one of The striking evidences Of tt
|. great upheaval which has some tir
taken place here; and that volcan
action has also taken place is shoV
e in the copper coloTing of the roc.
o and by other marks plainly visic
Il everywhere. Monument Park,
v short distance away, is another
the curiosities. Covering an ar
: of, perhaps, fifteen or twenty aer
q is a series of natural monuments
If white sandstone so soft that the ell
4 ments have formed them into Il
q most fantastic shapes. Many
a them are about the s re of q hum'
n being and many are much larger.
q strata of iron on the tops has protet
n ed them in that direction and pr
served their original height: HI
many thousand years this work
# the elements has been going on ca
not be very accurately estimate
hut it is one Of the many natuy
wonders of the world. And rig
# here in Colorado, more than an
q where else l have ever been, we fir
on every hand unmistakable e,
n dences that six thousand years do
not, as once supposed, begin to co
q er the period of she earth's existeno
n Not far from Monument Park
"Glen Eyrie," a picturesque lit
v glen with a stream running throu.
" it, in which Gen. Palmer, Preside
; of the Denver & Rio Grande Ra
road, has a handsome summer res
dence. Speaking of railroads cal
= to mind the sharp competition |
tween the Denver & Rio Grande al
V the new Denver & New Orleans liz
: The fare between Denver and Pu
4 bio, 12O miles, has alway been 81
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