The Press., 1883-11-15
IN COLORADO.

IN COLORADO.
 TRAMP OVER SOME OF ITS 'R1s1Na GROUND. ,
 Rev.J. F. Hawley, now of StatfordSprings, who spent September vacation in Colo rado, wrote several letters to the Provi. dence Journal, one of which we copy:
 The visitor to Las Animas county, Colo rado, will, on arrival, with perfect proprie ty, inquire, What was this part of the world made for? Why do people live here? There are so few signs of vegeta tion, such general baroness, that the in quiries are indeed legitimate. The con clusion is, that it must be the scenery that captivates, and the clearness of the at1nos phere that holds. At all events, some sort of magnetism begins to fix itself, and one soon falls into harmony with the surround ings, and still without being able to hardly give reason why. The scenery is, in deed beautiful. The nearly universal bar renness is greatly and pleasantly modified by the not few in all of struggling noun tain spruces that 'dot the landscape OCT. , Then the bold bluff-like hill, again the towering mountain-both so generally crowned with rocky fortress. From the city of Trinidad, looking northwest, yor behold, rising sharply, and, in part, per pendicularly, Simpsons Rest.'' 1t ii something of an undertaking to climb it for it is 1,3OO feet or more above the city
 but little resolute work brings success and the view is beautiful. One might fee satisfied with this, were it not that gazins southward a bolder, higher, every wa bigger mountain meets the eye. The re ! urn to town is accompanied with the reso lution to do that mountain right away. I seems to be about three miles from tn town, and the question is, Shall we mak it before breakfast, or, taking it more leis urely, shall it be an appetizer for the com ing dinner of Rocky Mountain brook trou and venison? The citizen here, with quiet smile, assures you that you bette not go before breakfast. Then when yo, ind that the mountain, the far-famet Fishers Peak, " is fully ten miles away
 it's ascent long and wearisome, 5000 fee up; the conclusion is wisely made to post pone the attempt until another day, when with an early breakfast affording an early start, the trip may be made. The mornine comes, the breakfast is eaten, when tho party-two ladies, two gentlemen, yes three-for another, every inch one, i, along as guide, but really an intelligent agreeable companion. The air is cleal and delightful, the horses quickly gallol over the ground; experience has made them sure footed, among all the uneven ness. Not used to this mode of convey ance, could not call the manner of iourn eying an unmixed joy. Nevertheless tn. horses are so well trained for their service that find myself keeping along with tn. party until we have gained the mountain and are as far up its side as it's steepnes' will permit the horses to ascend, Nov comes the more than mile of climbing. I is climbing, too, in dead earnest. lool up with dismay--always easily made dizzy when at home, stunning precipitous rocl or narrow bridge-what shall do now They shall not derisively call me a'.Tend erfoot, and seeiug the ladies nobly strug gling onward and upward, ferveptly re solve that what woman does do, man cal do. So up climb, yet with much fea and trembling. Occasionally catching holt of the spruce shrub, I venture glance downward and outward-the one to m, poor head is almost terrible, while the oth or is, amid all my woes, grandly magnifi cent. The climbing is not yet done-bu after a little more of misgiving and tribu lation the top is gained What has to tn, approach seemed like a narrow level o rock, possibly fifty or hundred feet wide stretches out into several acres. Trinidad is 5000 feet above the sea, we are 2, ,O0' | feet above Trinidad. Here the snow come 1 to stay in October, and that stay is pro longed to the July following. The climb ing, the fear, the tribulation, are all fo1 | gotten, 1t needs but the night to come t make one feel as if dwelling among tn stars. Sober intoxication is upon us, W shout to hear our voices go out in strange ness of sound with no echo. Again W are silent, and a solemn awe steals owe us, and we feel it is very like to being i
 the presence of God. Again we turn t the hyper magnificent scene around an, below us. There is Trinidad, looking lik a small hamlet, close to the foet of tn mountain. There the Arkansas winds it curling way, it's waters hardly visible, bu the greenness of the growth along its ban
 marks it's course. Other rivers, the Put are followed by the eye, because of tn world below, while plains with tinges ( Away wonder, south and west, the large ranges of the Rocky Mountains stretc
 out, high-capped with snow. A littl more to the north and still westward ar the world known Spanish Peaks" They too, have snowy plumes, and stand a twins in their somewhat separate, gorgeous grim magnifoence. Then turning [ scenes nearer by, we know where th mines of Starkville and El Mino are, b the smoke rising, and yet far below nf coming from the many fiery ovens whic
 are transforming coal into coke. It is no' we.realize how rudely man lays his ba Id upon the things of nature, and forces the1 to minister to his wants and to do his wil On the top we may hold Communion wit