The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-02-10

resident of the Eastern Shore uncon-
sciously transported here, would be in a
chronic state of wouderluent at the chang
ed conditions of existence. There the
world moves in slow and easy stages
here everything is on the gallop; there
it is a matter of remark if the sun shines
one day i'll We, k: here you are bathed
in a perpetual sea of sunshine through
out ten months of the year, there the
majority of the people ale welded to
conservatism, seeking nothing better
than ;hat which comes within easy reach :;
while the people of Colorado seek to at
tain the best of everything, and their
ambitions and aims are as high as these
frowning peaks which cast their shadows
at their feet.
I CLIMATE.
Much has been said and written about
the climate of Colorado, but | believe
that justice has never been done to the
exhiliratiug atmosphere which one en-
joys with every respiration. Here we
are south Of the cold and bleak influences
Of northern tempatures and north of the
depressing heat and humidity of the
lower States. Both for location and eli
matte influence. it is the happy, equable
| mean between the two extremes. 1t has
exemption from the damp, foggy, murky
atmospheric conditions of the Eastern
States, and the extreme alidity of the
far Southwestern plains. The heat Of
Summer is neutralized by a champagne
breath from the mountains, tinged with
| snow and surcharged with ozone. which
| lifts the burden of atmosphere from weak
| shoulders. y glance at the map will dis
close the State of Colorado cut directly
into by the Rocky Mountains The State
is thus partitioned into three domains ::
First, the r ,stern upland slope, descend
ing toward the Mississippi, and drained
by the Arkansas. Second, the interme-
date Mountainous district, and third the
Western or Pacific slope. These divis-
| ions OF country are essentially unlike in
climate. Topography, scenery and natural
resources. The Eastern slope lies forever
in the sun, sheltered from the Pacific
ocean by these gloomy mountains, which
| rise ten thousand feet into the air, and
| from the still more disagreeable Atlantic
| by the level plains which stretch away
for more than two thousand miles A
! general description of this exceptional
tract would make it an upland plateau,
wateI ed by streams of melting snow, and
beautifully diversified as it approaches
the mountains by mesa and valley,
| through which the cottonwood and the
| lesser flora spring in abundance. 1t is
land of sunshine, of a perpetual dry air.
| and the one spot on the continent where
| East wind does not harasS the invalid.
! Here, under the walls of Paradise, one
| is perfect y safe from either ocean. The
! asUhmatlc feel the arial influence at once.
The debilltated are spurred by all invisi-
I bic hand. There is no dew at night.
! The moon looks kindly down through a
crystalline sky, and the sun shines with
an Italian etfulgence. Here the cOndi-
| tiOns of life are new and inspirating.
| There is no winter, as the dwellers upon
the Atlantic coast has learned to dread
it. but an e4uable, eternal Spring. The
| Eastern Shoreman here will fancy him
self on the plains Of Lombardy, and the
mornings will not chill him, nor the
evenings chase him with unkindly breath
indoors. All the airy influences of ma
ture are beniticent and tender AMI an
! electrical stimulous spurs him into ac-
/ tivity.
/ The pressure of such an atmosphere as
weighs you down is gone at an elevation
! of SIX thousand feet above the sea. Air,
| water, organic matter, everything is
! charged with electricity, and life. whether
of man or animal is toned up to health
/ full tension, and earnest, ambitious &C
! ton characterize every department of
/ life. One feels like business i'll this rare,
! radiant atmosphere. Nothing dlagS here,
! everybody feels fresh, and youthful and
self-cemmanding. Nothing denotes age,
! but the venerable hills. and there is no
sign OF decadeuce where the inspiring
breeze from the mountains touches the
very germs of life, and gives strength
and buoyancy to all its forms. There is
i remarkable renewal of vital force to
debllitated men and women, for which
! they can we'll afford to exchange the
I cheap pleasures of high living in the old
States. Only health can give any degree
, of completeness to our human life.
| These men who live in the saddle and
| grow sunbrowned and strong and happy
hearted, who can eat with the relish of
a buffalo-hunter, what happy life is
theirs. No aches Or pains, no languor,
and best of all, no need of doctors or
nauseating physic. l would be compare
lively safe to guarantee a cure to seventy
I live per cent of the consumptives who
will come to Colorado, and try pony and
saddle eat jack-r-bbits, prairie chickens,
/ brown bread and milk, and open their
! lungs to the play of the west wind that
comes from the blue Rockies with heal.
ing on its wings. In Florida the air is
wanting i'll crispness and tone, and the
climate only gives the last luxury and
ease Of the opiate, relieving from pain,
but wanting in the positive tone to re-
store and build up, while here the inva-
lid is led by gentle and easy stages to the
plane of health and robust action. 1t is
| a pleasure to breath where respiration
takes the easy unconsciousness of health
full sleep and where the heart pul>atcs
i'll glow of warmth and rapture.
| PUEBLO
/. Pueblo is a typical Western city. 1t
combines all the aggressive restlessness
of push and drive characteristic of other
western towns, without their temporary
appearance. Pueblo has the most natu-
raj location for large, prosperous and
permanent city that we have encountered
anywhere in the West. No city or town
in Colorado can lay claim to the variety
of resources that Pueblo possesses -
Whether it be for agricultural mining,
stock or manufacturing interests that
Western cities are contesting, Pueblo
would certainly win the day. Located
lands that are tributary to Peublo ex-
tend from the mountains to far beyond
the eastern line of the State, and whose
richness and productiveness have long
since become famous this city enjoys
equal facilities with Denver, in an agri-
cultural sense. Iron and coal are within
all hours ride in limitless quantities aud
of a very excellent quality, it is evident
that she must soon become the Pittsburg
of the West Add to this the fact that
Pueblo is the natural gateway to the en-
tire m0untuin system of the celebrated
| Rockies by reason of the easy and only
access afforded through the valley of the
largest water course in the State, the
Arkansas river, and a complement of ad-
vantages 80 vastly superior to any other
city that can be named are presented
| with force which must strike the world
in a remarkable manner. Judge w. ID.
Kelley, (Pig from of PENNSYLVANIA in i
speech last Summer at Leadrille, uttered
the following language, the strength of
which will be more fully appreciated
coming from such a source:
The production of iron and steel, aud
the establishment of every branch of in
dustry dependant upon the pro luction {
these metals may be established more
adyautageously at Pueblo than at any
other place | know of on the face of the
globe.
1t has only been eight years since the
first notes of advancement and prosperi-
ty were heard in this city. Prior to this
il Wan the chief rendezvous of MexicanS