The daily gazette., 1883-03-31
Especial correspondence OF the Gazette. ]

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Especial correspondence OF the Gazette.
DENVER, March 26.-Many events have
Ianspired since you heard from me last.
rhe state Legislature has met and with
what 1t has done Of national interest YOU
are already familiar. Tabor has served his
| Iermi been divorced and married again. but
| Wnat we are now anxious to know IA
| whesher and when he is coming back to ue
All we know is that he weRt TO New York
and dropped out Of sight, and nobody seems
70 DC able TO say what his future plans will
D.. Bowen has been TO Washington. beon
on the Star Route witness stand and has
got back to attend to his San Juan mines
| until the Senate is ready to give him his sent
In December. Colorado expects something
| from Bowen. These two with Belford
and the $4,000 Dorsey check have served
70 Keep colorado before the country this
winter. The Legislature did one other thing
this winter. 1t framed a new city charter
for Denver, whereby the limits are extended.
three new wards formed and new city elec.
| ton ordered for the first week In nril
They manage som bow to keep politics
going out here.
But there are other things moving besides
politics In the Rocky Mountain metropolis,
which, it is expected will make
ANOTHER LIVELY SEASON
for Denver. The winter ended a month 400.
and attention has been turned to spring and
tne demands OF that season. Among
the first projects to ripen is the
building of a new theatre, to be
known as the Academy of Music, which
Will be opened on the 10Th of April nv
the Madison Square Company in 0Young
Mrs Winthrop" On the 18th of June
Theodore Thomas will commence~a FIVE
days musical festival In the Tabor Grand.
"a afsark n
ever witnessed here. The second annual
mining exposition opens In the latter part
Of July and is expected to be more success
full than the first Tabor is still president,
Ard last, in August, the national encamu-
ment of the Grand Army of the Republic
assemblies here, another event which
will be the most immense in its
Great preparations are being made
by members of the Grand Army, business
men and the authorities The last Legisla-
ture appropriated $21 900 to help the cause
along. This ought TO be an assurance to
the ''boys" throughout the country that
they will be entertained In the most liberal
Western style and induce hosts of them to
come. There should surely be enough in
all this chain of events to make brisk sea-
son and an enjoyable one.
THE RAILROADS,
new and old, naturally form one of the most
interesting, as they do one of the most i'm
portant subjects in the West, and the progress
that Is being made is wonderful. One year
ago there was but one route to the Pacific
coast. 1t was by the Union Pacific and
SsptF5 s & ne nk5 81 t the
Pacific. But look what will be done during
the coming summer.
First and foremost, take the Denver d
Rio Grande. Its extension TO Salt Lake
Cffv haa haan ata
will be almost completed by the time you
get this. It will connect with the Central
Pacific at Ogden and with all the transmits
sion routes at Denver. 1t is an important
link for this reason: In less than year the
Central Pacific will need it badly
as an outlet to the east, while at this mo-
ment the Burlington needs 1t and is prepar
ing to use it for its traffic further west. 1t
will find plenty of work to do, will furnish
third ns-continental route, and in ad-
ditiOn will be the grandest scenic road that
has been or will be built
Next comes the Atlantic and Pacific.
This aoad will be complete from Albuquerque,
New Mexico, to the Colorado river, in Ari-
Eona, in six weeks, and will make the fourth
trans-contiDental route. The links from
the Mississippi to the Pacific are the st.
Louis q San Francisco, the Atchison, Topeka
u Santa Fe, the Atlantic & Pacific
and the Southern Pacific. This will be
from $50 to 300 miles shorter between St.
Louis and San Francisco than the Southern
Pacific by way of Deming, New Mexico. It
is the ambition of the A. & P. TO build an
independent route to San Francisco, but
when this will be done is yet very uncer-
tain.
And then comes the Northern Pacific,
about which SO much has been said, and
which has only about $50 miles of track yet
to lay in Montana, which it is expected will
haI IAp kt,t -
furthest. This is the fifth route and will be
one of the greatest.
Last, yet almost the most important, is
the Union PaciAc's own extension-the
Oregon Short Line, which runs through
Wyoming and idaho and connects with the
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company
at Baker City, Oregon, sending through
freight over the later road to Portland and
San Francisco. This road has already en-
tered into traffic agreement with the
Northern Pacific whereby the two roads win
be on amieable terms at least at the outset
The Union Pacific announces that
upon the completion OF It's new
line all through freight for San
Francisco from the east will be taken
via Portland, SO you can see why the Cen
tral Pacific will need n new eastern connec-
tion before long, which, fortunately for il,
is provided by the Rio Grande.
Here there are six routes nearly all of
which will be completed by the time 1884
reaches US, where there was only one when
1852 opened, and have not mentioned the
Canada Pacific at all. Here's advancement
that's worth talking about and pointing to
with pride. And look at the country
thus opened up, and think
what changes will take place in all these
sections In one year there will not ip
State or Territory between he Missouri
river and The Pacific that will not be crossed
By one or more trans ntintnlai routes.
Not one. IL il any uuuder inning. 4tiGn is
pouring inio this country aud IL is poir-
tYS. We'll, tlIe 81 huir thing ia IA Biltshttf is
simply this II ali ;hl fortunes OF he
West have been made I'm cleft"
The vanguard Of the coming SUNNI ..'s
IMMIGRATION
his moved, VA, l'-ad turned to IA new
Northwest. Bdkoia OH its eastern end. an
O'egon and Washington terrific IN The
western nave, thus lar got the nulk of H.
ana IL my opinion Will continue 10 ,i,,ssiIl .
suinmer'tnd most probably for .yerIl sue
ceedln1 summers. But all the + st arr. t-rl
tne the improvement. New Mexico 4 ,z,ul
ami oven Old Mexico are buoyaa' y itl
bright hopes for the future.
Prospectors, miners, cattle men n. .asure
seekers and tourists are getting re DIV Ia hit
out OF the cities in every direction, and the
air Is iuil ol the spirit of moving on.
Cos.
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