The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-08-07
AS SEEN BY SINCLAIR
The Alderman from Fourth
Ward Writes to the BaZoO
from Colorado.
He Wishes His Colleague, Mr..
Landes, Gould Inspect the
GEORGETOWN Water
Works.


GEoRG ErowN, Col, Aug. 1, 1SS3:-We
left Sedalla ON Monday morning at 4: 30
in a drizzling rain which continued unl,i
after We passed Topeka, Kansas. All
Eastern Kansas had been drenched with
rain, and along the entire length of the
valley OF the Kansas river the crops of all
kinds were simply immense.
This was my first visit To the plains, and
| find myself very much disappointed in
the character of the country, 1.-The great
American desert" had expected to see
a territory the surface of which was COW
cred with alkali and scalev stones. But
all along the valley Of the Sm, Ike Hill
river stock ranches are being established !;
the stock looks we'll, and some of the land
was in cultivation. / confidently believe
that before many years elapse some means
viii be devi.et to irrigate that country,
and il will then he made productive by
cultivation. The soil is certainly superior
t. that north Of Denver, where fine crops
of wheat, oats, barley aud potatoes are now
growing.
A dense fog enveloped the whole noun
tain scenery, when, On approaching Den
Yer, We should have obtained an excellent
view OF them But yesterday after leaving
Dsnyer for this town, We SOON found our
selves 1T the mouth Uf ll.ar Creek canon.
Here We stop at the busy mining town Of
Golden. This is town Of 5000 innabit-
ants, and here is situated the State School
ot mines, also large smelling works. The
Duilding If a railroad through Clear Creek
canon was most wondei full feat of engi-
neering. Imagine yourself at the
bottom Of guich which Is ten to tw. niy
feet in width, with Clear creek, a moulr-
tain stream plunging along on one side OF
it and the railroad on the other side, and
the mountains on either side, rising hall
mile high, and some of the way nearly per-
pendicuIar, The cars occasionally running
under projecting rocks, and for twenty
miles the grade being nearly ole hundred
feet to the mile, and in that twenty miles
scarcely road that is straight the Icing h
OF train, and you Will have something OF
an idea OF railrOading in Clear creek canon.
The engine turns a short curve TO one side,
aud before the hind car gets fairly turned,
the engine is turning around sharp point
of rOcas on the opposite side. But each
turn of the road awakens new beauties and
presents a new picture from the one pre-
ceding it, until We cut "bar" torn up by
gold seekers, and soon find ourselves at
Idaho Springs.
This is noted watering place in the
mountains and Is largely patronized by
western pleasure seekers. There are good
bath houses and swimming pools. all en-
closed by substantial stone building.
Near this place are Chicago Lakes" the
scene of Bierstadt's famous picture "a
no u oh Mnuuf..pa
From this point dumps" begin to dot
the slope oil the mountain, and the gaping
porlsls of the silver miles are seen upon
every hand.
We soon pass Empire, the center of
mining district md roll into Georgetown,
The present terminus oil the Colorado Cen
trail railroad.
This is The center OF large, rich mining
district, and lies in gulch between two
high ranges Of mountains, is a prosperous
town OF about four thousand inhabitan,s
and has many modern improvements, and
the best water works that have ever seen,
not excepting New York itself. / am sure
il would gladden. the heart of Alderman
Landes to See this. How it is CONSTRUCTED d,
and by what system operated.
Well, this Is the system. Clear
creek comes down a gulch Of the same
name, and runs through she town on the
east side Two hundred feet from the first
water plug or cut off in the town, a reser-
vOir and dam We're constructed at the ex-
pense OF about $500 From this six inch
C ist iron pipe rims into the city, and In the
first two hundred and fifty feet there is a
fall OF one hundred and thirty feet, and the
fail increases in about the same ratio for the
next three hundred feet, SO that by simply
araching hose TO fire plug the pressure
is Sd great that ii throws water several
feet over the highest buildings. And this
water is so perfectly pure tnat druggists
20 use for distilled water. 1t is all snow
water, and as cold as one desires to drink.
This creek furnishes sufficient water for
= Town of fifty thousand inhabitants.
To-day we visited Green Lake, a small
body OF water about one NILE in circum-
feraDce and lying in little basin in the
ten thousand two hundred feet
above sea level and several hundred feet
higher than Georgetown, and only two and
bne-fourth miles distant therefrom. the
water Is of greenisb cast and similar in
color to the Gulf stream in the ocean.
IL Is said TO be more than one hundred and
fifty feet in depth and is we'll stocked with
trout. Near this and between
the same mountains is "The battle ground
Of the GODS" the most wonderful and ma
iestic OF all of Natures works that / have
ever seen. Between the bas of the noun
tsins on either side at . distance of about
ive-eights of q mile this battle ground
gradually declines for about fifty feet to
The center, and is made up of at least ten
aifieren; kinds of granite boulders from the
'ize of hen coop to that of all the houses
you can see in Sedalia, and underneath all,
clear, shallow water is standing.
Tomorrow We start for Middle Park
and Bear river, q hundred miles beyond,
down the western slope. E. VS..
Flies and Bugs.
Flies, reaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice