The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-07
A Clam.

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a genids oasis in the desert, with lts =
huge irrigating canals of mountain wat "
er running through the mighty wheat :
fields. glistening each autumn at the =
base of the range, affords a good !
deal that is curious, not only TO the
mind of the gentleman from the states'
but even to the man that lives at Chey-
enne. W. r., only few hours journey
to the north. ;
You could hardly pick out two cues
so near each other and yetso unlike as
CHEYENNE and Greeley. The latter is
oniet and even accused of being dull,
and yet everybody is steadily getting
rich. IL is a town of readers, thinkers
and mental independents. 1t is COM
nnsed of the elements of New Eng
land shrewdness and western push, yet
Greeley as compared with Cheneynne
would be called a typical New England
town in the midst of the active, huctu-
ating, booming west.
Chevenne is not so tame. With few
natural advantages the reputation or |
Cheyenne is that, in commercial par
lance. she is Il "a l" for promptness In
paving her debts and absence OF fall
ures. There is more wealth there IN
proportion to the number OF lnhaol-
tants than elsewhere in the civilized
world. no doubt. The people take
special pleasure in surprising eastern
people who visit them by a reception
very often that they will long remem-
Der for cordiallty, hospitality, and even
magnifcence.
Still didn't start out to write up
either Cheyenne or Greeley. IN
tended to mention casually DIR. Law ol
tbe latter place, who acted as my phy-
\ sic,an for few months and coaXed me
back from the great hereafter. had
heen under the hands of physician
inst before he was also coroner and
who. founa afterward, was trying 10
treat me professionally as long as the
. lamp held out to burn, intending AFTER
ward To sit on me officially. lie had
&c treated me professionally until he was
about ready to summon his faVorllt
= coroner's jury. The l got irritated ano
left the county Of his jurisdiction
Learning that Dr. Law was relyln'
solely on the practice of medicine for
livellbood, I summoned him, and attel
explaining the great danger that stoo'
Id in the way of harmonlzing the prac
lie, uce of medicine and the official Wort
a of the inquest business, | asked MIN
he had any business connection VIII
anv undertaking establishment or III
iacet business, and learning that he ha
none | engaged him to solder up ID
le- vertele and reoIganize my spinal I'll
ca plex.
Sometimes it isn't entirely the med
zine YOU swallow that paralyzeS pal
so much as it is the quiet magnetism
a good story and the snap OF a plea
n ant eve. Ihad one physician VINO Vrlt
u. to look Joyous when he came into u
room. but he generally asked me 10 ~
nv tongue out till be could see whe
II was tied on, then he would feel u
mise with his cold finger and time
with a six.dolar watch, and after th
he would write new prescription
horse medicine and heave slgh' 10
at me as if might have been
last time he ever expected to see me
n ..rth and then he would sigh ana
\ away, When he came back he gen
~ allv looked shocked and greved TO Il
me alive. This was the pro tem' phN
clan and ex-oflicio conroner. alWS
felt as though ought to apologize
him for clinging to life so, when
doubt he had the jury IN the hall WI
:, ing to "view" me.
III DIR. Law used to tell me of the ca
. history of the Greeley Colony ana
the original cranks Of the commui
uSed to be IN session most of the u
and how they sometimes neglected u
their planting to dolegislating, and
thew overdid the council work and
I'M lected to "bug" their potatoes, l
member, also, of his description OF
the crew, working on the original
irrigatlng canal, strunck when 1t 1t
about half done, and swore that I
the Poudre the ditch was going TO
up hill, and would, therefore, be a
M IRE. The engineer didn't know at
1'A' what was best to do with the bt
erent laborers, but finally he took
leader away from the rest of the
and said. "Now, tell you this in
6dence, because of course | know
fectly well that the stockholders
1.., kick on it If they hear it, but I'm
gas ING the blamed thing as level as
and putting one end of it in the Pt
and one end in the Platte. Now,
building it up hill the water |
down from the Platte into the TO
and if not, it'll run from the Po'
into the Platte. SabeT
,.u and The ditch was built, and now a
still rlver runs from Poudre t