New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-10-05
IN THE ROCKY FOUNTAINS.
GAME ABUNDANT-THE CoN-BoY-sILvER MINING
THE AIR.

O.
THE AIR.
TO the Editor OF The Trtbune
SIR: Having almost finished my summers
vacation high up smong the Rocky Mountains on the
Pacific slope, send you line or so lust to give you
few OF my impressions. Strangers always have u I'M
learn some things in any part of the Rocky Mountain
region FIRST, they lind the better informed and
more orderly than they had imagined. Here. arf I'm
other new. hasybuit mining towns where have BEEN
found ~ quiet orderly and sunday-respecting com
nunities a. anywhere in the East; men. women aud
children dress Sundays with much neatness and
taste as In communities century old.
Then there the so-called COW boys" whose cH-
polts ia the Imagination Of Eastern juveniles have been
those only of robbng United states mats or scalpng
10 the poor INDIAN This Il most unjust. True, when
settlers cabin OF an unprotected camp has beer pndcd
nv Redskins who somehow want to get even win
Uncle SANS Indian agents. these brave cowboys
eagerly saddle and strndlc their feet bronchos ana
scatter them In all directions at least as many of them
rs escape deadly aim Of their Wnchcsrrs and re-
peaers That done these stnbrownch and eXtempor-
Ted warriors return pcacrlbly each one Ia his ranch
Another retcs Mt night 20 hs log cabin smokes his pipe
and scans the latest ART, ed NcwYorh paper just i've
or ak days Od-o are the values ~ mining or railroad
stocks grain and beef to know what the chances
~ Gordon IN the Soan. the French IN china, ~ Bnine
on cleveland IN the Presidential race.
Another fnliary MANY come here belle, Ing that bears
elh and deer are numerous and accommodating that
nh the sportsman has 10 0 Il to had ga to his bach
window and shoot them. Three such sponsmen went
ont for three or four day hunt lately They pitched
their tent made IRE o hecp them watm over nisht,
ttanpei an nest day we'll nrnei, lost the trail. got
,etIhls scared nr feai they would not Nnd ther vav
home nean saw nu heht ella hprr ~ nht kind ~ sie
in fact nothing that had fn hat the swAtma ~ nnsnl-
hts. which had ,ett much lite. nave lrmhrd huW
Sg na '" " ,gs "" "S m WV G III s,,al. wNon se
tate the breakfast thhlp ~ ihp huiel thhi ihppis 49,
apnfpitt at auph r,eaiiica Ia rri'nin ilarus ,.
thla liitin valley elevated shm irti hhntr the spa
ln, Ga tnph ibs,hps mahi nihr NhllMs w hn hnNhha
n Ia surrounded hN beautiful nihlls Whlui hir lnNtln
nstit Win .lass and viii huAeis ei fieh and tniAi
anu,s With patches uf de,htunas treos. iuhihd tho
fOnlhs rise husu nnhr ahd slehhe lwhh, Mhnan slns
for long distance npWa'd ara hoht studded VITA rihe,
apIuue and 0thor oNuIerrnhs ash whose f"hA ahd pc
cipluu, summils are even nov IA 0tlltmhof pdllalb
covered with last winters snow. "A Wro, ml windows
look ou on oole ol suoh peaks shch bring constantly
Ia mind the Alpine scenery which once Thought hh no
onger thiuk the granle,t ia the world These
TALLY mining relons-syer and coal chiefly ahd what
especially takes The attention Of the stranger Is Tue mum
Der OF opening or holes at all elevations nhd Ia al ue
lions; some 80 high the valley that IMAM looks
like speok soon lac hears Of an accident or more
miners killed by gas or hre, or ny cave IN Ia
point of hrathfulneSs tho ali u doubtless all mat Is
claimed for H. oI It's drying ana t'apoIaLhS power Is
wonderful Ny sick daughter Hes III bed WIN me WIZ
dow open night and day and this dry. liiegivlng air
blowing III upon her The temperature through august
and scpte nbcr thus far has been that OF our clear
yember DAYS. The In winter are sometimes
very decu deep enough smash IN the roofs 81 many
delcaely con ructc dwellings and there arenot Few
OF telegraph poles one OF the hrs questions asked ~
the new visitor he strains his ana bends ms meek
looking at those up holes In the face almost OF prec
nccs i how are Ic mines reached and how Is the ore
brought down He il then pointed 70 long tidh Oh
bnrros donkeys which arr patiently pioddlng ther
narrog way up and around those heights IN zgzas iec-
lions with great packs their sides and backs what
have they in those packs Why bedding clothing; pro
visions, cooking utensils for the mines. Now see these
same burros coming down with SACKS hIed Win SIN yer
ore worth perhaps, two, three, nve or ten thousand
dnIl,rs Nor ton j.. NJ
crested Bute COT. sept. II. 1884