Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-02-04

are now taking in the West. The old gen.
tleman. Kimnins, stopped in Missouri to
see the country and some relations, while
Lock Kimmins pushed on to Denver, aud
is now out in the direction OF Nebraska
looking out some rsnching- property, and
dealing in stock awhile. Mrs. J. d. Whit
ham and daughter have gone up to James
town in the mountains, some fifty miles
from here, to visit her sister, Mrs. Glenn
ins, and gain strength from the mountain
air.
Pleasant Railroad Riding.
do not propose to write up Chicago,
Kansas City, or any OF the many cities
ard towns through which We passed-the
most Of them have already been written
up by the many correspondents Of the
REGISTER. Nor shall lputi' few lines OF
praise on the lines of railroad we rode
over. We paid oUI money aud tooa our
choice over the b X o. 10 Chicago, the
Great Rock Island Houte" to Kansas
CITY, and from there to our destination in
New Mexico by the Santa Fe route, with
sii run out to Denver by the Denver and
Rio Grande Our trip has been pleasant,
railroad officials kind and o1lgnr, If we
except the Denver and Rio Grande en-
picyes.
Lost Chances for Wealth.
Your correspondent visited Chicago sew
eral years ago and was offered lots for so
that are probably now worth as many thou
sand. Some time after he passed through
Kansas City when it was al under the hill
Al d compose ed of but few houses. Lots at
r,iaro m rho hill wDnIH have
been no object to him. In tifty-nine was
very home sick in Denver with not enough
money in my pocket to pay my way to the
States, yet enough to buy the beet 10; in
town and half the remainder OF the then
city" which | should have considered
bad investment. while | could have
squatted on much OF the now town site.
High Prices In HiHy Nine.
This was IN the days OF sGuatter sov
ereienty, when Colorado was included in
Kansas In looking some old papers over,
before starting, found letter addressed
TO me at Denver, Jefferson Territory.
The mail was then carried to US here by
the Central Overland Express Company,
ard cost US from 25 to 80 cents; and have
often walked forty miles to get my mail.
[ vas net an 1ious to get pocket-full. At
times got nothing. Then, again, what
got cost me enough to haye bought half
the present site OF Denver. Drinks we're
from % cents 10 III apiece, and bad whisky
at that. Much OF it would kill, in the thin
air OF the mountains Before the drtnkef
walked forty rods.
Ak;veIy Dcaas city.
They tell US that At this season Of the
wear Denver is dead" u 1t is dead now
it must he lively toSn when ii altains its
full vitality. Indeed there are many live
- a. hot upnnlh liEa have
some of the business Of this dead West
ern town.
Denver is truly an American city
Thoroughly so IN every respect. In push
snd enterprise it is ahead Of thcsgo and
with scarcely any immediate surroundings
or advantages OF trade as has Chicago. The
latter is built on a swsmp, Denver on
sandy plain nearly mile higher in the
air. One wonders as he travels over the
dry sandy plains where all the
cIue. oI IIse Desert
trade, thatthiS town certainly has, comes
from. But not only does this city OF the
mains have an immense trade, but we find
an ong the foot hills and far into the
mountains. where few years ago IL was
thought the winter could not be spent
Without Tisking life cities and towns with
their streets full OF people, and some oil
then, with court houses which would do
credit rs capitol buildings to msny State.
Mining, with little spr!nkling OF agricul
ture, and "tenderfset," with the capital
thrsy latter bring in keep the life in these
towrs And after ali agriculture is the
most sure and remunerat;ve on these
barren wastes" As the eastern farmer IL
apt 10 call them al first sight.
Will not BeiIrS G Their own Eyes.
What pleases the young msn from the
East when he first comes out here Is the
rusb of the business men. Everybody
St, ms TO have money, and the vdstnes' OF
the country with its extended and magni.
lC,Dt views, scenery, climate, etc, intoKi-
csle Kim. The Older persons coming here
rrd the change too great II is too great
break uron their humdrum Eastern lie,
and they cannot or will not believe their
own eve. Tell them thst these tow0s
have mosr iy grown in less than seysn years;
Lst yOu can get better meal for y Cents
in Denver than in Pittsburgh; that yon
bullock was fed on nothing but what he
rss ni,ked up off the Great American
Desert"
Storms and snow-slides.
AsIwas leaving your city with It's. t~o
loot OF snow two weeks ago was told there
was eight feet OF snow in Denver. The
well informed individual meant pstch.or
two OF snow eight feet wide, as thst is
ABOUT the tIttut Vi IL. bANc pcEh AVA"
end in the mountains week. TO an eIavs>
ton of near 5000 feet. It showed q. little
one day, otherwise the weather has, been
uniformly pleasant enough for the most
| delicate infant They do have storms
| here. inst enough TO enable one n, appre-
| ciate the pleasant weather. I will say that
before starting West though. ! should be
little chary sto1t going into the
| hnt have
scarcely seen enough snow 10. enable q
| school boy 10 form q snow man. Lnere
| NAV Re more over the mountains like the
mosouito and milk sickness a In6asna,
none inst here but very bad oRsr yonder.
Mistakes or susiaesx Mon.
The mining industry is seithes on Q
boom DOR is il dead. although Eisteyn c,pi-
| tai is more chsry about gong into mines.
| What an amount Of fsolishness many an
| Eastern business man exhibits in mining
| ustters. He buys his mine-I shall not
| follow the process in which bis brain seems
| to have been completely turnsd-ths Veia
| OF metal Is, ssy, Is inchsetAick. Pieces are
shown him with gold and silver showing
| ON them. and assayipg into the thousands OF
| dollars be seems TO conclude that his
whole vein, or lode. 10 Of that richness.
| and he "fsures'' on il. Oh, he can do IL;
/ he has spent his life ansona bgures- claim
1900 II. Iopg-10 q. vids-with an s in.
| vein rusning through IL and there may bs
| o.ber veins in that I53 f. Assays $4,000 70
the ton: foot down weighs 50 many ton1,
ard be puts 10 down to fine poi,t SenAs
his Eastern supsrin tendent ont, and have
| vet 10 find man to say that sr%erintsnd-
ent fresh from The east has beea suecees.
Oh miners msks enosgh nistskss, bat
ttese eastern men seem 70 be all mistakes.
Wrecks Of Mining Easerppisss
l As one travels through the mountains
and mining esmps he sees ,cores, yes. hun
drsd, OF deserted enterprises mills. mines,
snd mining machinery. Hundreds OF IONS
of the latter-of the most costly kind
nearly all the result sf iueIperienee and
business methoda Many o. those which
! should have been Tie life OF the mining
camp has been the death GIFT
RoFtunes In Aasteuitase
While these wrecks ef mining sdventur'
sre many. those OF agriculture, snd par
ticularly rancbing. are fsw. man viii
81. .OC0 can do more in rsnching. am jus
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