Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-04
OUT IN COLORADO.

WINS dtAtAHoi
scribes Her Trip.
To the E,liior Of The Sunday Register
DENVER, Colo, June 25.-We left our
delightful mountain resort, a few days since
for short stay i'll beautiful Denver, and
how beautiful it is with its broad, clean,
level streets, bordered on either side with
stately, luxuriaRt trees. TO the west we
have an unbroken view of the Rocky Noun
tains for three hundred miles, with Pixies
Peak in the south, and Longs Peak in the
north, and all it's intervening air, cleft by
peak ON peak. The foothills are fifteen to
twenty miles away, yet they seem but a
morning walk, ut fartheSt not over two
miles away The Snowy Range, in full
view seem not over half days walk, it
is sixty to hundred miles west of the city.
The atmosphere is so pure and clear that 1t
seems to annihilate space, and bring far
away objects so full to view. Denver now
has population of seventy-tive thousand,
and is one Of the greatest railroad centerS
in theWeSt. Nine roads already center here
and radiating to all parts OF the United
States, give Denver unsurpassed facilities
for trans-cOntinental traffic. We have here
some of the finest public buildings and
residence houses TO be found anywhere, and
the Labor Grand Opera House, erected at
a cost of $3.50, 900 and which is the finest
building of its kind in America, and in fact
has but one rival i'll the world, the Grand
opera House in Paris. Then We have be-
tween sixty-iiye and seventy artesian wells,
varying in depth from three hundred to
nine hundred feet, some of them forcing
the water to heighth OF 30 feet. The wa
ter from these wells is as pure Us II Is pos
sible 10 obtain il from natural sources,
while the one at the court house contains
medicinal properties Of great value, and us
the well was sunk Mt the expense OF
the county, the water is of course free
To all, and 90 there when you will, day or
evening, you will always find large numbers
of persons there, waiting their turn to drink
at this healing fountain.
Denver needs and can well support more
than dozen manufacturing establishments.
We have coal enough in the State to supply
the whole world with fuel for many centu-
rics to come, and the only anarthracite
found outside of Pennsylvania, and for the
water power artesian wells will supply that
We need ut least one paper mill, the various
printing and book binding concerns IN this
city alone consume about two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars worth Of paper an
nually, TO say nothing Of the large quantl-
ties of wrapping paper, rCOfingand building
grades used by merchants and builders.
Then about sixteen miles from Denver
il has been demonstrated that there are al
the essential materials for making glass, in
unlimited abundance, yet for the Lack OF
capital the field has never been properly
occupied | believe we have only one small
factory now, and il only manufactures bot
ties, while the plate glass business of the
city overreaches $50, 900 annually exclu-
siye of the cheaper grades.
And so it goes through the whole list OF
manufactured articles, we send east
for them all, paying freight over
hundreds of miles OF railroads,
while in many instances the crude material
is here in unlimited supplies, and needs
only the magic word of capital and enter
prise to supply the great demand of this
growing state, and the adjOing countries
of Arizona, and New Mexico.
Denver may well be called the city of
perpetual sunshine, when by looking over
the report furnished by the U. s. signal
observer at this station, we see that the
greatest average number of cloudy days,
for any one month, for thirteen years, was
only seven, and the smallest three, while
in some years in more than one month, the
record shows thirty summer days. Just
think of il, and imagine if you can, the joy
there Is in living in this sunny country.
And in the hot summer months, when the
heat is almost OverpOwering, if you can
get in the shade, it is very comfortable, and
there is always cool breeze from thesnow-
capped peaks of the mountains. And In
all Colorado, there has never beena case Of
sunstroke, the nights are 50 cool that one
gets thoroughly rested, and invigOrated, by
sleep balmy sleep. And think that in
the very warmest nights one needs a
blanket for covering
But in one short letter, / can only give
a faint idea of the many delightful at
fractions of this beautiful city.
MARGUERITE PATTERSON,