Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-18
COLORADO.
It's Products, Farms, and Mines---A
Peculiar Disease they Have Out
There.

IDAHO SPRINGS, COL, sept. d, 'S6.
To the Standard.
Josh Billings says it has been said
every dog has his day; but the trou-
BILE is there are more dogs than days.
l had began to think from the num-
Der of Western correspondents that
have recently made their appearance
in your columns, that / was one of
the unfortunate "canines" without a
day, but as my first letter found its
way into your columns, l will at
tempt a second one, and stick into
the beak of the pegeon of chance and
"let it slip"
1 am back again at these famous
Springs drinking as good water as
ever trickled down the thoracic duct
of any degenerate son of Adam, and
inhaling air as pure as Bob Taylor's
democracy. This little town is sur
rounded by mountain peaks from
1900 to 1000 feet high, there being
just room enough for two main streets
between these peaks for the town.
Every nationality on the globe seems
to be represented here, from the al
mond eyed celestial to the Mahome-
dan jew. The town generallyis very
quiet during the week; Sunday being
the big day with the merchants and
saloon-keepers. The stores and sa'
looms remain open on Sundays, and
the miners from the different mines
in the vicinity, that don't care to
work on Sunday, come to town to
trade, drink, and "paint the town
red" / saw on the streets, think,
at least so drunken men on one Sum
day, four of them got a carriage and
run the horses at full speed through
the streets for at least an hour. was
amused at one drunken fellow, run
ming a horse at break neck speed
through the streets, and in passing
residence, large dog jumped owe
the fence and took after the horse;
this enraged the fellow, and he under
took to run his horse over the dog,
and in turning the horse, he fell off
on top of the dog and frightened him
so he ran back into the yard. The
fellow then managed to get back on
his horse after several fruitless at.
tempts and rode off. The city mar.
shall, as usual, came along in a few
minutes and arrested the dog, (last
dame not vouched for). / have heard
more profanity since I came here
than / ever did anywhere else in the
same length of lime.
Colorado, from what l have seen O
it, | consider geographically and NOR
ally on the same basis. This littl,
town, however, is nc worse than any
other mining town in this country
There are a great many religiously
inclined people here. They have
four churches here, and som,
of them are well attended.
We had quite a number of distin
guished visitors here several day
ago; among whom were Gen. JOIN
A. Logan and wife, the governor o
Michigan, and other satellites. The,
came up on an excursion train, anC
only remained half an hour-ther,
was quite a rush tosee "Black Jack.
| went to the depot to see the General
as | feared that if he should learn
after leaving here, that ] was in tn
town and he did not get to see me h,
would feel disappointed. 1 would
have known him anywhere from
"Pucks" pictures Of him. He is
however, a much younger lOokin!
man than [ expected to see-he doe
not look to beover 40years old, whel
/ guess he must be at least 60, iudg
ing from the part he took in the re
bellion. Mrs. Logan is a fine, portl,
looking lady, and rather good look
ing. luu
l promised in my last letter towrit
something in regard to the farming
and mining interest in this State
From what / have seen of farming
here am unable to Judge of tn
State as a whole, but will write Q
that portion have passed through
The Eastern part Of the State belong
to that body of land, that was know
in our schoolboy days, as the "Grea
American Desert" This is now to
considerable extent being taken u
by farmers and ranchmen, and ther
are thousands of head of cattle herd
ing upon it. / have been told tina
by irrigating they manage to rails
hay enough to winter their cattle on
thus utilizing land that was one