The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-13
Which Promised Business, But
Which Did Not Pan
Out.
A Brother of Mayor Crawford
the Founder of Steamboat
Springs, Col. A Place
of Promise.

Il
have not heard word from deacon
Dinwiddie" since we left him at Sa.
Ida. Where or how he is we cannot
say. After leaving GIenwood Springs
We came back to Russell and found a
party Of ten seated in wagons and
ready to start for Steamboat Springs.
We get into one. an ordinary farm
wagon, and, seated ON a trunk, we
joIted and bumped for a day and a
half over mountains and valleys,
finally reaching this place at dark,
sore, sick, dusty, hungry and dis
gusted We passed through Egeria
park and Yellow Jacket pass. They
call the valleys ami small openings
between the mountains, parks. Usu-
ally the small parks have enough
trees to entitle them To be go named,
but E geria park is simply long val
ley between two ranges of noun
tains.
1t is well settled, all the good
ground susceptible of cultivation be-
ing taken up. This is true of all this
country We have seen. The first
consideration is water, for usually
everything must be raised by irrigs-
ton. But on these ranches, as they
are called, all produce is very high.
Oats are selling now at 4 cents a
pound, potatoes 3 cents a pound, eggs
IS cents a dozen, hay So a ton.
Everything is sold by the pound, and
at prices that would make our farm
ers happy. After crossing Yellow
jacket pass We enter the valley of the
Yampa river, as shown by map; Bear
river they call it here. From where
We enter tine valley, all the way west
to Salt Lake is a wide, we'll settled,
productive valley. Steamboat Springs
is about ii miles from Yellow Jacket
Pass and about 20 miles from the
head of Bear Greek. The stream is
a clear, bold, swift mountain stream
and is filled with brook trout. 1t is
easily waded at the rifles with hip
boots and is so easily fished that a
sportsman need not want better sport.
The town is located on the north and
east side of the stream and between
the foot hills and the river. The
south end of the town is bounded by
a brook called Spring Creek. The
north end, by Soda Greek. There
are probably fifty houses, including a
hotel, boarding house, restaurant,
two printing offices, a drug store,
hardware store. general store, etc..
two physicians and one lawyer. MIR.
James H. Crawford, a brother of our
Honorable Mayor, is the discoverer
of the place. He came here in 1874
and was Sd pleased with the place and
saw in the splendid springs of mineral
water, such promise of remuneration
for bis work, that he went back to
Missouri and brought out his family
and located here. He organized
town compsny, applied to the U. S.
Land office and had the township sur.
veyed. The company had to pay the
costs of the survey, about 81 200. but
for it they received 800 acres of their
own selection of the land surveyed.
They located so as to cover the springs
and all the best land adj
joining the town. Mr. Crawl ord's
homestead is on a plstesu or "mesa"
overlooking the town. ALI this land
is now quite valuable and after
many years MIR. Crawford is realizing
from his patience and hardhoood.
Lots In the town are selling from
$500 down to 5000 a piece. The
springs are very numerous and the
water of many varieties. The first
one coming into town is a warm sui
phur and salt spring. 1t runs about
IS inches of water and the tempera-
ture is about 1899 Fab. The town
compny have erected a large and
bath house with bath tubs
and swimming bath and with hot and
cold water. The next and most val.
liable spring is Soda Spring. 1t is
at the north end of town, half a mile
from the hot spring. The wafer is
cold and clear, but the flow is slow.
1t tastes to me exactly like Congress
water.
Then around this are many other
springs. Salt, sulphur, iron, mag
nesia aud combinations of these differ
emit kinds, ali except the hot springs,
are within a stones throw of each
other. Out from under one rock pour
three streams so entirely different in
taste and temperature that you mar
vel al it. These springs must in time
become great resort for invalids.
When a railroad is built in here and
people can get off the cars at the
springs instead of travelling over
roads for soyontv p,iIoo In O