The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-21
THE FIRST SUCKER.
A Salt Laker Fails to Bite at q
Trinidad Bait.
A LONG AND BROAD PICTURE.
Drawn in Texas, Where the Chickens Roost
High, Because Of the Color Of
the POpulace.

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Correspondence of THE HERALD. l-Of
course, everybody knows that Denver is
quite town-it is more than that; in fact,
it is city, and every indication points to its
being large one, at no distant date. saw
several magnificent blocks-eight and nine
stories Highland was told of fabulous
prices being paid for land. Real estate
men are plating off land into subdivisions,
ten miles from the city; but then you know
every man in Denver pulls for Denver, and
railroad managers have learned that, too,
for when railroad business begins to hurt
Denver, the business men Just raise
cyclone, and something gives very sud
denly.
Trinidad is quite
A TOWN OF HILLS AND Wales,
mostly hills, except the business portion of
the town. There are some very handsome
buildings there and business seemed to be
in very healthy state. Quite large
amount Of coal is shipped from there and
several railroads are working the different
mines. They have one thing here that you
have in Salt Lake city-the Salvation
Army; and, bye-the- bye, there is plenty Of
"hard' material for them to work amongst.
Any real estate men? Well, l should say
so. 1 had hardly got down from the bus
when one of the gentlemen wanted to know
which part of town l wished to invest in.
When informed that that was not my line,
he seemed quite astonished to think any
person should visit the town and let the
opportunity pass of making fortune. In
TACT, he was SO persevering that l was at
last forced to ask prices, etc ''Wen,n he
said, II have some few places on Main for
81 900 front foot, but two blocks away,
well, can sell for $3.50, and don't you leave
town without taking some Trinidad dirt
with you" told him would not, since he
seemed so anxious, and asked him if he
would kindly get me some in an envelope.
so could experiment upon it to determine
how large my investment should be upon
my return. was real sorry l said it when
SAW THE TEARS ROLL DOWN
his brazen cheeks, but it was beyond recall.
made peace with him, however, by saying
l would hold him with kindly remem brance.
Poor man; it was the first sucker he had
come anywhere near landing since New
Year.
The Texas plains are very plain-I mes
they are not ornamented with hills and
mountains like Utah. The view one gets is
like large broad long picture-without
any frame-ln fact, you can look out of the
car window as far as you can see, then shut
your eyes, rest reopen them and COM
mence where you left off to see the far end
OF 1t. There are some fine farms, however
In passing one Of them, | remarked to a
fellow passenger that this looked liked one
OF the farms had heard of but never seen.
where the farmer starts from the house in
the morning with the plow, and he gets
around the piece of land by dinner time, so
he nlOyV two FIN. IL,
THE GENTLEMAN SMILED,
Gt is habit they have down here and re
piled that the plowman on his piece of land
would do well to make the round trip in a
week | asked him the length of his farm,
and he told me he had eiehty-five miles I'M
der fence; that his neighbor, Mr.. S. D.
Burnett, of Decatur, has 400, 900 acres under
fence, and Mr.. Wagner, of the same town,
has 5OO,0OO acres under fence and 10000
head OF cattle. l held my breath, took a
drink of water, and paused to think. l
came to the conclusion that if the views of
these men were as broad as their ranches,
they must be intellectual giants, and l felt
myself very small; fry, Weber fry at that,
so / took consolation in ordering nv dinner
from the porter on the buffet car. and Il
fine spread he gave me-so fine in fact. that
had TO hunt all over the plates to find
what he had placed there
Fort Worth is a town of about So 900 in
habitants (three-fourths colored); some
handsome blocks that would be credit to
your city The main streets are about
sixty feet wide, with sidewalks twelve feet.
The side streets running from the main
streets are about forty-tive feet wide with
sidewalks ten feet wide. The business CT
the town seems very healthy, but all the
citizens of Fort Worth are for Fort Worth
first last and all the time. A large consen-
ton of caStlemen is now being held here,
and all the hotels are packed full In fact,
your humble servant had to rustic 50 find
any kind Of place to lay his weary head
At one time, it looked as though he could
not succeed, but would be compelled to
roost with the chickens. I that case
should have roasted high-in country
where there are so many colered people I
see in Utah you have the Devils Slide and
Devils Gate, but you cannot boast over this
place, for here they have a whole half-acre
of he'll, at least they call it ''Hell's Half
Acre" and l presume, from the name, it
must be pretty tough. l find the respect
able citizen hardy pioneer-but will write
you more of them when better acquainted
FROM HOME FOR NEWS.
But you have to go from home to get the
news. While sitting in the smoker, 1 over
heard New York drummer blowing q big
trumpet fer your sister city, Ogden. He
said she was taking the shine out of Salt
Lake, and would outgrow her in a year.
Ogden, he said, was in the hands Of the
Gentiles; and there were already running
there in full blast two "good" sporting
houses, two gambling hells, and the night
he left COCKPIT was opened up with good
patronage Bob.
Mr.. A. T. Fields, one OF the leading
merchants of Colfax, Iowa, says that
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the best
cough preparation he ever used and recon-
mends it to all without hesitation. Sold by
Z. G. NJ. l. drug department.