The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-26


These figures indicate something of tho
city's wonderful growth. We are now in a
condition to answer the question of any
young man. anxious to make his way in the
world: docs it pay TO go westp Well,
let us look at the reasons which make an
affirmative answer reasonable. In spite of
the great growth Of which we have
fancy. She is the fourth largest
state in the union, Texas being the first,
California the second and Montana the
third. She has only begun her career of
unexampled prosperity. Not thousaudth
part of the mineral riches stored in her 500
miles of rocky mountains has probably been
touched. Her climate, ranging anywhere
from an altitude OF 500 feet at Denver to
$1,000 feet, the altitude Of her highest peak,
will always attract vast multitudes from ali
over the world, persons afflicted with ner-
vous or pulmonary disease. In every group
of twelve men, there will be represented on
an average persons from nine different states
or countries. | have tried the experiment,
and it is amusing to hear the confession
come forth from each member of the group:
~ am from Maine,n 81 am from Ohio,n 81
am from England until almost every state
of the union and almost every civilized
country has been mentioned. All the world
and his brother are coming here. either for
the purpose Of his health or for the immense
business that is just in process of develop
ment.
DENvER's BUSINESS INTERESTS.
If l were asked to summarize the business
of Denver | would say, "Real estate and
mining interests" The real estate agencies
are about as numerous on the business
streets as liquor stores are in a mining
camp. We were 80 bewildered by the
various signs, and the column after column
In tha 6ailxy NJ unticac for tha Qa1a Of
lots and residences. that we took the trouble
to count the number OF these agencies in the
city directory, aud we found that there
were exactly 1926 real estate firms in Denverl
Property enhances in value while men sleep.
And this is the more astonishing since,
situated in the midst of a prairie, with
hundreds of miles of the same prairie land
on every side, save the side that faces the
mountains, aud, with cable roads reaching
in every direction, you would imagine the
city had indefinite chances of growth. And
yet real estate is undoubtedly the paying
business of Denver. Everybody, with any
money at all, buys little piece of treeless
prairie, holds it awhile, and in a few
months sells at an advance, and so the city,
like great octopus, stretches out its tenta-
cles on every side, and drags in every year
to its capacious NAV little more of Uncle
Sans big desert One peculiar feature no
ticed, but will leave its explanation to some
religious Denverite-that is, the number
of abandoned churches. Within three
blocks of the Albany hotel wero three such
desecrated buildings-one turned into the
hotel stables, another into blacksmith's
shop, and the third into a store. Whether
the congregations had outgrown them and
moved into more sumptuous quarters, or
whether mammon has the best of the day
and these churches have been entirely de-
serted, l know not; yet there they are
buildings once resounding with the praises
of God now turned over to secular uses-a
curious feature of this far western city.
We will not speak much Of the mining
interests Of the city, as we desire in future
letter, after we have visited and inspected
few more of the many thousand mines, to
devote q letter to "Mines and Mining in
Colorado" Under the kind guidance of
Mr.. William Haywood. the son of our es-
teemed fellow citizen Mr.. Alfred Haywood
of Savannah, we were shown over the large
smelling works OF Omaha 81 Grant, the
largest of its kind in the state. This young
gentleman came west only year ago, and
we had the pleasure OF dining with him and
his charming wife Whose mother was a Miss
Bond of Floridal under his own vine and
fig tree. His younger brother has recently
joined him, and he informed me that there
is no difficulty whatever in the way of any
honest and industrious young man obtain
ing lucrative employment in Denver. The
account of the smelling and assaying of
gold and silver ores, which we investigated
that afternoon, will come better in our ac-
count of the mines.
THE sNoW-CAPPED ROCKIES.
All these days, while we fingered in Den
yer, the white and snow-capped Rockies,
only sixty miles away, and forming the
western outlook of the city Of the plains.
scAt Isl
charm. At the hight of 5000 feet, so clear
and pellucid was the atmosphere, these
mountains looked as IL near at hand The
fable runs that an Englishman set out to
walk to them before breakfast. We did not
undertake to do this, but chose the Rio
Grande and Denver railroad as the easiest
way of reaching our destination in the
heart of the Rockies, some 300 miles away.
This line is without doubt the grandest
scenic line in the world, and it is a subject
of wonder that travellers speed through on
the Union Pacific, or else make the
fatal mistake of travelling by
night on the Rio Grande, when
the finest scenery in the world awaits him
who chooses the Rio Grande route and
travels only by day. Being forewarned,
made the first stop at Colorado Springs.
Here at this famous health resort, 1000 feet
high, where 5000 people come every year
the Garden Of the Coos, through whose i'm
mense portals one passes on his way tc
the summit of Pixies Peak. 1t has
TO be done at present on horse
back, but before July cog railroad will
| take visitors to the summit. This famou:
| Alpine peak of the Rockies lift'
| its snowy summit to the hight Of
| IA, 147 feet above the level Of the sea, an
altitude almost as great as that of Mont
Blanc. STANDING on the desolate, echolesl
| peak, the swift-glancing vision is servant oi
! all it surveys. l had not even imagined 9
wilderness of loneliness comparable with
the absolute desolation of this awful sum
| nit. stood for moment oppressed with
the majesty that enveloped me. You con
| template the mighty scene with admiration
and amazement. No human pen or voics
can word or write the wondroui
| spectacle. Mountains rise upon noun
tains, like heaving billows, and over
lap each other as far as eye can scan
and broad plains spread out below like a
shoreless sea. Beneath your feet wild
rabble of broken rocks, that seems tumblinl
| downward, noiselessly, forever into an un-
seen abyss, and mystery of somber forest
through which the untamed winds revel il
ribald har mony."
Those who would see the lovely and the wild,
| Mingled In harmony on natures face
| Ascent our Rocky mountains. Let my foot
| Fail not with weariness, for on their tops
| The beauty and the majesty Of earth
| Spread wide beneath shall make thee to forge
| The steep and toilsome way.