The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-05-15
DENVER.
A Thunder Storm in the Rockies, Green and
Snake River ValIeys-The City OF Port
land and Some of IFS Natural
Advantages.

Advantages.
OLYMPIA, Wash, May 6.-(SbeciaI
C0yyesbOndence).-The. modern trav-
eIer who takes a seat in one of the
many palatial sleeping coaches or
chair cars owned by the Union Pa
cifc R. R. Co., and is whirled out of
Council Bluffs at the rate of forty
miles an hour, or who sits in a din
ing car and feasts upon the rich,
Juicy flesh of salmon not ten hours
out of the icy waters of Snake river
and growls at the colored walters be-
cause his sirloin stake is little over
done and coffee not quite to suit his
taste, can hardly realize that forty-one
years ago the weary forty-niner was
plodding along over the same trail
Then the adventurous seeker after
gold dust would occasionally satisfy
his appetite by corralling quantity
of grasshoppers, and after cooking
them upon hot stones, would pulver-
ize them in his Dutch oven or camp
kettle, and then damnIng his luck
and everything within hearing,
would swallow his succulent and
glutinous meal with nothing for a
desert but good appetite. My aes-
thetic and accomplished friend, you
who are feasting in the southwest
corner of the dining coach with a
bottle of California wine on your
right hand and steaming slrlotn
outlet on your left, do you compre-
bend the fact that just forty one years
ago to-day, in the very spot where
you are now sitting, your scalp with
what little hair there is on top of it,
would not be safe for twenty-four
hours. N070, you growl at the wait
er because the service does not quite
please you; then you would have
considered a bull frogs hind leg a
delicacy, and glass of California
wine drink fit for the gods. Presto
change. Then is not nO70, and the
iron wheels of modern commerce are
rolling over the dead supremacy of
the past.
Julesburg yells the brakeman,
and the engineer halts his iron steed
in a small cattle town made famous
in the early sixties by one of the
most remorseless and bloodthirsty
band of scoundrels that ever infested
the R. R. towns of the far west.
These men, in many respects, were
extraordinary characters. Many of
them were men of education and re-
fnement with broken fortunes to
mend, but lacking the safeguards
that society and the laws of the state
had thrown around them in the east:
they soon became more than reck-
less. Life TO them was worth but
little and the music of the variety
concert and the crack of the pistol
were familiar sounds in Julesburg.
But all this is changed. The vigil
lantes hung up score or more, and
the balance were either killed in
personal quarrels or persisted on the
plains or in the mines The Union
Pacific has branch line that runs
into Denver from this point. From
Julesburg the ascent into the noun
tains is gradual, so much so that the
tourist is surprised when he arrives
at Denver to learn that he is nearly
1000 feet above sea level. Denver
is typical American city, and for
the number of inhabitants is one of
the most business-like and progress
i've cities on this continent. 1t has
population of $50, 900, electric lights,
cable and electric street railway and
U. S. mint, besides being the capt.
tai of the State. The city is fur
nished with artesian we'll water of
excellent quality. Vegetables, grain
and alfalfa are raised in the vicinity
of Denver. Without irrigation, how
ever, the raising of vegetables ard
cereal crops would be a dismal fail
ure, and for this reason farming in
the vicinity of Denver never will be
great industry. Stock raising, the
smelling of ores from Gunnison and
the Leadville mines draws into Den
yer an immense amount of capital
Eastern investors of capital are here
by the hundreds looking for oppor-
tunities to purchase Denver real es-
tate. Inside lots are held at high
figures, and all the outside property
available has been purchased and
such investors are hanging on for
dear life and booming the city in
their own Individual interest. Not
withstanding the fact that Denver is
conceded to be one of the healthiest
cities in the west, she has the largest
graveyard in proportion to the num-
Der of actual residents, of any city in
the United States. This can be &C
counted for perhaps by the fact that
thousands of tourists visit Denver
annually, and while the climate of
CCloro6n &c ,1pn,acfiop n 1v beneficial