Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-08-13

Don't nloUe, Mr.. Bdrtels, you TOOK 81
comfortable"
the rolling plains at the east Scattered
along the creek above the smelter were
many bare, implanted wooden structures
deserted and more or less fallen to decay
These had been concentrating and re-
duction works. put up for treating re-
fractory ores after original and secret
methods. The ores, however, having
proved refractory to a degree that bad
never been contemplated, the processes
had, one by one, been abandoned for the
time, and the inventors were now gem
orally gone east looking for capital to
push their schemes to success. When
they came back, it was confidently pre-
dicted Of each by his friends, Orodelphia
was going to have boom
Meanwhile it might have been OBJ
served that the town got along in CON
siderable comfort and prosperity without
them 1t had the electric light and the
telephone; two weekly newspapers, each
largely devoted TO amazingly plain spoken
vituperation of the other; a couple of
banks smoothing off the rough edge of
rivalry in their common cause of keeping
discount rates up to fifteen per cent;
half dozen saloons exuberantly flour
ishing; and, fittingly, as pitted against
them, as many church organizations, all
fervent in every good work save the one
of paying their pastors promptly. There
was the usual glorious Colorado climate,
of which the people were as proud as if
a monopoly of it had been granted them;
and there prevailed the usual superb con-
fdence ia the future, when the embryo
city, now only halting for capital to de-
velop its remarkable resources, should
rival Denver in size and importance. In
anticipation of these metropolitan pros
poets there had even sprung up of late
years a spasmodic discussion at election
times as to the propriety of barring cows
from the public streets and closing the
saloons on Sundays: but these extreme
measures were generally regarded as
too servile imitation Of the effete east,
and had so far been uncompr omisingly
frqwned down by the Independent voter.
> They were wise in their generation,
the pioneers who chose the site of the
place, which. dependent upon the mines
as it was. was yet little removed from
them all, in the narrow valley walled in
by mesas, just without the one natural
outlet to that section of the mountains,
Pinon canyon. 1t was an anomaly
among mining towns in that it had been
encouraged to grow as beautiful as ma
ture. aided by all the arts of cultivation.
could make it. The most sanguine pros
pector had never thought to strike it
in the PERCEPTIONS foothills rising from
the town at the west. No ugly excres-
cenceof crumbling dump-pile marred the
rugged brown slopes; and the scant dra-
perry of pines and dotting spearheads of
spruce were left alone. since no gaping
shaft nor tunnel was opened to swallow
up the timber. One of the first moves
Of the early settlers had been to bring
water from the mountains in generous
irrigating bitches to water the cotton
wood trees that. with homesick memo
ries of eastern elns, they planted all
over their bare town; and now the tall
trees nodded to each other across the
broad streets, and luxuriant lawns and