Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-15
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.

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communities the difference is not very
marked. But the church congregations are
as large and the edifices erected by the wor-
shippers are as imposing as those of the
older and more pretentiously pious East.
The main idea out there is that Sunday is q
day OF rest and mild recreation. In some
cities the clink OF the beer glass interrupts
the music; in some intoxicants are banished
from the pleasure resorts on week days as
well as on the seventh. In Seattle the SAL
walton Army has a commodious barracks
where on Sunday mornings a well drilled
band accompanies the singing of the male
and female warriors. This praise service
attracts saints as well as sinners Perhaps
1t amuses a few, but it also leaves an i'm
preston which lifts the thoughts OF the
many up to and beyond the stars. The SAL
vationists believe in much music and short
sermons, and perhaps that accounts for the
growth of the army there and elsewhere.
USED to regard Denver as q wicked
city. But it isn't. Its churches are magnif-
cent architecturally and many cathedral
like in proportions. Its public schools are,
at least from q structural point of view,
handsomer than our own. Its residences
are palatial and modern. Each wealthy cat
tleman. mine owner, merchant smelter mil
Honaire, all, have been and are now, striving
to eclipse the other in the home-nest line.
The result Is q picturesque diversity of de-
sign, modern-built residence section, an
architecture that is imposing, striking and
not at all monotonous. This, too, within q
few years. saw where the last house stood
only ten years ago on the outskirts of its aris-
tocratfc section. Now it is not very far
from the center of population. The
rapid growth is shown by the fact that the
hY1S1d non
and in 1890 they reached nearly $l3, ,OOO, 900.
Metropolitan blocks and many beautiful
residences have been erected within the
past two years. Denver is not hampered by
Blue Laws, but no liquor is sold on Sunday
there. Over the River Platte, in public gar
dens laid out by private enterprise, summer
theaters are well patronized seven days in
the week. In one the geological collec-
tion, walks, hooks and amusements are in
structive ana restful. In the other boating,
fishing, music and an opera entertain goodly
throngs made up of young and old. No,
Denver is not as wicked as we OF the East
imagine. Its churches, schools, libraries,
hospitals, ETC., prove this.
You readily realize that you are in the
vicinity of mines and minerals in that
mountain-surrounded, levellying, balmy-
aired metropolis 1t is the greatest smelt-
ing point in the world. Its three principal
smelters turn out about s25. .000, 900 worth or
bullion yearly. The Omaha and Grant is
doubling its capacity, and has almost COM
pleted the erection of stack which will be
the highest in this country, and only four
feet under the highest in the world. Around
the big base of this new works will be
erected. The superintendent told me this
would give them a capacity that would
q 0f oil har1t
annum. Last years footed up in round
numbers 81. 100000. 1 spent half a day in
this vast plant, whose cinder heaps, the ac-
cumulation Of only 10 years, are larger
than those of many of Pittsburg's far older
cOal-consuming mills. l saw there vast
banks of ore that were carefully built up
from the products of many mines. From
their strata-def1ned sides workers filled bar
rows weighed their loads on automatic
scales and dumped them at the mouths Of
fiery furnaces. All had previously been
tested to a nicely, so as each car lot of pre-
cious metal would average up rightly and
mix properly with the whole. The process
to the uninitiated is very like pigmetal-
But the mind wanders to the rugged
rich hills and the looker-on mentally calcu-
1ates the wealth in the ore heaps and in the
molten streams OF gold, silver, copper and
lead, and builds air castles-and perhaps
envies.
THERE'S check for 81, 100 for you out
in that red box" said the superintendent to
the gentleman who had piloted our party
the works. "Well, won't hasten
the mails, and guess it'll Keep" replied the
mining man. The check represented the net
proceeds Of his last car OF ore. "If silver
wasn't SO low that check would be larger,
wouldn't it7" smilingly quizzed the superin-
tendent. And then the talk drifted to the
silver blll and 1 heard some hard kicking.
''Still, I'm satisfied" said the MINER "I've
made my property pay as it goes. have put
a good deal in development but it all came
out of the mine, and some handsome profits
beside. I'm going to put in q hoisting engine
and erect some ore houses, so as to work all
next winter. You see look ahead and pre-
pare for emergencies. All will be paid for
rom the ore. Why, sir, nearly all the
mining failures are due to lack of foresight
Ind bad management. 1 can show |
you where expensive machinery has been |
put on top of ground before q dollar was |
placed beneath it. That is, they mistook a |
prospect for mine ana got the worst of it, |
Develop first and buy the machinery as it's |
needed and you'll get there every time, |
of course the mineral is good. 1 |
1uow mining, especially silver mining, has a |
ook over the list of non-dividend and assess
observation-disclosures in the main
iue to bad management and the idea of the |
tenderieet that mineral can be picked up
easily from the surface" The superfntend-
mt said amen to the miners enthusiastic
,ration.
BEFORE sunset / went to the dome of the
Mining Exchange and my eyes were directed
o cle:ts in the high hills miles away where
mall towns and mining camps we're
ocated. The nearness of the noun
aims recalled the story of the
rrigating ditch, and it seemed not SO
lard to believe. There learned that
Iong's Peak is higher than historic Pixies;
hat Denver is pretty city to look down
lpon; that the sulphur fumes from the smell
ers are oppressive; that the smoke will
DON be q nuisance: that slight uplifts on a
lain look like goodIy hills; that few Of
he high Office buildings are tenantless; that
he new town sharply contrasted with the
Id. Then I shook hands with some kind
nd hospitable ones and a few hours af-
erward sweltered in q coach where the
thermometer register ed 1920.
"I WISH was at North Cape, Alaska"
aid Chicago tourist as he mopped his
To"hcu ou1 peiSpifihS i1Co' lhcIc ibo |
ool and nightless now. I could only desig-
ate noon from midnight by the meals they
erved on the steamer-warm by day, cold
y night, you know, for the cooks must rest.
tell you that's the place for brain-fagged
mortals. When you can't
leep why you can get up and always find
ompany. It's like taking a daylight nap
7hen you feel like it." And l, too longed for
he ice, and the snow, the trees and the
hade-the cool. refreshing, balsam-scented