Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-01-12

Don't mOUC, lIr. B0rtClS, UOu look so
 comfortable"
 the rolling plains at the east Scattered along the creek above the smeltcr were many bare, unpai ilted wooden structures, deserted and more or less fallen to decay. These had been concentrating and re- duction works, put mp for treating re- fractory ores after original and secret methods. The ores, however, having proved refractory to q degree that had never been contemplated, the processes had, one by one, been abandoned for the time, and the inventors were now gen erally 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, Orodclphia was going to have boom.
 Meanwhile it might have been ob- served that the town got along in con siderable comfort and prosperity without them. It had the electric light and the telephone; two weekly newspapers, each largely devoted to amazingly plain spoken vituperatiOn of the other; 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 Sa}oOnS CXuhrrantly flour ishing; and, iit,n%ly, us pittcd against them, as many church O" "lniZItiOns, all fervent in every good WUrl saYc 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 fidence in the future, when the embryo 4,D Jo 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 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 a l too servile imitation of the effete east, | and had so far been uncOmpr omisingly drowned down by the independent voter. They were wise ill thelr generation, | the pioneers who chose the site of the place, which, dependent upon the mines as it was, was yet a 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. It was au anomaly among mining towns in that it had beer encouraged to grow as beautiful as na ture, aided by all the arts of cultivation could make it. The most sanguine pros pector had never thought to ''strike it. in the precipitous foothills rising from the town at the west. No ugly excres cence of crumbling dump-pile marred the rugged brown slopes; and the scant drl pery of pines and dotting spearheads oI spruce were left alone, since no gaping shaft nor tunnel was opened to swallow l up the timber. One of the first move! l of the early settlers had been to bring | water from the mountains in geuerou. irrigating dltches to water the cotton wood trees that, with homesick memo ries of eastern elms, they planted al over their bare town; and now the tai trees nodded to each other across tho broad streets, and luxuriant lawns anC gardens surrounded the comfortabl, homes, lavishly doing all that nature might to condone the relundance O scroll saw decoration and the glare O white paint and green blinds.
 With all its jostling eagerness to keel abreast of the times, Orodelphia stil hung back in respect to that style of ar chitecture known as Queen Anne, witt all its vagaries of paint, the few speci mems they had to show in that line be
 ing generally regarded in the light o
 curios obligingly provided by eccentri
 individuals for the diversifying of tn
 landscape and the entertainment of thei
 fellows, the popular taste still fondl, clinRinR to the style of home most com