Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-05-20
Editorial Correspondence From Col.
Orado's Most Interesting Sum-
mer Resort.
A Live People and Prosperous City
in Which q Saloon Does
4. Not Exist,
A Little Breeze Regarding the Ma
tiOnal Editorial Associations
" Transatlantic Excursion.


National Press association promises to
be of more interest, if that can be, than
any previous to it. The two vestibule
special trains of Pullman and Wagner
sleepers, leaving Chicago Monday night
via the Santa Fe route, contained about
400 editors from all over the eastern and
northern states, while a special from st.
Louis leaving at the same time contained
200 or more delegates from the southern
states. The rendezvous of the northern
delegates was at the palatial Auditorium,
Chicago, where every attention was paid
the representatives of the press by the
management. Fasteners who had never
seen this magnificent monument of
Chicago enterprise we're indeed surprised
and delighted, and efete Bostonians with
reluctance admitted that it knocked
'em out entirely.
We left Chicago at 8 o'clock, but ow-
ing to great floods in the vicinity of Joliet
and heavy rains throughout Illinois and
Missouri the two Chicago trains were
eight hours late arriving in Kansas City.
A couple of hours were spent IN that bust
ling city, and the, trains continued on
their westward journey, arriving here
last evening.
Eastern Kansas is a prosperous look
ing agricultural country. Good farm
buildings, we'll painted and fences in
good repair, tell the story. Western
Kansas presents a most desolate and de-
serted appearance. The towns, once
booming cities, are now deserted, the
farms abandoned and the country, ex-
cept in the extreme western portion of
the state, looks lonesome indeed, How
ever, the people are low more hopeful.
An abundance of rain last year broke
the long drouth period, and climatic
conditions thus far point to another sue
ceesful year.
The advantages of irrigation are ap-
parent in western Kansas and Colorado.
L talked with a man at La Junta, who
has charge Of the head gate to one of the
longest irrigating bitches in the country.
He told me he had a brother in North
Dakota, and expected to be up there
himself next year. His ditch is 116
miles long, and he says he keeps about
six feet of water in it all the time. This
irrigates a large valley, and it is indeed
IN 0ocio in tho 1ocarf Whoro vu,for an,
be had there are prosperous ranches and
monstrous crops every year. The cost
of irrigation is $40 per acre for a life
water right. The expense of. maintain
ing the bitches and keeping them in re-
pair is about So per annum for each
forty acres of land. Fruit trees of all
kinds-in some instances orchards CIV
ering forty acres can be seen-and I am
told three crops of alfalfa can be grown
on the irrigated land each year.
After riding over this great desert for
two days I am more and more impressed
with the fact that the "last of the public
domain" at least the last of the free
agricultural Domains in North Da-
kota. If anything will make a North
Dakota farmer contented with his lot it
is travel. L lave met many people on
this trip who have been in the Dakotas
and with but one exception all have Ok
pressed regrets that they over left the
land of No. 1 hard.
At Colorado Springs our party was
given a royal reception in connection
with that given the CHILDISH party
here to celebrate the opening of the
Printers Home, a magnificent structure
under the shade of Pixies Peak. By the
way, the season at Colorado Springs does
not begin until about June LIST, and there
being SO much snow on the mountain
the railroad line to the United States
Signal station at the top of this noun
tain is not yet open.. The Casino, at the
base of the mountain was open however,
and it was here the reception was given.
The famous Manitou Springs are only
about six miles distant from Colorado
Springs, and electric cars running every
fifteen minutes, makes it practically one
city. This is indeed, a beautiful spot, a
pleasant resort, and Colorado Springs is
of no insignificant commercial import
ance. 1t is arcity of about $4,000 and
growing rapidly. Its citizens are
wealthy, progressive and intelligent.
They are building for the future. The
streets are wide and lined with shade
trees. The buildings are modern, neat
and attractive, some ven palatial. There
are no saloons in Colorado Springs, and
no "blind pigs" It. is stipulated in every
real estate transfer that there shall
never be any liquor sold thereon. 1t ear
be purchased by the quart only, and at
drug stores regularly licensed. At the
old town, two miles away, however, the
streets are lined with dives, and there
exists a picture of ~frontierism. The adj
vantage to Colorado Springs proper OF
prohihltionis apparent. I found no one
who desired a change. The business
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