Evening journal., 1892-10-31

"Don't moUe. Mr.. BGrtels, you look so
comfortable"
the rolling plains at the east Scattered
along the creek above the smelter were
many bare, unpainted 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 degree that had
never been contemplated, the processes
had, one by one, been abandoned for the
time, and the inventors were now gen
orally gone east looking for capital to
push their schemes to success. When
they came back, it was confidently pre-
1icted Of each by his friends. Orodelphia
was going to have a 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 oamazingly 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 -four
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
monopoly of it had been granted them;
and there prevailed the usual superb con-
fidence in 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 romisingly
frowned 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
rs il 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 cany m II was an anomaly
among mining towns in that it had been
encouraged to grow as beautiful as na-
ture. aided by all the arts of cultivation.
could make It. The most sanguine pros
hector mad 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 dra-
pery of pines and dotting spearheads Of
kprlice We're left alone. since no gaping
shaft nor tuanel was opened to swallow
mn rhe timber One Of the first moves
of the early settlers had been to bring
water from the mountains in generous
irrigatias bitches to water the cotton
wood trees that. with holnesick memo
ries Of eastern elins they planted al
over their bare town: and now the tall
trees nodded TO each other Ecross the
broad streets. and iuxuriant lawns and
gardens surrounded the comfortable
homes. lavishly doing all that nature
might 10 condone the redundance Of
scroll saw decoration and the glare Of
white paint and green blinds
With all its jostling eagerness to keep
abreast Of the times Orodelphia still
hung back in respect to that style of ar
chitecture known as Queen Anne, With