The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28
BILL NYE IN
A Young Mar with a Defective Perspec-
tiVe--At Last, Twas Not What It
Should Be-William is introduced
to Sir George Tart-Paddock.

SllOlIN d. Wv 1lllGlI1 IS LuJIOOuCEu
to Sir George Tart-Paddock,
Copyright, 1888. by Edgar W. Nye.l
COLORADO, March IA, 1898.
There is one popularity about this
country that I have never referred to
or described, and [ therefore take the
liberty of doing SO now, especially for
the benefit of those who may not have
travelled in this direction.
Irefer to the rarity and cleanliness
of the air, making distant objects seem
quite near by.
In thesmall but live prosperous town
Of Buckwheat, Pa, where the manager
said that he never saw such a refined
audience in the place as we had, we
were told about this popularity Of the
Colorado air.
BUckwheat has never had a boom.
She has had a constant, steady, healthy
growth and no s~etbacks-Or seteback,
l should say. Buckwheat is the county
seat, and l was asked to say a word
for her. cannot do otherwise. How
can I refuse to state publicly that Buck
wheat has never had a boom?
She has had q steady growth since
1926, when she had but Il house. In
1885 she had two houses, but this was
followed up by a terrible fire, quitting
in q few hours both houses and making
a perfect pandemOnium. She has
steadily grown from that, phoenix like,
as the paper there goes on to state, and
Is now abreast Of other cities Of her
class.
1t is a good time to get lots there
now, for times are low and money mat
ters scarce. Buckwheat he's neytrhad
d boom OF fictitious prices, but there
have been many times when, owing to
depression, property could have been
bought far below It's value, and if re-
tanned as an investment would be
something to look forward to.
In Buckwheat there was a man who
had been almost everywhere. He had
seen the Mammoth cave OF Kentucky
and Pixies Peak, Colorado. His idea
was to Incorporate a company to try
the Mammoth cave on over Pixies Peak
and then guess how near she would fit
at 80 cents a guess. He thought there
was money in it.
He also spoke Of Colorado. He had
been there. One curious thing he
noticed was the purity of the air. Clear
and pure and rareied, he said, one
would be often deceived in distances.
Once there was a feller cut there-if
I am not taking up your time-a teller
that started to ride to q foothiIl before
breakfast. He was a t~enderfOOt. Struck
Denver and was going to climba bunch
Of peaks a day till he had seen how
they looked on top. He said he would
ride over and climb one before break.
fast. He gave it up and took a light
tea from the sideboard at home. On
the way somebody overlook him and
found him stripping off ready to swim
a little irrigation ditch, and the Old
man asked him Why he pulled off his
coat instead of jumping his horse over
the ditch.
Ditch be ID" said theyoungman,
casting aside his porous plaster With 3
bitter cath and a portion Of hjs back
also. I'm getting now 70 that l car
| Judge distances better than I could
| this morning." And that is a fact too.
He had.
Il thought I was kind Of comicaI,'
he added
I'VE rode on through the boom belt
| including Chicago, and at St. Louis we
met returning Euglishman. He haC
been at Colorado Springs, a beautiful
health resort that alwayshad healthy
steady growth, but no boom.
Everything there had always beer
| healthful, and il he hadn't struck {
night train he would never have known
that anybody died there. He talked
with the conductor and found that the
road was mad because there were 81
many health resorts along the line, al
wishing to quietly ship their dead be
tween IL p. M. and 3 a, M, and tina
it practically made a satisfactory time
| table impossible. He was a pLeasan