Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-11-26
WHAT I SAW OUT WEST.
BY DAVID HILL.


Grand Canon, called Canon Diablo,
gap in the ground covered by a trestle
800 feet in hight. Beyond this was
succession of arid wastes, awful gorg-
es, great lava beds which have scorch
ed their fiery courses through the val
leys, massive washouts called Arroy
as, cathedral shaped rocks isolated
peaks and buttes, enormous plateaus,
and most interesting of all, hundreds
of miles of palisades composed of red
white and black sandstone, towering
into the heavens, and the sides of
which have been worn into many fan
tastic shapes through the winds of
many centuries There are legends
enough connected with those palisa-
des and immediate vicinity to fill a
| huge volume. Here is the "Painted
Desert"; further along the cathedral
shaped rock known as the "Navajo
Church," then comes s'The Haunted
HILL" called by the natives La Mesa
Ecantada and then "Starvation Peak''
with it's wonderful story; and SO on
across the whole of that historical
country. One day two Englishmen,
fresh from their native country, ap-
preached to the edge of the Grand
Canon. For long time they stood
speeches. and silent gazing at the
awful and yet majestic scenery spread
out before them. Finally one of them
calculated "Well, Il be-d-d!" That
beyond the powers of scription. So
is the scenery of Arizona and New
Mexico.
1 stopped at Albuquerque over
night. It will be remembered that |
Albuquerque is another distant west
ern town that has played chimerical |
jig with Vermont capital. 1t seemed |
to be situated just over or on the Dor |
ders of civilization, with lot of poor |
and inferior looking farming country |
around it. What it's other resources |
are I cannot state. The place has
some fine buildings as do all "boom'' |
towns; but the majority of them look |
poor and inferior I think if Vernon
tiers would go out and inspect some of |
those western towns in which they |
seem SO anxious to invest money, that |
what few bills they have would stick |
to. their old, lealfskin wallets a good |
y while b before they got out. |
gor The ride from Albuquerque to Den
yer was over high table lands out of I
which, at intervals, cropped great |
towers of rocks in most unexpected
places, and chief among which was
the wagon mound and the garden of
the Gods near Manitou Or Colorado
Springs. | also saw one extinct crater
down the sides Of which the ancient
flow of lava was plainly discernible.
At Ration tunnel We encountered snow
and not until Denver was reached did
it it wholly disappear. arr.
From Denver I crossed the prairies
into the state of Minnesota and called |
upon G. E. Churchill at ST. Cloud. st.
Cloud is thriving city and is we'll laid
out in every respect. 1t has push, and
the capital to push it; and undoubted- I
ly is destined to grow and prosper. AT
Minneapolis, IL much larger city than
L expected to find it, climbed to the |
top of Vermont's monument and took
survey of the country. lam thank
full to state that my only investment
in the institution was ten cent piece
they charged me for going up. I will
also state, for the benefit Of those who
have money at stake in the North
Western Loan Company, that theirs
is very fine building, indeed. IF
that is any consolation. Our journey
homeward was around the great lakes
via Canadian Pacific railway. 1t was
a dreary tract of country and one I
will not attempt to describe.
will state in conclusion, drawing
my comparison between New England
and the extreme West, that he who is
we'll established in business in this
country better remain here. There
are no more vacancies in western than
in eastern towns; and if by chance,
through death Or otherwise, a place is
left open, there are dozens ready to
fill it. Some people are destined to
make money-itis gift with them.
That class can do well in the West;
they can do well in the East; they can
do well in any locality in which they
are placed. The working class how
ever, those who earn their bread by
the sweat Of the brows cannot improve
their social position, or enjoy better
or work less, or sweat less
by emigration from well organized
and settled country as ours is at pre-