The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-03
A VALLEY FOR NoBLEMEN.
Some Have Lived the Lives of Raneh-
men and Become Wealth.

men ana become Wealthy.
Eastern people have little idea of the |
great number Of younger sons of Brit
ish and European noblemen who have |,
come to this part of the state either |
to seek their fortunes or to avoid the
lgnominy their poverty might bring up
on them in their native land, or es-
cape the consequences OF youthful in
discretions to which the sons of great
foreign families seem to be prone. says
Colorado letter to the Buffalo Ex-
press. Down at the entrance to Chey-
enne canyon, three miles from the
lonely spot where Helen Hunt Jackson
was bureid, there is an estate of hun
dreds OF acres owned by Count Pour
tales, German. He came here to in
crease a fortune which was beginning
TO dwindle in the old country and to
Improve his health. He brought with
him his pretty young wife. She had
been a leader In the most fashionable
society in Germany, and was noted for
her beauty, but here she went into
comparative retirement There were
plenty of social functions at the
springs, but they did not interest her.
Her husband, I'm company with sever
al business men, built the Broadmoor
casino on his domains and attached to
IL gorgeous restaurant, parlors, dane
ing halls and barroom. 1t was a mag
nificent building, built entirely of wood
with broad porches along the front and
rear He built little artificial lake
In the shadow of the mountains and
the white-capped peaks were reflected
in it's waters. He ran an electric car
line out past it and he hired German
band to play on its banks. People
could sit on the porches of the casino
and listen to the music and watch the
boats on the lake. 1t was a delight
full place. Then. after il was all COM
pleted, he admitted the public at 90
cents head and made money. But
he was more shrewd, energetic and
far-sighted and fortunate than most
of the noble foreigners. He was only
one out OF a hundred of them or their
sons or relatives who attained much
success financially In Colorado Springs
there are two or three baronets in pref
ty poor circumstances. They usually
do not wish to be known as having
titles. One of them. at least, is known
only TO very few people as noble.
They live quietly and economically
and pass their time away playing polo.
But the spot where the impoverished
noblemen or their sons, or second sons,
are most numerous is a few miles above
here. in Wet Mountain valley. or late
years IL has been called the Valley ot
the Second Sons 1t Is literally filled
with degenerate noblemen and their
of them have come to this valley. Some
of them have bought land, on which
they have built themselves little homes
They live the same kind of life as the
ranchmen round about them, choI
their own wood, milk their cows anC
raise their own vegetables. They hav,
parted with all the luxuries of civil
cation. They wear old clothes and bis
sombreros. and ii is hard to- tell some
OF them from the ordinary uncoutl
mountaineer. A stranger goes into thu
valley sometimes and meets one o
, these second sons, or, 1t may be, ;
> nobleman himself, and after making
his acquaintance and treating him II
; the same informal way with which HI
might treat any OF the ranchmen there
abouts, is greatly surprised to learn II
q some roundabout way that his new
friend is person of such distinction.
I 1t has become quite a common thini
for impoverished noble families In En-
gland to send all the sons but the hei
TO Wet Mountain valley. There are s.
many of them here already that it mus
seem like home TO them. They are
pleasant lot of men and they enjoy life
y Most of them are having a much bet
ter time in the lonely spot in the noun
: tains than they ever had before in thei
lives.