Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-23
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short time. Our impression had al
ways been that it cost money to own
an interest in a gold mine. We were
offered 800 shares for $50 with the az
surance they would be selling at q
premium within week. While con-
sidering the proposition we stepped
in cigar store and found three busy
men. One, the proprietor, rapidly
signing newly printed certificates OF
stock, another was afiiSing the cor
porate seal, while tne Iuiro was afIlx-
ing the numbers. When the clerks
are not busy three to FIVE OF them
will locate a claim of few square
feet or yards in this Cripple Creek
region incorporated under romantic
name as 'The Blue Eyed Nellie" or
''Last Chance" and issue a thousand
to million shares of stock. Few
visitors leave Colorado without a
block of this stock. We were told
that a company had been formed with
a capital stock in the millions which
had contracted to cut a tunnel through
the base of Pixies Peak for n railroad
from Colorado Springs to Cripple
Creek, distance of about s5 miles.
The direct object is to sell this stock
and the romantic idea is to strike
sufficient gold deposits to place the
United States government on single
standard gold basis. There is great
faith in the undertaking except among
the Missouri Democrats. Many for
tunes have been made at Cripple
| Creek. Every man in Denyer, Colo
RADIO Springs and Pueblo keeps map
of this region before him and they
talk nothing else. We are told that
two boys clerking In hardware store
dis covered spot ten feet square that
had not been taken up. They hired
wagon and a few men and arrived at
the spot at dark and while the camp
was asleep dug and loaded their
wagon and hauled out the first night
ore that cleared them $4,000.
Yet it is being overdone. There
are many men here who cannot get
work and would gladly return to Mis-
souri, il they could get out. We ex-
pected to rum up to Cripple Greek but
. all railroads were blocked by the
snow storm. We found Pueblo dull
T and exceedingly hot. 1t is situated
a down on the plain some distance from
Z the mountains and snow rarely reach
: es there. Pueblo has had ''boom'
r and has been over built, and now hai
q many vacant buildings. They have
It large smelter and the largest stee
vs ------ -. ---lF-i- A. ----s t~sst
O part of the time as they canlot com
a pete with like works in the East.
q This is no place for a poor man
. Wages are low and the necessaries o
= life high. He cannot have his garder
o. and his pigs and his COW to help hin
= out. The rain is not sufficient aud there
is no water for his garden unless 1t Il
a located so as to be reached by irriga-
!. ton bitches, and the cost of thie Ia moi
q within the reach of a man whose
q wages in the steel works Is S1.50 pei
\ day. This Irrigation farming Is CON
q lbGu W tOLIphihtlfSiJ ~ iOW aStCo 1he
4 looks like small farming 10 mar
, from Missouri. From central Kansas
/, west to the mountains is an immense
4 region of country which, II left alone
4 in it's natural condition, with It's natur-
y al grasses, can be used with profit for
\ grazing cattle on. But when they
begin to plow IL and destroying the
: grass nature put on II the land be-
a comes absolutely worthless, az corr
A and grain cannot be raised for the
want of rain and soil. One who has
a had years OF experience here said the
Il Lord knew which side of that land ia
# turn up when he made IL and wher
g you plow 1t under you interfere with
n His plans and confusion follows. Wher
we consider this vast region of grazing
- land where the cattle simply grow nj
ripe for the market without any ex
penditure for feed, one can realize
:. why our Missouri stock men loos'
money on cattle fed on twenty cen
> corn.
u Completing our business at Pua5lt
VI we return 10 Colorado Springs, thence
>. to Denver from whence, after f0v
q hours pleasantly employed in sight
70 seeing, we took the Union Pacific fo
70 home. The next morning after ieav
u ing Denver we were awakened by th'
y song of the lark and felt like we wer
NJ again getting back into the land o
y peace and plenty. Contentment ]
y happiness. The people in the west ar
the most restless, nervous and srscu
I, p iative people ever met. II ID In th
" very air. You have but to visit an
u see the farm region Of the wess an
u the people therein, to appreciate Mis-
T. souri,, with ITS rich, productive sol
!" and its intelligent, law-sbiding an
'r prosperous people. There is, in truth
p no place like Missouri and the btIs
souri, people. w. w. Fry
y, Hon. Cash Blackburn.
y. From the Bowling Green Times.