The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-04-30
COLORADO LETTER,

Ed. NEws-HERALD-I have been in
Colorado about three months, and can
now write you something of this State
that believe to be reliable. There has
been much said snd written about the
fine and health restoring climate of Col.
orado, and am quite certain that TOO
much has not been said. l have been
here through the worst part of the year,
and will say that two.thirds of the
time there has been clear sunshine
weather, and no excessive cold. While
the temperature has occasionally fallen
to near zero, one could not notice that it
was 80. This is on account of the dry
and light atmosphere. There have been
but one or two light rains since last fall
There has been considerable snow, which
invariably falls at night, but it nearly
always melts the next day. Reliable
people tell me that the summers are hot
in the sun, but cool in the shade, and at
night, and that there are at least 800
clear sunshine days in the year. The
other 65 days are partly cloudy and part
sunshine. This excess of sunshine and
the light pure air is the great remedy
for all lung diseases. Any one coming
here from Ohio will at first experience
some trouble in getting enough Of this
air to keep up their breathing. But,
they will, in a few days, get used to it.
The fact is, the air being so thin and
light, it takes more of it to fill the lungs.
Consequently, the lungs are expanded,
cells aud recesses are opened up that
have not been in use, and thus the dis.
ease is cured. have met and conversed
with great many people here from the
East, West and South, who came here
with lung trouble of some kind, and
without an exception, they say that they
have been entirely cured, or that the
disease has been 80 far arrested that they
enjoy good health. OF course there are
some who came too late to be benefited,
but am satisfied that ninety per cent
of those who came here with consump
ton or asthma, are either cured or so
much benefited that they are in no i'm.
mediate danger. In my own case, my
lungs have been greatly benefited, and
bid fair to entirely recover. find that
the people who have lived here a year
or more are so well pleased with the
country that you could not induce them
to return east to live.
AS far as living goes one can live in
Denver or any Of the other older towns
or cities just about as cheap as in the
eastern states. In Denver everything is
cheap except drugs aud doctors. While
there are plenty of both they seem to
have kept up the prices. There are
thousands of furnished and unfinished
houses and rooms in Denver, for rent at
reas enable prices. And, as to hotels,
boarding houses, restaurants and other
eating places, there is no end of them.
They are everywhere. Competition is
so great that prices are very reasonable.
The chances to get into some paying
business are not good. Business of all
kinds seems to be full up, and in all of
the smaller trades it is largely overdone.
There are so many men who come here
for their health, who want to make a
living with few hundred dollars capi.
tai. Hence, so many engaged in the
small trades. would much rather risk
the new mining towns for work or bust.
ness. Servant girls are in demand to do
house work at from $500 to $40 90 per
month. Occasionally an extra good girl
gets $25 per month. Manufacturing has
not been overdone, and chances are good
in that line. To persons seeking health
resort would advise them to come out
here and stop at some one of the many
excellent resorts. There is Manitou
with her soda and iron mineral springs,
surrounded by some of the finest seen.
cry in the world. Glenwood Springs,
with hot water baths. Idaho Springs,
with her mineral springs of soda and
iron, and Canon City, which has iron
and soda springs, Hot Springs is near by,
and is surrounded by the finest fruit and
agricultural country of the State. Being
right in the foot hills of the mountains,
it is protected from the winds that are
so disagreeable here in the spring of the
year. intend to visit most of these
places soon, and will, in my next letter,
write up my final conclusions of each OF
them.
Heretofore Colorado has been largely
a Republican state, except in '92, when
the Populists carried everything and
elected David H. Waite Governor. But,
since then. the Populists have cut no
considerable figure in Colorado politics
At present, Republicans, Democrats,
Populists, and Prohibitionists, almost to