Daily camera., 1897-08-21
Growth Of the Qeen City Rapid and
Healthy.
METROPOLIS OF THE GREAT WEST
Denvek Twenty-Five Years Ago
WaNan Insignihcant Hamlet, In
known to the Outside WOrld-NOw
City Combining Advantages
That Cannot Be Equaled on the
ter of q Vast Territory Which Ii
Rich in All of Natures Products
Pleasure Seekers,

Beautiful Denver! The stranger with
IN our gates enthusiastically sings her
praises. Her splendid buildings, her
legal homes, her healing climate. her
eternal sunshine, her asphalted streets
and her commercial enterprise are the
texts Of many glowing letter to the
East.
Such of us as have grown UP with the
town, watched her steady advance, be-
come accustomed to the material i'm
provements, the life-giving ozone, the
majestic scenery about, fail to grasp
!he sensations OF the stranger when he
arst enters this city sitting grandly at
:he foot Of the towering Rockies.
Somewhere there Is legend born OF
the padre and the mission, redolent of
the Latin's poesy and the soft south
wind, to the effect that when the great
country west Of the Mississippi was
first entered by the Spanish ad-
venturers Mother Nature held
festival for her fairy children and
decided that great cities should rise
out of the wilderness, and that to each
she would give some particular blessing.
So San Francisco and Los Angeles,
Omaha, Kansas City and Salt Lake were
born and were given an especial grace
in the natural bounty Of their surround
ings. One city had gold and attracted
to 1t the early Argonauts. Another had
the orange and the olive, the peach and
the pear, the lemon and the grape to
cultivate upon the most fruitful OF soil.
Another had immense cattle industries,
another wheat fields and corn belts OF
enormous extent, and still another had
q lake almost as famous to many MOD
'erns as the Sea of Galilee and a teem-
earth, once tickled with Mormon indus
try and thrift, that blossomed like the
rose.
Then Denver was born.
She was the youngest of the six Sis
ters. Mother Nature had parceled out
her blessings so fairly that there
seemed nothing left But the good
dame said: II will give to you and Col
orado all that has been given to your
sisters. You shall not only enjoy one
blessing such as has been given them,
but all they possess. and more Ana
so It came to pass that this city and
state were given gold and silver. coal
and marble, lead and onyx, fruit lands
of vast extent. cattle ranges beyond
compare scenery so majestic as to be
world-famot,s wheat fields Imitless-in
/, fact an empire teeming with materiai
l fttiieS and unparalleled advantages.
= And to this land Of the lotos-eaters the
people came, and they built city, ialr
and expansive and destined to be one OF
the four great cities of the continent.
,icit
in this principal railway center OF the
West, you will find hundreds OF cars
rumbling into town laden with all the
known products of agriculture ana all
Colorado grown. You will see some OF
the richest gold, silver and lead ores
known to the civilized world moving
down from the hills to the great, hun
gry smelters. You will see millons Oh
feet of lumber cut from our enormous
forests, marble as fine as the Itailan
stone, hewn from eXhaustless quarrles'
coal to burn sufficient to supply the ma
ton. and all the raw material, nearly,
that goes to feed and clothe and make
rich the human race. These features
are discussed in extenso, however. IN
the interesting. practical and accurate
articles which follow this cursory IN
. PRODUCTION.
So that with these surroundings 1t Is
scarcely surprising that a wondrous
town should be built when there was 60
,afe a foundation. And those VINO
built. built well, and under our Colo
rado sun city of singular attraction,
,nAonaled in architectural effect. In
modern comfort, in alluring features,
ats serenely at the foothills. Lie IS
worth living in such city and such
,tate We know nothing OF the torrlo
heats. with their murky, fever-breeding
dampness, such as fearfully Vexes 'he
han,ess Fastener In midsummer we
have roses at the door and snow IN the
distance Heliotropes and ictcles! Lu-
cerne. the radiant, nesting at the foot
of the snow-clad Alps, with the lakes
Of the four cantons cleaning around
her, is not more beautifully located thah
Denver, although centuries OF artistic
effort have given a modern prettlness
10 her Swiss surroundings
This city of ours. with her splendid
schoolhouses, suggestive OF a cultured |
.risng generation" with her glisten-
ing spires pointing heavenward. sym
holic of whence all blessings How;
with her bustling, energetic population,
made up, as It is. of the restless ambi-
t,ous product of the East. must grow to
the place destined for her by the. fairy
~odmother Of the legend.
Evidently, in recent years, there has
heen a chastened quiet in the city, in
the state-in the land, In fact. We were
moving faster than the laws OF common
,ense dictated. The growth became. for
. time. abnormal. unnatural
Now we are down to safer. more
sensible basis We have eaten the bit
Tor root of experience and left extrava-
canoe mad speculation and recklessness
behind. Booming, except on sure foot
inp is thing Of the past. Denver
,nn.t make history and work out her
p de.tiny safely. serenely. sensibly. The
near future-the immediate present. in
foot IA rife with satisfactory promises.
One can imagine. during these moon
i,1ht midsummer nights while the city
10 asleep. a conversation between the
epure on the Mining exchange. which
represents Labor" and the draped.
goddess on the court house, which bears
the glorious name Of Justice" The
scales she holds have not always been
nicely adjusted. There has been
Niobean expression TO her countenance.