The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-08-04

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per 80 they all can read it.
We left Rcavcr the first of June. We
had good roads and good weather, but
we had awful poor erass after we lcft
Liberal. We came through Stevens
county. 1t was hard for us to get grass
aud water it is so deep 60 water there,
don't see why Anybody wants TO live
in country like that aud it was that
way until we got to Syracuse, Kansas.
There it raincd for three days, aid the
roads were awful bad until we got 10
| Holly Then the roads were good all
the balance Of the way. We followed
! the Santa Fe clear TO Pueblo. The
Santa fe does big business, the trains
running as thick they can, the largest
trains ! ever saw, aud every car loaded
From Syracuse to Las A nimss it is as
nice couutry as | ever saw, and there
are thousands and thousands of acres Of
alfalfa, aud the farmers arc well off and
doing well, but have not many cattle
| From Las A Animos to La Jnnta it is not
a very good country, but from there to
Pueblo it is nice country. frCm La
Junta to Manzamllo is the finest fruit
country, lots of alfalfa and watcrmelons.
They sell naslons by the pound. They
sold for e cents at first, but now at y
to 3 cents. Lots of peaches. They sell
at 10 cents a pound Land is high,
selling a, from $50 to 500 per acre.
The cheapest land we heard of was 81
per acre, unimprovcd. Cattle aud horses
arc high. Milk cows sell for $40 to S15;
horses from $50 to $3.50.
We got to Pueblo in time for the
Fourth. Pueblo is a dirty looking town
There is lots of work and wages are
good, but everything is high. The 4th
of July celebration was grand affair.
While in Pueblo we went TO see the
steel works. There are about 500 men
employed there. IL is such hard work
that a man can stand it mere than two
weeks at time. We also visited the
smclters. The work here is harder than
at the steel works. The owners sent to
Tennessee for negroes and brought out
800 of them, and some Of them got sick
the first week they were here.
Pueblo is the hottest place the sun
ever shonc on, and the water is so bad it
would kill dog. The Lithia water is
; good after it is cold, but VIXEN it first
comes out Of the well it will make mar
sick, for it il as warm as new milk. Bu,
y ice is cheap You can get all the ice YOU
can carry for ten cents. Everything
, else is high. Fruit is cheap now, but il
= was high when we got there. Cherrie'
, sell now two boxes for Is cents; straw
: berries cents box, and they are fine
A We had them three times a day,
5 Mrs. Groves could not stand it il
Pueblo, so they went on to Colorad,
Springs before the Fourth. About th,
10th We started TO join them at th
Springs and got caught in the worst hal
storm ] ever saw in any country. W.
e could not get to any house, SO We had t,
:. hump our backs and stand it, 1t lasteC
! half an hour, But We got to the Spring
, all the same, and found it the niccs
). town We had struck. There are twenty
e seven millionaircs in that town. 1t is
nice, clean town.
II Then we went to Manitou. That i
} the worst town we ever struck. TIL,
people are SO selfish and grabbed no az
commodaiion about them; and every
o thing is so high. They will charge so,
g for asking question or reading sign
4 10y 10 g-N 'OuI uo'o fi'tu ICi Io'
pounds, butter % cents, eggs % cents
I chickens 10 to go cents apiece. w
'' didn't eat many chickens. The onl
u thing we saw that was cheap was scenery
and they tried to keep us from look
IT ing at that They charged us 81 wecI
for camping on vacant lot; So to e. 4
i Pixies Peak, We started to 20 stoot
got to Half Way House, stopped to &c
something to eat; the price was 20 cent
u meal; 40 cents for a pie, cup of coiie
' 10 cents, fried cake cents, bed D.
. cents. Then we went back 10 Manitou
W. started up the IKE Pass, went /
r. Grccn Mountain Falls. That is as nic
u a town as We saw on the trip. Fror
there VIC went to Divide, about as ba
e as tho worst town we struck-dirty, an
not Kept up in any shape. Ii was u
J. hill all the way from Manitou to Divide
S Lots Of places a team could not pas,
Trains run with two engines from Man
ftnu Mod,