Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-09-14
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Governor of Kansas territory, which
then included what is now Colorado.
He was a native Virginian and died
in Ohio in 1892.
Denver lies as big emerald in d
parched plain, fourteen miles from
the foothills of the Rockies. A
bounteous supply of water makes it
as a green and charming oasis in a
desert. The population is about
100000, and it is safe to say that no
other city Of it's size in the United
States is as well built. Houses are
of red stone and brick az a rule, and
the streets are we'll paved. Streets
car lines, cable and electric, furnish
good transportation facilities. A
good impression is received at the
very first, for the passenger is landed
in a magnificent union depot, of
solid granite, which covers two
blocks and cost over half million
dollars. Seventeenth street, one of
the principal thoroughfares of the
CITY, leads directly to the Brown
Palace hotel, one mile away. Ow-
ing to the high altitude and clear
atmosphere, it looks only a few hun
dred yards, and as q person ap-
proaches given point he wonders
whether it recedes, for apparently
you are no nearer when you have
covered half of the actual distance.
Denver has several fine residence
atreets, and tho houses are elegant
and substantial, being built largely
of stone. There are practically no
ramshackle structures to be seen.
The people seem prosperous. 1 was
never in a town which presented in
all respects 30 respectable an appear
ance, for there were no tramps, beg
gars or vagrants in sight. While
not all appeared to be wealthy, they
were we'll dressed and respectable in
appearance.
The largest pleasure ground is
City Park, containing about 800
acres. Eilitch's garden is a popu-
lar resort, where summer theatre
affords amusement. There are
number of similar resorts, though
perhaps not quite so popular.
Denver has fine churches, two of
which cost ovor quarter of a mil
lion each, and its high school build
ing cost $360,000. The public library
contains $1,000 volumes. The finest
Office building is the Equitable, which
cost $2,000,000. There are four the
atres, one of which cost a million
and quarter.
Ten minutes walk from the Brown
Palace, which, by the way, is hand
some brown stone triangular build
ing and strictly modern hotel, is
the State capital. 1t is 3S3x313 feet,
built Of gray granite and surmonnted
by the conventional dome. The
grounds are beautifully sodded in
blue grass and are well kept. The
interior finish is of marble and onyx;
the ratings of bronze an8 FURNISHED
brass. 1t is dark building, how
ever, owing to many low, heavy
arches and columns. Although hay
ing already cost $3,0O0,0OO, it is yet
incomplete, and without exaggera-
tion, / think that Georgia's capitol is
better building than it will be
when finished. From the dome q
splendid view of the city, the eur
rounding plains and of tho Rocky
mountains can be had. The mountain
view is especially fine, the lordly
snow capped peak in serried ranks
lifting their SUBMITS to the clouds
present picture not to be forgotten.
OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST,".
On the ground floor is the State
museum, which is rich in mineral
and natural history exhibits. Stuff
ed bears, buffaloes, eagles, etc, ETC.,
together with historical relics of the
early Indian wars are interesting.
The feature most attractive to me
was the relics of the cliff dwellers.
Skulls, bits of stone work, etc., of
these mysterious ptople opened up q
wide range of speculation and i'm
agination. Who and from whence
came this lost and forgotten people
who dwelt in the oavorns and cliffs
of these mountains ages agonc, be-
fore Columbus dreamed of tho West
ern world, and before tho Indians
war-whoop reverberated among the
hills !? ...... .
Theproceedings of the convention,
not being pertinent to this article,