The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-10-06

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81 Inc recent meeting 81 the Colorado
sE Ess'al rial Assoc1a ion at Ouray and the
app [, ching conclaYe OF the knights
.of thias at the same place serve to
call I AL attention to the extraordi nary at
fractions or this wonderfully favored
mount tain town. s3 s$s sI5 s5 5fs BIZ
n No place In Colorado has SO taxed
the descriptive ability Of enthusiastic
visitors, or made them realize sos orci-
bly, bly, the poverty Of human speech. AS
well might one attempt to describe the
fragrance of the rose to one without
the e. sense Of smell, of one Of Beetho-
Ven,s symphonies to a person born
deaf as to paint with words the charm,
the grandeur, the beauty Of this Gem
OF the Rockies Other places have
rugged mountains and gloomy canons,
Others have rocks on which the colors
of the rainbow have been indelibly
photographed, still others have gush-
ing springs and roaring waterfalls and
glens carpeted with myriads of flow
ers of every hue, but in no other place
ever visited by the writer are: all Of
these attractions SO concentrated and
on such prodigious scale as In the
little basin in which is located Ouray.
3: Nor are its natural attractions its
only ones. It's hotels are large, modern
and reasonable in their charges It's
streets wide, clean and well sprinkled
its private homes handsome and nu-
merous, it's stores well stocked, its citt-
zens enterprising and courteous to
strangers. It's distance. from thickly
populated centers and the fact of its
being, off the main line of a railway
are the only reasons we can think of
that account for the comparatively few
people who visit it. zs@5..!s.
To the mining men OF London ana
Paris and Berlin it is well known. It's
golden veins, though of comparatively
recent discovery, are the wonder of the
world, and at the present moment the
awed Parisians, as they tell one an
other Of the magnificent entertain
ments and princely generosity of Mr..
Walsh, owner OF the Camp Bird mine,
rub their eyes and ask whether after
all the stories about Aladdin may not
have been true. r. So. -: .~
"A few years ago we all read of the
s.silvery" San Juan. Silver mines there
still are in great number, but as it is
gold the world is now clamoring for,
to gold do the miners Of Ouray now
devote their principal attention. IL
later diamonds and rubies shall be de-
manded, then let the partisans of Col
conda and Of South Africa look to
their laurels. /, &Ss@ 49, .5ts H. :,
Notwithstanding. the enormous
wealth that is daily pouring out OF
their hills, one cannot ride over the
district without realizing that it's re-
sources have as yet been scarcely
touched. 1t. lis still virgin ground. In
all human probab ity the year 900
will It still the center of great
mining activity. Within three blocks
OF the leading hotel most important
SUFFICE discovery was made only last
winter. Many well informed mining
men consider the Camp Bird the great
est gold mine in America today, and
yetiits owner looks upon it as but a
prospect, nearly all the values having
been taken out while simply getting
ready to mine. ~.
There is one spring within two
blocks of the heart of town which
alone should, and in time will, attract
thousands of invalids. 1t is still just
as nature created it Not even a roof
has been placed above it. Clear as
crystal, it gushes from the mighty
rock, and SO hot that it fairly STYLES
Eminent physicians have pronounced.
it a specific for disordered stomach.
Yet nature has been so lavish in her
bounties here that the natives hardly
consider it worth calling to the atten-
ton Of their guests. Is
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