The daily sentinel., 1901-10-21
GLOWING WORDS.


Forum, Who Recently Visit
ed Grund junction. is
Enraptured.
To him who in the love OF nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she
speaks
A various language.
-Thsnatopsis.
have been to Grand Junction, the
prettiest, best located, most enterprising
and resourceful city in western Colorado.
Ten years ago the traveller going
through that section stood upon prom.
ontory Of the mesa, looked in wonder at
scenery unsurpassed by any other terri
tory on earth and argued with himself:
ITO what uses Can this vast territory be
brought?"
That was ten years ago.
Today this same territory is filed with
orchards that bear the finest fruit in
America. Indeed, the growth has been
so rapid that the stranger is inbued
with the idea that 1t is at least SO years
old
1t has been held that the Mormons &C.
coDplisbed most wonderful things in
making Utah blossom as the rose, but 1t
took the Mormons 60 years to do this.
In the vicinity of Grand Junction better
results have been accomplished in ten
years and a greater future awaits it.
There is no trip one can take, either in
America or Europe. that will quite equal
the one to Grand Junction.
Leaving sslida on the narrow roadbed,
imagine yourself every ten minutes look
ing down at the roadway over which you
have just travelled. let your eyes rest on
the two powerful engines, which are
hauling your traio, going in one direc.
ton while the car in which you are sit
ting goes another; all owing to the sharp
curves necessary to maintain railroading
look from one window at towering
peaks. snow capped and rising thousands
Of feet; then FROM the opposite window
down thousands OF feet into the green
valleys below-and you have faint idea
Of the grandeur OF Marshall pass,
Pretty soon you are at the summit,
whore, even though it be July, you can
engage in the pastime of throwing snow
balls, and then you begin the descent
down, down, down the great mountain
side with the speed of tho wind. past
towering cliffs that form fantastic shapes
and seem to make faces at you until you
are bewildsrsd, and finally, just as you
begin to grow weary with the strange
sights. you suddenly burst forth, as 1t
were. into valley SO beautiful that you
are reminded Of paradise.
And it is here that Grand Junction is
located. Located at the confluence Of
the Grand and the Gunnison rivers. each
Of which drains a country rich in agri-
culture, mining and grazing, while below
in the great wide valley are the man.
moth orchards-orchards growing fruit
that never has or never will be sur
passed, either in size or flavor.
Grand Junction is we'll located. Its
streets are as level as floor. Nature
has made it a distributing point for a
vast territory. and 1t is only wonder
that capital does not at once construct
smelter there to take care OF the large
quantities OF ore awaiting treatment. 1t
seems to be down-hill pull from every
where into Grand Junction, and the men
who 60 there now and make investments
will lay foundation for vast wealth, be-
sides being blessing to the country.
The people Of Grand Junction are Of
the liye, wide awake class. They love
their homes, and naturally, then, they
love the town in which those homes are
located. There is nothing Of the BOOM
or about them. They are very conser-
vative. Perhaps too much so.
Bat the town boasts OF men like Bunt-
ing, jenkins, and a few others Of that
class who leave no stone unturnsd to in
terest capital 30 that rapid development
may continue, and it is to such men -
these that Grand junction will owe her
future greatness.
As an argument of Grand Junction's
prosperity, it may be noted that not
tramp, OF poorly dressed man walks it's
streets. Everybody seems to have q
smile OF contsntment. The business