CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1902-10-02

\ representative of the American
Lum herman recently visited Canon.
He was so well pleased with the To-
cality and his treatment here that he
devoted three or four pages in recent
issue of the Lumberman to this To-
cality and the lumber interests here
He says he has rarely seen place
where the umber yards were so ele-
giant and we'll taken care of and where
the interests of the people are so we'll
looked after. of the town. here is a
part of Mr.. Saley's article:
Having informed my best girl
that if she should have occasion to
reach me bv wire she could do so
through Mr.. Bardwell. of Pueblo, /
gave that gentleman my future adj
dresses as near as possible and struck
ont for the heart of the Rockies.
&" You don't want to miss Canon
City I was told, and having met
some of the lumbermen of that town
at the Denver convention, / was fully
aware that did not want TO miss it.
While this is not department pro-
test. protest when feel like it, and
in this intsance l am going to say
that in my opinion the people out
here. as well as the map makers who
are following the line drawn by these
people. are away off when they leave
the V out of Canyon. Ii makes a
word that is purely arbitrary in pro-
nunciation. insomuch that there is
not one reason in the world why a
person unacquainted with the word
should pronounce it correctly. Canon
doesn't spell CANYON by n long shot.
Canon is a Mexican word, and if the
proper point is placed over the II the
pronunciation becomes more clear;
still even then il would be conun-
drum to thousands of intelligent
readers. When spelled CANYON it is
plain to everybody as it should be
There is a move OF foot by all the
railroads which have to deal with
the name to spell i, on the maps and
folders in the good, logical way,
tact with some lady school teachers
out her. from the east and this word
as written in this section, has brought
them up standing; and ANYTHING that
brings young lady school teacher
from Boston, say, up standing. is
serious matter.
Canon City is locatd in little
basin. or depression. that once was n
lake. or arm of sea, the evidence of
this being the petrified fish that are
found. On an elevation not far dis.
tant the skeletons of monster land
animals have been uuearthed. \
gentleman said TO me that this basin
was scooped out by the Almighty so
that the people of this arid county
might raise fruit, but never having
attended theological school the de.
sign of the Almighty in detail is not
20 clear to me as it appears TO be to
others, One of the easiest things in
this whole wide world for n man
to deal in is assumption-to do so re-
quires neither skill nor thought-snd
all Of Us deal in it more or less, re-
grct to say.
"Thoy will tell you that Canon
City hs> i,oco people; doubt it very
much. If my eyes are any good 5000
would count them all, the peniteutiary
included. Loyalty will ninety times
in u hundred swell the population OF
a town. II is n pretty place. how.
ever. The main street is we'll built
up aud there are scores of handsome
homes. The town looks prosperous
and is proporous-m made so by fruit.
Fruit raising is the industry here.
To look from an elevation down one
sees u rich. green valley covered with
trees-a valley that is an oasis in
desert of brown, barren foothills and
mountains Directly west of the
town is Fromonts Peak. upon which
Fremont planted the American flag,
thinking, no doubt. that he had made
wonderful climb, and in those days
il was something of a climb. Times
change, however. Lieut.. Pike as
serted that it would be impossible for
man TO reach the summit of the peak
which bears his name, and in less
than hundred years from the time
of the prophesy, railroad runs to
its very top, On the top of Fremont
Peak there y rude monolith to
commemora, accomplishment of