The Republican journal., 1903-05-07
DENVER .DOIN6S.
A 'Belfast Boy" Writes The Journal from
the Wild West.

the Wild West.
DENVER, COL, APRIL "a, 1908. Now
that all eyes are turned toward Denver
and the West on account of the Chris
tian Endeavor meeting which is to be
held here in June, the General Assem-
bly, of tine Presbyterian Church at Los
Angeles next month, and the thirty
seventh annual encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic at San
Francisco in August, word from Den
yer may not be out of place. At the
present time every body is taken up
with the visit of President Roosevelt;
people of all parties are interested and
wish to make his few hours stop here
particularly pleasant. Many interest
ing features are being arranged. 1t is
proposed to have him met at Hugo, a
cattle shipping point on the Union
Pacific railroad, and the cattlemen
serve him one of their cowboy break
fasts. Here he will be met by the COM
mittee and with an escort shown the
beauties of Denver,-the homes, busi-
ness houses, parks and public buildings
to be decorated for the occasion. AT
Cheyenne arrangements are completed
to give two hours exhibition of old
frontier life, which will be selections
from the program of their annual from
tier day celebration, consisting of riding
by the cowboys upon wild horses, buck
ing bronchos, wild steer roping, and 9TH
er sports which were indulged III during
the early days of the West.
The Frontier Day celebration at
Cheyenne has become one of the great
events of the year in the West, and
people from all sections of the country
make their plans to reach Cheyenne in
August to attend it. Cheyenne Is the
capital of Wyoming, and is one hundred
and six miles north of Denver. In the
early days it was one of the wealthiest
places, per capita, in the world; and
also the toughest in the west, reaching
point where it was necessary for Wig
ilants to step in and put a stop to the
outlaws high handed actions. Today
it is one of the prettiest and best gov
erned cities in the West, and one of the
places that should not be missed by
Eastern tourists. The Union Pacific
allows passengers coming to Denver
over their Omaha line to make the trip
through Cheyenne when so desired.
The Denver people interested in
Christian Endeavor work are planning
a royal good time for their visitors.
They are raising funds, preparing meet
ing places, and looking up quarters for
the visitors, of whom they expect thjr-
ty thousand. They have arranged to
have large tent in the central part of
the city for the overflow meetings. At
the close of the meetings excursions
have been arranged through the coun-
try, the most interesting to be a tour
through Colarado, Utah and Wyoming,
known as the Great Circle Trip, taking
i'll the Echo and Weber Carons, Great
salt Lake, Tennessee Pass, Royal
Gorge, Canon of the Grand River. Civ
ing chance to see Cheyenne, Greeley,
Laramie, Rawlins, Ogden, Salt Lake
City, Glenwood Springs, Leadyille.
Canon City, Pueblo, Colorado Springs,
and allowing stopovers to go up Pixies
Peak, visit Cripple Creek mining dis
trict and other points of interest. The
delegates to the Presbyterian meetings
at Los Angeles and the G. y. Il. at san
Francisco will nearly all pass through
Denver in order to take the cool noun
tain routes and see the points of inter
est through the Rockies. The greater
portion will come over the I Mon Pacific
from the Missouri River on account of
its being the first to cross the continent.
The building of every mile was wrought
with danger and constant fear of at
tacks from the Indians, who at that
time, with the buffalo, were the inhab-
itants of this vast country, making 1T
necessary to have the protection of the
United States troops during its con-
struction, and making it the historical
railroad of the West.
To people who have not been away
from good old New England it will be a
revelation to cross the prairies and see,
where but few years ago was barren
desert, cities and towns larger and more
prosperous than many of those in the
East that are century old; or to stop
at Greeley or Eaton, two little stations
on the Union Pacific that ship from six
thousand to ten thousand carloads of
farm produce every year, and drive
through the potato, sugar-beet, and
grain fields, where they dig potatoes
by machinery and do farming by whole
sale.
Belfast is well represented IN Col
orado, with H. C. Havener at Greeley;
Oscar w. Pitcher, firm of Pitcher Il
Young, Colorado Springs; Hiram o.
Alden's family, Pueblo; AL. Condor, in
the Barkley Block, Larimer and 18th
Streets; Ira A. Cammett and wife for
merly Miss Cora Eastman), Donald E.
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