Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-09-29
o~ossUxPTIvEs N COLORADO,
Mitchell White Writes Of Colorado
and Its Climate for Lung and
Threat Trouhles-A Popular
Place for Tourists andLoafers

10 The Editor Of she Ledger.
BOULDER, Cello, Sept %, ls04.-l
DEAR SIR. Colorado, and especially
Boulder, Is one OF the greatest loaing
places in the country. The majority
are consumptives. and referred TO in
colonial slang as s1ungers,n afew more
have s.bugs's who suffer from threat
trouble. and q larger number than
these two together are Just plain every
day loafers.
The court house, q threestory strnc-
ture Of pressed brick, dressed with stone
and capped by a massive dome Is stu
ated IN the center OF the city in q park
Here are many shade trees and under
each may be found wrought iron
benches for the inyalids who walk
abroad. On the south side OF the
square, and between the walk and
the court house fence, Is a plat Of
ground 10 feet wide and the length Of
the block. Here are placed = continu-
GUS line OF benches seating about SO
people In ali. This Is known Is lung
ers roost, and is crowded the greater
part Of the day. On this ..roost'' meH
from all corners Of the globe and all
sections Of our own glorious country
meet and discuss the important Issues
now before the paper-reading public.
Among these men are characters that
IL Charles Dickens caald once again
return to this planet no better mater
ial for his versatile pen IN ~portraying
characters could be had. The battles
Of the Civil war are fought from the
emancipation proclamation to Lees
surrender.
The griaEled veterans grow so en-
enthusiastic that blows are almost
struck, but when the hour for parting
comes the blue and gray join hands
in the best Of fellowship and stand to-
gether for the stars and stripes. Be
cause Of the recent labor troubles at
Cripple Creek the anarchist is much
in evidence and wherever he finds a
willing listener proceeds to deliver q
red-hot harzngue upon oppression and
the accumulation Of money by the
wealthy. He reads all S0cialistic
journals and can discourse for any
length OF time upon the fancied
wrongs The two sanitariums here,
the Placer and the Boulder, are pa
thetic to one who enjoys good health.
Here may be found men and women
wasted by the ravages OF q disease
almost incurable, but who battle
bravely and try hard to keep their
spirits up with hopes Of health. The
air being exceeding rare and dry is
strengthening to the lungs in that it
Is healing and enters cells probably
never used before. BY breathing this
air the lungs are made stronger and
continue to improve until permanent
~ cured. But many. feeling better
and thinking that they are 70 far ad-
yanced upon the road TO recovery, re-
turn home to other climates. IL not
fully we'll the cells opened BY the thin
air win collapse and then the sufferer
begins to fail. When this happens all
hope is given up, for once collapsed no
treatment or air win again initiate the
cells.
The Boulder sa~nitarium Is under the
same management as the famous Bat
tie Creek sanitarium. Connected with
this institution Is a branch Of the Bat
tie Greek cereal mandatory. The
trains daily bring sufferers Of the great
white plague, who are respondent and
sad, but as soon as they begin TO enjoy
the healing effects Of the ARA new
look comes into their faces and their
hearts are filed with the hope Of re-
covery.
In summer this country is a great
district for tourists, who come espec-
ially to view the Switzerland trail'
and the 'sMoffet road the latter be-
ing situated on the mountain side and
because OF the immense pr0clivities
has % tunnels In n mile OF track.
The tourist Is a great financial aid to
the merchants and every store has all
manner Of curlos. 1t may be said to
have been carried 10 an extreme from
the following incident at the recent
Frontier day celebration In Cheyenne,
Wyoming, which is a carnival OF wild
| west features. There took place an ex-
hibition so degrading as to be classed
lower than the Spanish bull fight and
Indian sun-dance. A large TIE kan
steer was loosed In an ar ena and, goad-
ed by GOV boy matadors, became fren-
zled, charging furiously back and forth
in It's madness, at this juncture a ne
gro man entered on horse back and
riding at full speed leaped from the
horse to the back OF the running steer,
throwing bis body between the mas
siye horns he reached forward with
bis head and sank his teeth in the
animals upper lip and slowly raising
himself threw the bull on his back. As
an exhibition Of bestial brutishness,
which man is sometimes led TO descend
to by the glitter Of gold, the perform
ance is hard to equal.
LEA MITCHELL WHITE.