Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-01-18
OVER GROUGDs Of FRONTIER US
J. NJ PowelliRacites the Times OF ''Pil ssaS or
Bust"-Colorado Comment.

! FRIEND MUNsoN: We left sana
on November Sth; we arrived et d snd
Nebraska, the lO'h In a small 80 ard
Bat 1t soon cleared up and got wa.S ana
hae Friend Is ia "a beautiful G. 8 trv
and II there is any other place thth aas
more acres Of corn [ dou know 2 ne
their pastures would come in. The{ 9 va
very good truit-applae, pears, d 9 s.
peaches OF course. The peaches U e
all gone when we arrived,
Friend Is near the Turkey and Big
Blue river some distance above where
We Bax Ak bOys-Ed Cox John Bakcr
Len and John, Junior and Lamic Gra-
nam, Seth Hamilton, Alex and WIN
Lowrie, Cummings Powell and Others.
with two wagons of our Norwegian
friends north of Springville, crossed the
BIG Blow when we went TO Pixies Peak
IN the spring of 1859 and to think we
all returned to Wisconsin when, if each
one of US had boughta COW and calf and
settled down there on the Big Blue we
might have been cattle kings now, as il
goes. l visited Mr. Gilberts Park while
nc Friend. de Is farmer and took de.
lignt IN showing me forty big elk, four
buffalo and about dozen deer, some
Wild geese, brants, goats and some very
hne hogs' hides, pelts and curios
November 2lst we left Friend for
Lead, South Dakota, where we arrived
The 23tt at 10 p m, and met at Pjuma,
where we had 20 change cars, By ms S N,
wife and grandson. NY son had lust
Fotten home from his hunting trip al ;
brought in his three deer We coioyed
ourselves while the good weather lasted
climbing the mountains up by the Old
Abe mill, on mp to Knob Hill, where we
could look over in Ierryville and out on
the plains, the cemeteries aud city psrl,
down the gulch to Yellow Creek. We
visited the Orob1ndo hoist, also reser-
voir hill--a high hill that overlooks the
city of Lead. III contains 500 600 gal.
Ions of water. We also visited the hoist
where my son works on the 500 foot
level That's the finest machinery /
ever saw. They have double deck ele.
yator ana bring up four cars to the load
from the 500 foot lev IL.
We visited Deadwo3d nv the Elkhorn
aud Black Tail II is only three miles
from Lead to Deadwood. But it looked
TO me tnat we were three miles right
over Deadwood So we went back by
| tho trolly. We left Lead on December
- e@AAA ga AFCA AZ EV4b morgan on TINS
18th. 1t WAS drizzling snow but melted
rs fast as it fell On the 18th there cam,
up little cloud from the northwest sne
| 1t etfectually cleared the town of al
| old paper, tin cans, etc. il blew a loaC
OF hay over on the driver and smotheret
MIN to death before help came TO hi
rescue. Then the weather cleared mn
and was warm up to Christmas uieht
Three above zero is the coIdest the ther
mometer has registered so fer this win
ter, and today, December 3lst it is 6
| aboYe zero.
A few days ago Mrs Powell and
! took a stroll over on the Platte River. a
the old Fort Morgan. where we Bad A,
| boys passed up the river IS years ago
Ii is our intention TO attend tile fat stocl
and wool convention az Denver, Janu
airy az o The principal fsrming don
here is Ia raising alfalfa and feedinl
stock. | nriced one quarter section cas-
Of the burlington railroad with nothin
out sheep sheGs; price SIS. 900 What
beautiful sighr we have of the anoy
capped mountains West Of Denver Cit
Longs Peak looms above all others.
J III POWELL.
| Fort Morgan, Colo, December 81, '04