The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-06-30
A FORTNIGHT IN DENVEu.

rim being toward the North and east from that sid,
of the city one obtains a view Of mountain scener,
such as the world nowhere else presents The pctur
esque grouping of peaks and foothills the undulatine
sweep of the snow-covered range the backbone OF
the continent, the massive mountains as a whole
ever changing and yet the same ever fresh in then
gorgeous cooring awful in their magnitude
all these are attractive features residence in this
city. Standing like a sentinel over this army of noun
tain tops hoary, snow-cad, and coudcapped- eighty
miles away from Denver to the northwest is Longs
Peak, It's summit IA $50 feet above the level Of the
sea- 1t stand boldly to the front greeting the new
comer and forming picture upon which the eve
never tires in dwelling. Longs Peak is the most diff
cult of ascent in range To the southwest we can
distinctly see apparently only dozen miles removed,
the historic mountain which once gave local habita-
tion and name to all this section of the country
Pixies Peak 1t is seventyve miles to its base as the
bird flies from Denver And far beyond these giant
mountains, north and south, the range sweeps away
until, on the one hand, it is lost in the Black hills
North, and on the other, in the Spanish Peaks and
Sangre de Crsto mountains, south There is a piano.
ramc view of nearly three hundred miles of mountains
within the range of vision You can sit in your room
in Denver and take in this scene.
Advice with regard to seeing a city, is cheap both
for the gver and receiver and treated by the latter
much as cheap things generally 1t is of very lit
tie consequence to anybody except the who kindly
volunteers It, Every person who travels has his own
Z,
tions in general way. The reader can use them as
he sees fit Strangers spend a week in Denver
very protaby viewing the city, riding about the su-
burbs, noting the wonderful Improvements, asking
questions as to the attractive mountain resorts and ar
ranging Tor trip which, TO enjoy the life and get all
the benefits of mountain touring, should be made by
camping out, and avoiding hotels much as possible
Denver has no ancient objects of interest no ANTIQUE
gems OF art; 1t is all embodiment and manifestation
OF the new life OF an enserprsng people who pay more
attention to moneygettng than to aesthetics and who
VIII tax to you as enthusiastically of post-ofce
SUBURBAN addition, or three-S0ry iron 'front.' as will
the Romans of their Slstne Chapel or the Champagne
or the Milanese of their magnificent cathedral In all
TINS there Is a freshness nvigorang to a newcomer
unfamiliar with western ways.
You will find, if you stay in Denver long enough
that the city has strong claim on the travel
and that she looks ongngly every spring to the sea-
son when the invalid, with his asthma, consumption or
genel debility shall turn htherward from the mias-
matte centers of the east gain health and renewed ac-
Ny to the general BUSINESS of the city, for the tour
lists and the invaids do give the city something of the
appearance OF an eastern watering, place.
Denver is growing with a rapdity unprecedented
-Four years ago she had population of five thousand
there are now nearly twenty thousand people who
make their homes here The limits of the city are
continual extending; building is going on rapidly
RAILROADS reach from here to all parts of the territory
making the city center, the development of which
nothing will retard. BY means of these thoroughfares
Denver becomes the entrepot for the whole territory
and by them all the resources of Colorado are tributary
to Denver With schools as well graded as any at the
east; with penttude of churches; and with an able
daily press, the mental and religious welfare of the
citizens is guaranteed. In my opinion, Denver is des-
uned to become mammoth city-the only great city
on the great plains 1t will become the halfway sta
uon across the continent, which tourist can pass
without halting at.
Colorado, above nearly all other portions of the far
western country, is replete with interesting resorts
businesses of the mountains and the broad expanse
u plain present attractive points towards which much
Df the tourist tide sweeps during the summers solstta
neat or the early season when nature purpes all the
ground with vernal flowers. As the succeeding years
rft by, and the wonders and beauties and oppressive
grandeur of this famed section becomes better known
Is tourists and health seekers spread the information
hey acquire means of transit are daily improved,
ma the heart of the continent is placed next door to
he four quarters of the Union so Colorado becomes
more and more the objective point of pleasure seekers
md meets in every narticnlar the rnseate