The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29
Miss Helen A. Meighen Pleased
With Great Big Camp.
People There Are Described As
BEST That Ever Was"
Interesting Recital OF a Trip
Across The Country.

Places of interest in Colorado and
the far southwest are described in a
very interesting and breezy, readable
manHNr, in the letter below, received
by T.. z F. r. Volk at Cliff Inn, Lake
| Washington, from her sister, Miss
Helen A. Meighen.
The letter will surely interest the
Mankato people who became acquaint-
ed with Miss Meighen while guests at
Cliff Inn last summer and may prove
interesting also to people interested
in the Sunshine state. When it be-
came known that Miss Meighen and
her sister were to accept positions in
the public schools at Goldfeld, one of
the most remarkable cities in the
country, requests for letters came from
many of their friends. These requests,
of course, were remembered, but
Miss Meighen has written at greatest
length to her sister, Mrs. F. r. Volk
who has very kindly permitted The
Free Press to print the letter, which
| follows:
| Goldfeld, Nov. 2, l907.-Dear Sister:
suppose you are anxious to hear
| from us about Goldfield. I have so
much to say that don't know where
| to begin; so in order to give you an
idea of our trip also, I will start at
Mankato.
We left AIankato Aug. 6, at l0:45
and reached Sioux City the same after
noon about five. We stayed there one
day, visiting the Kents, and, needless
| to say, they entertained us royalty,
showing us everything of interest.
From Sioux City we went directly to
Denver, via Omaha. Our friends met
us at the depot at-s,Denver. aaad--took.
us around that city in their auto
mobile. We spent two afternoons in
Judge Lindsey's Juvenile court, and
were much interested in the same.
We presented ourselves to the Judge,
with our letters of introduction, and
were received very courteously by him.
He has about fifty children under his
charge who report to him daily. He
gave us very interesting explanation
of his ideas and work. Judge Lindsey
is certainly doing a great work in
the cause of humanity, and is true
friend of the children. He spoke
highly of our friend, ''Mogy" Bernstein
and of his philanthropic work among
the young people of Omaha.
Denver is beautiful city, and the
Colorado climate the fairest in the
world.
Our friends, Mr. and Mrs. d. Z.
Courcey O'Brien, live in Greeley, about
| fifty miles north of Denver. Greeley
is a beautiful little place, of about
5000 inhabitants, situated in the mid
die of one of the most fertile agricul-
tural districts of the west. 1t con-
tains many delightful people, and is
one of the educational centers of the
state. Here is located fine state nor
NAL school, well equipped public Ii
brary and other public institutions.
! 1t is needless to say that the lid"
is on very tight here, too.
Not Paid to Boost
Now let me stop right here, and
state that 1 am not paid by any real
estate man of Greeley for boosting the
place, but it is the finest ever. We
stayed here six weeks, and during that
time had rain only twice. Moreover,
you do not notice that dry feeling
which is noticeable in lower alti'
tude. In fact, everything is altitude
here. If anything goes wrong, the
altitude is to blame; if a housewife
has failure in cake baking-it is
the altitude; if your hair falls out
| it is the altitude-if the shoemaker
makes mistake in fitting your shoes,
and the right one is shorter than the
left-he is not to blame, it is the al
titude. The moment we arrived here,
we became infected with the spirit of
| 'boosting." Every man, woman and
child is boosting" Colorado. They
never tire of telling you the number
of potatoes and sugar beets that are
produced per acre, etc. One nice gen.
tleman was telling me the advantages
of the state, and claimed that they
had 36S days of sunshine in year.
1 said "That's good! Go on; that
must be the altitude" However, had
he said 365 days of sunshine, I would
have believed him.
We took many delightful side trip
through the state, the grandest of
which was over the Moffat road. At
Corona, an elevation of $4,000 feet,
we found ourselves surrounded on all
sides with great snowbanks-this was
on the 18th of August.
My time is too limited and paper
too expensive here, for me to describe
in full our trip from Denver, and can
only be appreciated by those who have
seen it.
1 must hurry on, or I'll never reach