The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-06-27
PENClLINGS BY THE WAY.
Graphic, Descriptive Account Of the
West by U. C. Palmer.

InS mdryIduuST Out Wnen II Is KNOWN
that it takes several hours and many
miles to do it, it loses its incredibility.
This ride until the immediate vicinity
of Denver is reached shows all of the
marks of getting farther and farther
from.the centers of civilization. Here
we pass from the fertile valley farms,
well irrigated and raising record break
ing crops of sugar beets and alfalfa, to
the buffalo moss covered sandy plains
that offer but scanty inducements to
the raisers of cattle, sheep and horse.
Thousands of heads of stock persisted
last winter from lack of food and shell
ter and many of the carcasses are still
seem from the car window.
This is the land of perpetual sunshine.
Denver is a surprising city to the East
ern man. Colorado is the Pennsylvania
of the West. 1t was admitted in 1876
as the Centennial State"
Denver has 16 railroads, covers SO
square miles of territory, and scarcely
a wood building is to be seen as lumber
is scarce and stone, cement and brick
are cheap,
The city was surveyed As years ago
and today has population of 225, 900.
It's banks have 500, 600, 900 on deposit.
1t has 72 miles of paved streets, 225
miles of street car tracks. 1t is the
center of the mining industry of the
west. The Omaha and Grant smelter
is one of the largest in the world and
its chimney is the highest in this coun-
try and tie third largest in the world.
The residence section of the city is
more beautiful and more artistic than
the water side of Beacon street, Boston,
or the Murray Hill section of Fifth
avenue, New York although of course
the houses themselves cost far less and
gardens, vines. &c, lack the beauty
and individuality that come from age.
was surprised to see here the home
of Lawrence C. Phipps, the one time
partner of Andrew Carnegie, and to
learn that here lives DR.. Grant credited
with being the first physician to perform
an operation for appendicitis.
Mr.. Phipps has endowed home for
consumptives miles from the city
with accommodations for $50 persons
in honor of his mother who died of that
disease.
Today at noon the weather is like
Oakland on July 4th and plainly visible
from all parts of the city are the sum-
mits of the Rocky mountains clothed in
perpetual snow-Pike's and Longs
peaks Is and 100 miles away and hard
to believe as being one tenth Of that
distance.
was charmed with Lincoln's capitol
but Denver's cost So, 900, 000-its base
ment floor is just one mile above sea
level and from the top of its dome the
mountains can be seen for 200 miles.
In the basement is the most complete
and valuable collection of the Cliff
Dwellers in the world and for which the
State refused an offer of 81, 10000
The mint at Denver, while not large
comparatively, is said to be the most
perfect one in the world.
Colorado Springs is the Deer Park of
Colorado only that it has $4,000 people
and 43 millionares. The Alamo and
Anthers hotels are elegant in their APP
like the Turraine of Boston
and Waldof- Astoria of New York The
streets are very very wide and lined
with shade trees. There is more tim
Der in them than all | have seen in
Colorado to date. We are right up I'M
der the shadow here of the Rocky
mountains, which must be seen to be
appreciated as no person can fully de-
scribed their imposing majesty.
The waters here flow through the
Arkansas to the Gulf of Mexico and the
Atlantic. A few hours west the great
continental divide is crossed and FIND
ourselves in the region tributary to the
Pacific, through the Colorado River anC
and Gulf of Lower California.
While this city depends largely on its
tourist trade, it has the largest mining
exchange in the world and fixes the
prices of mining stocks in New York
San Francisco, and elsewhere. Also a
few miles away is the plant of the
United States Reduction Co., and two
other smelters which neat 1850 tons OF
Cripple Creek ores every twenty-foul
hours and | was surprised to find there
great trunk lines of railroad-the Rocl
Island, the Santa Fe andMissouri Pacific
centering here. But it cannot help be
coming more and more popular with the
tourist every year, with Pixies Peak
Manitou, The Garden of the Gods, anC
a dozen other less noted but no lesl
wonderful attractions surrounding thu
city. have just returned from a TRIP
to Cripple Creek and it is task 10 Sc
lect what to write, as am filled will
scenery as Chicago is with beer-tt
"saturation."
l always had great respect for tn,