The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-14
Tact IS ENTERTAINED
Sugar Beet Raising Is Described and
Process of Making Granulated
Sugar Is Given.

The following extracts are from
private family letter written by
Mrs. Charles Callahan to W. E.
Leonard and family of this city.
Mrs. Callahan was Miss Bessie Leon
ard, third daughter of Mr.. Leonard,
and her husband was Terre
Haute boy. The health of Mr.. Gala
han was not good here and they NOV
ed to Denver, Colorado, where he is
in the employ of the Denver Post.
The letter was not written for publ
cation, but the writer tells of some
things that will be of interest to
others aside from the immediate
family circle, and will harm no one
by being given a wider circulation.
In the work that Mr.. Callahan does
he is obliged to travel about a good
deal, and was for time stationed at
Cripple Greek, and his wife was
with him on some of these trips,
and writes of personal observations
at various places.
Mrs. Callahan says: When I went
up to Cripple Greek from Denver,
took only suit case to stay two
weeks, but instead it was two
months We were there seven
weeks. and then got word to 90 to
Pueblo for State Fair week, and as
the Post sent passes to everything 1
went along. Then we went on to
other places, driving great deal, till
we were some 200 miles east Of Den
yer, and near the Kansas line. We
were in Monzanola. Fowler, Rocky
ford. Sugar City. Ordway and La
Junta, where is the terminal of the
Santa Fe system.
shall always be glad of the time
spent in the Cripple Creek district,
as | saw so many interesting things.
Charlie had found so many pieces of
ore with specks of gold In, almost
four rounds, and as we could not
carry them around. we took them to
an assayer to treat them and extract
the gold. It was quite a boiling
down, as he now has button of pure
gold worth little over two dollars,
and a larger silver button. The as
savers Office is certainly interesting.
The man balanced the scales evenly
then took a single hair from Leon
ards head (this is their little sony
and laid it on the scales, and you
should have seen them tilt. He told
exactly what it weighed. Then he
balanced two-inch squares Of plain
paper. and then he marked across
one of the trays with a pencil and
showed the extreme difference in
weight. This scales cost $4,000, and
thew are certainly sensitive.
We went up to Pixies Peak on the
Cog Road. The paper got us tick
cts. as otherwise it would have been
$500 each-and I may add, we
wouldn't have gone. 1t was fine
trip, and one which every tourist
thinks is necessary to complete his
visit to the west. We were some
what disappointed in it, as it is not
so grand as many other places. But
it is the name, you see. The sum-
NIT is 14147 feet, and there was |
quite bit of snow the day we were
there, so we could throw some for
each of .you We had a As minute
stay up there, and could look down
on Manitou and Colorado Springs
over a mile below. There is a tele-
graph station and large hotel, and
places to buy souvenirs, etc. The
cars hold fifty persons, and during
the season they run six or eight
trains day. The expense of build
ing this road must have been enor-
nous. The steepest grade is ~
degrees. The road has double cog
rails in the middle, and every wheel
has an extra wheel, with cogs which
clutch in these grooves In the rails
at every revolution. so it can't slip
back. At $4,000 feet elevation we
passed the timber line, and all was
barren from that up We passed and
could see, seven Of the big lakes and
reservoirs which are the water sup
ply Of I'enver, and the Springs, and
can you imagine any water more
pure than these lakes of ice cold
water so high above all impurities,
and fed by streams from snow banks,
piped down to the city. Denver GER
tainly has good water which is cold
all the summer long. Quite con-
traSt To what we had at Pueblo and