The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-08-29
A Colorado Letter
From b. F.Clayton
3. F.. Clayton Visiting in CoIos.de
Sends Letter Concerning
Town Of Julesburg, Where
He Is Visiting . Nep.
hsw
Julesburg, Colorado
july %. 1912

Julesburg, Colorado
July %, 1912
Editor of The Herald
You will observe by this that India.
rola has citizen in the wild and
Wcolly West. In fact you VIII find
Iowa people in every locality between
the Missouri River and the Golden Gate
where the sun filings back its last ling
ering kiss as it sinks beyond the Paci-
fic Ocean
The traveller will never know what
he has missed until he has taken con-
tinental trip across this great country
of ours via the Union Pacific Railway
along the Platte Valley.
Taking Pullman palace car out Of
Omaha at, night after visiting the
@'Diner" you are tucked away in your
birth between sheets Is clean and
white - srox The regular rythm Of the
ponderous train with the clink-it-a-clink
Of the car wheels - they cross the
the joints Of the steel rails soon rocks
you to sleep while you are hurried
along the Platte River in . valley long
er, wider and richer In it, productive
resources than that Of the historic
Nile in its balmy ages. At daylight
you are awakened by the call of "All
out for Julesburg". You step out and
find you are at the logical Gateway"
between the East and the West and in
the trarsit you have climbed up in
the world more than three thousand
feet, Not often one gets up in the
world so easy and SO fast. The stat
ion was formerly called Denver juno
tion but afterwards the name was
changed to Julesburg in honor of an old
frontier settler of pioneer days.
Ju!esburg is where trains are divided
up between the Overland Route" and
mountain city of Denver; the one via
this Lodge Pole valley and on to the
Pacific coast; the other via the city of
Denver, Colorado Springs, and up to
the crest of the continent the top of
Pixies Peak, where you take your reck-
on ing and find you are more than
fourteen thousand feet above sea Level
Looking out over a matchless scenery
you will observe mountain view ir
the crevices of which miserly nature
has concealed gold and silver enough tc
purshase continent. But it is of the
city of Julesburg that wish to write.
Thirty years ago the writer first
visited the spot on which Julesbure
now stands. At that time there was
no town here, nothing but the station
house. No post-office nearer thar
twenty five miles. Since that time
the tran storm >tion has beer
tremendous. .Julesburg of to-day is {
clean white City" with population
of one thousand people. The street:
are wide and well kept and miles Of
cement sidewalks line either side
The city is one of the beauty
spots of the West. The cottages, bung
allows. and the more pretentious resid
ences are of the first order of archtec
ture. 1t is the county seat of Sedgwicl
County. Colorado, with magn!ficen
court house surrounded with charming
parkage.
The first object attracting your at
tention is the City Park. 1t is yer
liable grove, clean kept lawn, ant
the play grounds of hundreds of child
dren who make the air ring with thei
glad laughter, and place wher'
the hobo tourist sleeps at night whel
not disturbed by city officers.
School and church privileges are un
surpassed. All mercantile lines ar
we'll represented and two Nationa
banks take care of the financial end.
Two newspapers dish up the politica
and social side of things. Private ant
public properties are surrounded will
shade and fruit tress so that the entir'
city has the appearance of one hug
park. The city is blessed with an end
less supply of water distributed by
first class water plant, and has one o
the finest electric light systems il
the West. 1t is splendid city and i
on the the highway of prosperity. AM
whv should it not be a splendid little