Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-02
tsy +. 7. .c'ory.) i


"A desert In the mountainous re-
gions is but another name for prairie.
sage brush and struggling blades OIL
vegetation or stems Of weed or flower
taking the place Of grass.
AS I moved over the desert on the
roadway leading to Colorado Springs
II contrasted the going with that of
the regions through which I had re-
Gently passed. 1t had been either up
or down, and, mountaiheer that 4
might have termed myself, was fre-
quently puzzled to know whether I
was ascending or descending. Many
a time / had sought to switch the
mechanism from low gear to high
only to be told by my engine that Il
was laboring under delusion.
GIancing backward, ! would perceive
that was ascending "stiff' grade
NJ ii, 1 had travelled ten thousand miles
among the mountains | doubt whether
Icould have been always certain con
cerning the grade whether it was
up or down. Experienced mountain
eers encounter the same difficulty. As
one approaches the base Of a peak
or range Of high hills, there is al
ways the appearance of down grade
before him sort of optical illusion.
But once more on the prairie, there
was nothing but the capacity of my
engine or my ability to steer the ma
chine, or perchance roughness of the
road incident to recent rains. or
maybe only clean mud, to impede my
4 progress, On the prairie / rarely re
sorted to the use Of the brake, where
y as it had bean necessary In the
mountainous sections TO apply both
! brakes now and then, and ia q few
instances so precipitous was the de-
cline that I refused to trust to the
ssa3rakes but held the s'sfr IN check by
using the reverse with the engine urI-
der full steam. Z
Colorado Springs and Denver. &
spent the night in Colorado Springs
a beautiful city on{tne prairie skirting
the foothills. Its normal population
is 10000. but 1 am told that during
the summer season it Is frequently
swollen to 100000. It IL the home OF
many Of Denver's moneyed men, and
it derives its main support from tour
lists.
The next morning struck out for
Denver, Colorado's richest and great
est city, and, guess, It's Wickedest.
The distance Is seventy miles, which
~ covered in four hours, although the
rough roads had prolonged the time
by at least an ilouss Ordinarily this
is a fine roadway
Denver, as II have said, is rich in
things material but otherwise l fear
II is like Jobs traditional turkey
scarcely fitted for q Thanksgiving din
ner.
OF cougs here are many, very
many, grand men and noble women
+ iii Denver Vow and then they rise
above party onsideration and make
a clean sweep and strive to make the
city decent morally, but they seem
ingly forget that the thing called the
devil never sleeps.
But Denver, despite its many mag
snifcent business structures and num-
erous palatiaI residences, is exper-
fencing q temporary period Of finan-
scial depression:
Beautiful Greeley.
When l say /. Beautiful Greeley
have in mind the surrounding country
rather than the town itself, although
the latter is q lively city of some ten
to twelve thousand populatio II IS
located In the heart OF rich agricuI
tural section saw no region sur
passing Ii Ia respect Of progress and
thrift. There are no nearby mines
Frnitraising is but q pastime. IN the
main, In it's vicinity II derives its
wealth from the tlling of the soil
Here the silo ii 4 marked feature.
should Judge that every progress
I atve farmer has one. some perhaps
Mn Faans and vegeta ablea we're
growing ~ abnnd dance, With 9 liberal
aCreage of rpughage and alfalfa for; fsor