Year: 1879

world, would be termed Spring, here the ice has to be broken in the water pitchers in the mornings before using, and the stoves are closely and re- ligiOusly hugged turing most of the time. The population is extremely

 heterogeneous and variously estimated,

 being from every nation except the

 Chinese, none of whom are allowed

 here. The old residents term the newcomers tender feet" The form CT are the parties who have made

 Leadyille what it is, and made what

 money, rich strikes and hauls have

 been made. The tender feet" are

 those who have been so freely bled

 and slaughtered. But death has had

 his vengeance on the old standbys, too, they being carried to their long homes

 as stealthily and frequently as the

 tender feet.' No record or death

 rate ever appears in the daily papers of this place. Each of them is making too good thing by keeping the delu- sion up as long as they possibly can

 Their harvest is rich and their profits enormous both on labor and outlay,

 but they may be allowed their present advantage, and that, with the outlook from the number of business houses

 being erected, may continue for a time, but that time cannot be very

 long, as the representation of the diff ferent branches of business is more than ample, and stocks of many kinds are far in excess of the demand. AL though the craze will not subside all at once, yet that it will subside there

 is no doubt whatever Gambling hells and dancehouses flourish, and, while there is q large sprinkling of thieves and ruffians of the worst class, men of character and reputation are to be found in gOodly numbers. Thousands of men here scarcely know what the use of soap or water on their bodies is. They go round in the same garments outer and under from one weeks end to another, and months pass sometimes without change being made. Filth and vermin predoninate to a fearful extent, and, even 'len who have peen accustomed to Fl the luxuries and comforts with which home can well be surrounded, when here retrogade in that particular by which they become an easy prey to the many diseases which the utter neglect of sanitary precaut ms by the anthoritie., so readi- lv produces. The hotels, boarding houses and saloons for sleeping accom- mndations are crowded to the extreme, yet most of those who think of com ing had better, if they can afford it, come and be cured-that is, if they are spared to return and tell the tale The brilliant and false stories will continue to be scattered freely abroad by the emisSaries of those who areI mostly interested Doubtless thereI will be rich strikes made and new sec tons opened up, and some poor men may become millionaireS, but it is worth big fortune to come here and have to go back; then what ought it to- be worth to come here and lay ones bones on these bleak, cold, cheerless hills, which thousands and thousands have already done?

 Catarrh, sore throat, and all kinds of lung diseases are very prevalent, and quickly fatal in this vicinity It is. difficult to know, or come to correct idea of the number of deaths which | occur daily, unless one stays in the graveyard day and night on purpose to count the interments. Even in the lower attitudes, several thousand feet below here, it is a remarkable fact that whole families are subject to and suffering from a filthy and disagree able nasal catarrh, and there are butt few instances where there are any members of family free of this af- fiictiOn, while many are found to have both catarrh and deafness in one ear. Colorado has been, and is now, highly spoken of as a great sanitarium for asthma and bronchial complaints. Doubtless thousands have found relief, ] and have been cured by the dry at mosphere, while many more thousands have died, death being attributed to the disease having too strong hold. 1. But even in the town of Denver, which is still lower, in passing through the streets you rarely meet any one who is free from this same abominable catarrh or deafness, or who does not | manifest a thickness in his speech Cor. $. F. Post.