Year: 1875

DENVER, COL, Dee. 4, 1873.
EDS. JEFF: After residing in this
Territory for about three months, have
concluded to write you a few items in
regard to the country.


The mining interest. as you are aware,
is the chief interest of this Territory. and
it has paid those engaged in that busi-
ness the past summer very well. Next
to the mining business is the stock
interest. There are many large herds
of cattle in this country. At the station
of Cheyenne, there has been six hun
dred car loads of cattle shipped this
season, large increase over any former
year. There is one man alone living
here in Denver, who owns twenty.si
thousand head of cattle, and has
yentured to contract for twenty thou
sand head more, to be delivered next
summer. The stock, horses, cattle and
sheep here, live all the year with only
what feed they get out on the plains, and
are mostly in very fine condition.


Now, in regard to agriculture; not
wirhstandins the grasshoppers did
much mischief last spring, destroyed the
first planting of corn almost entirely,
those who persevered and kept on
planting, raised a very fair crop. OF
wheat and oats there was a very fair
crop; many raised from thirty to forty
bushels of wheat per acre, and of ex-
cellent quality.


Root crops and vegetables We're very
good here this season. saw one patch
of melons, on / think less than one half
acre of ground, where the man sold two
hundred and forty-five dollars worth of
melons, and there were many left lying
on the ground.


The weather here is most delightful
more like May than like December


will close my letter by giving you
the adventures (as 1 think they were
most heroic, of little girl nine years
old, whose parents reside at Platteville,
thirty-fiv miles north of Denver. The
father with his little child went out on
last Saturday even.Ny to drive home
some cattle, and having found some
calves some distance from the house, the
father told the little girl to drive them
home while he would go and look after
some cows.


When the father returned to his house,
he was surprised and alarmed to find
that his little daughter had not return
ed. Darkness had now fallen and the
anxious parents hurried out in search
of their child. BIT she was no where
to be found. The neighbors were arous-
ed and passed the entire night in search
ing for the little one, but without sue
cess, and the night was very frosty,
cold one. The next day there were
some fifty men on horse back hunting
for the child the entire day, but still
without success. On Monday morning,
farmer appeared in Judge Brasee's
Court, in Evens, anG announced that

he had found the missing child. She
had lost her way while driving home the
calves, and wandered about the entire
night. She had thus walked many
weary miles through the darkness, until
she had reached his house about noon
the next day, some twenty miles away.
She was brought home and restored TO
her almost distracted parents. l went
to see her the next day, and found her
a very bright, smart child, although
very small of her age, being a twin.
She said that the wolves followed her
like flock of sheep all night, and when
asked if she was not afraid, she said she
was not, for her mother had told her
if she was good, nothing would hurt her,
God would take care of her; and that
she never sat down, for her father had
told her she must never sit down, if lost,
for if she did she might go to sleep and
perish. She said she kept the wolves
off from her with whip which she had
with her. A. LEONARD.