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r=...of the Eocky Mountains. ; I spent nearly half of my time in: n to Pueblo tonicest country you ever saw. I did not stop at the Springs as I had the '‘run, and had to go through to Pueblo. I only tookide up of saloons mce, and “other houses,” all built of bricks which are made of mud dried in the sun. I forgot io state that there are they would be called big bam-yards in York State. TheLJte persuasion. The soldiers are there for the protection of the stage-drivers, saloon-rut they seem to be . ____________ . , the XJtes ceiaitown and get drunk with the soldiers and have a' * ‘good time” together generally. Do you think yon will knew Pueblo when you it? I left then and arrived thereat sis P.M., went io in the evening, for they do Lave eh ’ in Denver, at least I saw two. I forgot to say that it was Sunday the day I came back.days are alike cut .there and if a fellow don’t keep account he never can tell which is Sunday. My next trip was to Central and Slack Hawk. ‘ 'no go as Lir as Golden into the mountains over a broad gauge S. E. like the L. I. E. E. From there we transfer to a narrow gauge, the track is three inches an a street ear track, so you can imagine the size and accommodating propensities of the coaches. There is only one of single seats, and they are pbced al-they get tired of itrtip. there. Tftasted'g ^icfore, and was jiuthe'saddle, from half past; three t|l half ^st scVen,bottle of arnic res rark, s l who firstIt is a kind of valley Just at the; foot.of Long's Peak, and is surrounded on all sides by snow topped peaks, so that it is impossible to get out without climbing a mountain, except at one place where a small creek runs out through a kind of a canon. It is only about four miles long aud two miles and is as beautiful a place as you can imagine. The inhabitants consist of Mr.H. and wife and daughter, a Mr. Evans and family, and a trapper called Mountain Jim. Mr. H. and Mr. E. arehere for their health, so is Jim, although in the eating ability don’t show his lungs to be affected in the least.and consist of deer, bea or as you call them, panther?, wildcats, mountain sheep, skunks, e, All the in-.habitants .seem to bo ou very fricnf especially the aborigi.nees and the In fact they are too familiar to be agreeable sometimes, as they always make their calls after dark. I ■found out after I got thereI should have liked, the night previous,hadthan .woul-1 have been conducive to my health and happiness if it had not been for a good lire. However I slept in blissful ignorance of anything except that I was tired. Wel!, to return to the thread of my n \ as story-writers say. .After taking aside of the car. Twelve men can lift a coach on aud off the track. From Golden we strike right up into the heart of thegood times passed in IffT and Mrs.H. and E. and myself, went down to the creek to get our dinner, and in an half hour had caught a basket full cf nice spotted trout, your young hopeful winning the laurels by cabbing six more fish than anybody else. Mr.’ H. thinks that I have fished be-gold and silver mining !foro_ T]lis venison, and’t describe the scenery along ’ shcep are all the meat they get. Mountain the road it is too grand for anything hut j jim kecps them in ‘f right | They iiave quite a csight. Just imagine a road bed cut' through solid rock most of the way, not ft j tj,at region, they have four foot of it straight, and in no place can you j stairs £lA two down. It see one hundred yards ahead, it crooks and ! cll:n yrdh m1K-j 0f so. I don’t'le of logs and would; look pretty rough in Lawrence, or SagHar-know exactly what the grade is, but it looks j bor? but it is a palaee {,],erc Most ofhave only one room anil no windows, the roof is made of small logs withside of the track a wall of rock that rises ; t]ie 011tskle, and is simply right uy for seven or eight hum] red legi, a heap about six feet high. J? have ‘athrown over it, the chimney |s built cand on the other a water about fifteen feet wide, and I don't know how ueop, coming down over- rocks,wci, at flip fal.i I h noise so tor. can !iand beyond that is another wal| cf , ...like the one on the left. It is just like this for fifty miles, and it takes five hours to I slopped at Central and got dinner, and spent an hour in visiting the mines, as far as Golden that samet day l vpicture of the log house, or fh'e.uSgativo of it, and when I got some printed will yon one. Some IT. S. Surveyors were up there taking views of the country and kindly took a negative. The next day was like unto the aforesaid, in the morning and in the afternoon Em. aud I took a ride up Long Peak, to snow; their house is miles from the foot of the Peak aud about six from snow. We went up as far as we -balled in July.‘How is that for high.’ The snow is adrod feet deep in some places and is so all the year round. It all looks level and so person hi*? toAe careful, as it is very dangerous to go into it anyhow, and a ” never can tell when lie may step off rock and sink into ‘oblivion’ (I moan outffifui maiden j of sight) . Well, we got lost coming 1 iu Lawrence, j in wandering about to find the :forty miles from Denver. I quiries and engaged’a Iiorse,a bigger six shooter and rifle. I then■ht my peaceful conch intending to start at three the next morning for Esires Park re- dwelt a which the same used to liv 'out between my excitement over shu-tingon a trip like the aforesaid aud the bed-bugs, 1j caught on adidn’t get to sleep until pretty Jure. How- j warnmgykst iorc, necessitating me ever, in spite of all these trials hud tribnla- ; to bo.l, when we got 1»°«* and let 3Jlions I manngrd to get staned at lonr' tna: SGw -it u?. We hafisbme fun e next morning. I stopped at- a “ranch,” the ‘ talking over old times. It was ail I last house to be seen for thirty miles, and ' do togot breakfast, r.r.d started with a ligh t heartalthough seme “scarry,” (I will own.) up some such a canon'as I described going to Slack Jiawir, only not so precipitous. I followed my nose and the road, and about one o'clock found myself coining back down-A X don'tbelieve I ever saw so lonesome a girl. She and her mother bauisheu as they are from the society they have been used to all theirlives, to live ray out ilia re fifty miles from nowhere, it is awful. I reached Longmont 1 had started cut in the j at six that- night and Denver the r.extnoon.Jf a ever was mad in my life The next day rent to Cheyenne, ami thenback to Denver. On my way from; .Denver to Cheyenne I passed through Greeley. I suppose you are' interested in anything that concerns Old Horace. - I did] not see anything very remarkable about k-j Thoso western towns are about all niikcj I saw move cattle drovers than any iking ylse.I was thou. I stopped at tlfe ranch where I had got breakfast and starred over again,in getting on the•re were two roads at went around aI followed the track : forty miles. IVeii. asr six when my horse :1 about eight miles ud tin- joke of it was, from the house too ; :en rods ahead of you io a stake by tying u-idle together, madeirnl as I 1j a big fire cf mountain plno be ] to si cop with my saddle lor a pillow. I had a hours and put on ilauket. It is cs co:d up there at night as some nights in winter at homo, and it either wakes a fellcw jt:p or freezes him to death. Started {henon: morning ns soon as it- was daylight andcame to the house though I kiu not know it was their house till Mr. H. came to the door. Ho used to be- a'hardware merchantin Lawrence, and was taken with the consumption mid has gone yo the mountains for his health. I tell you they were glad to see me, they’had’not seen any one vcr.tdde ofjb, the other iairily that live in the Lark, in j c. 'our weeks, find a mneh longer time since; 0J tkvy had vcen -my one from Lawrence, to f lt;.c -j; -r.-.y nothing of an sequuintmice. The g'ri,r ‘ mm runned as brown as an Indian. And the ~ = aj way riivy diu get around mid dis.li up break* - ^ ‘ fast was Sf mething to see. We had venison ‘ d‘
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