. To California and back; . of sunlit meadow, whose penetrating beautyand perfect peace is enhanced by the grandeurof the College Peaks, which from the grass-grown and timbered slopes of their feet rise toheights and forms of awful sublimity. BuenaVista means in the Spanish a comprehensiveoutlook rather than a beautiful scene. It is aeuphonious name, and serves well enough inColorado, where among so much that is super-lative one learns to be temperate in the use ofadjectives; but anywhere else in the world thisshould have been Vista Gloriosa. It is a peepof paradise, a dream of a happy vale wh
. To California and back; . of sunlit meadow, whose penetrating beautyand perfect peace is enhanced by the grandeurof the College Peaks, which from the grass-grown and timbered slopes of their feet rise toheights and forms of awful sublimity. BuenaVista means in the Spanish a comprehensiveoutlook rather than a beautiful scene. It is aeuphonious name, and serves well enough inColorado, where among so much that is super-lative one learns to be temperate in the use ofadjectives; but anywhere else in the world thisshould have been Vista Gloriosa. It is a peepof paradise, a dream of a happy vale where theblessed might dwell in joy CRIPPLE CREEK. Four years ago the famous gold camp wasreached only by stage coach at the heels of halfa dozen spirited horses driven by a veteran whoreeked of border reminiscence. Two railroadsnow transport its passengers and freight, theMidland Terminal on the north, and theFlorence &^ Cripple Creek on the south. Its. history is pretty well known. Twice it hasbeen a more than national sensation, and twicethe wave of general excitement has subsidedand the greater part of the gathered throng offevered gold-seekers, disappointed in its hopeof acquiring immediate and unmerited riches,has melted away with anathema upon its the first wave receded perhaps five outof twelve or fifteen thousand remained clusteredaround a few mines of enormous determinedvalue and a goodly number of promising claims,among half a dozen small and fragile settle-ments which wore the motley aspect peculiar toyoung mining towns. During the second in-flux, Avhen the population numbered twenty-fiveor thirty thousand, the camps were transformed159
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