. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Oct. 16, 1902. AMERICAN BEE JOUPNAL 661 from the " I<oop " point, the town has the appearance of beinf;^ built in a sort of bowl formed by the mountains sur- roundiiifj it. It is a typical mining,' town. Kverything must be brouffht into the place on the railroad, as there is no farminjf land anywhere near. All alonp the sides of the mountains could be seen places where some precious-metal prospector or miner had dug his sort of woodclnick-like hole, and boarded up the front, often closing- it with a door. We think we wouldn't care to live
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Oct. 16, 1902. AMERICAN BEE JOUPNAL 661 from the " I<oop " point, the town has the appearance of beinf;^ built in a sort of bowl formed by the mountains sur- roundiiifj it. It is a typical mining,' town. Kverything must be brouffht into the place on the railroad, as there is no farminjf land anywhere near. All alonp the sides of the mountains could be seen places where some precious-metal prospector or miner had dug his sort of woodclnick-like hole, and boarded up the front, often closing- it with a door. We think we wouldn't care to live in Georgetown. It's too " hilly " there to suit us. We reached Silver Illume about 12 o'clock, and re- mained only long enough to eat lunch. Silver Plume is simply "no place"—only a mining camp away up on and in the mountains. And it seemed as if there was nothing but mountains in every direction as far as the eye could see. The return, or downhill, trip was made in a shorter time. The train simply whizzed around the curves. At Georgetown it stopped a few minutes, when we were enter- tained by three or four small, poorly-clad children who sang one or two Sunday-school songs, one being " In the Dawn- ing of the ; It seemed strange to hear such sweet music coming from such forlorn-looking children and in such a God-forsaken place. But it would have done your soul good to have seen those children jump for the nickels and dimes that were thrown to them from the car windows. The rest of the return trip to Denver was uneventful, except the scenery seemed grander than when first seen on going up. It .seemed to grow on one. It is nimply wonder- ful. It was about the cheapest side-trip we took after the convention, as it cost only ^2.(K) for the round-trip. We thought it was the most for the least money of anything we struck in or near Denver—except it was that excellent ban- quet (which was free to all from outside of Colorado) with its
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