. The Pacific tourist . res of fine alluvialsoil in the VaUey of the Cache La Poudre is the largest stream that flows eastwardfrom the mountains of north Colorado, its waterbeing pure and flow constant. Irrigating ditcheswere constructed, and the entire colony has hadan abundance of water for all agricultural pur-poses. The town for several years has increasedwith steady rapidity, and the population is slight-ly over 2,000. It has had many drawbacks inci-dent to new settlements — grasshoppers, frost,want of knowledge of climate, and methods ofraising crops. Still these are mostly ov
. The Pacific tourist . res of fine alluvialsoil in the VaUey of the Cache La Poudre is the largest stream that flows eastwardfrom the mountains of north Colorado, its waterbeing pure and flow constant. Irrigating ditcheswere constructed, and the entire colony has hadan abundance of water for all agricultural pur-poses. The town for several years has increasedwith steady rapidity, and the population is slight-ly over 2,000. It has had many drawbacks inci-dent to new settlements — grasshoppers, frost,want of knowledge of climate, and methods ofraising crops. Still these are mostly overcome,and the community feel greatly crops of the last year are said to have reacheda value of over At this place are lo-cated some of the finest grist-mills of the entireAVest. The place has achieved considerable repu-tation as a temperance town. Xo intoxicatingliquors being permitted on sale. This restrictionis of but little consequence to those who n-ill have 74 WME ^M€iFS€ F& WILLIAMS CANON, COLORADO SPRINGS. BY THOMAS MORAN. wmm ^m€iFi€ w&w^iBw. it, as it can easily be obtained at the next station,six miles away, but it has kept a class of loafersand idlers off, who otherwise would have been acurse to any community. Evans—is a small settlement of about 1,000,which is the number of two colonies, one fromSt. Louis and one from Boston, ]\Iass. There areabout 60,000 acres of land occupied in the vicinity. Den Ier—is the capital of the Territory (whichwill soon become a State). This has become alarge railroad point. From it diverge the Kan-sas Pacific, 636 miles eastward to Kansas City,the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, NarrowGauge, southward, miles to Canon City, Pu-eblo and Trinidad, the Boulder Valley Railroad toBoulder, and the Colorado Central Railroad toIdaho Springs and Central City in the mountains. Its population exceeds 16,000, and its locationis most advantageous for easy trade and com-munication with all the princi
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