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Show 264 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. beverage to the public as the newsboy with his paper. We went to the mineral springs, just at the edge of the city, and found many invalids there, lolling in the rustic arbor, and drinking freely of the health-giving waters, which are said to cure chronic, cutaneous and blood diseases. The next on the programme was Talbott Hill, where Professor Marsh of Yale College, and Professor Cope of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia, have exhumed bones of animals of enormous size. These fossil remains were discovered in April, 1878, by a young gentleman who was teaching a country school in the park. He immediately apprised the professors of his discovery, and since then Talbott Hill has attracted the attention of the entire scientific world. Limited time prevented our visiting the orchard of Mr. Jesse Frazier, who has succeeded in demonstrating the possibilities of fruit culture in the Arkansas valley. I learned from good authority that he has now nearly three thousand * apple trees in bearing. Canon City has been settled twice. In 1860-61 it was almost as large and important as Denver, but the diversion of travel to the South Park mines by another route, and a great many of her citizens having entered the army at the outbreak of the war, soon brought the place to ruin. In 1863 it was almost entirely depopulated, Mr. Anson Rudd and family being left its sole occupants. Any man who could remain in a frontier town while it was indulging in a Rip Van Winkle sleep of five or six years ought to be worth interviewing, and so, accompanied by Judge Felton of the Record, I called at his residence, and, happily, found him to be a pleasant, |
