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Show 94 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. In 1866 business of every kind received a great impetus in the town and throughout the Territory. A board of trade was organized in 1867; but the most powerful influence in adjusting the Indian difficulties and inaugurating a better era was the coming of the railroads. The Denver Pacific was completed June 24, 1870, and the Kansas Pacific made its advent on the 18th of August following, From that day to this Colorado has flourished grandly in commercial and, industrial enterprises, becoming at last one of the most remarkable and prosperous States in the West. In 1876 she was admitted into the Union, whence called the Centennial State. CHAPTER XXII. TO THE MOUNTAINS. I have dwelt somewhat minutely on matters and things connected with the settlement of Denver, for its rise and progress- is a marvel of modern civilization, and in a measure its history is the history of Colorado. Never before has there been such a city built up, under so many conflicting circumstances; particularly in its first decade. Situated in the heart of an empire infested by predatory and cruel savages, at the dawn of a fierce rebellion, in the brief space of twenty-five years it has grown from a small village of tents and log houses to a magnificent metropolis. The domes of massive public buildings tower high, and the wide streets, edged with trees, vie with those of Washington, the city of magnificent distances. |