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Show 114 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. MENU. Soup, a la Bean. Fish. Brook Trout, a la catch them first. Meats. Antelope, larded, Pioneer style. Bread. Biscuit, Hand-made, full weight, a la yellow. Vegetables. Beans, Mountain style, warranted boiled forty-eight hours, a la soda. Dessert. Dried Apples, Russel Gulch style. Coffee, served in tin cups, to be washed clean for the occasion; overland style, a la no cream. "Ordered, that to begin with, the cook shall wash his hands. But after the banquet he can let the dishes stand over, and use them for breakfast without washing, so as not to delay the procession. ".The oration by the orator of the day was a broad guage, double track, ' through-without-change' affair. But unfortunately there being no newspaper reporters in that locality, the effort was lost to posterity. It was full of patriotism and so 4th, and started out something like this: " 'Fellow Citizens, La-That is, gentlemen! The American Eagle soars.' Here one of the boys broke in and wanted to know what he was 'sore' about? He was 4th-with arrested by the marshal for disturbing 'religious exercises.' "The programme of the day was faithfully and patriotically carried out until most of the patriots had to be carried in, and 'the subsequent proceedings interested them no more.'" Most of the participants of this occasion are still living, and are honored and prosperous citizens of our State. One only of the number is yet digging away in Russell Gulch, where he has remained off and on, for a quarter of a century. |