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Show 138 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. hobbled off. It is a fact that people who are not 'tender-feet ' or new comers, can walk through a cactus bed with impunity. " When speaking of the ' Union Colony' now, they say ' it was a great success, and people should always immigrate in colonies.' But at that time there was much dissatisfaction, and the colony officers were obliged to bear a great deal of abuse. Still they never lost courage. Poor Mr. Meeker, who was as sensitive as a woman, would have been made very unhappy at that time if his fellow-worker, General Cameron, had not taken the brunt of the work in guiding the people, and explaining continually that the project was bound to succeed. Curses and sneers rolled off his broad shoulders like water off a duck's back. "When he. would say cheerily 'my friends, it is all right, this thing is bound to succeed, and Greeley will be one of the finest farming regions on the face of the earth!' Some one in the crowd would retort, ' 0, yes, I bet that 'feller' gets four dollars a day for lying.' "We have never had a whisky saloon. Greeley was long known as Saints Rest, and is often so called now. The name arose from the fact that we had no "wickedness and no need of police. " Many left Greeley declaring it was a fraud, there was no chance to sell whisky, the soil was not good for anything, and Horace Greeley and Mr. Meeker were fools. After the ' soreheads' had taken their departure there was less talking done and more work. Men adapted -themselves to their new surroundings, and a man in overalls, shirt sleeves and old straw hat, was as likely to be a minister, doctor or lawyer as a common workman. It was as if people were going about in disguise, for men can |