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Show TWIN LAKES. 209 turned to the pick and shovel as day laborers. Ex-Governor Routt, of the " Morning Star," is estimated to be worth a million. Joe Watson and George Corning, his former partners, are wealthy men. Eddy, James and Grant stand at the head of the list of the wealthy. George Fryer and Senator Tabor were foremost in making Leadville. The Senator is still rich, with large real estate and other interests in New York, Chicago, Denver and elsewhere ; is mining more in Colorado than ever before; has large interests in copper lands in northern Texas, and extensive mining interests in New Mexico and old Mexico. George Fryer, from whom the celebrated Fryer Hill takes its name, died a poor man. We did not descend into the depths. Hal. said it was time to ring a change on the scene, and so we started back to the city, around which circled vast wreaths of smoke, that looked as if it had been belched from the crater of a volcano. On reaching the hotel we found that we, like the dyer's hand, had taken our color from our surroundings. Indeed, during the whole of our stay there we were continually reminded of the sentence, " dust thou art." But while the lower world was shrouded in smoke and dust, the sky was a perpetual delight. The clouds were always experimenting and always getting up fine effects. The sunsets were superb. CHAPTER XLVI. TWIN LAKES. The next morning our party visited "Twin Lakes," a pair of crystal beauties nestled among the peaks-a delightful resort for tourists, who camp and boat and fish 14 |
