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Show 316 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. and the towns of Alma and Quartzville were built up, when all houses of value were taken down and rebuilt at the last mentioned towns. " With this information he wished us a happy time and was off. " One of our party had a birthday while there, and we gave her a candy-pulling in honor of the event. We cooked the molasses six solid hours, and then had to eat it with a spoon. Like Meg's jelly, 'it wouldn't jell.' " I had a friend who was mining near the top of Mt. Lincoln. We concluded to go up there and pass a night just to see the sunrise next morning. The night hands had a meal about midnight in the blacksmith shop, and the bellows they used to start a fire at the forge, made such an unearthly noise, we tumbled out of bed thinking it might be Gabriel blowing his horn. Our slumbers being thus disturbed we slept until the sun was two hours high, and so missed old Sol's glorious awakening. " Oh, it's lots of fun to camp if you can only see it!" With this profound explosion, he seemed pretty well talked out, and we left him. CHAPTER LXVI. We returned to Denver on the Denver and New Orleans R. R., and Jimmy's camp was pointed out to me from the window of the cars. It was once a place of great notoriety, and has been brought into prominence again by being near a station on this new southern road. |