WESTERN INCIDENTS. Lt

_ struction. You can purchase almost anything here that
can be purchased in New York, but at prices from fifty
to one hundred per cent. higher. The hotels are very
ordinary. Nothing would improve the town more than
-the construction of two or three first-class hotels.

We are about to start on our trip through the moun-
tains by way of Golden City, Idaho, and Empire City,
to Berthoud’s Pass.

General Dodge and Major Chesbrough will go from
here directly to Laporte, where Mr. Williams and myself
are to join them after our return from the mountains.