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DENVER. 25

In addition to the Kansas Pacific Railway, which
opens Denver to the Eastern country, there are five other
lines of railway extending towards the mountains and
great resorts; and she is possessed of horse railroads,
gas and water works, fine churches and school-houses,
public baths, breweries, a U.S. Assay office, elegant
restaurants, &c. The population in April, 1874, was
22,300. John Russell Young, Esq., now managing
editor of the New York Herald, as long ago as
December 17th, 1871, wrote to Mr. Blake, of Denver,
as follows: “Colorado possesses a deep interest to me,
and Denver and Paris are the two cities with which
I fell in love at first sight, and in which I have a constant
yearning some time or other to reside. I have seen
no prettier town in Europe or America than your
same Denver.” I heartily concur with Mr. Young in
his admiration of this lovely place, and can add my
personal testimony that never, in all my wanderings,
have I met with a city whose natural surroundings and
attractions were so intensely beautiful. And again I
cannot but recur with wonder to the fact that as I
write, the delicious breezes from the mountain tops of
the great Rockies are puffing in at my open window,
and three days and a half ago I was looking down
from my hotel, on the crowded noisy thoroughfare of
Broadway, New York.

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long trip, and “done” the city of Denver pretty
thoroughly, I prepare to visit the world-renowned resorts
of the mountains, the beauties of which have during