THE RUSAL NEW-YORKER. 
SEPT S 
business. If t hese mountains were filled with | 
gold and silver, there would seem to be 
enough for the needs of all the world. At in¬ 
tervals, we eome upon a village of white cot¬ 
tages. and cotton wood trees. Some tow’ns 
are quite large, but all are, practically, built 
by miners. Idaho Springs we passed through, 
which is quite a resort, on account of its boil¬ 
ing soda springs and of springs that do not 
boil—the proximity of springs so unlike beiug 
one of t he most curious phenomena of nature. 
The road up this cation is one of the most 
daring feats of railroad engineering in the 
world, and is regarded ns the finest short ride 
in the United States in point of scenery, and I 
can well believe it It llesthrough an immense 
gorge, down which tumbles a great stream 
from the mountains, rushing over rocks all 
the w ay ; the *jde* of the gorge are mountain 
high, and the road crosses and re crosses the 
creek in order to gain footing for itself, and 
at one point, it doubles and crosses over its 
own track, forming a loop, traversing a road¬ 
bed of four miles iu order to tnlvauce two. 
At a rude hotel at the foot of the mountain, 
we found u Philadelphia woman who, when 
she found wo were from that city, was greatly 
affected. She had not been home for 13years, 
and so longed to go! She took us into her pantry 
and treated us to in ilk—genuine wountaiumilk, 
and most excellent—and begged us to eome 
back and stop for u few days, which 1 very 
heartily desired to do, for it whs simply en- 
chantiug there iu the mountains, and tbesuowy 
peak was but six miles higher up. We could 
walk that far, surely. Our new-found friend 
said her married daughter once wont up and 
saw the sun rise from the peak, aud all the 
world seemed spread out at, her feet A youuger 
daughter lost the use ot her voice whenever 
she attempted the ascent. The high altitude 
affects people differently. Anaximander walk¬ 
ed nearly to the top of Pike’s Peak, hut suf- 
tered intensely from nausea, just the same as 
if sea-sick, and persona are often so affected. 
When we returned from Gray'a Peak, the 
cars fairly rushed down the grade, turning 
curves with a swiftness that was frightful; 
but we reached the city without mishap. 
During our sojourn in Colorado, we beard 
much concerning sheep aud cuttle ranches, and 
the money to he made and lost. While in Den¬ 
ver, a gentleman who had accumulated a 
fortune in mining, a very accurate and well- 
informed man, said he hail lieen led to go into 
the cattle business, and he had lost $60,000. 
He said that out of a herd of 800 cows, he had 
just branded 4ft calves, the entire living in¬ 
crease of that herd. It, appears that calves 
cannot be raised at all to advantage in Col¬ 
orado, neither the cows nor the calves thriv¬ 
ing, and the most successful cattle-men either 
buy yearlings in Texas, or have breeding 
ranches there, and bring the young cattle up 
to Colorado for pasture. 
The finest agricultural region in Colorado 
lies probably betw een Denver and the north¬ 
west boundary of the State. Of this region, | 
Greeley and Fort Collins are the principal 
towns,aud are mentioned us the most, beautiful 
in the State. Greeley was named lor tbegreat 
Horace. It is a very attractive village, well 
shaded and. like all Western towns, has very 
wide streets. 
A Pennsylvania man who has lived long in 
this region, gave me considerable informa¬ 
tion about, the country, which may be read 
with iuterest by such persons as may be think¬ 
ing of migrating hitherward. Defore reach¬ 
ing Greeley, the road runs for several miles 
t trough probably the most famous faim in 
the State. 1 had heard of it, and was glHd of 
further information from the Pennsylvanian. 
It is owned by “ HenEaton, and there is a 
station in it called Eatouville, at which the 
train halted. The town consisted of a few 
brick houses, oil owned by Eaton, lie came 
here about twelve years ago, poor, and he 
must now be a millionaire. How* much land 
he owns. 1 did not learn; but he hasiu gruiu, 
grass aud potatoes, this year, twelve thousand 
acres. He got his land from the Government, 
and in sections from the railroad company. 
He ran in debt, but his crops this year will set, 
him straight. The foundation of his success 
was iu ditches. lie has fifty miles of irrigating 
ditch, aud his land is now worth $25 per acre. 
Doth he and his wife are plain people, and 
my informant said he often wonders why 
they built such a liue house in Greeley, 
in which to live. Eaton has 1.200 horses and 
mules to do his work, and 20 mowers 
aud binders. The wages of farm hands 
through the working part of the year vary 
from $25 to $30 per mouth, with board. 
Eaton has the name of “feeding” his 
men well, paying them promptly, and dis¬ 
charging atouee if they do not suit him. His 
tanning is superb—equal to that in central 
Pennsylvania. As to irrigation, my inform¬ 
ant said that if the land lies well, a nun cuu 
irrigate ten acres a day. 1 here has been less 
irrigation than usual iu Colorado this year, 
because of the unusual raiufall; but crops 
have suffered in consequence. The average 
yield of wheat is 4ft bushels to the acre, 64 
pounds to the bushel, short straw, heavy 
heads. Seventy bushelsof oats per acre, is no 
umi'ual yield. The nights are too cold for 
corn to do first rate. The Pennsylvanian 
rather differed from me in thinking that a 
man with small means had a poor chance 
here, in saying that he thought he could 
do better here than iu the East. I asked 
him what he could do, and he said— 
have a creamery and know how to make but 
ter and sell it; that Colorado butter, when 
veil made, is the best in the world, and that 
an average of 30 cents per pound can be had 
for it in the home markets the year around. 
He said that, there are many poor butter mak' 
ers here, aud very few know how to send their 
butter to market in such shape as is seen in the 
Philadelphia market 1 had found excellent 
butter in Denver, which I greatly enjoyed, 
the butter having been poor throughout Kan 
sas. The beautiful Alfalfa (California “Clo¬ 
ver”), which is extensively raised here for hay* 
furnishes three crops a year. It Btrikes its 
roots very deep, and is beautiful both in leaf 
and flower; the leaves are delicate and the 
blossoms bright purple. The Colorado far¬ 
mers have some noxious weeds to contend 
with—the “loco,” which uffects the bruin of 
cattle and makes them crazy, and a species of 
larkspur that poisons them in the Spring. 1 
saw’ acres and acres of this lurkxpur in bloom 
on the plains, its spikes of royal blue fiowers 
making a grand show. 
At Cheyenne, in Wyoming Territory, we had 
to wait three hours on account of a railroad 
wash-out; but itgave us an opportunity to see 
the town. It has a population of four to 
five thousand, and is said to contain more 
ready cash tliun any other town ot )t,s size in 
the United States—cattle money. It Is a fine 
village, with handsome residences, and it is 
lighted with electricity, instead of gas. It has 
everything nice but a railway station. Wyo¬ 
ming is the most sparsely settled of all the ter¬ 
ritories [except Arizona and Montana.— Eds ] 
aud from ('heyenue to the Utah line, the Union 
Pacific. Railroad runs through one long stretch 
of almost treeless plain, broken wit h hills and 
streams, and curious formations of rocks aud 
earth, and the snowy-capped mountains al¬ 
ways in vie tv in the near distance—the Uiotali, 
aud later on the Wasatch range. At Pied- 
rnout, w here all the buildings w ere logs laid up 
iu mud and cement, I saw an Indian for the first 
time during our journey, uud further on, at 
Evanston, we found quite u party of them— 
Utos—women with pappoosea strapped to their 
backs, filthy, ragged, and unkempt beyond 
description. The laddie was afraid of them, 
but fearless at another station, where he could 
hardly get near enough to some native bears 
uud a lion. When we reached Echo, in Utah, 
things began to look different - patches of 
grain aud even thrifty vegetable gardens ap¬ 
pearing, most wondrously lovely spots they 
were, in this “great Americau Desert,” which 
only needs water to make it blossom like the 
rose. At Echo a party of four richly-dressed 
women came in the train, audu man. 1 won¬ 
dered where four such women could have come 
from iu that desolate country, and their prac¬ 
tical, sensible, happy faces much interested 
mo. Auaximauder reminded me that we were 
iu Utuh, and that rnuybo they were Mormon 
women. I said, no, l knew better than that 
— but that the man was a Mormon — he 
had a sleek, ready -to -go- to - Heaven look! 
When the train, reached Ogden, the lad¬ 
die who was standing near the women, 
shouted, “ Here is where the Mormons 
live,” when one of the women turned 
laughingly and said, “Are you afraid a Mor¬ 
mon boy w ill eat you up? This is a little Mor¬ 
mon girl,” pointing to her little daughter. 
The w omen were all Mormons, aud we had a 
merry laugh ever the “ sureness of my wo¬ 
man’s instincts.” We changed cars at Ogden, 
aud rolled on for thirty-six miles through this 
most lovely valley of Salt, l.ake, to the city of 
Zion, of the “ Latter Day Saints," from which 
place 1 write. And the four women came 
hither also. 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
C. n. «ia. 
Oonskcon, Ont., August 23 . —Crops in this 
district are good, excepting barley, which is 
about half a crop, aud clover, which is a total 
failuie on account of the midge, which de¬ 
stroyed the seed. J. c. 
W ALTON, Huron Co., Aug. 16'.—My family 
are all delighted with the Rural; it is the 
best farm paper 1 have seen, though 1 have 
takeu several others. The Rural Treasures 
arc beautiful. The peas are very early, but 
the oats are lute—not as early as the Black 
Tartarian. F. R. 
Hardvvoodhili., Nova Scotia, August 14. 
—1 planted the Rural Peas April 25, aud the 
R. N.-Y. Pea was ready for the table on June 
20. The Hoi's ford grew well, but is about 12 
days later than the other. The It. C. Oats 
have grown five feet high, and are very heavy 
in the bead. They do not appear to Ire any 
later than other sorts which I raise. The Gar¬ 
den Treasures are very nice. The tomatoes 
grew well; the vines are very heavy, but they 
appear to be late. J. e. f. 
Georgia, 
Gaddiston, Union Co., August 10.— Bliss’s 
Everbearing Pea I find late; very branch¬ 
ing loaded with fine large pods. Lemon 
Pod is a late wax bean; no better than 
many other kinds. Welcome Oats, by the 
side of 10 other kinds, among which are 
American Triumph, Washington, and Race¬ 
horse, are from one to two feet taller; the 
heads are longer, and they braucb more than 
any of the other kinds. The very much 
brauching Tree Bean is worthless, except for 
forage. Teosinte promises a largo atnuunt. of 
fodder. Wheat and* rye are harvested and 
thrashed; they are above the average. Corn 
promises well. Potatoes not good—blighted. 
Cotton promises well; in full bloom with 
squares forming. Grass and clover are splen¬ 
did. Peanuts are not. so good as usual. Chufas 
will give a very heavy yield. Ginseng looks 
well; is now seeding and forming very large 
roots. The chestnut trees are loaded with 
burrs. Gooseberries, huckleberries, and all 
small fruits will be very large crops through¬ 
out the woods. Peaches but few. Apples 
good. No cause for grumbling down here. 
w. s, 
Iowa, 
Osaue, Mitchell Co.. Aug. 15.—Potatoes in 
this latitude are rotting l>adly. My White 
Elephants are gone. Never was there a better 
prospect for a largo yield than there was the 
first of August. The lurge stand of stuiks 
went down, and the leaves withered and dried 
up. The stalks being from three to four feet 
in length and very large, almost, cover the 
ground, und weigh from eight to 10 pound-, to 
the hill after the leave# are dry. The rot 
struck the potatoes probably about the flistof 
August, and the stalks and tuber# ceased to 
grow at that time. The saddest part of the 
story is that they are about halt grown, uud 
nearly every one iu the hill shows evidence 
of the rot upon the surface, and most likely 
not one will escape. Borne of the potatoes 
weigh over one pound, and must be thrown 
aside. The cuticle starts easily, as on new pota¬ 
toes, hence they are not ripe. “x.” 
Hamm*. 
Arkansas City, Cowley Co., August 14.— 
Weather very warm and dry. Farmers busy 
putting up hay and plowiug for wheat. Corn, 
potatoes, aud all garden vegetables drying up 
fast. w. J. m. 
Michigan. 
Watson, Allegau Co., Aug. 11.—We have 
had a fine growing season to this date, aud 
although in the main the weather has been 
cool, vegetation has made a good growth, aud 
we ha ve the promise of an abundance of al¬ 
most everything, AV r e had splendid weather 
for haying and harvesting, uud both hay aud 
wheat, were secured iu the best condition. We 
are now iu the midst of the oat harvest which, 
if the good weather continues, will be finished 
this week. 1 um Informed by those who have 
thrashed, that wheat is yielding well. Hay 
was a heavy crop, aud oats, though rather 
thin on the ground, will yield well. Peaches, 
in this immediate vicinity, are very scarce, 
aud the apple crop will not compare favorably 
with those of former years There was an 
abundance of the smaller fruits, such as rasp 
berries, both red aud black; also whortleber¬ 
ries, blackberries, eurrauLs (where the worms 
did not trouble them), aud cherries. The po 
taro crop will exceed anything in that lino of 
recent date, and they will be of the best qual¬ 
ity. They are now a drug in the market at 
25 cents per bushel. It has been a good season 
for the dairy business, the frequeut showers 
in the fore part of the season being favorable 
to the growth of pastures, while the accom¬ 
pany iug cool weather euabled the butter aud 
cheese-maker to handle the milk and cream to 
the best advantage. Butter, now, is only 10 
to 12 cents per pouud, and tip-top cheese can 
be bought at the factories for eight cents— 
even at retail. Of course, the majority of 
the well-to do farmers do uot sell their butter 
now. but pack it iu stone jans aud hold it for 
better prices. One year with another, just 
about fair time, is the time to sell the summer 
make. Although some trouble was caused by 
seed corn last Spring, there is a good stand of 
corn at present; but we need warmer weather 
to hasten its growth, so that it may not l.e 
iujuied by early frosts. Speaking of frosts, 
reminds me that w e bad slight ones last Thurs¬ 
day and Friday nights. The frost could be 
seeu ou boards and certain places on the g rass, 
but there are no visible effects from it. Vege¬ 
tation bad grown so slowly of late, that its 
susceptibility to the effect of frost is greatly 
lessened. The Granges of this Stute are still 
in a flourishing condition, and as educators of 
i the people we see a gratifyiug progress from 
day to day. There has been no institution in 
this section in which women have been such 
active participants as in this, and none in 
which they have received such practical, per¬ 
manent benefit. h. d. e. 
Williams, Bay Co . August 15.—This has 
been a very cold season, frost August 7 and 8. 
Crops of all kinds about an average. J. k s. 
Minnesota. 
Minnesota Cttt, Winona Co., August 14. 
—Harvest, the cutting part., is about finished, 
and stacking is iu progress. We have had two 
weeks without rain, but there was about half 
an inch of rain last night. Fine prospect for 
corn crop. Wheat and oats good. Potatoes 
do not yield very well. j. m.. d. 
Missouri. 
Amazonia, Andrew Co., August 14.—The 
Garden Treasures are a great success. Both 
kinds of peas are promising—saved for seed. 
Rural oats extremely luxuriant: not yet 
thrashed out. The most interesting is the 
Union Corn; about 42 kernels germinated, the 
stalks making from throe to five sprouts. I 
expect about 20G ears. It was damaged by a 
hail storm at the end of July, which did great 
havoc to other crops too. G. s. 
New York. 
Naples, Ontario Co., August 23. —Harvest 
is nearly over, with the exception cf late- 
sown oats. Most of the barley is quite badly 
colored. Farmers are looking for low prices 
for produce, which is rather discouraging af¬ 
ter the hard labor to get their crops sowed and 
harvested. We hope for better prices for 
farm products in the near future. Plowing 
for w heat, has commenced; the ground is get¬ 
ting quite hard and dry. A full average area 
of wheat will be sown iu this locality. More 
care in the preparation of the ground before 
sowing will be given, as the farmers learn 
more aud more everv year that careful and 
judicious tillage of the soil pay's—thanks to 
the Rural's often repeated advice. Oats, 35 
to -10 cents; eggs, 15 cents; butter, 13 to 14 
cents. o. v. 
AV right's Corners, Niagara Co, Aug. 25. 
—Since my last, I have been to visit the Ex¬ 
periment Station at Geneva. I have not time 
to tell what I saw, and will only say 1 w as 
very much pleased with what is beiug done. 
Dr. Sturtevant takes great pains to show what 
he is doing, and it is really one of the finest 
onject lessons l ever saw. Brother farmers, 
you should go and see for yourselves what is 
beiug done, and you will then know whether 
the Board are doing a work worthy the State; 
so don’t wusie your strength iu finding fault, 
rather visit the Station first. 1 have my sec¬ 
ond crop of clover all cut and stacked, and it 
has made a flue crop of hay: two-thirds as 
much in quantity as the first crop. The very 
hot weather of the past two weeks has made 
a wonderful change in corn; it now looks as 
though it would be the best crop I have had 
for mauy years; the Wuushakum will nearly 
average three sets to the stalk. Potatoes are 
splendid, con.-udering the dry weather; we 
have not had an inch of rain in four weeks. 
1 am thrashing, and have the Cross-bred 
Diehl Mediterranean thrashed, it will average 
over 46 bushels per acre, which is at least 
eight bushels more than Clawson by its side, 
and a much better sample. I shall have over 
2,000 bushelsof wheat iu all, on a little over 
50 acres. The acre on which only one bushel 
of seed was sown yielded more than that on 
which two bushels were sown. The English 
wheats. Fill Measure, Mold’s Ennobled.'and 
Royal Prize, are too tender to stand the 
AV inter, and the injury received made them 
so late that they rusted considerably, aud I 
shall throw them out entirely. We are now 
picking a nice crop of plums. The high 
winds of the past few days have blown off 
many apples, H- M. Ji 
Tennessee. 
Green Brier, Robertson Co., Aug. 22.— 
After two years of travel in the cotton-grow¬ 
ing States, looking for a desirable place to 
live, 1 settled at this place, 20 miles northwest 
from Nashville. 1 have not been disappointed. 
I have now been here, with my family, five 
years, having come from Illinois. I have found 
cheap and productive lands, good water, good 
timber, and a healthy and pleasant location. 
1 believe I can raise as mauy varieties of fruit 
and vegetables, aud that these crops are as 
sure as in any place in the world. Two crops 
of potatoes, aud millet after wheat, can be 
raised in one season. Clover and the grasses 
grow luxuriantly. We are but one hour, by 
rail, from the State capital. Laud is worth 
from $3 to $10 per acre. Often the laud can 
be bought for what the improvements cost. 
Oak uud poplar lumber cau be had at $10 per 
M. Land is being bought by Northern men, 
aud the country is being improved rapidly. 
8 K c. 
Texas. 
AVoodland, Red River Co , July 12. -My 
It. N.-Y. Pea was dry aud ready for seed 
within 68 days from piantiug, though planted 
