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29 From there we passed along down Blake St a fine broad st being well and substantially built for a mile in length the theatre a large wooden building is on this street down about half its length we came to Larmier? St the place where we expected to find our friend William Clancy we came to his office about a square from Blake St but were disapointed in? not finding him at home, we wrote to him from Karney? but he did not expect us for a week yet and so had made a trip to the [[mountains?}} expecting to be back before we arrived we found his partner? at home Mr. Collyer? of Leavenworth a lawyer the business they were engaged in being legal and land transactions they had quite a number of desirable "City lots" to sell and a real estate Bullettin outside the door after the fashion of our Real Estate office at home. The office was quite a snug affair a well built two story wooden house very handsomly painted and grained? in front when it was built just one year before it was called the handsomest thing of the kind in the far west its furniture was the the theme of gossip on the newspaper in Denver and copied as news by the papers of the east. It is built on piles over "Cherry Creek" the time it was built there was a great body of water there and running very rapidly shortly after it was built the creek suddenly disappeared not a remarkable thing in the neighborhood of the mountains and kept running under its bed through the sand even at this day six months after its disappearance unclear former on digging a foot that the water was running and could tell the way of the current. Mr Collyer? was very kind and corteous offered to assist and give us all the information in his power he proposed to take us round to have a view of the city straight acrofs the street from his office there was a large brick building being put up he informed us that it was to be a U.S. Mail and Post Office That put us in mind that we should get some letters from home so he agreed to go and show