.OTQ0.NTkxMjg

241 Chapter XVII 289.

I entered the Rocky Mountains at a place called Golden City. It lies in a gap of the front? range. unclear lately it was the Capitol of Colorado, which [[unclear] has now been transferred to Denver. It is chiefly of brick, the people in this part of the world of mature in a town. I counted three churches in the place: the best of the three belongs as I was told to the Episcopalians. The population appeared to be about unclear thousand. A thick seam of good coal is unclear just at the foot of the hill close the town. I had heard that I unclear a place of this name?, but I was not at all prepared for the brick, + the churches, the population. There is a good hotel here kept by an Englishman, but as judge? well-to-do people of the place were mostly New Englanders.

Just beyond Golden City the road unclear through a grand unclear betwwen unclear mountains of dark rock: this, as it leads to the unclear regions? of the mountains. I united/ the three mining towns of Black Hawk, Central City, Nevada. The district to which these towns belong had a population of fifteen thousand persons engaged in mining: but I found severakof the mills out-of-work, + was told that the populations had likely fallen if considerably. In the neighbourhood of all these towns the timber has been cut down for building