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THE CORVALLIS GAZETTE, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1891.
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FROM THE ROCKIES.
Denver, Colo., June 18,1891
To the Editor: .
I arrived in Denver last Sunday
morning just m time to go to church,
and upon entering the first one I came
to. was shown a seat in the midst of a
congregation of seven or eight hundred
persons. Immediately after taking
my seat the minister began to pray,
and from the chorus of "aniens," "bless
the etc., which simultaneously
came from all parts of the congregation,
I at once recognized their denomina
tion. I listened for two hours to a
soul-stirring sermon and exhortation,
at the conclusion of which three sin
ners signified a desire for a change of
heart The choir, of sixty voices, in
cluding a splendid quartette, rendered
excellent music and led the congrega
tion in singing "Rock of Ages," all of
which bad a tendency to make your
correspondent homesick.
Denver in some respects resembles
our Portland, but I hardly think the
wholesale and retail trade is so exten
sive in proportion to the territory of
which Denver is the principal center.
But Denver undoubtedly if ahead in
the matter of reduction works and
manufactories.
. Colorado Springs, the next town
south of Denver, is a lovely little place.
The streets are very wide and perfectly
smooth and covered with white glis
tening sands and pebbles all rolled in
as hard as a floor. It seems too bad
that our Oregon towns have such rough
and muddy or dusty streets. The great
difference attracts an Oregonian's at
tention at once. In Greenwood ceme
tery and on a street in Denver, I no
ticed heavy steam rollers which were
in constant use. A few men would be
working the streets, scraping up the
loose gravel and dirt and after distri
buting it uniformly over the surface
the roller would mash it down and it
would become almost as hard as stone.
"Now it occurs to me that when our
street comnutteein Corvallis has gravel
hauled on to the streets, if they should
not have quite so much hauled and the
difference applied on distributing it
smoothly over the ground and have
some good, substantial rolling done,
we would have better streets. You
might say, "very good, but Corvallis
cannot afford a steam roller." Admitt
ing the truth of this; still we could
easily afford one or more rollers which
liorses could pull and which would be
infinitely better than none. It really
does no particular good to dump a load
ef gravel here and there in a mud hole
and round the top off a little and have
it wash down all in a lump. Good
enough as far as it goes, but it is get
ting comparatively little for the amount
expended. I have seen a good many
streets recently, which are no easier im
proved than those of Corvallis and
with no better material or facilities
than we have, which ' are kept as
smooth as a floor and at no greater
expense relatively than we expend on
similar street work in Corvallis, and
streets too over v hich heavy loads of
freight are constantly passing. I do
not believe that it is essential, in or
der to have good streets, that we ha,ve
a sandy or a gravelly soil. Not by any
means. Our soil is good enough, es
pecially the clay, and gravel is conven
ient and plentiful enough to enable the
city of Corvallis to have just as good
streets as any town, and to my mind
there is no reason why we should have
a main street which would disgrace a
town of half our size. We need many
improvements in Corvallis, and the
improvement of our streets is by no
means the least in importance. I only
intended to mention incidentally, the
beautiful streets of Colorado Springs,
and here I find myself devoting quite,
a little space to the subject, but to pro
ceed': Manitou and the "Garden of
the Gods" are attractions here. The
former is a small village of three or
four hundred people residents and ten
'or twenty thousand visitors. Not all
visiting at once, you know, but that
many during the season. Its popu
larity is due to the healthfulness of the
climate, (he magnificence of the scenery
S44 the mineral springs to which the '
U. S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889.
"sick, the halt, and the infirm" flock in
great numbers for the benefit of their
health. Pike's Peak towers s.bove this
little hamlet like a grim visaged semi
nal of the desert, and his snow crowned
summit stands out in bold relief against
the azure blue of a Colorado sky, across
which no shadows fall for three hun
dred days in every year. Persons de
siring to ascend Pike's Peke can ride
half way up on a railroad and the bal
ance on horseback. Soon the road
will go clear to the summit, which is
more than fourteen thousand feet in
heighth.
My sympathies went out to number
less persons whom I noticed crawling
about with heavy overcoats buttoned
up to their chm and the thermometer
about seventy degrees in the shade.
But I realized rr.y inability to contribute
to their relief excepting by a silent in
vocation which went from the very
bottom of my hardened heart.
Anon.
Objections to Magazine Guns." "
I had the honor of serving In the
army of northern Virginia under the
late renowned Gen. Kobert E. Lee.
Early in the war the nerves of the con
federates were somewhat shaken by a
report that tlio federal armies were" to
be furnished with breech-loading rifles,
which up to that time were unknown
in the United States army. All fears,
however, were allayed a few days later
by the statement that Gen. Lee re
garded such weapons as a serious dis
advantage, assigning as his reason
that most troops were apt to fire at
random and too rapidly, and were
thus in danger of exhausting their am
munition and rendering themselves
helpless at the critical point of the bat
tle. If this applies to breech-loaders,
with how much greater force does it
apply to the magazine-rifle? I hav
no proof that Gen. Lee ever littered
this opinion, but most execution in bat
tle is done at close quarters, and my
subsequent experience confirmed the
wisdom of this opinion, whether ex
pressed by Lee or not. Rapid firing
at close quarters is no doubt a tremen
dous power, but it becomes impossible
if troops have wasted their cartridges
at long range, when armies are ap
proaching each other from a distance.
A detached magazine, applicable to
an ordinary breech-loader, would there
fore seem to possess great advantages
over a weapon that could only be
charged from a fixed magazine. It
could be attached at the proper mo
ment by command of an officer, and
thus a tremendous reserve power would
be insured for the critical moment
London Spectator.
Asphalt Lake of Trinidad.
Asphalt is a substance as familiar
now as are its related substances, coal
and petroleum. It is used in great
quantities for paving streets and roof
ing houses. A large part of the
supply is brought from the lake of La
Brea in the island of Trinidad. This
lake is said to have been discovered
in 1595 by Sir Walter Raleigh, who
emploj'ed the pitch found there in calk
ing his ships.
This wonderful bituminous sheet
has an area of nearly one hundred
acres, between elevations close to the
hilltop. It is a broad surface of pitch,
seamed with small channels of water.
The pitch is dug from the hardened
top, and the quantity taken away is con
stantly Tepleuished by the soft asphalt
oozing up from below, which becomes
hardened by the evaporations of its
constituent oil in the sun. Night sup
plies the exhaustion of day.
The method of skimming the great
bowl inay be illustrated by comparing
it to a pond from which blocks of ice
have been cut and the water solidified
again by the action of frost, the differ
ence being that heat is the agent in
one case and cold in the other. Youth's
Companion.
A Joke on Hermann.
"I once had a singular experience,"
he 6aid, "while giving a performance
at the house of the governor of Monte
video, in which I had the tables turned
on me. During my performance I
noticed three half-savage Patagonians
standing aside from the rest of the
company, and I at once determined to
have some fun with them. From the
nose of the first I took an orange, from
the hair of the second I took a number
of silver coins, and the third was over
powered with terror when I extracted
a live rat from his nose. . Uttering a
cry of fright, the Patagonians with
drew. While receiving the congratu
lations of the guests on the success of
the entertainment I discovered that
my watch and chain, purse, eyeglasses,
and handkerchief were missing. In a
short time the Patagonians returned,
and the one from whose nose the rat
had been taken handed roe the missing
articles. He had picked my pocket at
the moment he appeared to be over
come with fright." New Haven Union.
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OFFICE HOURS From 8 to 12 a in., and 2 to 5 anil
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THE
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Great preparations are being made
and the people of Benton and other
counties are cordially invited to par
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Horse Racing
BALL GAMES,
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