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Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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yra and the desert pale before a recitalof the brief history of Colorado. Ten years ago, I spent some weeksin traversing your beautiful State, and became familiar with every-thing of note in Denver, its metropolis; and, as yesterday morning I MARVELS OF MINING. 437 looked uponthe city again,I felt that Icould not safe-ly trust myown senses.I wonderedwhether I wasnot under thedominion ofmagi, and thatfairies andgenii wereplaying trickswith my vision.History m aybe challenged,and challengedin vain, for aparallel to theprogress madeby this city inits brief period,in wealth, inarts, in all theelements ofmodern andadvancing civ-ilization. Standinghere on thewestern bor-ders of whatwas called buta few yearsago the desertplain, and in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, with an elevation of morethan five thousand feet above the level of the sea, we mark in theopening of this exhibition the entrance of a new era in history, morebrilliant than any of its predecessors, and more beneficent, inas-
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438 MARVELS OF THE AEW WEST. much as it will open the blessings of civilization to portions of thepeople who have hitherto failed to receive them. First of all, in the mining business, appears the prospector.He is one who searches for mines. Although the discovery of goldin California, in 1848, and in Colorado, ten years later, was acci-dental, as miners say, yet these discoveries created a new class ofworkers; viz., prospectors. Mines do not lie around loose, tobe stumbled upon by ignorant and unenterprising men ; they are

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