CHAPTER V.

_Denver and the Mines._

Denver itself.--A Mountain City.--Her Growth and Enterprise.--Judge Gale and her Gamblers.--Bishop Randall.--Her want of Trees and Shrubbery.--Metropolis of Colorado.--Gov. Cumming.--Hints of Judge Lynch.--Reception of Gen. Sherman and Brother.--Golden City.--The Snowy Range.--Central City.--Its Population and Pluck.--Placer Mining.--Quartz Lodes.--Gregory Mine.--A Good Superintendent _vs._ a Poor One.--Colorado Ores in general.--A new "process" wanted.--Watered Stock Companies.--"Freezing Out."--Mining Statistics.--The Coming Mineralogist.--Idaho City.--The Saratoga of Colorado.--Georgetown and Mill City.--Clear Creek and ride back to Denver.--Miners Slang.--"You Bet." 58-74