Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1878 — A Nomadic Town. [ARTICLE]

A Nomadic Town.

Garland, Col., is a town on wheels; whenever the Denver and Rio Grande railroad finishes a section of road the town moves to the end of the line. The people of Garland are determined to live at the end of the narrow-gauge, no matter where it takes them. As the line will be extended to Alamosa next week, the testive Garlanders are now preparing to pack up and move it. The houses are being taken down in sections, and in a week or ten days the present site of Garland will be deserted both by friend and foe. Garland was built in a week, and at one time had about 1,000 inhabitants. It is a healthy place; it was located about one year ago, and there have been but seven deaths. There are few that die, but when they do die they die suddenly. The cemetery on the hiil contains seven graves, and we climbed the steep declivity in the early morning to inspect it. One is the grave of a wee babe, whose little lamp of life went out after an existence of two months. The second is that of an aged man “The Judge,” as he was familiarly called—who died a natural death. The remainder met violent deaths; one was hanged by the Vigilance Committee, and four were shot doad in the saloons.— Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.