Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1887 — On Pike’s Peak. [ARTICLE]

On Pike’s Peak.

The signal service man on top of Pike’s Peak keeps the following in sight of all visitors. No; it does not get lonesome up here. We wish to heaven it would during the tenderfoot season. The large stove in the center of the room was packed up on the backs of burros. Some days you can see Denver, and some days you can’t. This is one of the days you can’t. Sometimes the wind has blown at the rate of 132 miles an hour, and sometimes it don’t blow at all. The temperature in winter is generally 40 degrees below zero. If you happen to live in Dakota or Minnesota don’t make any disparaging remarks, as if that were very sultry weather. If you have ever been on Mount Washington don’t tell any big stories about it, as we have been there. This is the meridian time of the seventy-fifth meridian, and it is two hours faster than local time. Of course it suits us, and you are requested not to explain in tones of amazement. Is this clock right? You are at least the 14,9215 t person to ask the question. If you have had friends up here any time since the battle of Bunker Hill, please inquire for them. Of course we remember them perfectly. Denver Exchange.