Port Ludlow

Among the contributors to this once famous weekly were Mark Twain, Bret Hart, Prentice Mulford, Joaquin Miller, Dan DeHuile, Opheus C. Kerr, C.H. Webb, Jean Paul, Ada Clare, Ada Azex Mencken, Ina Culbreth, and hosts of others.

Fitzhugh Ludlow wrote for it a series of brilliant descriptive letters recounting his adventures during a recent overland journey.

They were afterward incorporated in a volume, long out of print, entitled The Heart of the Continent.

In one of these letters, Ludlow wrote as follows of the probable future of Manitou, When Colorado becomes a populous state, the springs of the Fontaine qui Bouilla will constitute its spa.

In air and scenery, no more glorious summer residence could be imagined.

The Coloradian of the future, astonishing the echoes of the rocky foothills by a railroad from Denver to the springs and running down on Saturday to stop over Sunday with his family, will have little cause to envy us Easterners our Saratoga as he paces up and down the piazza of the spa hotel, mingling his full-flavored Havana with that lovely air, unbreathed before, which is floating down upon him from the snow peaks of the range.

Far into the night there was the thundering of freight rolling up and down the decks and the ring of invisible truck wheels.

Slept by and by and was awakened by the prolonged shriek of a steam whistle and a stream of sunlight that poured in at my stateroom window.