I've got a house on Phoenix Avenue, and I gave the town a church and a theatre and the ground for a library.

We've got one of the handsomest churches in the State," he proclaimed with his unconquerable optimism, "and we've just begun growing.

Why, in ten years more Bonanza City will be in the race with Denver." "And what about your friend ?" she asked, finding it difficult to become enthusiastic over the most progressive town in Colorado, a State which she always pictured imaginatively as a kind of rocky desert, inhabited by tribes of gregarious invalids, which one visited for the sake of the scenery or the climate, when one had exhausted the civilized excitements of Europe.
"I am coming back to him," he responded with a manner of genial remonstrance.

"You just give me time.

But I'd honestly like you to see Bonanza City.